Hello everyone and welcome to the Awaken Together podcast.
I'm Jen and I'm Kat and we welcome all of you to season six.
We made it!
Crazy how time has gone and to be sitting here at the start of another amazing season,
we have sat down and like kind of reflected on all of the topics we want to bring you
this season.
We're going to keep up the momentum with incredible guests sharing their wisdom and we wanted
to spend today's episode just kind of giving life updates, checking in.
I wanted to give a little astrology tea for you of this year to come and we have some
pretty cool stuff happening in the sky.
But before we go into that, Kat, you want to just tell us what's been going on in life
for you?
Sure, yeah.
2024, just feeling very optimistic about.
So we're recording this, it's the end of January, the episode is going to come out in February
and so far so good for this year.
I'm telling you, feeling good still 2024.
I led my New Year's Day sacred celebration and Jen was a part of it this time, which
was such a blessing.
We did a sound healing together, I led a yoga class and yeah, it was just magical.
So such a great way to just start the new year off with community and really just, it's
all been great since then.
Of course, I mean, not all of it.
Life is hard, of course.
But all in all, I'm still feeling that trust, my intention for this year, that trust is
coming through in pretty much every single area of life, my work, my relationships, just
all the fun things we have coming where I'm planning a trip to Sedona next month and just
so excited to hear based on all of Jen's experiences.
Sedona is my favorite.
Yeah, you've been eight times.
Love it.
So I'm pretty pumped to experience all the vortexes and all the magic of Sedona and got
lightning in a bottle coming up for some festival magic.
And we're going to try to go to Europe later this fall.
We switched our plans from Japan in the spring to Europe in the fall.
So lots of really good, fun, exciting things coming.
I've also been deepening my relationship with the Akashic Records, which we'll talk a little
bit more about later.
So so far, so good 2024 here for you.
I love that.
Yeah, I am very happy to be in this new kind of potent year.
And I have strong Virgo in my astrology and I love whipping out my planner and starting
to like kind of zoom out on the year ahead.
And there's just been lots of momentum and starting projects that I've been working on,
but really trying to plug more into collaborations just to keep fueling everything.
My Virgo mind very much works in a way of wanting different channels to be open that
keep the momentum going on the things that I'm passionate about because it's so easy
for me to do all or nothing.
So I like to have just different categories that give fuel to the stuff I want to keep
like evolving and growing within myself.
So lots of fun astrology subcategories.
If you've listened us for a while, I dump lots of little astrology things, but I absolutely
love like feeling that as one of my like little side hustles, but one that I just like get
so much out of.
So that's been really fun.
I'm doing lots of cool in person collaboration stuff here in Denver for that.
And that's been exciting.
I'm working a full time physical therapy job again.
Oh my gosh.
After you know, three years of pretty much being full entrepreneurial mode.
I really just wanted to plug into something because when you do the ebb and flow of entrepreneurial
ship, it's also hard to always get, you know, control and consistency.
And I'm just plugging into kind of that grounding presence of a full time job for a while and
just giving that some space.
I had an opportunity open up so close to my house and yeah, life is really teaching me
right now.
I have so many things that I'm fueling at the same time that everything is met with
lots of intentional energy because it has to be.
I don't have like any wiggle room really and so far so good with it.
It's a lot.
I also I'm working with the geriatric old people again and I love, I have stories for
days when I work with this population and I actually have had some really cool intentional
conversations just around.
It's so funny to be in this like spiritual world and have spirituality be so to the part
of my day to day and practice and then our health care system here in the US, right,
is just fucked.
We know this and it's so funny to be in the duality of like a broken system health care
world and spirituality and the layers.
But I have I have reflected so much as in these last couple months of working full time.
What a spaceholder I get to be because I so believe that no matter what life is going
to make you like sit and reflect and go through some layers of healing.
You can fight it so hard, but I work with people kind of later in life and it's wild
the deflection techniques that then these people are being stopped by something outside
of their circumstances and having to face like I can't walk.
I all of a sudden have to learn to pause and listen and tune into my body for the first
time and trust other people practice receiving.
There's just so many lessons that I can just see like so blurred and the layers of healing
that my patients go.
It's so much deeper than just the injury, it's also facing layers of themselves and
I've been really just reflecting on that a lot as I'm back in this full time position.
Just how yeah, everything ends up being spiritual in so many ways, but our system tries to rush
things along, but there's still so much potency to that.
So that's the world needs five D world.
Absolutely crazy and it must be crazy just to like be around people who are closer to
you know, the veil and death and just being around that all day.
I feel like there's just bound to be so many spiritual lessons.
Oh my gosh watching it happen.
You don't get away with it watching the blends of family to like, you know, we talk so much
about healing generational trauma and how much of it comes out when families are coming
together.
