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Guess what, my listener? It's officially spooky season. If you're listening to this episode, that means that it is almost Halloween. It's witch season here at Emily the Mystic. And I cannot be more excited to take you into a deep dive of what to expect during the energy for this month ahead, during the month of October.
Now, of course, it's witch season here all year round at Emily the Mystic. Don't get me wrong, but there's something about the fall, there's something about the vibes, there's something about this time of the year that gets me so excited. About spirituality that gets me so excited. About my psychic gifts, because you know what they say, the veil between us and the spirit world is thin at this time of the year, which makes it.
In my opinion, a little bit easier, a little bit more fun to connect and to talk to your spirit guides, to channel, to do all of the things. And so I can't wait to take us on a little mystical journey into the astrology and the energy for the month ahead. So I'm so excited that you're here. If you are not watching the video version of this podcast, I highly recommend that you do because I have a little bit of a new setup today.
I'm playing around with my spare room that I have in my home and just kind of playing around with my podcast setup a little bit because why not? Like let's shift up the vibes a little bit. Eventually I want to get a really cool Emily the Mystic show sign to put behind me on the wall. But as we're working on manifesting the funding for that, of course, until now, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna have a little bit of a witchy setup here. I even have my cauldron in front of me. So we have
All of the vibes and all of the cute things for this month ahead. And hang on to the end of this episode because I will be doing a custom card pull for you with customized messages of what to expect from the month of October 2026. So if you're here, welcome. I do an energy update every single month. I've been doing these for years now. It's one of my favorite things to film and to talk about because I love
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Giving you a forecast and a preview of what to expect, I find that it just helps give you an idea and a framework of what's coming so that you can kind of realign yourself accordingly and let it unfold. I feel September was pretty spot on with what I said during the September energy forecast. It was very a very grounding month, like big reality checks, coming down to earth moments.
getting back to it again after the summer season. It was really for me a big month of discipline and focus and drive. And I came back from a retreat that I went on in Asheville, North Carolina, with just a new perspective on my spiritual business and new ideas to implement and wanting to just really kind of get back to work again, you know, after I traveled a lot this past summer, saw a lot of friends, family.
And so this month of September has been really good for me to just get back in the groove again, get myself realigned with my priorities, my goals and business, and yeah, operate from that place. So that's been really good. I don't have a ton of updates for you guys, honestly. the big stuff I shared was in that happened during eclipse season. I recorded in the karmic relationships episode.
which is a really powerful one. And there's a lot of guidance and relationship perspective and insight in there that may come forward for you during this month, actually. So you should definitely listen to it if you haven't yet, because I share some pretty deep revelations that I had around my own relationship patterns and what I've been working on shifting and growing through in my own personal life.
Which has been really good for me. And I think with walking away from some relationship dynamics this past summer that were not aligned, it's given me my time and energy back in the month of September to focus on myself again. And again, like I said, focus on the business, focus on my goals, focus on Emily the Mystic. And I've really loved that. Now, has that been easy? Not always. Your girl loves to have a good time.
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So it's interesting because I've been learning a lot of lessons around balance, especially because it is Libra season. The sun is in Libra, and Libra is all about balance and moderation and making sure that things are in harmony in your life and aligned in your life. And so I may have swung the pendulum a little bit too far in the discipline direction, if I'm being honest. So I'm kind of ending the month of September like, okay.
Ready for October, ready for all of the spooky things, ready for the fun, ready to enjoy myself, ready to get out there and yeah, and just have a little bit of fun again and start seeing people. I've kind of been in a little bit of a hibernation cave. Been spending a lot of time alone, a lot of time with myself, me, myself, and I, and the cats, of course, three of us together. And I've needed this hibernation, this going inwards.
To just to just sit with all of the change that I've been through over the last year and a half, to really integrate it, to gain some perspective, to do the own my own personal healing so that I can show up even better for you. So that's been really, really good for me. And I am so excited about what's coming forward in Emily the Mystic in the month of October and for the rest of the year. So
I launched a brand new course, mentorship offering that's called Intuitive Alchemist, which is an advanced psychic and channeling and intuition course for my spiritual seekers out there who've done the basic psychic development training. You've taken intuition classes, you've taken healing classes, maybe you have a Reiki certification, maybe you've learned the Akashic records, maybe you've even learned the Akashic records with me. And you have a basis in working with your guides, but you're ready to go deeper.
You want more. You are ready to advance your gifts. I remember that there was a point in my own journey when I was sort of at this stage where I had learned the Akashic records, I had learned mediumship, I had learned psychic development. And I was like, I feel like there's so much more that I can tap into. I want to be able to dive into more. And I didn't know who to work with or where to go for that.
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So I'm offering this because it's something I feel like there's a need for in our community for there to be an advanced, more elevated version of psychic development. And it's going to be great for you if you're ready to take your gifts to the next level. The purpose of it is to help you really hone in on the specificity and the niche and the nuance of your psychic gifts.
And how you want to be of service and bring them to the collective, whether that is through a business, whether that is through your own practice, whether that is to add into services that you're already offering, maybe it's to advance your services, to really niche them down, become an even more of an expert, be even more specific what you're offering, or because you know that you're here to channel something really unique and different. You felt the call to create something for a while.
But you can't put your finger on what that is or what that's gonna look like. Intuitive Alchemist is gonna help create the space for you to discern that, to dive in. So you don't need a business to participate in this course, although it is for someone who's a little bit of a more advanced level. So there will be an emphasis.
On because I say for this program, the tagline is turn your gifts into gold. So there is an emphasis on let's take your gifts and use them in a way that's going to help you receive. Because working with the channel, working with the spirit world, especially to help others, is so powerful. And also, you deserve to be abundantly, divinely compensated for your gifts. You deserve
To manifest really cool things from being on your soul journey. The kitties are behind me right now, playing with my tapestry. you deserve to use your gifts in a way that is going to return to you tenfold. I mean, I've really been thinking about the energetic law of reciprocity a lot and the frequency of equality with it being Libra season.
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And bringing things back into balance for myself. And I want to say that you also deserve to be abundantly compensated for your own gifts and to receive to receive the amount of effort and time and devotion and attention that you're pouring into yourself and your channel to turn that into an abundant income or.
A manifestation of beautiful resources or some sort of recognition or visibility in the industry. And so this course is designed to help you know that you're so worthy and deserving of receiving that. Because I find as spiritual practitioners, we love the work so much. We love helping people so much. And yet we often go into it with a lot of self-doubt, with a lot of worth, with a lot of.
Fear around whether we're doing enough, whether our gifts are good enough, whether they're resonating with people, whether they're actually making an impact. And so when you're in that energy, you can avoid raising your prices. You can avoid charging your worth. You can avoid putting yourself out there. And this mentorship is meant to help you find your confidence again, find your uniqueness again.
And to gain clarity on how to communicate your gifts as well. Cause sometimes in the spiritual space it can be
Challenging to discern how to actually talk about your gifts, how to market them, how to communicate them, how to put yourself out there, what wording to use, how to describe what you do, because all of our gifts are so different. And sometimes standing out in the spiritual space can feel daunting. So I want to be able to support you in that journey if you are ready to take your business, take your spiritual gifts to the next level. So Intuitive Alchemist is a is a seven-week course that starts on.
