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Renee: As Christine mentioned, we randomly selected a winner for this raffle, and the winner is...
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Renee: Congratulations, Lauren2020.
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Renee: Great hosts, great topics, five stars.
Renee: I love listening to this podcast.
Renee: The hosts are so personable, and it feels like you are right in the conversation with them.
Renee: The topics they cover are so interesting.
Renee: Definitely has me feeling more connected with myself and excited to learn more.
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Renee: And I feel like it aligns so perfectly with our little sign-off, because she's saying she's curious, she wants to keep going, she wants to dig deeper.
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Welcome
Renee: Hello and welcome to episode 15 of Synergy to Synastry, our penultimate episode of the season.
Renee: In today's episode, we're gonna be talking about rituals.
Renee: First, we'll define what is a ritual, why do people have them, so the benefits.
Renee: How do we personally use rituals in our daily lives?
Renee: What are the challenges of creating a ritual and maintaining it in your routine?
Renee: And then how can you identify if a ritual is no longer serving you and is kind of run its course?
Renee: Let's start off with the definition.
Ritual Definition
Renee: So Christine, how would you define what a ritual is?
Christine: I love this question.
Christine: For me, a ritual is a routine with purpose.
Christine: I've been trying to create rituals in my life instead of to do's.
Christine: So like my morning ritual, for example, I wake up, I make a lemon tea, I feed my cats, I clean the sink, and I will check emails or read while I'm eating breakfast.
Christine: So for me, that produces like a feeling of calmness and also a feeling of I'm getting done the things I need to get done, but it doesn't feel stressful because I'm not trying to do too much.
Christine: The other thing that I like to do is I have different days for different things.
Christine: So therapy is on Mondays.
Christine: I have the gym on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Christine: So my body almost knows what time it is based on what I've been doing every week.
Christine: So I know at nine o'clock, I'm going to start getting ready to go to the gym.
Christine: And then at ten o'clock, I'm at the gym and my body feels a sense of calm knowing what's going on.
Christine: Renee, I'm curious how you would describe what a ritual is for you.
Renee: I can hear people thinking to themselves based on your description.
Renee: Okay, going to the gym Tuesdays and Fridays, that just sounds like a routine.
Renee: That sounds like someone who's organized and has a schedule.
Renee: How is that a ritual?
Renee: If I'm understanding you correctly, it's the culmination of all of those pieces and it's about alignment within your body.
Renee: So how I would define a ritual is you're with intention, creating a sacred space with the purpose of healing, reflecting, or completing some act of self-care.
Renee: So you go into the gym is self-care.
Renee: You go into therapy is healing and reflection, as an example.
Renee: Other types of rituals that we've talked about, journaling, that can be all of the above.
Renee: Or foot baths, or showers, and you're talking about cleansing the energy from your body, or releasing stress, or whatever.
Renee: Things that we've discussed really throughout the entire season.
Renee: We mentioned in, I think it was a channeled message some weeks back about having the healthy sleep hygiene.
Renee: I go to bed at 10:30 every single night.
Renee: That's just a routine.
Renee: But if you do something before it, like I'm always reading and or journaling, or putting candles on, or essential oil diffuser, or playing meditation music, or I'm meditating, whatever it is.
Renee: You're setting some sort of a scene that's supporting you from the perspective of it being healing in some capacity.
Renee: There's self-care to it.
Renee: There's a nurturing of the soul and the body in addition to just, well, I know on paper, it's good if I have a regular night time schedule, and I'm going to do these things to help me unwind.
Renee: It's just viewing it from a different angle.
Renee: And then alternatively, you can have something that goes much farther and is more on the nose, doing some sort of a spiritual ceremony, connecting to energetics, connecting to other people, doing some healing, reflection.
Renee: Rituals can ground you by helping to release any sort of chaotic energy in your body, mind, muscles, wherever, and reset your intentions.
Renee: It's not, I am doing this bedtime ritual because I understand scientifically, it's important to get X amount of hours of sleep, and to facilitate that, I will do this.
