Hello friends and welcome to a new episode of the Awaken Together podcast.
I'm Kat.
I'm Jenn.
And we are so pumped to be recording this episode with you all.
After not having an in season episode for quite a few months now, we've missed you.
We have so missed you.
We haven't had the podcast.
I feel like me and Kat were saying we haven't even gotten to have as many check in talks
ourselves.
And so this is so nice to be in this space again and get to review the year that we have
had, including the time we haven't been here to share with you.
And we wanted to do an episode as just a pop up just to help guide you into 2025 because
we have a lot going on astrologically.
And we also love to just have this little routine.
It's something that we got from the Yoga Girl podcast that we both leaned into for a lot
of years.
And it's been fun to share it with our listeners as well.
Plus, we just got our end of year Spotify wrapped and that was always so fun to hear
for the podcast too.
So true.
Yeah, I was looking back and our last episode we recorded was on July 5th of this year.
It is now December 8th when we're recording this.
So it's been like half a year.
Time flies.
It's wild.
This year has been so fast.
Yeah, seriously.
And it was about a year ago when we recorded our episode of intention setting for 2024.
And so we wanted to kind of take a look back, reflect on this year, starting with really
my word of the year.
I was thinking about this and my word was trust.
And this came across as, oh my gosh, in so many different ways and it kind of changed
as the year went on.
There was a lot of surrendering that had to happen for me, a lot of holding the vision
and just like trusting that what was happening was unfolding in ways that was going to be
supportive for me.
Because at some points, especially like with my relationship with Kyle, we had, oh my god,
some really hard times earlier this year together.
And ultimately we're able to see it through together and we are now in like a super strong
place in our relationship.
But it got really, really rocky.
I know I've talked about in the pod here and there about how like my sexuality I was questioning
and just like realizing that I'm bi and just how that has like impacted our relationship
and me as a person and how I feel like I've now ending this year.
I feel so much more integrated with my parts and it doesn't feel like a dire thing that
needs to uproot so much in my life.
And I'm just finding a lot more peace with that.
So trust did me well with my relationships, with my career, with all my creative ventures.
I started reading the Akashic records, which we'll talk more about a little bit later.
But Jen, how did your word pan out for this year?
Yeah, yeah.
I was going to add to for you, Kat, like I think our lives always have some fun mirroring
and it's been beautiful because I think we've both had a lot more.
It's just the evolution of this podcast, right?
From realizing me and you are a lot more intellectualizers and like to think through things and we like
opened up the portal, the feeling like early on our spiritual journey.
But just unlocking feelings in all the ways we have and then what that's unlocked, like
sides of ourselves we hadn't really expanded into.
And then holding the intensity of feelings and having to just like build a relationship
to trust with the whole emotional landscape that is connected with intuition a lot.
I think me and you didn't always rely on that system as easily.
And it's been really cool to watch both of us really shift that in different ways and
watch it ripple through both of our lives.
Yes, absolutely.
Thanks for mirroring that back.
Trusting intuition has been a big part of this year for me too.
So real.
And that's so with.
Yeah, you're leaning into a whole other form of magic.
And that's yeah, it's been so beautiful.
I am always cheering you on.
Likewise, honey.
Love you.
Yes.
Yeah, for me, I was reading through all the journals.
Me and Kat actually hosted an event.
So I found like the additional page that I had wrote out and we held a little event at
Kat's workspace nurture here in Denver.
And my word for 2024 was knowing.
And I've thought of this through the year.
I've stayed really plugged into that word.
And I also agree.
I've met the relationship of that word in ways I probably wasn't even anticipating.
For me, setting that word was just wanting to listen to like my deepest truths and just
go with what I'm actually like knowing to be true, because I second guess that knowing
a lot of times and well lean into what other people are feeling and not in a way necessarily
of ignoring my needs.
But I do think that I really empathize with other people and my knowing can be there,
but I still will ebb and flow with other people without like holding as firm of boundaries
around what I know.
And I've definitely seen the downfall of doing that at times because the knowing is usually
a really good instinct to trust a lot quicker.
And I will go for the plot and lean into something and be curious about it.
And then I've really realized that I waste a lot of energy resource doing that a lot
of times when my truth was there kind of all along.
So I've really held ground and trusting that a lot this year.
I focused a lot in the material world this year that was also kind of set in my intentions
of realizing that this is going to be a year of really hard working.
And it has been it's been very challenging.
But I went through and I'm reading all of like my money goals that I had because I definitely
didn't lean into as much of like money making thinking beforehand.