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October 13th, so super, super soon. I'm really excited about it. We're also going to be learning how to work with different kinds of guides from dragons to fairies to the galactic beings so that you really diversify your spirit team and also niche down to discern exactly who you're working with, who you're channeling, so that you can be really clear on that with your clients. And again, be really specific with how you communicate your gifts to the world.
because I find that the more specific you are, the more people, especially in in today's marketplace, people want to know the specifics. They want to know what they're purchasing when they sign up for a session with you. And so it's really important to know who you're channeling, who you're talking to, and how you're helping people, the kind of transformation that you provide. So those are all kinds of things that we're gonna work on in the mentorship. So if you want to learn how to work more with fairies and dragons and
Galactic beings and channel them in different ways. This mentorship is for you. Whether you have a Cash Accords training or not, again, really the prerequisite is that you know how to talk to your spirit guide team. You've been connecting intuitively for a while, you've been on the spiritual journey for a while, and you know that you're ready for the next level. This program is for you. Also
It's going to lead into a longer experience that starts at the beginning of 2027 that's called Decision Alchemist. Decision Alchemist is a mastermind group mentorship that will hold the space for you to actually implement all of the work that we're going to be doing together in Intuitive Alchemist. So, Intuitive Alchemist, we're going to get really clear on your gifts, we're going to advance your channel.
We're going to get super specific with who you're talking to in the spirit world. And then in Decision Alchemist, we're actually going to implement everything that you've learned. You're actually going to have time to change your content, to post on social media, to rewrite your website, to create the offerings that you want to create, all with my help, all with my guidance, all with my expertise.
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And maybe that's for you to have the space held to channel a book, to channel a new modality. Maybe that's to have the space held for you to discern what your next steps in and are in terms of your services, your business, your projects, or the next level of your career path. So that's what Decision Alchemist is all about. And a big part of these two mentorships is that I'm teaching you some of my own custom.
Gifts and skills that I use for myself, different somatic tools, healing tools that I use for myself to help with my own intuition, my own discernment. And I'm calling this mentorship that starts in January of 2027, Decision Alchemist, because it's to help you get crystal clear on your decisions and actually follow through on them. I find that a lot of spiritual seekers, business owners, spiritual
Professionals, people who are more advanced on this journey, you're super conscious, you're super self-aware, and you can talk about your healing journey and you can talk about your spiritual experiences and your ideas all day long. But taking what you see in meditation and the ideas that you get, that maybe you even write down in the notes app of your phone and actually alchemizing them, actually actioning them, actually getting them done.
Are two completely separate things. So in Intuitive Alchemist, we focus on the gift piece of things, the advancement of your spull, your soul and spiritual gifts. And then in decision alchemist, we focus on actually actioning those gifts and getting things done. So it's not a business program per se. I'm not gonna be teaching you like,
We're not going to be getting into the weeds of how to create Instagram reels, for example, or how to like edit your website as a spiritual business owner. That's not my expertise. But I am here to help you actually implement your ideas and create the content around them. So I'm not teaching you how to create the content.
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But I'm holding the space for you and guiding you and coaching you and giving you copy ideas for actually actioning your business ideas. So that's what Decision Alchemist is all about. It's for spiritual leaders and it starts in January of 2027. So if you sign up for both, you get both mentorships included in the price of one.
And right now the pricing is really, really good, you guys, because I want to get as many spiritual seekers in there as I possibly can. I feel that 2027 is such an important year for us collectively. There's so much that's changing. 2027 is it's meant to be a year where we're starting a whole new cycle in terms of the human design. We are ending one 400 year old cycle.
That started in an I'm kid, I kid you not 1615. And we're starting a new cycle. This is a huge groundbreaking year for change. We've been talking about it in the spiritual space for ages now, since the pandemic. 2027 is kind of like the next level, the next big shift. And so I am passionate about helping you get yourself where you need to be in your spiritual leadership journey.
No matter what happens in 2027, because I am someone who used the pandemic to my advantage and I created the business of my dreams, and I'm living a life of freedom because of it, because I got b ahead of the curve. I'm someone who sees things ahead of the curve. Like I'm usually two years ahead of everybody else. And I don't say that with ego. It's just how I've lived my life and
It's honestly exhausting and difficult at times because I feel very lonely. Cause I'm sort of like, not to say that I'm like ahead of people, because I don't want to give that impression, but I'm kind of I see the trends before they happen and I try to lead people in that way. And sometimes people aren't there yet. And then I'm like, I thought so it brings up a lot for me around my own confidence in my gifts, my own self worth.
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Because sometimes I miss the mark with my timing just slightly. Cause sometimes people aren't ready for what I have to share. So I know that this is going to be a very pivotal year. I know that getting your spiritual business under your belt, your spiritual leadership journey under your belt in 2027, it's huge. And I know that because
Of the cycle change in 2027 and what it's all about. We're moving into a new 400 year cycle that's all about the individual, the individual's gifts, the individual's services, how the individual is here to shape the collective. I know that our soul missions, our soul work is more important than ever before. And I'm really here to help you lean into that, to embrace your mission.
To embrace your purpose, to deepen it instead of running away, turning back, saying, no, this isn't for me. I don't want to do this, to go head on into it and embrace it and trust it. And that's really how I'm here to lead. I'm here to help people through that. And it's scary. And I know as someone who does this full time, it's daunting and it it can feel like a lot, but at the same time, I know I'm exactly where I need to be.
And if you're feeling the call as well, you know that 2027 is going to be a pivotal year for you to take your purpose journey to the next level. So if you're you feel like you're being called right now, if you're meant for more, then my work is here to support you in that. So I'm gonna be keeping spots open in both of these programs until the end of the year, but the pricing will not stay the same. So
The beautiful pricing for the programs right now will be changing when Intuitive Alchemist starts on 1013. After that, the doors are still going to be open because I'm going to be selling this course all year long. It is going to be offered as a self-paced program. And you'll use that as your companion as we go through the decision alchemist journey. They're being sold together. Unfortunately, you can't you can take Intuitive Alchemist separately, but you can't date take decision alchemist on its own.
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So you'll be able to secure the special pricing on both mentorships if you sign up by October 13th. And I hope you'll join us live for the only live round of this mentorship because it's going to be some really cool, cool, cool, cool teachings, especially during spooky season. So I can't wait for us to get started. So that's what I've been working on. Those mentorships. One of the sneaky little things that I'm going to be teaching is this cool.
Tool that I developed that's called the intuitive decision-making tool. This tool works with the physical body to clear stress around making decisions. I know for myself that when I'm not sure what to do, I'm stressed about a decision, I don't know how to handle it, I don't know what to do next.
I will avoid making the decision. I'll forget about it, quote unquote. I'll focus on other things. I'll keep myself super busy so that I don't have to deal with it. And so I wanted to develop something that I could use for those moments when I just didn't know what to do. And I feel that right now in our culture, we are starting to rely too heavily on AI, on ChatGPT and other programs to do the work for us.