Renee: You are recalibrating and you're making the choice of I am doing these things because these actions, these behaviors, these routines connect to the type of person that I want to be.
Renee: Like Atomic Habits by James Clear, and there's other books that are habit related, and a lot of them talk about the same idea, is you have to have an identity shift.
Renee: You say, well, I'm the kind of person who does insert healthy habit here.
Renee: The kind of person that you want to be is someone who has a twice a week gym schedule.
Renee: I am that person by becoming that person.
Christine: As usual, you've taken the tornado of thoughts that I have and words, and you've distilled it into something that people can actually understand.
Christine: So thank you.
Christine: And yes, that is exactly what I was trying to say.
Christine Ritual Examples
Renee: I know we got into some examples already, but why don't we get a little bit more specific and talk about the types of rituals that we do and maintain?
Christine: Before I meet with a client, and before I meet with a first-time client, really, I will sage my apartment, I will choose crystals or cards for the reading, I'll light a candle, diffuse essential oils, do whatever I feel I need to do to get my space set up, and then I'll meditate for at least minutes.
Christine: And what I do is I put binaural sounds on, six hertz, and into my headphones so that I kind of drown out any of the noise around me.
Christine: And for some reason, listening to binaural sounds really just resets my brain.
Christine: No matter what I'm doing, it's like a very quick fix for me.
Christine: And after my reading, I will journal, and then I'll do some art, right now it's collaging, to release any of the leftover energy from the reading.
Christine: When I'm getting a massage or reiki or any other healing modality where I'm kind of just laying there, I tend to do a deep breath where I either breathe in for four, out for 12 or 14 seconds to allow myself to relax, or I'll do four, seven, eight breathing.
Christine: And as I mentioned before, the rituals tend to vary for me depending on how I'm feeling, but I'm always aware that full moons are for releases and new moons are for setting intentions.
Christine: So during a full moon, I will usually have a good cry, whether I want to or not, it's coming.
Christine: So lately, I've just been watching a sad movie or sometimes it's even a commercial that can trigger it.
Christine: And I'll just let myself have a good cry going to the park.
Christine: And if I can take my shoes off and put my feet in the grass.
Christine: But as we know, I live in New York, so sometimes that grass can be filled with gross things and I will not do that.
Christine: My backup is to touch a tree.
Christine: Something interesting I heard is that some trees are vampires and some trees are energy givers and vampire is not a bad thing.
Christine: So you can kind of feel when you touch a tree, if they are giving you energy or if they're grounding you out, if they're like taking some of the negative stuff away.
Christine: Maybe during a full moon, you'll want to find a tree that will take some stuff from you, so that you don't need anymore.
Christine: And then of course, I'll always write down what I want to release.
Christine: I'll just put like one or two things down.
Christine: I won't overcomplicate it.
Christine: Full moons can be intense, so I'll lay low for a little bit.
Christine: I won't plan a lot of things because I don't know how I'm going to be feeling, right?
Christine: That good cry could last for five minutes.
Christine: It could last for a half hour.
Christine: We don't know.
Christine: Remember, new moons are for setting intentions.
Christine: So I'll take a magnesium bath, right?
Christine: I'm filling up on all of these nutrients for my body.
Christine: I will do some sound therapy.
Christine: And then of course, I'll write down one or two things that I want to manifest with the new moon.
Christine: One of the last rituals that I will do is using my grounding cord to ground myself and to ground a room before I enter into it.
Christine: For example, today, I went to the gym and there is something called an in-body there and it basically measures, you know, your weight, your body fat.
Christine: We're looking for recomposition right now.
Christine: You know, we check to see how much muscle I'm gaining, how much fat I'm losing, is it working, whatever.
Christine: But I was nervous because my trainer's on vacation, so I had to go in the room to do it by myself today.
Christine: And I was like, oh no, what if someone's in the room?
Christine: Obviously, you just knock on the door and say, oh, I'll come back.
Christine: But I got a little anxious about this.
Christine: I imagine a cord going from the room that I had to go into all the way down into the earth.
