Have you ever stumbled upon a dime on the sidewalk and felt a little spark of joy? That tiny spark can ignite a wildfire of abundance, and I'm here to share how a simple shift towards gratitude can transform your life. Join me as we traverse the landscapes of spirituality and manifestation, weaving through personal anecdotes that demonstrate how cherishing the small joys leads to greater triumphs like promotions and home ownership.
Imagine the mystical encounter of meeting a specific horse in Puerto Rico after visualizing it, or the tingling sensation when your intuition whispers truths before they unfold. This episode is a tapestry of such stories, revealing the dance between our 'witchy' impressions and the profound insights they offer. From my transition away from rigid religious structures to the liberating embrace of tarot and oracle cards, we'll discuss how personal spirituality shapes our lives and the freedom found in forging our own path.
We'll wrap things up by pondering the messages whispered to us through dreams from beyond and the embrace of spirit guides that watch over us, often in the most unexpected ways. From the brush of a guardian angel during a near-miss accident to the heartfelt signs of compatibility under the influence of astrological signs, this episode is an intimate gathering. We'll also demystify the Law of Attraction, sharing practical tips for manifesting your desires with simplicity and intention. So, whether you're looking for a sign or a guidepost on your spiritual journey, tune in for an episode that promises to enrich and inspire your path forward.
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Have you ever stumbled upon a dime on the sidewalk and felt a little spark of joy? That tiny spark can ignite a wildfire of abundance, and I'm here to share how a simple shift towards gratitude can transform your life. Join me as we traverse the landscapes of spirituality and manifestation, weaving through personal anecdotes that demonstrate how cherishing the small joys leads to greater triumphs like promotions and home ownership.
Imagine the mystical encounter of meeting a specific horse in Puerto Rico after visualizing it, or the tingling sensation when your intuition whispers truths before they unfold. This episode is a tapestry of such stories, revealing the dance between our 'witchy' impressions and the profound insights they offer. From my transition away from rigid religious structures to the liberating embrace of tarot and oracle cards, we'll discuss how personal spirituality shapes our lives and the freedom found in forging our own path.
We'll wrap things up by pondering the messages whispered to us through dreams from beyond and the embrace of spirit guides that watch over us, often in the most unexpected ways. From the brush of a guardian angel during a near-miss accident to the heartfelt signs of compatibility under the influence of astrological signs, this episode is an intimate gathering. We'll also demystify the Law of Attraction, sharing practical tips for manifesting your desires with simplicity and intention. So, whether you're looking for a sign or a guidepost on your spiritual journey, tune in for an episode that promises to enrich and inspire your path forward.
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Hello and welcome to Millennial Moms, unfiltered. Today we're going to be talking about manifestation and spirituality. There we go, so, without further ado, let's get into it, all right. So I feel like me and Brittany are both pretty. What is even the word Like? Not spiritual, but like people would look at us and think like we're basic bitches. Ok, fine, in in. We love crystals and tarot and the moon and astrology. So we're going to be talking about the we're basic bitches. Ok, fine.
Speaker 1:We love crystals and tarot and the moon and astrology and we find comfort in those things. Other people might think of their ridiculous Weird and woo woo. Weird and woo woo.
Speaker 2:But yeah, in 2024, it's pretty basic. I feel like most people to some degree either follow astrology and those kind of things like human design. I feel like it's pretty mainstream at this point.
Speaker 1:But human Ten years ago. We're going to talk about that because I feel like we're going to go into that later more deep, because I feel like people don't really know what human design is. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I bet you in the next like three years, oh yeah, huge, it's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Does Gio think you're crazy, or does he?
Speaker 2:I think he used to, until he realized that I actually do make things happen Like I told him this is where I tell everybody to start with, manifesting is, no matter how small the changes you see on the floor, pick it up and like thank the universe for it, but actually feel like grateful for it. He started doing that and within a year he got three raises and a promotion. That was the first year of us living together and I was like told you.
Speaker 1:So this is going to sound really I don't even know what the word is. I guess like snobby. It's not a snobby thing, like when I would clean up I would just throw away change, because it used to irritate me.
Speaker 2:I used to do that too. I would be overwhelmed Throw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would just throw it away, because we have ADHD and all the like. If it was too much change, I would just toss it off. It was like cruddy, I toss it. And now, every time I find any sort of change, I think the universe Thank you more Please. And I put it in either me and Pat have a jar or the kids each have piggy banks. I'll put it in one of ours, yep, wherever's closest. But I used to do the same thing. I just throw them away. I'm like I'm just throwing away money. That's not a way to tell the universe that you're grateful. You want more right.
Speaker 2:So whatever you show that you want, or whatever energy you're giving, is what you're going to get more of. So when people, the universe doesn't understand words. So words are almost not important, it's the energy you're giving. So when you have a goal and you look at it every day, you look at it every day, oh my God, I want this. And you're looking, and you're looking, and you're looking, and you have anxiety around it, you're not necessarily calling in that goal you could be pushing it further away, yeah, so you have to act like it's already yours and that it's attainable, because that's what you're going to get. So if you are looking to buy a house and you're just like, oh, they're selling so fast, or look at the prices of these houses, oh my God, is it going to be mine? Is it going?
Speaker 1:to be mine. Yes, this one.
Speaker 2:You're putting anxiety into the universe and you're not going to be rewarded in the way that you want to. Manifesting is claiming it, knowing it's yours, knowing yours is greater, showing you're grateful for it. Right and you're willing to accept and ready to accept more, and the universe will feel that and reward you in that way.