And I've achieved a lot of this.
So that feels really good.
Even though towards the end of it, I'm exhausted.
I think as I manifest my next word, I'm going to have to take all of that into account.
But I did the damn thing.
I did what I was seeking to do.
And yeah, it feels really good to be in a better financial place.
And I think that had to like stifle a few things down.
But it was something that I went in with with good intention and consciousness and still
made sure I was doing the necessities to stay taking care of myself.
So that all feels really good.
And retrospect to look back on.
Mm hmm.
Yes.
I love to hear it.
So beautiful.
Yeah, you paid off your debt.
Like that's a really big thing.
That's something to celebrate.
Absolutely.
It feels so good.
And I have such a vision of being able to have just like a commune community space.
I want my house to be a real extension of being able to be what I do with my work.
And I have been building up for that.
And yeah, it's been it's been really powerful.
So I'm hoping like what comes out of this year this next year, we'll also be able to
keep bringing that into fruition.
And we're like, it's actually achievable now a lot more than where it was.
Right, right.
You're getting closer.
This year is like really laid that groundwork for you.
So so so exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just also reflecting this morning, we had a holiday party for my yoga studio
at my work.
And so it's really fun to have my world collide in that way.
And I was reflecting during the sound healing that they were leading for us.
It was really beautiful.
There was Gong, I love Gong, and like this ocean drum and chimes and it was just magical.
And the sound healer, her name was Tiffany, she was wonderful.
She came in, she flew in from Austin, Texas for it.
She shared about the astrology for the year a little bit, which Jen is going to get to
do for us too.
So excited.
A lot of good things coming and a lot of craziness.
But yeah, I was reflecting on this year basically during the sound healing and just feeling
so much gratitude for all the steps I've taken in life to create this beautiful sense of
alignment across my work, my relationships, my creativity, my spirituality, just everything.
And it took a long time for me to get here and a lot of trial and error.
But I feel like I'm just in this beautiful space that I'm kind of pinching myself and
not wanting to let go.
And I'm just really freaking grateful.
So it feels really great to be kind of reflecting on the year and having that be a feeling that
I'm just bubbling over with.
Yeah.
It was so lovely.
We just got to host our fourth or fifth?
Was it our fifth?
Fourth.
Our third witch retreat.
Yeah.
And we were in Salem in October.
It was unreal.
Our group was so beautiful.
And I think there was so much magic.
We were there on a full moon.
We were in Salem getting to rewrite the story of like an energy of, you know, you couldn't
be yourself.
You couldn't lean into that deep trust.
And we had a very like potent magical group.
And what we channeled together was next level.
And I remember thinking, Kat, it was beautiful.
Kat did Akashic Record readings for all of our attendees.
And that was so cool just to see Kat leaning into a new channel that we both got to like
study into the Akashic and watching you share all of that.
And it was like so fun.
And yeah, I also while we were teaching, it's just been so fun to watch my teaching style
even evolve a lot more because I've leaned so much into somatic work in my own body and
getting to teach classes now that embody a lot more somatic and energetic like practice.
It was just really cool to get to ebb and flow with such a potent energy and help to
bring a lot of that into our group.
And we had so many like cool synchronicities that happened in the group.
We watched Matilda, which was epic.
And had a movie night.
We all just leaned into trust in a big way there too.
And I felt like, yeah, my knowing was great.
It was really fun to keep adding elements of astrology.
My quest on astrology learning will never cease.
And it was really fun to get to teach new aspects because retreat spaces are cool to
get to keep evolve workshops and just things that me and Kat have delved into since we're
constant lifelong learners.
So that was just another really like magical thing.
That retreat felt so good to just like leave and know what we were able to offer and then
also feel the weight of time and how much has shifted from our first one to this one.
So true.
And we have some attendees who return every single year.
And so we really take it upon ourselves to make sure that our new people and our returning
are experiencing new forms of magic and are able to dive deeper into themselves in different
ways.
Just because they've been with us before, they've experienced our work.
It also encourages us to deepen our understanding and evolve and share.
And so it's been a really special way, yearly for us to check in and connect deeper with
ourselves, with each other and our group.
And I so agree.
I think we had like half the group we didn't know before the retreat.
We met through the podcast.
And so thank you listeners.
Thank you so much for trusting us.
We hope to have more retreats in the future and we just love this work so much.
Yeah.
On our Spotify wrapped 52 countries.
That is just like so cool.
Like it really, really is.
But we have so many people around the world.
That's just so exciting.
And yeah, we don't do this work.