Christine: And I imagined all of the energy from that room that wasn't gonna serve me to go straight down into the earth.
Christine: And then I wrote my name across all of the walls to make me feel like when I walked into that room, that room was meant for me.
Christine: And listen, it could be because I went to the gym at 9:30 in the morning today, or it could be the grounding.
Christine: But when I got there, nobody was in the room, and nobody bothered me when I was in there.
Christine: Whether it works or not, in my mind, it feels like it works.
Christine: So I will continue to do it.
Christine: Renee, I'm curious what rituals you do because after listing all of these out, I feel like I now sound a little bit off my rocker.
Renee Ritual Examples
Renee: Well, how I was feeling while listening to yours is, wow, I really don't do this.
Renee: So I will be the counterpoint.
Renee: My main experiences with communal rituals came from Nuurvana.
Renee: There is something to being in a group of people that have the same intention and you're sitting in quiet, or you're being led by the same facilitator, and you're just kind of all in meditation, and then you can journal or reflect or talk to each other about it.
Renee: I, of course, have done new moon, full moon rituals like we talked about back in Episode 2.
Renee: But I'll be honest that I've been on a stretch here where, like I haven't done my foot bath in a while, and I'll remember I'll be out and about and go, oh, I should really do that when I get home.
Renee: Or I should do it when the moon is in a water sign or something.
Renee: And then that comes and goes because I'm doing other things.
Renee: And I go, oh, I guess I'll move it to the next one.
Renee: And I've been in this pattern of feeling off about it.
Renee: And to a degree, maybe it's just because, well, if I actually did it, then I would have the reset that I need and I would feel better.
Renee: So it can be tricky in trying to determine that, but we'll get a little bit more into that topic later.
Renee: Once in a while, I'll get to a certain point where I need to lock myself in my room for an afternoon or an evening, and it'll be several hours straight and I just close the door.
Renee: I'll put meditation music on or do activations and do journaling and do channeling or trying to connect with my guys and do card pulls or yoga.
Renee: I'll do so many things in a row and it'll be several hours long, and then I either move on with my day or then from there, I just wash up and I go to bed.
Renee: That does help me, like that really concentrated block where I do feel really reset after it, and I tend to know when that's necessary.
Renee: So I might just be in a phase right now where I'm just kind of operating, I am living my life, and then I'll get to a certain point and go, you know what, I really think I need to do a major decompression and reset, and I end up just kind of throwing all my energy at that.
Unrealistic Ritual Standards
Renee: But it is nice, like it sounds nice on paper, and you see so many people that are in the spiritual community where they wake up and they meditate for 45 minutes.
Renee: They make this special drink, and that's the first thing they have in the morning, every single morning.
Renee: You see that and you go, oh my God, how is that even possible that somebody does that all the time, and every day, and then they're doing another meditation later, and they're doing Pilates, and then they're journaling, and then they take a bath.
Renee: They take a ritual bath every single night.
Renee: You're like, oh, I can't even think about how I could possibly do a quarter of that every single day, let alone every single week.
Christine: I think what you're talking about is so normal, and I think the only constant is change, right?
Christine: And I think if you're doing the same ritual for every single day for the rest of your life on end, I don't feel like that's attainable or healthy.
Christine: I feel like you're the reverse of me from like the divination tool episode where I'm like, I do when it feels right.
Christine: And the reason I'm saying this is for the listener out there, like if you're following someone on Instagram who's like, every day I wake up at and journal for one hour, and then I have a tea that I've made from the roses in my garden for another week.
Christine: And I do that every day and that is my secret.
Christine: Like that's not attainable, and I also question whether or not that's real.
Christine: You know what I mean?
Christine: And you could just be in transition right now, and three months from now, you might find a routine that works for you.
Christine: Maybe your ritual right now is to have no ritual.
Renee: Oh my gosh, you're 100% right.
Renee: Thank you for saying that.
Christine: You're welcome.
Renee: Because I've had many readings probably earlier this year and definitely back in 2023.