It's the job is wild.
It's all you know, it's it just all is there and it reminds me every day in so many ways,
just the importance of every piece of the journey and I'm just like proud for all the
people that listen that have been on a healing path.
It's just so worth it and yeah, I have not lost one bit of momentum to why all of this
is so important and just making sure that even with a busy schedule that I'm carving
out the time for reflection and just that deeper sense of noticing because there's so
much magic always happening and I always want to be able to tune into it.
Yeah, it's awesome.
And yeah, as you were talking kind of got me thinking how with our jobs with our work,
we tend to find ourselves working with certain populations, right?
And so with you like you have this this experience working with older populations and how like
certain sets of lessons will come with that and then thinking about like myself, I work
with a very different certain population I work with predominantly people who are you
know, really focused on health and wellness at nurture and that yoga.
So my community tend to be people in their like mid 20s to like mid 40s really and just
the lessons and growth and just I don't know being around certain different age groups
and populations can bring to you because people are mirrors, you know, and it's going to mirror
back like what you need to also be learning at that time and just the way that you show
up also is so involved with what that community also needs and thinking about teachers of
like little kids like and I can't imagine I think that would be so freaking cool just
to be surrounded by like seven year olds all day every day and just how different life
would feel because of that reason in itself.
Absolutely.
There is lessons to be found in every circumstance of life and that is a great pivot to the main
astrology thing I want to talk about.
Like there is definitely some big transits that are happening this year, but I really
want to talk about yeah, Pluto entering Aquarius.
So it's Aquarius season.
Yes, we are finally there.
My time to shine.
Yes, our sweet cat the Aquarius.
We're also recording this on an Aquarius Sun in Gemini Moon Day, which are both of our
signs just together and when I was reading about this and sharing it at the beginning
of my yoga class yesterday as I do, it was reading about how there's like this unhinged
energy and I was just thinking about Jen and I and how yeah, there is an unhinged energy.
When we get together and it's fucking magnetic and amazing and just so invigorating.
We get out every bit of each other's inner weird and understand it, which is so healing
and follow each other to the edges of the universe.
Absolutely.
And yeah, I think I shared this kind of I astrologers have been so excited for this
time for like a long time because it's not often that we have outer planets just shift
in such a big way.
But Pluto, which I love the irony that Pluto even got demoted from being a planet because
it's so on brand for Pluto's energy.
Pluto is really this like death and rebirth type planet.
It's meant to crash and then rise like a Phoenix.
It teaches us transformation.
In layers, we can't even fully grasp.
It's so it's so collective in its essence because it moves so slow and it's so far away
that it really lumps us into these bigger groups.
And Pluto has been in Capricorn for 35 years.
We are recording this into January and we literally just had the last day of Pluto in
Capricorn and moving into Aquarius, which now we're going to get for a long time.
And it's really, really potent because Aquarius energy versus Capricorn energy.
Capricorn has been teaching us structure, holding on to these deeper value systems,
building things up.
And we get a kind of like goal oriented and like put in the work, get the outcome, kind
of hustle.
And our system has kind of been built up with this energy.
But the shadows of Capricorn can also be so focused on work output and not as much of
just knowing intrinsic value without putting in the hard work.
Capricorn moves.
It can get so stuck and it's beautiful for building things up.
It just can be so hard to sustain it because the work is what determines the value in so
many ways for Capricorn.
But with Pluto shifting into Aquarius, the whole collective is getting charged with this
own your unique, own your weird, own your individuality.
Aquarius and its like highest expression is teaching us that humanity should make space
for everyone's own personal soul blueprint.
Yeah.
And you're quirky to shine and expand and that without each of our unique things to
give, it's hard for there to be space for everyone.
Right.
And I think we've we've had such a system of showing up only in certain ways and hiding
other sides of ourselves and having we've watched this slowly shift as we've entered
kind of the end of this.
But I love that people are now kind of we've learned so much over the last five years on
masking and holding back and not harm that comes with stifling sides of yourself and
how it's always important to bring everything up.
Aquarius isn't afraid to bring up the stuff that needs to be said.
That energy can feel very scary for people that want to keep things hidden and exposed.
Aquarius will bring out a lot because it believes that your uniqueness is your power.
And if you're hiding a part of it, it's yeah, it's shadows so much and it's not worth that.
So just getting like 35 years of potent Aquarius energy is just going to be such a shift in
what we see in society.
And Pluto teaches us that things have to die to then be rebuilt.
And so pulling up your birth chart, looking at where Aquarius lands for you, what house
there is going to be just strong energy for 35 years in that area of your life you're
going.
It's it's basically what every lesson up to this point has been leading to for you to
step into highest expression because we're going through a shift.