You know, it's all of it doesn't feel even like personally necessarily attached for me.
It's just like so beautiful to see what the universe kind of does when you make space
for it, because me and Kat's own journeys have its own up and downs.
But teaching is like such a channel for both of us.
And then to watch other people like receive that channel and then pass it on themselves
is like the whole point of awaken together is just to continue to expand it.
And it's so cool to hear the stories even woven in of how different episodes have impacted
and led to our listeners even passing things on.
Like that was the entire intention of starting this in the first place.
So I could cry about it if I thought about it.
I know.
And that's why we really wanted to come on since we need one more episode this year to
connect with you all in this way.
And yeah, actually, one of our listeners, her name's Alyssa.
Shout out Alyssa if you're listening.
But she booked an Akashic record reading with me.
We messaged here and there on Instagram.
She'll share little takeaways and sharings of her own experience based on episodes that
we have.
And you all are welcome to do that, too.
We love connecting with you all.
Just find us on Instagram or TikTok.
Jen is popping off there.
Yeah.
And so she booked a record reading with me.
We chatted.
It was so beautiful and such an honor to be able to share her records with her.
We talked about her past lives, her soul's purpose, made connections with her grandfather
in this life, in a past life.
And so there's that soul recognition that you probably have recognized with other people
in your life of just like an instant familiarity with people who maybe you just met, just drop
in so quickly.
But she shared about how the book, The Celestine Prophecy, really changed things for her.
And so it gave me the final nudge to listen to that series as well.
It's a really, really beautiful book, super spiritual about all these insights about collective
consciousness rising.
And Jen will share more about the astrology coming, but all the signs point to that.
And even you listening here points to that.
So definitely check out that book if you're interested for in a good read.
I will definitely be listening to it when I'm on the beach in Aruba this Christmas.
So excited to have a little vacay time.
But yeah, that's what we mean about like just you all sharing things with us that we also
get to learn and develop on more too.
It's all about the collective and yeah, I'll share.
So a few things to kind of add into your reflection for the year.
So some of the big astrology, I think this year's astrology was pretty like life altering
astrology transits.
Like it was bigger planets that don't always like shift in ways that we are used to like
feeling that energy.
And even now, as you listen to this, we are still alchemizing a really big energy shift
from Pluto just changing out of Capricorn.
It's been there since 2008.
I was talking about this so early on in the podcast because yeah, this is a huge shift.
It's something that Pluto takes 250 years to go back to where it was.
So we only get so many Pluto shifts in our lifetime.
So we just exited a whole chapter of our life that's been very loud.
I think of you a lot, Kat, within this because for Aries rising, Libra rising, Cancer and
Capricorn, like this has been affecting.
I always think of the circle, your birth chart as having like a little cross to it.
You have the first house of self, the seventh house of relationship, the bottom fourth house
is family home safety.
And the top house is career and how society, how you show up for society, how society views
you like your most public self.
And I think of that as kind of being the four crosses of like external manifestations.
And for you that you've had Pluto in that little party for a long time.
So there's a lot of trans mutation of energy when Pluto is shifting out.
And this is going to be an area in all of our charts that we just got to close out.
So in reflection, you want to look at that house of Capricorn wherever that lands in
your chart because major, major shifts happen there for Kat, all the stories of the podcasts
and career and your work and how you show up and what safety means and home and your
relationships and yourself has been so loud.
And for myself, like that had a lot to do with my pleasure and creativity and what romance
meant to me, like stepping into poly dynamic and opening up space for that.
Like it was really huge for me to be thinking and more of like a group sense than necessarily
following the preexisting structure of things.
I think that was very mirrored in what happened for me.
And yeah, Aries and Libra, not only have we had Pluto kind of affecting the cardinal
signs, but we've had the north and south node there now for about a year and a half.
And so Aries and Libra has also been an area in our lives that have been really pulled
up to look at.
And that is your balance between yourself and your relationships.
For me that landed in the house of like sex and intimacy and my God, like the layers to
that with all of this poly dynamic has been endless.
And yeah, I think it's really good to reflect on that Aries Libra channel too.
And if we look at what's happened this last year, not only individually for ourselves
and Aries and Libra, but Aries rules war and that warrior energy and how we can like in
its shadow lean into arrogance and selfishness and then Libra on the other side is like more
peace and harmony and doing what's fair versus what necessarily you want staying in balance
to deeper the deeper process of making sure it's fair and right and just for everybody.
And the themes of that have been so loud here in the US like it has been so much energy
of like revolution having to pull up like the shadows of how bad greed has gotten in
the United States.