Renee: We would get together with our psychic friends, and I have a lost count of the amount of times that the messages they would get were for me to stop planning.
Christine: Oh my gosh, yes.
Christine: And what about the reading I just did for you yesterday that was like, write down all of your ideas, but don't feel like you need to execute them right away.
Renee: Right.
Renee: Yeah, because I think that some of the idea, and even like just 2024 overall, we've gone over the story arc of, okay, getting laid off and then starting a podcast and starting a business.
Renee: It's a lot of those pieces involve significant planning.
Renee: Like it's work to do a podcast, it's work to start a business, to maintain, to promote both of them.
Renee: But the instructions I have been given are, on one hand, to use my innate planning reflex of wanting to plan everything every five seconds in a more sparse and controlled way, because I'm also supposed to be leaning into this idea of freedom.
Renee: Like I'm getting pushed back to, I was telling all of you how I kept having dreams I was in France, which is where we broke up.
Renee: But it would be, I was there by myself or I was going back or I was with my siblings.
Renee: And it was a new trip and I knew that I had been there before.
Renee: In Lisa's reading, she like saw me on a bridge and I had like a red scarf and it like flew off into the wind and I didn't chase after it.
Renee: It's just hard when you are somebody who is more Type A and wants to do things.
Renee: Like also, I like sitting around doing nothing.
Renee: So clearly I have the capacity to do nothing, but then I'll switch back on to I didn't get anything done.
Renee: It wasn't productive.
Obstacles to Establishing Rituals
Renee: We've touched on it a little bit already, but why don't we take more of a deep dive into the challenges of creating a ritual in the first place, but then also maintaining it as I've established, I have had some trouble with.
Renee: I think the obvious answers for why it's hard to develop a ritual are everyday life.
Renee: You are quote-unquote busy.
Renee: You have every intention of doing X, Y and Z today, and then somebody calls you, or somebody is sick, or you're sick.
Renee: Also just distractions.
Renee: We can spend too much time in social media, or focusing on current events and what's happening in the world, or getting sucked into other people's drama, or you have plans, you're going on a trip, you are getting together with people for lunch, and you've maybe overbooked yourself, so you just logistically don't have time.
Renee: Also, you could have a lack of knowledge.
Renee: Where do I start?
Renee: Do I even need a ritual?
Renee: What should it be?
Renee: What's the right thing to do?
Renee: And feeling like you don't have anyone to talk to about it, or you don't know the way to go about figuring out what's best for you.
Renee: You could also just put the whole thing in a box, and say, well, I don't need rituals.
Renee: Like, what's the point of that?
Renee: If it just feels too woo-woo for you, we're like, oh, rituals, you're picturing, like, witches gathering around a cauldron, making a potion.
Christine: Yeah, I think you hit on a really good point, which is that just like we have stuff to do every day, which makes it hard to create a ritual.
Christine: And one thing I want to remind the listener of is if you're trying to get started, a ritual does not have to be a four-hour process.
Christine: It could be one minute.
Christine: Where I have trouble creating a ritual is that I overthink and I overplan until I thought about it so much, I'm done with it.
Christine: It hasn't even happened and I'm already done with it.
Renee: Like you don't want to do it?
Christine: Yeah.
Christine: Like I've already thought through every possible scenario so much that I'm like, this isn't for me.
Christine: It's terrible.
Christine: So that's why I say it only has to be one minute.
Christine: And you could start off with one minute.
Christine: You could start off with 30 seconds.
Christine: I never thought of myself as someone with commitment issues.
Christine: But if you're like, well, I can't start a ritual now because three months from now, I'm going to be traveling and I won't be able to maintain this ritual.
Christine: If I make it something simple, like the bare minimum of what the ritual should be, once I start doing it, I'm fine.
Modifying Rituals for Travel & SMART Goals
Christine: And then what I've actually noticed, and Renee, I'm not sure if you've noticed this either, but let's say I'm traveling in three months and I'm traveling for a week, that trip is going to reset me on so many levels.
Christine: When I come back, I'm probably going to want different rituals anyway.