That's what I'm seeing out there. People are using these tools for everything, including outsourcing their own decision making. And it can be fun to play with that at first, but then once that becomes your habit, it can be really hard to break. And we're developing, our brains are developing around these tools, which is really scary. So it's important that you remember that your intuition is your compass at the end of the day. It is your inner worth. It is your
Inner guidance. And a lot of us came here on this planet to learn that you know the truth, to learn self-trust, to learn to focus on your gifts. So I developed the intuitive decision tool to help create clarity around what you need to do by releasing the stress and the emotional side of a choice that you need to make. So I
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Created a little mini course with this tool that you can download at the in the show notes underneath this podcast episode. So I hope you'll check it out because it's fun, it's fast. And once you get used to it, you can use this tool to help you make a decision in five minutes or less. So that's the intuitive decision tool. And the link will that for that will be in the show notes. I also have to give a quick shout out here before we get into it today because
I have my frequency generator here from Energy Muse, which is my favorite crystal company. I've loved Energy Muse honestly since this company was created. It's like, I, in my opinion, it's the biggest and best crystal company. And its founder, Heather Asconosi, created these frequency generators as a device to amplify specific Hertz frequencies. So
A frequency, it's a sound, it is a it's a sound wave, it's an energy that gets emitted from a device like this in order to help change the frequency of your room, of your auric field to match whatever frequency the device emits. Principles of quantum physics. So this one emits the frequency of 1111 hertz for manifestation.
So I have this sitting on my desk, and then I move it to my bedroom and I have it rest on my bedside table when I'm sleeping. And honestly, you guys, like this tool is so freaking cool. I'm obsessed with it. It is next level. You literally just turn it on and it changes your energy. And yes, you could use binaural beats from YouTube, but when you're doing that, you're also obviously exposing yourself to.
Wi-Fi and like Bluetooth frequency waves and your computer's energy and like all these things. The frequency generator, it's just its own thing. I don't sleep with my phone in my room anymore. So I like having this on my bedside table when I'm sleeping because it's like a pure frequency emitter, which is just to me so freaking cool. And since I've had this, I have seen a huge shift in my energy, a huge shift in realizations about.
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Emotional blocks that I had around manifestation. I have had some really vivid dreams that have clued me into specific things that have been holding me back. And so I'm obsessed with this because I feel like it helps shift my energy so much just by it being around me and near me. I've only had it for about a week now. So I haven't manifested.
Anything big on my list yet, but I did find some cash on the ground today. So that's pretty cool. And I have had some really other cool things come in in the last week that are exciting. So get your frequency generator. I'm gonna leave the link for this in the show notes as well. And Energy Muse has a variety of them, including ones for sleep, ones for love, ones for focus. So no matter what you
What frequency you need, they have a generator for it. So freaking cool. Love it. All right. So let's get into the energy update, shall we? Now that I've blabbered your ear off about all the cool things that Emily the Mystic is doing during spooky season. Also, by the way, side note, one last thing that I am working on behind the scenes. I'm working on creating a community of spiritual seekers here in Philadelphia. I'm so excited. It's called Philly Mystics.
Yay for spiritual seekers here in Philadelphia. No matter what gender you are, no matter what age you are, and we're gonna be having our first event soon. So more on that to come. As I'm filming this episode, I don't have the specifics to share with you right now, but I'm working on it. And it's a big important thing that's that's a huge piece of my heart. And I've been called to lead community here in Philly for a while.
So if you're in the Philly area, please send me a DM or text me if you know me personally because I want you to come to my first event, our first event. It's a collective. It's meant for all of us spiritual seekers. It's not an Emily the Mystic thing. It's I want everyone here in Philly to embrace the idea of being a mystic and discover their most mystical life. And so yeah, I want to be bringing beautiful spiritual souls together, especially during during this time of the year, you know?
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So I can't wait. So let's get into the energetics of the month of October, you guys. I know this has been quite the year. You know, I had high hopes for this year because I had been through such a crazy year in 2025 that I was like, anything could be better than this, you know? because it was a lot. And then 2026 has not been being honest.
You know, exactly what I thought it would be. It is and it isn't. It's just different. The nuance is different. It is the year of the fire horse. And I feel that we thought the year of the fire horse was gonna be all about drive and momentum and moving forward and change. And like, yes, a lot of things have changed. Yes, things are moving forward. Yes, we do have the drive. But
It's because we have been asked to burn a lot of things down in the process. We have been asked to clear space. We have been asked to release a lot of things. It's like the year of the snakes, but on steroids in a lot of ways. The year of the snakes said, let's shed these layers of ourselves and release and transform. And the year of the fire horse says, let's burn all of the things that we've shed to ash.
And let's keep burning things down while we're at it, you know? And that's been freaking intense. It's like, I feel like it's been intense for everybody. This year's been wild. The astrology is just, it's not let up, you know, and it keeps going. so here, listen, like we're strapped in for the ride here at Emily the Mystic. We're surrendering to it, we're leaning into it. That's all you can do. For those of us who are healing our control issues, myself included.
this year has been a big lesson in letting go of control and releasing our attachment to outcomes and also getting clear on your intuition and what your intuition already knows, and discerning who and what is meant for you and who and what is not, and letting the rest burn to ash. So here we are after a summer of burning things to the ground.
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Clearing, letting things go, you guys, whether for you that was a job that got released in your life. I've been hearing a lot of people are making beer big career shifts right now. Whether that was a relationship shift, a friendship shift, a community shift, you know, whatever you came to terms with just wasn't supposed to be part of your path anymore, then.
The fear of the fire horse has taken it away or asked you to release it. For better or worse. It hasn't been easy. So the month of October, I share that with you just to give you some context. However, three months are left, right? It's Q4 of 2026. You've got three months left. So don't be discouraged. If this year didn't end up being what you thought it was gonna be, you're not behind. You are not running out of time.
You are not on the wrong path. You are exactly where you need to be. Even if things don't make sense right now, even if you are in a liminal space, if you're in the void, I have been in the deepest of deep voids for the last month and a half. I've been in the biggest in-between of my life. I've been craving a fresh start, craving a new beginning.
And the energy is starting to come in. It's starting to get there for me. And you know what's really interesting is I went to a breath work journey last week with my friend Sam Zeph, who leads breathwork here in the Philadelphia area. Although unfortunately he's moving to Los Angeles in the new year. But he's got a few last breath work events here in Philly. So if you live in the area, you should come to one because they're amazing.
but I went to one of Sam's breathwork events last week and he said something really profound that impacted me, which was breathwork meets you where you are at. It meets you with the emotions that you are feeling today, with where you are present in your life. And there was something in that that really spoke to me because it made me realize it's not about pushing the fresh start.
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You know, or forcing yourself to have this new beginning, or forcing yourself to have this ending. It's being present with what is right now. Being present with the divine mess and the messiness of it. Being present with the fact that you are in the in-between, that you're no longer the person that you were at the beginning of 2026, but you're not yet.
the for future version of you that has the things you've been wanting to manifest yet. You're in the beautiful in-between. And that's okay. And that's perfect. And there's something special about being in the in-between.
Because life is uncertain, you know? It's super uncertain. We don't know what's gonna happen next. No one knows. No psychic in the world can claim to know what's gonna happen next. Because there are things that we're not supposed to know. There are things that are veiled from us. You think I know everything that's gonna happen in my life? Hell no. And I get myself tripped up sometimes because sometimes things blindside me or shock me. And I'm like, I should have seen this coming.