And for millennials in particular, if you have Pluto and Scorpio in your birth chart,
we we are a direct square to Pluto and Aquarius and squares and astrology teach us that there
is hard lessons that have had to happen for that energy to be able to be manifested.
The most powerful and millennials we have been beaten up, man.
Like it has been one thing after the next society has not given us like we've had just
so much trauma as a group are like the system hasn't worked for us.
We've called that out.
So much has happened.
And now just having this square come into full light, you can see the blueprint of how
millennials are meant to help kind of guide this shift into this new society that we're
having to build because the other one's just not fucking working in any way, shape or form.
Yeah.
And I think I mean, I feel that on a soul level.
And I feel like everyone I know also feels that as well of like our generation is here
to make moves for the collective for this planet in the form of advocating for human
rights, equality, embracing who the fuck we are, not doing that down, sharing knowledge,
yeah, exactly.
Sharing that knowledge.
The internet like is really our time, right?
Also just thinking about the future of our planet and sustainability.
We've seen people go vegan, go vegetarian, go back to meat, talk about ways to sustainably
source meat.
So we are just along for the whole journey and all the different ways, all the shadows,
no holding back.
And each of us has such a piece to play.
I think another big theme that I mentioned, I think towards the end of last season too,
is it can be really scary to be perceived.
It can be scary to put your most authentic self forward.
I think doing all of the work we share is to really strip away the layers that block
you from just openly expressing all the sides of yourself.
It can feel so hard to do that.
And it can feel like you have to do so much work to do it when it's really just removing
the barriers.
And I think, you know, I think a lot of us have been shown ways that we stifle.
And I think that's going to look a little different in what area that plays out for
each person.
But knowing that the area of life where you've probably been put through the hardest resistance
is probably the area that is also where your gifts lie and what you can contribute.
And remembering that every piece matters, you don't have to keep expanding your learning
to the point of getting, you know, having just a degree to be able to do it or having
this to be able to do it.
Like your own soul's blueprint is truly what it is so that you can just shine it out.
There's not going to ever be someone that can meet everything the same way as you can.
Your story, all the different layers energetically, your soul blueprint and your astrology, just
all the layers are making you exactly what you need to be.
And it's just giving space for that to actually be present and not hiding away and blocking.
And I think we all if we do that, there has been so much work so many of us have done
that we can actually move this thing ahead in a real way.
And I think that's so what's being called to happen.
Yeah, and there's a little post-it note in our recording studio that we get to look at
every time that my husband Kyle put up and it's a beautiful one.
I feel like it really aligns with this message, but it's comparison is the thief of joy and
perfection is the thief of progress.
So who just like let that sink in?
I think we're kind of raised to say, oh, well, look at that person, right?
But Aquarius Energy is all about like you as an individual, embracing all sides of you,
all your magic and knowing that that's enough.
We don't always have to be striving for perfect, but just accepting ourselves with where we're
at is really the journey.
So yeah, for each person on an individual level, if you want to do some reflection with
this big transit and this newer energy, you can see where that plugs in and just listing
out all the things that kind of just make you you.
And yeah, it's if it's been done before and you think that's not original enough or all
the things your own perspectives and stories will always be loud.
It's truly just letting yourself have space to show up and yeah, let's do the damn thing.
Let's do the damn thing.
That's right.
Yeah.
So Jen and I have also been on a journey of learning to access our Akashic Records.
So that's been fun.
I wanted to share one of my recent takeaways from this.
I've almost completed the course.
I think I have like two more modules and one of them that I actually have to do next is
about accessing the Akashic Records through writing.
And this is something that is it's a tool that's given in therapy as well.
So I just wanted to share this as a tool when you feel like you're kind of stuck in a block
and you are looking for answers and clear insights and just clarity on something.
And it's just not coming through mentally in your thoughts.
So this practice is taking your dominant hand, going into your journal and asking a question.
So as you write, just write down what that question is, whether it's like, what am I
meant to know in this moment?
What is the next best thing for me to take action on?
And just like be with it, write it down and then switch hands.
And in your non-dominant hand, write down without thinking, without tapping into your
logic brain, the response and just see what happens, see what comes out.
So when we're accessing this through the Akashic, you'll say the prayer to access the records
and that will basically open it up.
It calls in like the violet flame protection.
It asks that only things that are true come through at that time because things can get
a little confusing and clouded.
But when you're accessing this without the Akashic, you'll find that similar kind of
things come through.
So whether it is your conscious mind, which is your dominant hand, then you switch to
your subconscious, your unconscious mind, you're able to get those responses and answers.
So just another tool when we're talking like clarity, what to do next.
You have all the answers that you need within you right now.
Yeah, before we started this episode, Kat did a little Akashic record reading on me
is working on using this new kind of tool and I'm sure we'll have more to share as
we both go on this journey.