Christine: So there's no point in driving myself nuts to begin with.
Renee: I love that perspective, reframing what you think is going to be a disruptor of I'm going on a trip, or I'm going to be staying over this person's house and say, okay, well, when I am at a friend's house or partner's house or family member's house, if I'm staying over, I have this ritual instead.
Renee: You could just come up with different ways to modify it and that way you cover yourself and then you don't feel bad and then get into this mindset, oh, well, I didn't do it one time, I give up.
Renee: I guess I can't keep the ritual.
Renee: Yeah.
Christine: And I think this comes for me from years of experience of trying to maintain this.
Christine: Like, I pretty much work out like four to six times a week.
Christine: And it's just because I enjoy it.
Christine: Like, I'm not a crazy person.
Christine: If you saw me and you wouldn't be like, oh, she's really buff.
Christine: I just like to move my body and that's one way to do it.
Christine: But I used to pack workout clothes on my trips.
Christine: As if I was going to maintain my workout schedule, I was going to do yoga twice a week.
Christine: And now I know not to do that.
Christine: When I go on vacation, my ritual is I pack only one book, I bring one form of journaling with me because of course, I have five journals.
Christine: It kind of like pare down and pick what means the most to me, knowing full well that that trip is going to change me or whatever experience is coming is going to change me.
Renee: We don't have to be hard on ourselves to compare ourselves to an unrealistic standard because that's the point.
Renee: We can't do that.
Renee: Waking up and meditating for 45 minutes and having a tea and grounding in the earth and doing whatever this other stuff every single day.
Renee: If that's not for you, it's not for you.
Renee: But I think even adding the additional layer of, I have my vacation version of these rituals, that sets us up to not judge ourselves and be self-critical, and then throw it all away because we didn't meet a certain expectation that we had set.
Renee: We keep talking about goal setting.
Renee: Do you set smart goals?
Renee: So it's specific, measurable, action-oriented, time-based.
Renee: Oh, I forgot the R.
Renee: What's the R?
Renee: Whatever the R is.
Christine: Reachable?
Renee: Honestly, you might not be wrong.
Renee: I want to lose 30 pounds this year.
Renee: Instead of that, you start with the first goal of, I want to go to the gym once a week.
Renee: You set it so low that it's totally reasonable.
Renee: Once you started going once a week, and you're really feeling confident that maybe six months in, you're like, you already started going twice a week without even having to switch the goal.
Renee: The six months, you also have a goal of, I want to meet with a nutritionist.
Renee: I just want to schedule an appointment, see if it works for me.
Renee: It's not, I'm going to get on a plan and I'm going to do this for through the whole summer and through the winter.
Renee: It's just something that small and tangible that you can accomplish it.
Renee: And what happens is you build a sense of self-efficacy of, oh, I can do this.
Renee: I can actually accomplish these goals.
Renee: And then you can start making them harder.
Stopping a Ritual
Renee: We're tiptoeing around the last aspect of this conversation that we wanted to get to, which is, how do you know when a ritual is not serving you anymore?
Renee: And you need to mix it up.
Renee: So to recap what we've discussed on this topic already, if you've dropped it, like it's not working, you need to do something to recalibrate.
Renee: If that first goal that you created didn't work, you need to set a different goal that is much more attainable for you and go from there.
Renee: It's not a bad thing that you were, quote, unquote, overthinking and you talk yourself out of it.
Renee: Because maybe you should be coming up with something in the same vein, but it's different enough that you actually feel inspired and you feel motivated to do it.
Renee: You need to have the self-awareness to pivot something so that you don't just drop off the bandwagon.
Christine: Yeah, I tend to know that a ritual is no longer serving for me when I dread it, when it doesn't make me feel good.
Christine: I guess when it stops filling your cup is when I would say that you've outgrown your routine.
Christine: So this actually makes me think back to our human design episode.
Christine: If you go back to your human design, does this feel like success or does this feel like bitterness?
Christine: I think that's for projectors for me.
Christine: Does my ritual make me feel like I'm successful or do I feel bitter about it?