But at the same time, I know that I am veiled from knowing things or seeing certain things because I need to experience something or I need to learn some kind of lesson or have some kind of awareness. And sometimes that sucks to not see it coming. Sometimes it sucks to like not be shocked or surprised by something. But sometimes that's that's how things need to unfold.
And you always pick yourself back up from those moments and you heal from it and you move forward.
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So meet yourself where you're at right now listening to this. Be in the messy middle, be in the grand in-between, be in the void. October, it's going to be a grand old reset, a grand old reflection, a grand old review. Perhaps of the last year or even the last couple of years. And I say that because we have two major.
Personal planets going in retrograde. Venus, the planet of love, relationships, and abundance and self-worth. And Mercury, the planet of communication.
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Yeah. Yep. Two retrogrades, Mercury and Venus together. Venus retrograde starts first on October 3rd, and Mercury retrograde starts to towards the end of the month on October 24th. However, both of them end on exactly the same day, November 13th. If there's anything about this year that I've learned, it's trust the timing.
Sometimes the timing for me is so literal. So I trust that whatever is revealed to me during this chunk of time from October 3rd to November 13th, Friday the 13th. I kid you not. It's so literal. It's so specific. It's going to be big. It's going to be big news. It's going to be a big shift. And it's necessary. It's needed for whatever's going on in your life. So don't be afraid of it.
I know all of the astrologers, all the spiritual people are talking about these retrogrades because it is a big deal and it does get us set up for success for 2027. So there's an area of your life that's gonna go through a review. That's going to go through some sort of revision where you're gonna be asked to see things from a different perspective. You're going to be asked to gain clarity on things. You're gonna see things for how they really are.
And you're gonna have to make some subtle shifts, changements, alignments. All of it is always happening for your highest good. It's not meant to slow you down. Although, if you are slowed down, it's for a reason. It's to because you're moving too fast and you need to base yourself because you might burn out. So the universe sometimes can intentionally slow us down. And some of the things may happen to protect you, to protect you from things that are misaligned.
Sometimes things don't happen in the way that you expect because it is divine protection. Because the divine is stepping in to say, Yeah, no, this wasn't for you. I know you thought this was a great idea. I know you wanted this. Like, and it seems like it would be good for you, but actually it's probably not the best choice.
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So retrograde season does bring those kinds of things up. And it sometimes can feel like you're taking one step forward and two steps back. But again, you're not being deliberately delayed to punish you, to torture you, to make your life harder. This year I have really had to work on my beliefs about how the universe operates towards me.
I
was raised and came into my adulthood with a lot of beliefs from the Catholic Church around being punished by God. That you have to be a good girl and you have to listen to your teachers and what authority figures say. And if you don't, something bad is going to happen. If you don't listen to the priest, then you're a sinner and you need to go to confession. And if you don't go to confession, then you're going to cast down, get cast to hell.
So you need to do everything the Catholic Church says so that you're in good standing, because otherwise you may get punished. And my family even has a saying that no good deed goes unpunished. So it's like damned if you do, damned if you don't. So even if you are a good person and even if you do good things for other people, no good deed goes unpunished. well, you tried. You know, someone out there is gonna sabotage your success, someone out there is gonna take advantage of you.
Because people can't be trusted, and because, you know, you're supposed to be this good Catholic person, putting in the volunteer hours, getting the work done, helping and being of service. But at the end of the day, like you should be the one taking the short end of the stick. And like if your life is a little difficult, then you know, it's it's part of the journey, which doesn't make any sense. It literally doesn't make any sense.
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So I've been in this paradigm of like, okay, I'm supposed to be a good girl, but if I am a good girl, then I'm gonna get punished regardless, because no good deed ungoes unpunished, but also God could punish me if I'm not being a good girl, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, I'm tired of feeling like the universe is striking punishment on me. And I'm also tired of attracting situations in my life that are meant to guilt trip me and to making feel like I deserve to be punished.
I've attracted a lot of people who villainize me. And I'm so over that pattern. And I know exactly where it comes from. And I'm like, no, sometimes Emily has to make decisions and choices for Emily. And so what if that makes me a bad girl? Or so what? You know? I'm not, I never want to like cause harm or malintent towards people. Like, that's never what I want to do. I always want to try to be an integrity and
Operate as ethically as I can. And also, sometimes I have to do things for myself that not everybody is gonna like. It doesn't mean that I'm a bad person, doesn't mean that I'm a villain, you know? It doesn't mean that I'm a bad girl who God's gonna punish. And so I share that with you because and that whole tangent was to say that.
Venus retrograde, Mercury retrograde may reveal a lot of your beliefs of how during these astrology transits, how they're impacting you. If we are going into them with the belief that we're being punished and that these retrogrades are gonna hurt us in some way, they're here to make our life harder, more difficult, then we're just gonna keep perpetuating that same cycle over and over again. And every astrology transit is gonna be harder than the next.
And a reminder that they're here to help align you with the right path. And sometimes that is uncomfortable. Sometimes growth is hard. Listen, you guys, I am a tourist when I sing. I like to be in my comfort zone. I can be a little stubborn.
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And my trip to Asheville in August pushed me out of that comfort zone to do things that scare me. I spent a week traveling alone and doing things my way and doing things for myself, hiking alone, driving alone, eating out to dinner alone, all of these different activities that some people would never would be, you know, would be be too anxious to do. And me too. I was too anxious to do them for a long time.
And so I have in the back of my head just kind of a little tracker. And this doesn't happen every day, but a lot of days I want to try to do something that scares me. Because doing things that scare me put me out of my comfort zone, and they create a certain nervous system tolerance to stress and a certain nervous system allowance for when life does throw difficult, hard changes your way.
Again, it's not because you're being punished. It's because you're being aligned with your right path. And sometimes the universe says, this isn't meant for you. Even if you want something so badly, like you guys, listen, I get it. There are things that I've wanted that just didn't work out, that didn't come to play. And always, always, always you're being divinely guided to the best outcome for you, even if you can't see it yet.
So trust your process. So that is my little foray, my little lead-in to this retrograde season that we're entering. Don't be afraid of it. It's gonna challenge you in all the right ways. Like, what if this could be juicy? What if this stirring of the pot during this retrograde season could help connect you with your inner bad girl or bad boy or bad person? That isn't to say, like, you're a bad person. That's not what I'm trying to say.
I'm trying to say, what if it were to connect you with, and I don't want to call it the shadow self, because that sort of implies, you know, the whole shadow work journey. It's it is that. And also it's like, what if this were meant to bring out the real, like deep inner you? That you that no one else sees behind closed doors. The real, genuine, honest you.
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And sometimes that can be messy and sometimes that can be not cute. And sometimes like people don't want that version of you. But trust me, it kicks the wrong people out of your field.
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And it aligns you with the right ones. Sometimes being in your inner bad girl energy can be one of the hottest things that you do for yourself because it says, I don't care what other people think of me. And when I don't care what other people think of me, I can listen and trust myself.