Speaker 1:People think, like I say that we manifested our house for sure, like when we started the buying process. Killian was a newborn, it was 2020. We had both been on unemployment for a year, almost a year because Pat was laid off and couldn't find work steadily enough. We were accepting unemployment checks, we had a brand new baby and a two year old. We had nothing saved for a down payment and I was looking at houses and I had a realtor and I had a mortgage broker and everyone's like what are you doing? And I was like I'm taking the steps necessary to prove that I am ready for this next thing. And we got approved and pack out a job and we had, obviously, we had the.
Speaker 1:I think he was on unemployment for seven months. I think he had like that seven months gap but because he's in construction and because of the situation, it was a little more flexible with the. But I was just like no, we're doing this. Pat was even getting like I don't think we're ready for this. I'm like, no, yes, we are. And we started like looking right away. We probably looked at like 25 houses before we got this one.
Speaker 2:And every time we've gone to look for houses and I just we were never ready, right. Not that we're not ready, like financially we make more than enough in all of the things it's just that, like what goes into owning a house, I'm not. I've never been mentally there. Like I don't want to do it and even right now, like I told Gio, like he's anxious to start looking again, I'm just like I just don't, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll say if you have the space, apartment living is way easier. Yeah, I hate them. We don't have the space.
Speaker 2:We don't have the space and the kids are getting older, so we like we have to and that's going to be our next thing to start looking for houses again. But I'm I told him, I'm like I need the second to get my mind there, or?
Speaker 2:I'm going to sabotage it, like unintentionally. Yeah, but I manifested where we are now and my pregnancy with AIM and I when I first started coaching with my Instagram business. I that's when I started getting into manifesting and really like understanding and learning how to apply it to my life. So I would journal and I would write like it was already mine. So I would be like I'm sitting at my desk in this and blah, blah, blah and this is what it looks like and I have this and my successful coaching business. And at this point I was not selling programs, it was not going well. I was just like yeah.
Speaker 2:Wasting a whole bunch of time doing it not wasting, but learning. And I said I'm pregnant with my third baby and it's all going so good. Blah, blah, blah, all the things. And I, I meant to bring my journal today to show you guys the note that I wrote. And then, two months later, we found this apartment, which was bigger, it was the space that we needed. It had exactly where I wanted to put my desk, what I was envisioning. And then guess what? Two months later, guess who's pregnant? Bitch, me, after trying for one month. And people are like, yeah, but you did those things to make that happen. Yes, that's the point of manifesting.
Speaker 2:People have the thought you can't just manifest in like people think that manifesting is like I'm going to be a millionaire and then you like go to Taco Bell and sit on the couch and watch TV.
Speaker 1:That's not what it is you have to. What are the steps you're going to take to be a millionaire?
Speaker 2:Because you have to have a plan in place, even if it's improbable, even if the plan is improbable in the direction that you want to go into, is like most people don't make it this way because you're putting the energy out there that it's already yours and it's for you. You'll be one of the ones that make it if you truly believe that. But you can't say let's see if this is going to work and the universe feels that energy can be wishy-washy.
Speaker 1:right, you have to be very intentional. I feel like I manifested my pregnancy with me too, because we had gotten married. I'd gotten a journal. It's a planner I cannot remember the name of it, but it was the first time I'd ever gotten a planner that had like writing prompts. I don't think that I was ever aware of my manifesting. I think I always just kind of did it. I always just like that's almost better, because you don't have that pressure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always just kind of like I would set intentions and I would just like do it, but I would never necessarily write them down. I wouldn't say like, oh, I'm manifesting XYZ. I would just like this is what I'm going to do, and I would almost always do it. Like the studio, the house, my pregnancy with me, like all of that, was definitely like I made it a point to say out loud, at least to someone, that it was going to happen. And but my journal was the first journal I'd ever gotten. That was a planner and it had little prompts and it had, like your year-end goals and I wrote in the back of it that I wanted to be at least pregnant by September of 2018, which would have been almost a full year after it would have been a full year since we got married and I was I had her by September. I had her. I got pregnant two months after we got married, so she was already here by that date, which was crazy.
Speaker 2:I know I manifest things, like even just silly things, like when we were in Puerto Rico. I saw a pack of horses I don't know if you call it a pack of horses, a herd of horses, I don't know just like freely, like running, I don't know what it's called. Isn't it just like they run through the streets?
Speaker 2:and I was just like, well, that's so cool. And I was like I'm going to get one of those horses. And then I was like it's going to be white and it's going to have brown spots and I like had this whole thing. I'm like I'm going to be just be riding it through the streets. Well, little did I know that Geo planned a horse riding trip for our anniversary. And we pull up and I see the horse I was envisioning and I'm like that's my horse, that's going to be my horse. So then when we're signing the paperwork and stuff and I'm like which horse am I going to ride? And she's like that one's yours. Right there, guess what? It was the same horse I described. It really was.
Speaker 1:And I was like, damn, like that was so do you like, do your manifestation surprise you sometimes, or like shock you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like I've growing up, I was always very I thought I would call it intuitive, like I could read people. I was good at reading people, but like I could call the future, like if I didn't fuck with somebody, if I just met you and I don't know, I just felt like something was going to happen and I've done this with Geo's friends several times Like I just don't like that person. I don't like that person and he used to be really like what?