Christine: And that's also a quick way for you to get out of your head once you identify the feeling.
Renee: Maybe what's happening is the reason that that ritual is falling away is because you don't need it anymore.
Renee: Maybe you outgrew it.
Renee: You're ready to spiritually up-level and do something a little bit different.
Renee: And maybe you can't think of it yourself and I've had that many a time.
Renee: I get a lot of ideas.
Renee: Just I'm sitting in meditation.
Renee: I just got a pen and paper or I just did yoga practice or it happened to me the other day.
Renee: I was just watching TV and just stuff flew right into my head.
Renee: Let me go write that down.
Renee: Being struck with that inspiration, but you can also just request the help.
Renee: You can ask a spirit team, but you can also ask other people like around you.
Renee: That's pretty practical.
Renee: So if it's aligned for you at that time and it is what you need to be nurturing you, then it will become that spiritual ritual versus some sort of a forced routine.
Renee: For me, where this has manifested is I get into a habit of actually over scheduling everything.
Renee: I keep moving it in my schedule.
Renee: I have moved this one thing for like three months and then you either just start feeling bad about it and judging yourself or eventually I might get to a certain point and just go, clearly I'm not going to do this and I'm just going to get rid of it.
Renee: In the meantime of these last three months, I've maybe picked up something else.
Renee: So I'm just going to stick with that instead because that's working.
Renee: You should want to look forward to it.
Lessons
Renee: What have we learned this week?
Christine: Bubbles keep mosquitoes away, which I did not know.
Christine: I know that my mom like douses the yard in peppermint oil to keep the mosquitoes away.
Renee: My sister just made a spray last night.
Christine: Oh, so it does work.
Renee: Okay.
Christine: I can attest to that.
Christine: But I thought the bubble thing was so much more whimsical and fun, like just having a barbecue, putting on the bubble machine, and having a good time without mosquitoes but bubbles.
Renee: Do they need to be special?
Renee: Do you have to put something in the solution?
Christine: No.
Christine: I guess it's maybe soap deters them.
Christine: I don't know.
Christine: Isn't there something with Irish springs?
Christine: Maybe that's for ants.
Renee: No, there is something with Irish springs.
Renee: Because it's like with certain critters, the smell repels them.
Renee: It's so strong.
Christine: Like what are their peppermint scented bubbles or like lavender scented bubbles that we could...
Christine: Yeah.
Christine: That's our idea, everyone.
Christine: Cut this out.
Christine: But yeah, that's what I learned this week, Renee.
Christine: What did you learn?
Renee: I had a lot of technical issues.
Renee: I would have to call the support line with one platform or another, and I would have to wait watching TV.
Renee: We all know what I was watching, vampire diaries.
Renee: So we finished the episode and we went upstairs, and I sat down at my desk and I saw they had this big congratulations on my monitor.
Renee: I had an adrenaline rush.
Renee: It's very common.
Renee: You can Google it.
Renee: And I started running around the house yelling.
Renee: I was like, my website's up.
Renee: My website is live.
Renee: And I was like, I got to text my mom.
Renee: And I was so excited.
Renee: So the lesson, long and short, all things in divine order and timing.
Renee: It's going to happen at the right time.
Renee: You have to be patient.
Renee: Just put in the work.
Renee: If you're running into some obstacles like I was, you might be ready for something like a relationship, a job, moving or whatever it is, but it doesn't mean that the conditions are right.
Readings
Renee: Time for the psychic reading portion of our episode, our channeled messages.
Renee: The first thing I saw was a gravy boat.
Renee: It was being filled with like a blue sparkly water, and then I'm seeing a person pick it up and just drink straight from it.
Renee: And then I got the line, drinking the Kool-Aid.
Renee: You create your own Kool-Aid that aligns with the vibration of yourself that you're aspiring to bring out.
Renee: You're looking inward, you're knowing who you are, and you're knowing the parts of yourself that have been buried.
Renee: The listener is putting on a sparkly outfit.
Renee: It's like they're just like glittering everywhere.