I trust my path. I am not afraid to put myself out there. I'm not afraid to be seen. I trust my voice.
And I am not afraid because I know that at the end of the day, I'm being my most authentic self. There's so many things this year for me where that haven't worked out, but I can look back and say, at least I was my most authentic self in those places. And there are places where I have looked back with hindsight to challenge myself to say, could have been more honest, could have been more authentic, and you were afraid.
Because you didn't want to be perceived in a certain way. You didn't want to hurt that person in the moment. You were worried about what they were gonna say. And so it's an ongoing learning for me. It's stripping back the decades of the good girl programming and conditioning of trying to be, you know, the person that pleases everybody. What if this retrograde season were meant to bring out the inner, juicy sort of bad within you that doesn't
Give a crap. That's just so surrendered.
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To your life. There's something that's so honest about that.
And sometimes when you're in that energy, it's so magnetic. People are like, I want that. Because you tap into that raw edge that everyone else has, but are too afraid to show. So what if you could be that person for others to say it's okay for you to be your most authentic self? It's okay to lean into your truth. Gives other people permission to do the same.
Always, of course, from the point of view of honesty, integrity, and ethics. Always. I'm not saying out act out of integrity to hurt people. But I am saying that if there are places in your life where you're not being honest or authentic, this they're gonna come up during this retrograde season. This retrograde season is gonna align you. And it's gonna say, here's what works for you and here's what doesn't. So the Venus retrograde is gonna be a relationship review.
It's going to be a according to the spirit team, it's going to be a self-worth review. So this retrograde season may test you a little bit to see if you are going to go back to your old ways and your own old patterns, or if you are going to lean into your new self. I'll give a few examples.
The classic Venus retrograde situation is that an ex of yours resurfaces that you haven't heard from in who knows how long. Maybe it's someone you're no contact with, and you're like, my God, I haven't heard from this person, but I'm kind of intrigued, like I'm kind of curious. And maybe this person comes out of the woodwork and they're promising everything that you wanted them to say six months ago. And
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They're saying all the right things, but maybe your intuition, your gut is like, mm, something about this feels off.
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The retrograde is meant to help you lean into the new person, the new version of you that you are now. Would the new version of you be more discerning within that relationship?
Maybe you're going to reply back to that person and ask them better questions. Maybe you're going to enforce a boundary that you were too afraid to enforce before. Maybe you're going to be honest and clear with them about how they've hurt you in the past and tell them what you really think and how you really feel. I don't want you to think of the universe testing you as a past fail, or that if the universe brings you back something from your past.
That it's meant to manipulate you or punish you in some way, like as if you could fail a test from the universe and, you know, it's gonna set you on the wrong timeline. I don't view things that way. It's all learning. But the retrograde season, it is going to bring up.
Things from past dynamics, whether people from relationships, people from your past circling back around, opportunities circling back around, or even things that are similar to your past, but remind you of your past.
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Mercury retrograde is an opportunity.
To see what's not working within your systems, within your communication, within the way that you plan your life, your day-to-day. It's meant to expose what
could serve you in a deeper way.
So, I want to give some more specifics about the Mercury retrograde because I think this is really helpful. So, you're gonna need to know your rising sign for this. Your rising sign in astrology is based on the first house. It's based on the point at which the sun is over the horizon line when you're born. So, you do need your exact birth time for this. You can find your rising sign through Googling.
Birth information, I'm sorry, through Googling your birth chart and putting in your place of birth, time of birth, birthday through any astrology app, it'll show you your rising sign. So I'm gonna go through all of the rising signs just super fast, super high level with what to expect during this retrograde season, both Venus and Mercury. Because the majority of these retrogrades are going to take place in Scorpio. Scorpio.
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is a sign of depth, mystery, and transformation. Scorpios like to go deep, but they may not always share with you what's going on in their inner world.
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Scorpios are very emotional people, but they don't often show it to you. Scorpios like witchy, spooky things. They like the mysteries of life. There is a level of depth within the Scorpio sign. So this retrograde season is going to ask you to meet, is going to ask you to go deeper into yourself, to meet yourself at that.
greater place of depth and to see what's there waiting for you. So again, these retrogrades are about self-worth.
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Venus retrograde specifically is about your relationships. If you're in Aries rising, this is going to be impacting your eighth house of shared resources. So over the course of the next six weeks, from October 3rd to November 13th, you may experience some shifts around your shared resources, your bank accounts, your business, and
How your money is involved or connected with other people. So, like a classic example of this is let's say someone you used to collaborate with in business, where the relationship didn't work out or the business offering didn't work out comes back around and is like, hey, do you want to work together again? But you know that it didn't work out last time. But this new person, this old person comes back around is like, let's try this again. I have all these great ideas. Like, let's go.
And you're like, hmm, I'm not sure. That's what this is all about for you, Aries Rising. It says you may want to be discerning with who you go into partnership with where money and resources are involved. Be discerning with your business partnerships. Be discerning with your spouse, because this also rules marital finances. This rules, again, shared resources. So this could involve roommates. This could involve people that you share assets with.
This could involve your bank accounts in different capacities and different institutions that you share resources with as well. Taurus rising, that's me. So this retrograde season for us is all about our one-on-one relationships, especially romantic ones. Yay! So for us, it's sort of like the classic: the ex comes back. It doesn't have to be a romantic. Could be close friends, could be
Client situations, could be just intimate relationships that you have, again, really close friendships, not necessarily family relationships, although it could be. So this retrograde season is asking you to choose differently this time. You've grown, you know that. You're in a different place than you were a year ago. So sorry, the cats, you guys are crazy in the background if you hear background noise. So
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Listen to yourself. Trust yourself. You know what to do. Don't fall back into old patterns. Move forward. Next, we have Gemini Rising. So this is impacting your sixth house of daily work-life routines. And so this retrograde is all about discerning what where you're out of alignment with your day-to-day routines, your habits, your schedule.
Are you working too much? Are you playing too much? Is there some need for some balance in there? Are you gonna go back to old patterns of workaholism? Are you gonna go back to old patterns of, you know, working yourself to death? Or maybe back to old patterns where you're not doing the things that you said that you were gonna do. Maybe you've been avoiding getting things done that you've been wanting to focus on.
So this is all about making time in your schedule, especially for the things that bring you joy and saying no to maybe if your boss boss comes out of the blue to ask you if you can pick up extra hours for your shift. Maybe you say no. You know what mean? Okay, cancer risings for you. This is all about your fifth house.
and your so this is all about your fifth house of romance, as well as children, as well as hobbies and and things that bring you joy. So for you, my cancer rising, this may also bring up people from your past. Romantic relationships could come back around. The exes could could potentially come out of the woodwork.
But it could also mean that.
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There is a need in your life to revisit the things that are bringing you joy. There may be ideas that come back around. Maybe you had ideas that you've been thinking about doing for a while now, but you haven't had the time to implement them. Maybe there are things that you've been wanting to create for a while now that you just haven't had the time to implement.
Maybe you've been working yourself a little bit too hard and you haven't put the time and effort and energy into dating or romance. Maybe your romantic relationship, there's some things that are lacking in terms of the bedroom. And you're being asked to kind of spice up that area of your life because this also does rule sexuality as well. So my cancer risings, this is going to be a really good time to f figure out what turns you on.