You'll notice each season we're always tuning in to a new way to kind of connect with the
other side and higher wisdom and the universe and all the things.
But it was so beautiful.
So Kat went in and one of the big things that came forward was this Fox energy.
And it was so cool from my end, my clair sentience, just really being able to feel the energy
of just like my crown like pouring through and I like could feel it all go down my back
and it was almost like wispy like a tail.
I could feel it and Kat really picked up the message that I'm supposed to have kind of
like cautious curiosity like circling around stuff and not just like diving in.
And exactly like I kind of have said, my circumstances right now and what I'm so being guided to
do is I am juggling so many different things across the board that I can't lean into anything
with like that manic kind of all or nothing energy and I love doing that.
I love just like hitting the gas and blasting.
Yeah, Kat has Aries rising.
I have an Aries Mars.
I love blasting into things, but I've been shown again and again that like I can lean
in and lean out and even though that can feel that definitely is not what my energetic body
wants to do.
I'm not such a blueprint of wanting to just like charge, but then I don't meet anything
with intentional like roots that can actually stay rooted and continue on.
I've learned again and again.
I crashed too many things when I do this.
So it's just been so funny that life has been kind of teaching me that lesson and to have
it come through with the record access is so potent because that's so what is happening.
So yeah, and you want to share.
We've done a few personal Akashic and yeah, for we've talked about the Akashic records
on here.
We have a few episodes.
Jen Hoffman has come on and we talked about yeah, the Akashic records before in previous
seasons.
But yeah, this is a way that you can kind of figure out like the lessons your soul is
learning and why and just actually kind of understand the deeper layer beyond just the
context of this physical body and this reality that we're living in and actually get more
information.
But Kat, you've had some fun ones that you want to share too.
Yeah, yeah.
So time like doesn't exist in the Akashic like it does here in our present day, like
3D world.
So you can access past lives, you can access future lives.
And so yeah, it's just like this whole realm of information and knowledge that's available
to you at all times from all time ever.
So when I went in as a part of my training, I was doing a future life reading because
I've had my past lives read and told to me and made sense of those.
So the future lives was something new.
And it came really clearly to me that in a future life, I don't know if it's the next
one or the one after, but hopefully not too many after.
Yeah, I am going to be a nurse in a NICU unit.
So like neonatal intensive care unit with babies.
And it was just like this very clear image of white and like futuristic, clean, but babies
like everywhere.
And if you've been listening to the pod for a while, you know that I've done so much work
with Kyle, my husband, around landing around the decision of kids.
And I forget if I've updated on this, but we have made the decision at this point to
have children together.
So that was like a big thing.
And so it feels like everything I've done in this life has been opening up and leading
me to this place for this future life.
So that the work around babies around kids and also it came so clear that I did EMDR
a couple of years ago around like needles and blood.
And I've had this whole crazy life journey with fainting and just not being able to get
blood drawn without having a panic attack.
So I did EMDR and therapy for this and was able to freaking heal it.
Like I got my blood drawn a couple months ago and did not faint, did not panic.
Such a win.
And so yeah, it became really clear that like I was meant to do this work in this life to
open me up and prepare me for this future life, which blows my mind.
So cool.
Yes, the layers of your calling like it really does matter.
Like I think we everything that we are feeling really strongly that we are supposed to work
through is healing so many different timelines and so many things.
And I love the puzzle piece of it all.
I think it's absolutely incredible.
And yeah, the universe is always trying to show us something.
What a journey.
What a life.
Yeah, what a life.
We so thank you guys for showing up for another season of this podcast.
We definitely are so grateful to be here.
We're so excited about some of the topics around like we're going deeper into yoga,
we're going to be talking about nervous system regulation like we always do, some detoxing
your life through avoiding toxic chemicals.
So lots of amazing guests who are experts in these fields.
And yeah, as always, if you have any requests, anything that you want to connect with us
on, find us on Instagram at Awaken Together podcast.
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It means the world to us.
We love you all so much.
Love you, Kat.
Love you, Jen.
Bye.
And we're also going to be leading a workshop for our local fam here in Denver on February
15th at Nurture.
And it's going to be all around deepening intimacy through the senses.
Yeah.
So we are going to do an episode on this as well.
But if you want to look and Kat and I's personal bios on Instagram, we have this linked.
So my Instagram is Senseful.Wellness on Instagram.
Mine is Katarina underscore Erickson.
Yes.
And we would love to see you in person if you're in the Denver area.
That would be so fun.
It's a great time to bring a friend or a couple.
We're going to be doing all sorts of awesome things like eye gazing, back tracing, massage,
deep levels of communication.
So it'll be great to take back home and deepen further with your partner.
Yes.
All right.
We'll talk soon.
OK.
Love y'all.
Bye.