Renee: I was laughing, I was like, oh my gosh, this sounds like keep your aura sparkling.
Renee: And I just kept getting like, they're shimmering, they're shimmering.
Renee: And then I got the song Bejeweled by Taylor Swift.
Renee: It's quote, the anthem for you right now.
Renee: So maybe just like listen to this song a bunch, especially if you haven't heard it.
Renee: And the mantra was, I find the silver lining and it's me.
Christine: I love that reading so much.
Christine: And so interesting, I heard a Taylor Swift song in my reading as well.
Renee: Are you serious?
Christine: Yeah, and I've only been listening to the Tortured Poets Department and it's not one of those songs.
Christine: So when I first went into my space, my psychic screen was just white.
Christine: I don't understand.
Christine: And so I heard Blank Space from Taylor Swift.
Christine: And then the image started to appear and it was this like really nice sheet of paper, like a very thick white piece of paper.
Christine: I'm like touching it and I'm looking at it and I'm afraid to mess it up.
Christine: I see as I'm drawing, like a light coming through me into my hand as I'm drawing.
Christine: And it's just scribbles and doodles, but they end up looking so cool and it's so unique to me.
Christine: And now I love and cherish this piece of paper.
Christine: I'm not protecting it so much anymore.
Christine: I want to show it off.
Christine: And like I just needed to start with one line.
Christine: I just put one line on the paper and I was like, okay, what feels good?
Christine: And I started drawing.
Christine: And if I don't like something, let's color over it.
Christine: There's that perfectionist idea that you could keep adding and keep adding forever because you constantly think something is not perfect.
Christine: But you set a timer, you create a space to create.
Christine: And at the end of it, like that's what you made.
Christine: I see like taking a break, going to have coffee, spending time with friends until you feel ready to start creating something new again.
Christine: It's that ebb and flow of life.
Christine: And I feel like that really genuinely talks to the episode today because Renee is in an ebb with her rituals and I'm in a flow right now.
Christine: But there's going to come a point in time where I ebb and Renee flows.
Christine: I have a trip coming up after that trip is totally going to interrupt everything I have set up right now.
Christine: And I'm going to have to start again, but I'm going to take that break and then I'm going to create my ritual again once I come home.
Christine: So the point of all this is to say that you just have to start.
Christine: And from a starting point, then you can decide, do I go left?
Christine: Do I go right?
Christine: And you can't hold on to a white piece of paper forever and never draw on it.
Christine: The whole purpose is to draw on it.
Christine: That is life, to create things and be messy.
Christine: And the mantra that I got is I'm just taking the first step.
Christine: And I feel like you keep repeating that to yourself.
Christine: So I made the appointment.
Christine: What's next?
Christine: I go to the appointment.
Christine: What's next?
Christine: I listen to what the person has to say.
Christine: What's next?
Christine: I read over my notes and you just keep building from there.
Christine: And one day you're going to turn back and you're going to have a beautiful piece of art that you had just created all because you just started.
Christine: Thanks for listening.
Renee: If you'd like to learn more, the resources we used to prepare for this episode are listed in the show notes.
Christine: You can reach me, Christine, @ChanneledbyChristine with one L on Instagram.
Renee: And you can reach me, Renee, @_readbyrenee, or connect with both of us via email at synergytosynastry@gmail.com.
Christine: Keep your spirit curious and your aura sparkling! Â
Renee: We'll see you when the stars next align.
Outro
Christine: If I go on a date with someone and I yawn and they don't yawn back, like that means you're a sociopath or a psychopath, so like that's a red flag for me.
Renee: Are you saying that you do it on purpose?
Christine: No, but eventually I yawn because that's who I am as a human.
Christine: Like I get exhausted from people.
Renee: Mirroring, which is a psychological phenomenon, so people that have a fear connection to the person that is sitting in front of them are going to mirror them.
Christine: We are connected in more ways than we know.
Christine: But also, if someone doesn't yawn on a date, like immediately leave them.
Christine: Is this why I'm single?
Renee: Okay, we're now becoming the same person.
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