In life. And review that because Venus Retrograde wants you to be able to show up as your full self and all of your relationships with what brings you joy and with what feels good and what feels good in your body. Leo Risings, this is going to impact your fourth house of home. So this could involve thinking about a move, your house.
Maybe house renovations, house projects, maybe cleaning out your closets. This could involve ideas that you've had related to healing around your family dynamic, your parents, your ancestors, your extended family members. So there could be some family relationships that feel triggering or irritating to you at this time. There could be conversations with those people in your life.
There could be a need to revisit old things from the past that are coming back up again and you're being asked to choose differently. So it could be boundaries within your family settings. It could be the way that you're showing up in family gatherings. It could be the way that your relatives, you know, maybe they're knocking on the door at all hours of the day and the night and you need to be stricter with your time and what you have the capacity for.
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So, your home, your family life, your relative life, your extended family, all of that is going to be up for review. Virgo risings, this is going to be impacting your third house of communication, your local environments. So you're being asked to take a look at how you are communicating yourself to others. Are you being clear? Are you being honest? Are you being direct? It also rules the stories that you tell yourself.
So, where are you being dishonest with yourself about what you believe, about what you deserve, about what you're worthy of?
So this is going to ask you to be clear with yourself about what you want and communicate that with people.
And again, that could also rule your local community, your local environment. So maybe there are things that happen with your neighbors, with local friends, acquaintances. Maybe there's some friends that come back up from out of the woodwork that you were hoping, you're like hoping that the relationship was going to fade and it didn't, and these people are back. And it's like, you're being asked to discern and decide for yourself what you want to do next in those dynamics and what's going to work for you. And to communicate that as well.
Libra Rising, so this is gonna bring up issues and challenges related to, well, I don't want to say issues, that's not the right word. I wanna say that this is connected to your second house of money finances and your worth and worthiness when it comes to your time, energy, and effort. So it's gonna say, are you charging your worth? Are you getting paid enough for the amount of efforting that you're doing in your job?
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Are you valuing your time enough? Are you valuing yourself enough? Are you giving yourself enough credit? Are you receiving enough for what you're putting out there?
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So there's something about your finances that is it's gonna help you see what you're truly worthy and deserving of and to ask for more. So maybe you ask for a raise during this time. Maybe you raise your prices, maybe you command more in terms of your money, your business, your bank accounts. Scorpio risings. So this retrograde for you reviews your first house of self. So your relationship with yourself.
And it's going to ask you to put yourself front and center. Focus on you, Scorpio rising. Sometimes you can put others' needs first before your own. So the guides want you to put yourself front and center, honor, recognize your own needs, and to not let other people take advantage of you. Put yourself first, be honest with yourself. Sagittarius rising. This is impacting your 12th house of your inner world.
You're healing, your subconscious mind. So this could bring up healing patterns that you've been learning to to shift. Things that you thought that you had healed may come back around. Dynamics that you thought that you had worked through may come up again. You may be working through things in therapy. There may be things that are uncovered. So this is going to be a big time of inner work and healing for you.
Capricorn risings, this transit is going to impact your 11th house of communities, friends, and groups of people. So the places and spaces where you spend your time, who you spend your time with, what friends you have in your life, all are going to come up for review. Do you like the circles that you participate in? Are they contributing to your growth? Are you receiving what you're putting into them? Are you?
Feeling nourished by your communities? Do you feel like you belong in those groups? Are there things that need to shift? Are there certain friendships that need changing? Are there certain things that you need to let go of? Aquarius risings, this rules your 10th house of career. So this retrograde season, it is going to
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It's going to help you shift your relationship with
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How you show up at work.
Your self-worth and again, what you're worthy and deserving of in terms of your career path, your visibility. So this does rule your public life in general. So for some of you, this could be business, this could be social media. But for others, this could be perhaps you hear you get a job offer from an old company you that used to work for, and it seems really good on paper, but they're only paying you like a little bit more money, and you know you're worth so much more.
That's a really good example of this. And finally, Pisces Rising. So this impacts your ninth house of travel, beliefs, studies, higher education, learning. So your travel plans may shift. This may impact your schooling, your studying. You may discover that you want to learn something new or different, or it may even say to you, you've learned enough. You've studied enough. Now you're the expert.
Time to market yourself that way. Time to put yourself out there that way. Stop seeing yourself as the beginner when you are the expert, you are the authority. So it's time to really revisit your beliefs around what you know and your education and to say, hey, I actually know more than I give myself credit for. So that's a little rundown of all of the rising signs. I hope that gave you a little bit of insight to what to expect this month.
So, going off of that, going off of the retrograde season again, it's gonna last from the 3rd to the 13th of November. It's gonna be in Scorpio for the majority of the time, and it will dip into Libra for a little bit. So just watch what happens in your environment. Watch what comes back around. If something comes back from the past, be suspicious, be discerning. You don't have to say yes to every offer or every opportunity.
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Make the choice that's right for you. But at the same time, don't be hard on yourself if you do want to revisit something from the past. But it's an opportunity to say, hey, I'm gonna show up as this new version of me. I'm not gonna show up as the version of Emily from six months ago and how she would have handled this. I'm gonna show up as Emily today with everything I've learned.
We're deep into the year now. Who are you?
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So you're being asked to make your decisions and choices from this new place versus how you would have shown up last year or even earlier on this year. That's really what this is all about. Again, it is a little bit of a test, but it's not a pass-fail situation. It's a, can you show up as this new version of yourself and be proud of that?
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Because when you say no to something that's not aligned, where you know you're settling, where you know you are deserving of more, you could get more, the relationship could be more aligned, you create space for something that's an even better match. So don't be afraid. Also, 1010 portal is this month, October 10th. As always in the Emily the Mystic membership, we have an event for the 1010 portal. So I would love to see you there.
The 1010 portal is really all about anchoring into your worth, your worthiness. I say this every year. It's like anchoring into your sense of self. And it happens to coincide this year with the new moon in Libra. Like, my God. Libra is all about worthiness. It's all about harmony. It's all about balance. It's gonna be a huge reset day, 1010, huge reset day.
Huge opportunity to claim who you are.
Huge opportunity to anchor into deeper levels of self worth.
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Then we have Pluto going direct on the 15th. I honestly think that a lot of the crazy things that we've been through over the last couple of months have been because Pluto's been in retrograde. And I think that's been a lot for us. So that's gonna go direct. So that's gonna help us out a bit. And then we have a full moon in Taurus towards the end of the month on the 26th of the month, which is gonna be a check-in. It's gonna be an opportunity to say, hey, like.
Here we're almost done with the retrograde. We have two weeks left.
How am I doing? How's my mental health? How's my body? Am I taking care of myself? Am I sleeping? Taurus rules the body. It says, this is what my physical body is all about. This is what feels good. This is what is honest to me. Am I treating myself and my body well? Or am I grinding too much, not sleeping? Am I sick? Like all of these things. So the full moon in Taurus at the end of the month is gonna give us the opportunity to really check in.