Speaker 1:do you mean we've been friends? Yeah, it's just you.
Speaker 2:You're being crazy, but how many times I called the situation before it happened and I used to just sit there and he's like that's some witch shit. Lo and behold, it is actually some witch shit and I am pretty witchy. I have very deep connection to the universe and I always have my whole life before I realized what it was.
Speaker 1:I agree, I wish I had it with me. My mom gave it to me the night she found me. In my preschool picture, like preschool school picture, I'm wearing a purple amethyst on my neck that was wrapped in wire and is on a purple rope necklace that my dad made for me. We went to the crystal store on Thayer Street. I don't know if it was like a long ass time ago. I was four. In this picture I picked out an amethyst and he wrapped it in wire for me and I wore it and I had it on in that picture and she found it yesterday, like Thursday, and she showed me and she was like look what Rah Rah found. I was like that was mine. I was witchy even before I had my amethyst.
Speaker 2:So I feel like A lot of people that are more spiritual versus organized religious have similar backstories to this, so I wanted to touch on this.
Speaker 2:I did. I grew up very Catholic. We went to church every Sunday. I was in CCD and we talked about this before that. Like I don't like working for other people because I ask a lot of questions I need to know I'm a know where I need to understand it before I do it. So I got to an age where I was asking all these questions in CCD, in CCD, and I was asking, like, and the answer just was because that's how we do it and I didn't like that.
Speaker 1:We didn't know why it felt yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I got kicked out of CCD, which was in my Portuguese religious household. Not, yeah, I was the devil. I, I what. They didn't like it. I was possessed and it was just. It was, yeah, a whole thing. So which that in itself, I want to say, is pretty Witchy itself. I think organized religion is based on a lot of paganism and a lot of your show.
Speaker 2:Things that get Called wrong, but not wrong when we do it, you know, right, um, and it doesn't vibe with me. I don't love organized religion. I I mean, if your super projesus go off, do you? But I think that there's a lot of aspects in it that are rooted in things that are covered up and pretend it's not ritualistic and it is.
Speaker 1:I have respect for people who have that religion. It's like you find comfort, enjoy and that fine, but I definitely don't like it being pushed on me and I definitely don't like people using religion as like a, as like an excuse or reason behind things or let's just I mean, we don't want to get political on, let's just the religion behind.
Speaker 2:I just want to say our country is run like look at this rainy ass day that now the sun's coming out while we're talking about manifesting. Yes, right, we're getting like. I feel like the, I feel like the clouds are opening up and then raining up up. I'm not, I can't even see behind the camera right now, but you just Is really coming in.
Speaker 2:Sorry for all you listeners who aren't watching maybe head over to check it out a second. So totally joking, but also at the same time I Feel like where I grew up, and where I grew up like it was somewhere, like in the middle of nowhere, like I said you.
Speaker 2:Cumberland. Yeah, just like not. I mean, I don't mean like where I'm curious about or was curious about, like my. I pull tarot cards all the time. I read oracle cards. I listen instead of just doing. Were you the only one of your family, though? Was everyone else like so? How fast as far as that was concerned.
Speaker 1:I mean I by family, the way I was curious about it it looked more dark than I thought it was.
Speaker 2:But it's just. Yeah, I was curious about the dark side too, because I'm a curious person, but now, as an adult, understanding how to differentiate where the darkness comes in, and and it's not all darkness that there is duality and a lot of things. I know that what I do it for and what I'm curious in is the light of the darkness. I do it for and what I'm curious in is the lightness. It's not the dark 100%.
Speaker 2:I think that there's a lot of things in manifesting and spells that Can be for negative things like anything, but that's not what I use it for and that's not how I work. I don't do spells that because, yes, I do spells like no, I'm not going at it.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Use manifesting. I don't do it for other people and it's never for anything bad. I would never use the power I have to harm or cause harm. It's always for the greater good, and I say that even when I'm cleansing my home, release things.
Speaker 1:Or negative energy. Yeah, I need burned my hand last night while I was making cookies and then I fucking bit my tongue and it was bleeding. I was like what is happening?
Speaker 2:No, I think you need some. I bet you I'm gonna go home. What is going on? She has had some luck lately. That is just unreal and I bet you I'm gonna leave here and I'm gonna go home and something in my house is gonna go and I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 1:I bet you anybody, I'm gonna bring some energy.
Speaker 2:There's something here that needs to like.
Speaker 1:I don't know what it is and I haven't smudged my whole house yet. I've burned Sage and I've gone in some rooms, but I haven't done a full cleansing yet.
Speaker 2:You need to, I know, or it's probably Something that's carrying energy. Now that I'm talking about, I'm getting chills, but I'm not gonna fucking do this on camera.
Speaker 1:I'm so um, I Want to like hire someone to do it. Yeah it's my my Pause, so I was previously engaged before I met that, as we talked about last week and I had I was living in my mom's in. She didn't in love she has an in-law apartment at her house.
Speaker 1:So I was 23, I had just moved in there with my then Fiance because we got engaged and we were gonna live there until we could till after the wedding. That was our plan and my cousin came over. He lives in. He lives on the West Coast now but he came over and he smudged the whole house for us. He's super into that and so he smudged my basement apartment. Like three days later we broke up.
Speaker 2:I was like he got rid of the negative energy he got rid of the negative energy for me Bye. Do you see like things like that it's. It's Like you see those memes sometimes that it's like I smudge the house and now now my husband's acting weird, yeah, and it's like, haha, funny, but like in real life.