And see where we're at. And then again, the retrogrades are going to end on the 13th of November. And then it's the holidays. So the retrogrades will be out of here by the holiday season. So we're going to start to feel a shift in November, which is exciting. So lean into this time. Let it review things. Let it be kind of like your cumulative year-end review. Don't be afraid of it. Let it push you into a higher level of worthiness to say, no, you know what? I want more.
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And see what shifts from there.
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So, with all of that being said, my listener, we are wrapping up now with the end of the episode. Thank you so much for listening. I would love if you could check out my Intuitive Alchemist group program at the link in the show notes. Also, some changes to my one-on-one sessions. If you want to book a one-on-one session with me, if you go into my calendar link, you can book a session as a new client. If you are a returning client, you need to email me.
Because my returning clients, I may want to do a package of sessions with you, or you can purchase a remote recorded reading with me. It's to help me create more space on my calendar. So a few different ways that we you can work with me. I will leave the link in the show notes. So to wrap us up today, let's do some individualized messages. We're gonna do a pick a pile. However, I'm gonna channel these live in the moment and I'm gonna pull cards live in the moment.
So there may be some pauses here because this phase is not going to be edited. So we're just gonna be open to what the cards have to say, and we're gonna do three different piles, all right? So we'll do three colors. We're going to do purple, red, and black. So pile one is purple, pile two is red, pile three is black. So pick your color.
And I'm gonna be pulling cards from my Seasons of the Witch, Saw and Oracle, as well as from the Modern Witch Tarot deck. Perfect for this time of the year. All right, so I'm gonna start with my pile one. People who selected the color purple. We're gonna shuffle some cards here from the tarot, and we're gonna see what your messages are. Okay, perfect. Interesting.
my god, that's so obvious. All right. That is interesting. Okay. I'm gonna pull an Oracle card and then I will share your messages with you.
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say what is the Saltwood Oracle have to say. that fell out.
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My headphones fell off of my head, my listener. So that could be a sign for you that you're not listening to something. Is there something within you that you're not listening to? A deep inner voice because we've got three cards here. We've got the eight of pentacles, the nine of swords, and the knight of swords. So we've got two swords cards here one pentacles.
The swords rules the mind, it rules the intellect. And the Nine of Swords is the anxiety card in the deck. There's something that is keeping you up late at night. You are under stress. Okay. Now I don't want you to think to listen to this message and say, my God, Emily's telling me that it's going to be a stressful month. No, that's not what I'm trying to say because this is something that you're already aware of. This is something that you are being asked to work on during the month of October. All right. So don't get it twisted. This is not anything new.
That's coming into your field. This is something within you that you are not seeing, that you are not listening to, that is creating stress in your life. Okay. And because we have the eight of pentacles here, it's something having to do with your work and how you make an income, how you earn money. This could be a career. This could be business. Okay. So there's something around your finances, your job that's creating stress for you.
And I am ask you to tune more deeply.
Into that quiet inner voice within you that says, I trust my path. I trust my path. I trust my path. Even though I'm afraid right now, so maybe this could be like, and again, I'm not telling you that something bad is gonna happen in terms of your career path this month. This is something you're already aware of. But there is something within your work life that is creating stress and fear.
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So maybe you got laid off recently. Maybe there's been a big job transition. Maybe it's keeping you up at night because you don't know what's gonna happen next. And this message says go within yourself. Listen to that deep inner voice, that deep inner knowing, that trust that what you've been through with your work, your life, your job is happening for a reason, that things are changing because the old path was misaligned.
That it was wasting too much of your time and energy. You weren't being appreciated. You weren't being valued. And it's time for something new because the Knight of Swords comes in fast. This is a quick shift. This is fast communication. So it's even possible that you could get new offers this month. It's possible that you could get information, opportunities through your career. And you may even feel overwhelmed by that because.
This combination of cards also could say you have a lot on your plate, you're working a lot, you're doing the most. Like, and you may need more balance. You may need to be really discerning with what you say yes to because there's speed here. These cards say, I am overwhelmed by what's coming into my life. So there's there's gonna be an abundance of opportunities for you. The guides are not worried about that for you. But what your biggest block is right now is your mind.
Your mind is playing tricks on you. And this card, the greet. So I didn't even say this, but your Saw Win card from the Seasons of the Witch deck is greet darkness. And this card is all about greeting that literally what I was saying to you earlier in the episode greeting your inner bad girl. It's all about the inner parts of yourself that you may be afraid, afraid to go deeply into. Those old
Lost things within yourself that you are nervous about revealing. Your mind is your biggest trickster, my friend. Your mind is your biggest block right now because it is telling you not to trust yourself. It's telling you maybe that you're not good enough. You're not worthy enough. It's keeping you up late at night. And this card is saying greet, greet yourself with love.
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Confront whatever feelings you have within yourself and say to yourself, this is just my mind. I know that I'm worthy and deserving of more. Don't let your mind get in the way of what you know deep within.
And to let yourself feel whatever you need to feel because sometimes the stress that you're feeling is related to the stress at night that you're feeling and why you can't sleep. It's related to suppressed emotions during the day that you're not honoring. So
Your message. Okay, switching gears to pile two. If you selected the color red, this message is for you. All right, so let's see what your tarot cards are. Okay.
Right. Interesting.
Okay, interesting.
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Okay.
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Flying out at me here.
Alright and we're gonna do an Oracle card as well.
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All right, so you're gonna be busy this month. There's a lot of action that's happening here. My pile twos. And I'm gonna say what I said to pile one. I'm gonna say this to you as well. Everything that I'm about to share with you, you already get a sense of it. There's already a flavor of it. This is not new, this is not something you're not aware of. This is not me predicting some stressful future outcome during the month of October.
These are energies that you've been sensing or feeling in your life right now and how to move through it. Okay. So for your tarot cards, we have the Five of Wands, the Three of Pentacles, the Queen of Cups, and the Ace of Pentacles. So this selection of tarot cards says to me that there is a lot of external energy, other people's opinions, maybe even some drama around you right now.
And because we had the th have the three of pentacles next, this could relate to your job, your coworkers, the people in your interpersonal life and relationships. This does not say to me romantic stress. This says to me like stress within your job. This says to me drama within your interpersonal relationships. This says to me, there's just a lot of people around who've got a lot of opinions. There's a lot of noise.
And you are being asked to be the Queen of Cups in this scenario, to be intuitive, empathetic, to be open-minded, and to be sympathetic to what other people are going through without taking on their stress as if it were your own. This says to me, other people are going to be going through a lot while you're going through this retrograde. Everyone else is going through it as well.
And the Queen of Cups sits on her throne. She's in tune with her emotions. She knows how she feels, but she's boundaried with her emotions. She does not let other people's stress get to her. She says, I know myself, I know my worth. She says, I am in tune with what I feel, and I express that and I communicate that. So if there is some sort of conflict within your work, within your projects, within
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People you collaborate with. It says, be the queen of cups. Tell people how you're feeling. Be honest. But don't take on other people's stress or emotions for them. Don't do the work for them. Let other people figure it out. I feel like the message here is not my circus, not my monkeys. Like this is not mine to deal with. I know it is mine. I know it is not.