Speaker 1:No it does.
Speaker 2:It does work like that, like that if something, and it doesn't mean that he's a bad person, it just means that he wasn't in line with me right, he wasn't in line with what you needed on the path you needed to be.
Speaker 2:And I say all the time, and Not all the time, but when it's brought up and when I really think about all of the negative things in my life that I I Hurt a lot through, I grew a lot through and even this is gonna.
Speaker 2:There's gonna be people out there that are really, really offended and think I'm the worst person. But the way my parents deaths Lined up with, how me and Geo came together without specifically the death of my mom and my mom was like I'm not gonna cry about it, but like she was so much to me, like she was so much support and peace and comfort to me, and without her death me and Geo I don't think would have the way everything lined up. I don't think that we would have ended up together. So even in ugly times that are hard and feel horrible, I think that it all lines up with like who you're supposed to be, the path, the struggles, the things you're supposed to see to become your highest self. So when you're manifesting something for you to be higher, sometimes it feels like everything's crumbling around you, but that needs to happen for you to get what you're trying to get People that really bent out of shape.
Speaker 1:like things, bad things are happening. It's like no, the universe is taking, like, if people are like, oh well, I got into a fight with so-and-so, or I'm no longer speaking to this person or I lost my job, it's like no, that's good, that's the universe making.
Speaker 2:you're making room for the new stuff. For the new stuff and that's exactly what I'm talking about is like my roommate left. I had no money. I had lost my job. The week before my mom was in hospice. I had to pay for her funeral. Thank God she had insurance for that that helped me, without a job, be able to take care of certain living things. And then Gio was really stepped up and was really supportive during that time. And at the end of all of that just ugliness he was like maybe we should get a house together. Whoa, you were thinking that too. Yeah, we should. Okay. And then that's how our life started and he was in the pits of hell with me and didn't judge me for me not knowing what the fuck to do, how chaotic I felt, and it really was just like a really bonding moment and for him to be in that place with me and not be like, oh no.
Speaker 1:Like this is too much for me. I'm a head out. This was early on, right, it was super early.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the first, like four-ish months of us being exclusive and we by eight months together, we moved in together and then the following month pregnant with Eli. Wow, yeah, so it was all really fast, but it all meant to be yeah. It was all meant to be 100%, and I think that we all in some way can communicate, and I think some of us are better at it than others.
Speaker 1:I think that I get visits a lot in my dreams, because I'll have the most random, like specific dreams, and I don't get them a lot and I don't always know how to like channel it. And I would love to like figure that out, because there's been two people that I've had dreams about someone in their life that has passed that I wouldn't have come to me but I like felt the need to just tell them and they were like oh my God, that was for sure. So I'll tell you one. What is a friend of mine, a really good friend? Her dad passed away and he was kind of he was married to someone else in my family, so it was like she and I met, waitressing together, but then we found out that her dad was married to my cousins in-laws, so they were at family functions together a lot, so like I kind of knew him but like we weren't close.
Speaker 1:Anyway, he passed away last year and I had a dream, maybe two weeks later after he passed, that he came, he gave me his bucket. He gave me like a bucket hat, like a fisherman bucket hat, and so I told my friend I was like I had a dream about your dad last night. It was so random. I was like he gave me a bucket hat. She was like he had a bucket hat that was his favorite. And actually she said me and my sisters all dressed up as a version of him for Halloween one year and one of the sisters wore the bucket hat. And I got a dream where he was like giving me his bucket. I don't think he's giving it to me.
Speaker 1:I think it was more like a talk about this bucket hat to my daughter kind of thing and I had no idea and she was like oh, he definitely came to visit you.
Speaker 2:She's the one who said he came to visit you and I was like I need but probably so I would relay the message, which is so crazy and I have dreams like that too and I can feel like when I'm awake, I don't see, I feel, and I just can describe what it makes me feel. And when I say it out loud to whoever it's for, it usually means something else. Like I've done it with someone whose boyfriend had passed and I was describing what I was seeing and what I felt and she needed to move on because she was really heavy about it. We were supposed to do this and get married and buy a house and the kids. And now I'm starting all over again and I'm getting chills talking about it again. That's not what he wants for you. He doesn't want you to be hung up on his death Like, yes, remember the good times and stuff, but don't hold on to all that. He wants you to be. And I'd never met this guy or whatever, but I described his smile with something that everybody knew about and it was like he would light up a room and that's what I was feeling like the warmth, and he's not mad. He doesn't want you to hold on to this and stuff.
Speaker 2:I've done that before and I usually I don't know how I'm tapping in. I haven't figured out how it works for me yet, but what I do know is that I can't talk to my mom and dad. I have someone in my family who is a medium and she's like your mom keeps getting upset that she can't talk to you. I'm here. I'm here. Why can't she feel me? Gio feels my mom. He dreams about her all the time. But my dad will be in my dreams, but I can't hear what he wants to say. It's like it's too close to me and I haven't I don't think I've properly mourned their deaths yet Probably.
Speaker 2:So I think I'm probably standing in my own way, but I just I don't even know where to start for that.
Speaker 1:Come back to a medium.
Speaker 2:But several times Anything and card readings and for them, no, I have a really hard time hearing from them. But for other people, like I'll have dreams. Like I reached out to an ex-boyfriend last year and I was like hey, you keep popping up in my dreams. This is probably weird and you can't even go fuck off. But like be careful. I don't know why I'm saying that, but I'm feeling like Right.
Speaker 2:I've had those dreams, you know, and I've reached out to people Like high school ex-boyfriends, and it doesn't even make sense, yeah, like, and we don't talk, we have no relationship, but I'm like this keeps popping up and I'm not dreaming about you for like.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Any lusty reasons, like there's no reason that I would be dreaming about this person. But the dreams feel very specific and they feel like cautionary. So I listen to myself and I'm like OK, you, in order to grow anywhere else or whatever, like you have to honor the relationship you have with the universe and what's being called to you, and the more you do it, the more you know what's a sign versus not. You know.
Speaker 1:It's hard because I always second guess everything I'm like. Is that a sign? Is this something that should be like?
Speaker 2:But I used to do that too. I just spoke too much to you about saying before about it.
Speaker 1:My dreams were like a little bit weird.
Speaker 2:I used to do that too, but then things would happen and I'm like fuck, if I would have just yeah. Honored my intuition. Yeah, it would have been different. So that's when I stopped, do you?
Speaker 1:feel like you're protected at all. Have you ever had those moments where like, oh shit, I should have just like died and I have all these angels because I've had that got to a pretty bad car accident that like I probably should have been crushed and I was not?
Speaker 2:Nothing, nothing that Intense, intense, but I think that there's a lot of times that things could have ended up a lot worse than they actually were, and it just I walked away lucky.
Speaker 1:The day after my 24th birthday, I was on my way home from work in Braintree and I was on the Pawtucket S curves coming from Boston, isn't that where it?
Speaker 2:always is. I'm just sitting there. I'm just sitting there, right, it is.
Speaker 1:So I'm coming up. I was in the high speed lane and I'm coming up around the curve, the first curve, and I don't know what made me do it, but like I like jerked the wheel. I feel like I saw something. I don't remember what it was, I wasn't even on my phone, I wasn't even touching the radio. Like it was just I jerked the wheel and I spun out.
Speaker 1:I completely crossed all four lanes of traffic, spun like one time, I think, and ended up against the guardrail facing the opposite direction, not hit at four o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday Holy shit.
Speaker 2:And if you're not from Rhode Island or don't know the S curves, I'm talking about four o'clock on a Friday you, that's the kind of traffic, you that you're just like white knuckle in the wheel because it's just, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:My mom was like how did how did you not get hit? There was not even a scratch. I mean there was a little scratch on the car from where I hit the guardrail, but like no damage. I was shaking.
Speaker 2:Your spirit guide was definitely there.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, but that year I had lost two great grandparents earlier that year and my two grandparents was very close to the year before. So I was like, oh my God, I had so many, so many angels.
Speaker 2:And so many people think that, like this, your guardian angel is what like, yeah, catholic Catholicism like lights that, as but your spirit, guides usually aren't people, you know yeah. And you can. Ok. So this is how I found out who my spirit guide or one of my spirit guides was, and this was when I was really beginning to be heavy into Oracle card readings and getting messages from the universe. It was my 30th birthday and I went to a Reiki session and have my cards, ricky is like.
Speaker 2:My mom does, ricky, I know and I just like I always want to like ask you for your mom's number.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, she's love that. Yes, you should.
Speaker 2:Listen, she loves you. I need some Ricky. I need some Ricky. Have you noticed any?
Speaker 1:comments on your shit all the time. She's like I love Ashley.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I post things and then she'll like it and I'm like oh fuck, no, she loves you, I forgot. Ok, good, she loves you, I forget, I have people's moms here.
Speaker 1:She thinks you're hysterical, oh good, no, she loves you.
Speaker 2:That's my dream in life is to be hysterical she loves it.
Speaker 1:She loves it Like. I will tell her something that you posted. She's like oh, I know, I saw.
Speaker 2:OK, so good, so I will. Next time I need some Ricky, I know where to go?
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely she has a table She'll. You can either come to her house or she'll come to you yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's what it was. We had like a whole talk and she said my dad was coming through. This was one of the first times, but this particular reading I felt like I'm not sure that that was my dad. It didn't sound like words he would use, but it could also just be how she connects to her spirit guides, how she relayed the message. But as I was laying on the table, I kept looking at the picture. I kept looking at this picture. I kept looking at this picture and I felt called to it. I'm like who is that? And she's like that's Mary Magdalene. She's really about what today we would call female empowerment, like she's really the feminine energy driving force.
Speaker 2:I love that for you and so something she said. I remember being called to look at that. So then I was talking about how I had just really started trying to understand Oracle readings and I didn't know how to connect with my spirit guides, and I'd looked it up online and things that you could do. So a couple of weeks after that experience, I was sitting there and what you're supposed to do is let go of the thoughts. Give yourself a few minutes to let go of things from the outside. And I was getting there deep in meditation. There wasn't and this happens to me very seldomly because ADHD mom life, there's no quiet space in my home, so it was.
Speaker 1:You should have a drinking game Every time one of us mentions ADHD during a podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to drink. Oh, you'd be wrecked. So, anyway, I was there and you're supposed to envision your safe space, you're supposed to feel warmth coming from you, and where are you? And I had this whole vision and I saw a statue of Mary, but it didn't feel like Jesus' mother. And, as me saying that I don't love organized religion, when you interpret things it's just Based on familiarity, I think.