And so maybe that's a big pattern that you're letting go of. Maybe you would get really swept away in other people's stuff. And this retrograde season says, I reclaim my energy, my emotions, my cup is full. I am focused on myself. I am boundried. I am not going to take the work stress home with me. I'm going to leave it at the office. I'm not going to take my client's stress on for me. I'm going to leave it on Zoom. Because we have the ace of pentacles here, which says, big new beginning, new ideas.
The pentacles also rule your finances. So it's like because you're not worried about other people's drama, you're not letting other people's opinions affect you, you're sitting on your throne, you could have your best business idea yet. You could have a huge breakthrough with your job. You could feel really clear with your own vision for yourself. You get some sort of insight from reclaiming your energy, from focusing on yourself. And we also
From the Seasons of the Witch deck, we have the Elements Oracle card, which is all about the elements, earth, air, water, fire, and harmony.
So this card says get back into nature. This says find harmony despite the various storms that could be blowing on around you. So if there is life stress happening, get in nature, ground yourself. I recently was feeling so agitated and just annoyed with everything, and I couldn't figure out what was going on. And then I went and I took a hike. I went out, got out in nature.
Emily the Mystic (01:22:30.936)
And I was like, my God, I was so ungrounded. I had no idea how ungrounded, how out of body I was until I was in the woods. And then I was like, my God, I feel like myself again. So this card says, lean into nature, use that as your stress relief. Let Mother Earth heal you.
And everything has a season as well. This card also talks about the four seasons, the four elements, the cyclical nature of life. That this any cycles that you have that keep coming up again and again to honor your own cycles, to honor your process, to honor your emotions throughout this, throughout everything that's going on. And that to flow with your own energy and not to fight with your energy.
The Queen of Cups, she knows her energy, she knows her emotions. She knows when to rest, she knows when to work, she knows when to recharge, she knows when to take action. So this, the elements card says, don't fight with your own natural energy cycles or seasons, lean into them. So if you need to take a break, like say no to the invitation to go out this weekend. If you need to sleep in, ask for support so that you can sleep in. That's what that card is saying.
Alright, and finally we have pile three color.
Emily the Mystic (01:24:12.92)
Right. Interessant Interessant.
Alrighty. okay.
Emily the Mystic (01:24:26.542)
And I'm gonna pull an oracle.
Emily the Mystic (01:24:52.47)
All right, so
Emily the Mystic (01:24:56.362)
Okay, interesting.
Emily the Mystic (01:25:03.274)
If you chose the color black, the we have the strength card, which came out first, the two of swords, the nine of pentacles, love that for you. And we have the elders card from the seasons of the witch saw win Halloween Oracle deck. So here's what's coming up for you during this retrograde season. You are being asked to make a choice within your life. And I'm going to say this to you. I said this to all of the other groups.
That these are energies that you're already aware of. This is not something coming out of left field, most likely. This is something that has already been stirring in your life for some time now. There are two directions that you're being pulled towards. And we have the strength card here. So I want to say that you are gaining from this retrograde season a deepened sense of inner strength, of inner power, of trusting your intuition, of trusting your guidance, of
Trusting yourself that you can make good decisions. And that these two choices that you have to make. Okay, I just I feel like I need more clarity on this. Because what have we have the nine of pentacles here, which speaks about finances, and the ace of pentacles just jumped out as well. So there could be something related to your financial situation, your job, your money, your bank accounts.
Yeah, so I I am asking what choices you're gonna have to make. And I have the Ace of Pentacles and the Six of Wands here. So you're gonna have to make some sort of decision or choice when it comes to money, business, career, work, finances. And
You can't go wrong either way with these choices, but you're being asked to make the decision.
Emily the Mystic (01:27:04.174)
From a point of view of who you are with all of the experience and growth and wisdom that you've gathered. Let me explain. This elders card from the Seasons of the Witch Saw and Oracle deck says: listen to your elders, listen to your wisdom, listen to people who've come before you. Listen to the experience that you have.
The Nine of Pentacles is also a card of I have been working for a long time to gather the resources and the success that I have. So this says, I am seasoned, I am an expert, I am an authority. So to me, the message here is if you're being asked to make two choices in your life, regarding your finances, your career, you need to consider yourself to be an expert, an elder.
Someone who is very seasoned with a lot of wisdom and expertise to share. Because when you make your decision from that point of view, there is going to be a financial reward for it. Again, we have Nine of Pentacles, Ace of Pentacles, Six of Wands, which is the victory card. It's saying this decision may feel uncomfortable, but the Two of Swords, she is blindfolded. So you may be blinded by how much you know, by
your wisdom by your expertise, by the decades of experience that you bring to the table, you may not fully value yourself. You don't see it. But if you were to just take off the blindfold, the decision, the choice would be obvious because you know that you are worthy and deserving of more. So this these cards are saying don't settle for less. So whether it's raising your prices, taking the job with the higher pay, negotiating for a pay raise at your job,
Maybe this is about you're given different job offers and you're not sure which one to take. These cards are telling you operate from the wise version of yourself, the strong version of yourself. Who knows? Who knows how much they bring to the table, who values themselves. And that will help you make your choice.
Emily the Mystic (01:29:21.782)
And you're going to be successful. Again, all the cards here say, I'm going to make money from this, I'm going to be abundant from this, I'm going to win from this. And the other thing, too, at the elder's card could be that you get guidance, counsel, mentorship from someone who is more experienced than you. So in this case, I'm going to say, if you feel like you need to seek a second opinion.
There may be a mentor, a guide, a teacher, a coach, maybe even me, who steps into your life to help you gain the confidence in the decision that you know that you need to make, to reflect back to you, you know what you're doing, you are ready for this, you are ready to do this job, you are ready to take this offer. Or to negotiate for more, to ask for more. And again, this could be anything. It does not have to be career and finance related.
But it is something that is coming up in your life for review that says, I'm gonna make this decision and choice based on the person I am now with everything I've learned, knowing that I bring so much to the table that I deserve to be rewarded for it. And that's beautiful. And that's exactly where you need to be. So, my listener, those are the messages. We did it. Yay!
Happy spooky season. Happy October. It's the season of the witch. Don't be afraid to be your witchiest self, to bring out your inner witch, your inner bad girl, however you want to say that. it's really about leaning into it's the darkest time of the year, right? We're heading into it's we had the fall equinox, we're heading into the winter solstice. Retrograde season is gonna ask you to go deep, perhaps into your shadows, into your shadow self. And
To trust in your inner compass, to trust in your inner knowing.
Emily the Mystic (01:31:24.576)
Making decisions and choices from the the version of you that you are now, not who you were in February of this year or March or even April, who you are today.
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We're all gonna make it through this retrograde season. It's all gonna be okay. And perhaps your biggest competition, your biggest block, if you wanna call it that, the biggest thing in your way, your biggest obstacle is your mind. Your the voices in your head that are telling you old stories, old beliefs.
What if you challenge that voice or voices? What if you instead listen to the deeper part of yourself? Who knows? That's what I'm guiding you to do. Because when it comes to any choices or decisions you make this month, you know what to do. Trust yourself. And I'm gonna leave the episode with that message. I'll see you in the next podcast episode, and of course, for the November energy update.
Love you lots. Happy Sawin. Happy Halloween. And I'll see you very soon. Bye.