Speaker 2:Right, it's how you would perceive these things. So, as I was coming out of this and where I was and how it felt, and I'm journaling it, I write down summer, like it felt, like summer, the word. And as I'm summer, the season S-U-M-M-E-R, and as I'm reading it back, I only put one M. It was Sumer. And I'm like why the fuck did I do that? So I Google, Of course you do, Sumer the place, yeah, but this is how I got through.
Speaker 1:You got through it Like I think I would have looked right past that. I don't know. I'm like you, fucking idiot. You were like no this is a sign.
Speaker 2:Guess where Mary Magdalene is from. Sumer Right, I saw the statue of Mary, the colors, the rose, the fact that you knew to look that up. The rose I felt called to. I felt like I had to.
Speaker 2:And so I look up and she described what she had. Guess who wears that? Guess, what she's usually depicted as Mary Magdalene is usually depicted with a rose. Her origins are from so and I'm getting chills now, so, and I haven't figured out really like how to connect with her, like through dreams, but there were moments that it was like I felt validated in that she was trying to give me messages and channel messages that I should be getting for other people. So that's the story about how I found out that Mary Magdalene is one of my spirit guides.
Speaker 1:Archangel Michael came through the fair in my Reiki, but I don't remember where she said. To be honest, I don't remember at all that was the last Reiki session I had. It wasn't with my mom. My mom's actually never done my Reiki by myself. Really, she's done distance Reiki on me, like when I've needed it, like from her house.
Speaker 2:I live down the street, so it's not that far, no, but you know what?
Speaker 1:I go on like Reals and I'll be like Reiki for whatever, and I swear to God it works.
Speaker 2:I think it is a thing. It's again behind intention and what you're trying to manifest and pull through for someone else, asking the universe for permission to do so. So it's like yeah that would be better.
Speaker 1:That energy would come to you once you allow it. Because my mom always used to say if I was talking to her about something, she'd like to want me to send you Reiki. And I would say yes, and she's like, ok, let me know when you're ready, because I need you to be like, I need you to accept it. So I have to be in a place where I was ready to receive, to accept it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think that people that say this stuff doesn't work, like my husband's cousin was there for that birthday thing, everybody got Reiki, everybody did a card reading when everything had. Gio had the most intense session.
Speaker 1:I just had an epiphany.
Speaker 2:I swear I had it for my 35th birthday it was really, really a cool experience and everybody got something out of it that it's not usually their go-to thing or what they believe in or regular practices or whatever. But it was a really transformative moment for a lot of us and it was cool, and so I'm glad that I had that birthday and then I came to a new level of where I was spiritually and yeah, I don't feel like I'm where I'm at spiritually.
Speaker 1:I feel like I think you do way more than I would do and I would like to do more. I don't pull my cards regularly. I go through periods.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that might not be your thing, that might not how you connect to, but I do like doing it.
Speaker 1:I just haven't been putting in the time and effort into the things into me. I haven't been filling my own cup We'll talk about that in another episode but I haven't been doing the things to help me connect to my spirituality lately, but just it's been so chaotic.
Speaker 2:And I think that it's normal for everything like that to ebb and flow, and there's going to be peaks and valleys and where it feels. I mean I stepped away from it after that for a good while and I'm just kind of really getting back into. I would love to get more into it. I'm recently getting into moon cycles and only cutting my hair on new moons which yesterday was a new moon and I'm going to say that it feels healthier I cut my hair.
Speaker 1:Last week too, I cut an inch off at the beginning of the week, which it wasn't a new moon yet, but it was coming into a new moon, so that's funny that you said that I also.
Speaker 2:Like those kind of rituals, like renewing and purging my space and those kind of things. And I do find that when I go against those things that I'm like, oh shit, like that, that didn't work out the right way. So I really am trying to like honor certain things that I do to be in certain time frames, and they do work out better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you follow? Like I feel like people don't talk about this enough, about women's bodies and our cycles generally. Like there's there's times during your menstrual cycle that, like there are certain points of the month that are better for you to do certain things, just based on your energy levels and your body's ability to recover. Like you shouldn't be working out like, like like balls to the wall.
Speaker 2:Balls to the wall. So the way people explain. For me. I tried to do that and honor my cycle and all of the things, but it doesn't for me. And how my ADHD works again, huh, it's too much variation. I like to switch it up within certain things. So what I do is, like, leading up to my cycle, that week before is where I have like the least energy, and then like during my period, if I were to slow it down, like I almost feel more energized when I have my period versus the week before.
Speaker 1:People say you do have more energy.
Speaker 2:So I just like, like right now I started a new fitness routine and I like it's pre-written for you and stuff, so I will just like cut the weights or the reps or in some way modify it that way, so like, if it's not feeling like a hell yes, it's not a complete no, but like I'm gonna do it cause I know I'll feel better but I just maybe won't push myself as hard, versus taking time off or doing a different kind of workout, cause I find that's I will completely fall off track with my fitness routine and I need that, like mentally and you know, just to feel good. Yeah, so I don't really too closely follow my cycle.
Speaker 1:I haven't done it. I also not working out right now. They did just sign up for a class, but I'm not, I haven't started. I think that it may get on paper or like reading it, like oh, that makes a lot of sense, but it's, I think it's really hard to implement, at least for me.
Speaker 2:I think for some people it works really good and that's when they really start seeing results and stuff. But I don't think that my cycle plays so much a role in like my energy levels.
Speaker 2:Oh, mine does Like that week before, like yeah, I'm super tired, but if I just like completely didn't work out where in some places that they're like yeah, just like really just about stretching and it's like, it's just like I don't get anywhere and I really feel more like shit, that I didn't do my work, yeah, so I don't have that problem.
Speaker 1:I'm like, put me on the couch all day and let me rest. That's all I want to do as a projector, all I want to do is sleep, and that's human design.
Speaker 2:I feel like human design needs to be like its own complete episode, and the only reason I even know what that is or know what I am, is because of Brittany. I love it, I'm obsessed, so now I pay more attention.
Speaker 1:But that's like a whole new thing and I feel like I don't know enough to even really no, I think we'd have to like really do some more research on order to give like factual information. But do you feel aligned with your like zodiac sign? Do you feel very much in line with your like astrology?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do. And when they said that your zodiac sign might not be your zodiac sign because of the additional time frame and all that, like I was like really hurt by that, because you get very prismily, because I'm like I am a Capricorn.
Speaker 1:I'm a.
Speaker 2:LaTorus, for sure, I do all the things and like, oh and like. That's probably why, like everyone in my life, like my sister's a Taurus, my husband's a Taurus, like me and Taurus is really just like and my mom's a Capricorn Well, together, that's funny.
Speaker 2:And you know it, just like everything really kind of just makes sense for me. It has a Capricorn and same. And you know I was just talking. I saw something, someone post something on Facebook yesterday and I was like you know, on all these lists Capricorns are always like listed as like the worst person in fuck caps, and then they said something about like that. It was like they didn't get along with Capricorn men. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was like no Men have a lot Like the gender has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 2:So maybe the cap they're talking about are Capricorn men, because that might be like one of the least. See, I don't get along with. Viby people. Even as a Capricorn female I don't usually like vibe well with Capricorn men, but as a Capricorn woman and the other Capricorn women I know we really just like, I like. Capricorn's law Set it off in different ways and areas. I feel like we really just get shit done.
Speaker 1:So I'm offended. Yes, my mom is that person Like she just like.
Speaker 2:When I see where, like I'm like if you would have a Capricorn on your side, the Capricorn women that I know, I believe your life would be enhanced, not 100%.
Speaker 1:I've said to my mom all the time like how did you do it? Because like I feel some days with two kids I'm older than she had me at 18. She had my brother and sister and she was 26. They're twins. I'm like I know I'm older but I'm not like old, where I should be like worn out, like I am so exhausted and like there are just some days where I'm just like I can't do it. How my mom? Never, I never saw her like exhausted. I never saw her Like it was just like it needs to be done, so it's going to get done, where I'm just like I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2:Capricorn's like.
Speaker 1:Capricorn's really do just like. They get shit done. There's no question Like if it needs to be done, it gets done.
Speaker 2:But we run ourselves into the ground. And like when we really do run ourselves into the ground, like that's not and that's what I'm trying to like work past right now, like I really like Saying no yeah, and that's what keeps coming up in my Are you a caretaker Like?
Speaker 1:I'm always the one taking care of everybody when my mom is, yeah, and I always feel like I'm also Captain Fixahoe.
Speaker 2:Like growing up, everybody that I dated not that I came from the most I don't want to say stable, because my parents never let me like have to take up on anything. You know that, like I didn't, it wasn't the worst thing, but it's not like I came from the most like stable of stable household households and but you know the men I would date.
Speaker 2:I don't think any of them, yeah, and you know what I'm going to say, that none of them are living lives that I would be like wanting to be involved in or whatever.
Speaker 2:And you know I really had to get rid of that kind of mindset that where, like, I was going to bring up anybody out of where they currently were.
Speaker 2:So, gio, when we started dating, he was working a good job. He like I mean not nothing to fix, but but Comparatively, as like someone that was going to like drink too much, hit me, put me in a situation I didn't want to be in, make me feel like shit about where I was at, like it was that that's not where we had issues, but it's like I help him in ways like or elevate past certain roadblocks he has within himself to become better, not only as the main breadwinner in our household but as a father, as a son, like we just like really vibe out and like balance each other and ease so my captain, save a whole tendencies, come through and ways for him that it's just like I help be his soundboard and bounce back ideas where like he could, you know, just like come up in different other ways that, like he wouldn't necessarily come up with on his own and like as a Capricorn male, I mean, no, he's a tourist, sorry.
Speaker 1:I said he was a capricorn. No, no, no, he's a tourist male.
Speaker 2:So like he wants to he's April 30th, yeah, so like he wants to show up and do and I'm like yo, but like you're not going to, really like it's not going to be the best thing for you, and like so we just like yeah, and so we leveled each other out in that way.
Speaker 1:Pats of cancer and I'm a tourist and we're like perfect match. I'm supposed to be with either a cancer or a Capricorn. Like those are tourists is too best. And yeah, he's definitely like yeah like we vibe.
Speaker 2:I don't even. I just know, like if I, when I find out someone's a tourist, I'm like, okay, well, you know what? Yeah, that's, that makes sense why I would feel like I want to hang out with you because, like it's just always like I know, tourists are usually like my safe zone, like that's, that's where I'm going to land?
Speaker 1:Do you have any signs you don't like, like what's your favorite and your least favorite to hang out with, or that you've come across.
Speaker 2:I feel like if I'm going to have an issue with anybody, it's going to be a Gemini or Virgo. Well, eli said Gemini, and he is. It's hot and cold.
Speaker 1:I hate the hot and cold Gemini's are so hard for me.
Speaker 2:Sagittarius males, I don't get along with. I don't get along.
Speaker 1:I don't get along with Virgo males.
Speaker 2:And you know what? Yeah, I don't like men. Any sign plus male you're out, I'm probably going to have an issue with you, and you know what? Men don't typically like me, but tourists men like me.
Speaker 1:He likes me.
Speaker 2:But yeah so I don't know. I mean, as far as like women's signs that I don't get along with or that I know I might potentially have a problem with, I don't know that there's necessarily a sign that I would be like.
Speaker 1:We're going to write someone off because of their sign. I've noticed that I tend to have issues with Gemini. Gemini is, in general, men or women, because they're so hot and cold and like you never know what you're going to get and like you just don't know how to be, I'm going to say, yeah, I probably do have an issue with.
Speaker 2:I struggle with that a lot. It's, it's 100% for sure. Sagittarius men because they're Sagittarius women that I love and they really are just like. Yeah, I like Sagittarius women too, do good things. Gemini's in general, I feel like historically I feel like I don't want to say that because Eli is a Gemini, but I'm also trying to like not let those be like his, like shine bright, like a diamond qualities.
Speaker 1:Yeah, both my kids are Leo's fucked. They have the same birthday.
Speaker 2:My best friend, I know and you know what. Like I just want to say, like when you think that you might not be like the most like planning of planning, or like you might not know what you're doing, and just like how do you get pregnant in a situation that you just like give birth to both of your children on the same day, I was like kind of, if we ever, if we ever decided to have a third, we definitely have to like try and get pregnant and a different no.
Speaker 1:I would say do it again. See, we can go three, five.
Speaker 2:no, come on, because then I'm going to say but though, like you're not, it's just, it's probably not going to work out in a way that you think it's going to, but then you're just like also going to give birth to someone that's like close enough that it's going to be a pain in the ass, but like also that they're going to feel like they don't have the same kind of like connection with their siblings because of that.
Speaker 1:No, I wouldn't, we wouldn't, we're not having a third.
Speaker 2:If you were, you probably just want to, like, make sure it's going to be completely just like, not even in the same season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we're definitely not, but we've joked about it Like people. Every Thanksgiving, people ask us we're going to get pregnant again, because that's when we got pregnant. We got Thanksgiving both times.
Speaker 2:All right. So you know what I feel like.
Speaker 2:this is one of those things that we might be able to talk about forever and today 100%, so I'm sure that there are going to be questions and follow up questions and things that are going to come up that we might want to do like a second kind of episode, revisit this situation. But you know, like I don't want to leave you guys high and dry, I don't want to give you nothing to manifest. So, like I said, the first thing that I would always recommend, and that is one of like the introduction to manifestation, is the change thing. So, yeah, start picking up your change. You will see that in some way money will come back to you and if it's not in a job way, it'll be in a way for you to just somehow come up in a financial way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any sort of unexpected money, like if something as simple as like your mom bought you a coffee. Thank you universe more please.
Speaker 2:Like always, thank you, universe more please acknowledge the abundance and that you're grateful for it, and that's when you live in that vibe and like have some sort of word ritual feeling that comes up that you'll say in that moment and what it's going to do is it's going to put the universes antenna and look out for you and it's going to, you're going to have just like a streamline to money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people usually like that and that's usually where like starting to say the little things, the free things, the free things maybe those two, because that's that's yeah, it's going to be like, yes, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2:So that's usually what gets people's radar up on manifesting for sure Number two come up with some kind of like writing practice where like you have a three thing list what you want, but you're going to write it like it's already yours, like I'm so happy that I am living my best life. I own my dream.
Speaker 1:I have my new. I have my new dream car. I got my new dream job. I am working as a blank, like it's already yours, yeah, and then, and then how you're going to get it right.
Speaker 2:You're going to write something that you're willing to sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Do be consistent on change, whatever that's going to help you get there, like, for example, I I'm in the best shape of my life. I've lost 50 pounds, is your manifestation. And then how are you going to get there? I've committed to three days that you get the gym and it doesn't have to be the most crazy thing.
Speaker 2:what, what those things have to be, are things you're going to actually do. Yeah, and stay consistent.
Speaker 1:Don't go crazy.
Speaker 2:And you're going to sign it in some way to close off that deal with the universe is going to be to just do something to to close out that deal and just you know what.
Speaker 1:Let us know, yeah. What are you manifesting? Does it work these days?
Speaker 2:You know, and I'm going to say that, like you'll be like okay, yeah, manifestation is real, the law of attraction, and it's just. I feel like when people want to manifest, they either have the idea that, like you have to be doing the absolute most, it has to be super intricate, there have to be candles involved, you have to get like the neighbors and rituals and it's just like it doesn't have to be the most complicated, it just has to be no.
Speaker 1:I wrote all mine down the other night on my sketch pad with a permanent marker. Like I didn't have a pen or a notebook, I just grabbed my sketch pad and the marker. It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it doesn't have to be like a specific notebook, like, but it's like if that's what's going to make you feel like the universe is going to pick up on what you're putting down, then do it, but like you don't have to say the most, you don't have to do the most. It's the intention and belief.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you gotta believe it. That you have it Worthy of whatever it is.
Speaker 2:And I just with yours. It's yours, what is meant for you is meant for you and it's already yours On that note. Like and subscribe. Follow us on our socials.
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