I was heartbroken by the political results and went into a very deep grieving process
within all of that.
This brought up a lot of things that mirrored a lot of my religion trauma stuff that I've
had to work through and just realizing that it's going to be so important that we take
the energy that we've individually unpacked and we really come back together because this
shift now the nodes are going to change in February or in January, January 11th, we're
going to have a go from that Aries and Libra access to affecting all of us in Virgo and
Pisces 111.
And so the North node will be in Pisces.
The South node will be in Virgo and we have got to bring our spirituality all these gifts
that we've worked on unlocking for ourselves all this like balance that we've had to like
find in our own individual lives are really going to matter.
Pisces is about compassion and empathy and spirituality.
It's the channel to the divine.
It's the most connected to universal wisdom for sure.
And Pisces is going to ask us to expand in ways that are unimaginable.
It's going to make us look at the shadow of how we are taking care of ourselves and then
how that manifests in terms of our boundaries, how that manifests in terms of our spiritual
practices like it's going to make you play on that refinement of your own self care and
then how you can plug into a greater collective.
And with the Pluto Aquarius energy sprinkled in on top of that, we have a lot of work to
do.
We are at the like brand new starting point of like got to take these fuckers down because
it's bad.
It's so bad.
What is going on?
And we got to crash it.
We got to completely crash it down.
Now it is wild.
In the last month, there are four governments like crashed right now all across the world.
This is happening.
And I think that all of the individual work is really going to matter in terms of finally
getting a system that isn't putting a lead us and people that are really the worst kind
of shadows in places of power when we actually hold the dominance of power and shouldn't
just be blindly taking that.
And I think every single bit has been revealed and now it's just going to be really, really
wild to see how those bigger transitions end up playing out.
And I think we all have a piece in what needs to be done.
And if you haven't let yourself fully feel what needs to be done, I think leaning into
that is important even when it's hard because this is it's not fair for everyone to not
have a space to just be themselves.
And we've all learned so much about ourselves since the start of this podcast, the pandemic
at the very beginning that led to this and I think it all is going to matter for what's
to come and what the future is going to look like, especially for the US in this little
area because we are, this is going to be an interesting ride.
Yes.
Well said.
Thank you for that wisdom.
I think people are angry.
People are angry across the board, like bipartisan Lee.
Some are angry at the other side.
Some are angry at corporate greed.
Some are angry at their communities for not showing the fuck up for them and their rights.
There's a lot of that happening right now.
I mean, we just kind of saw it with the latest thing that happened with the news of the United
healthcare CEO being killed in broad daylight in the middle of the streets.
And not just that, but the reaction to that, right?
Yeah.
And that's what I've seen for the most part is like, it's sad and we don't condone any
time a human dies, but like something's got to change.
And that was a very extreme example, right?
Of that, that need and anger for change.
And then even how they found a backpack with what they think is the killers, the killers
with the evidence, with monopoly money, like there is something going on.
I mean, that feels pretty Pluto and Aquarius to me.
Like this, this shift of humanitarianism in a way, like very indirectly, but how the people
want to be heard.
The people want to feel like their needs are being looked out for.
And the way that that's manifested among different bodies of people is very different.
And whenever the pendulum swings one way, it always swings back the other way, but it's
not without effort and coming together as a collective.
And so it's really up to us to keep ourselves in check.
Like you said, rely on all the work we've done, all the principles, all the practices,
all the rituals and leading on our people who've helped us get here.
Yeah.
All the work we've done has mattered for something and it's going to take lots of people stepping
into the leadership of what they know.
And I don't think we were always, there's always excuses to be more passive and you
know, the difference between passive and action, it doesn't always have to be as big and as
daunting as we think just showing up for our surroundings and owning your own individual
truce is the biggest puzzle to be unlocked for healing.
Like all we can really control is ourself.
And how often do we put crazy levels of control on ourselves because we're terrified of all
these sides of us.
And we know that when we hold things back that are truce, that they can manifest in
such uglier ways and it can be harder and harder to relate to people around us and feel
connected and take care of things when we are disconnected.
So that work in itself is huge action and huge advocacy.
And then when you radiate in that way, you really, your external world really aligns
for the values that change within yourself.
Like that part is almost an automatic when you do what needs to be done and it's going
to take, yeah, community groups and plugging in and you can't find your people without
really finding and knowing yourself.
And I think the relationship to that Pisces and Virgo is really going to like highlight
that a lot.
And then, yeah, Saturn's also going to move into Aries.
So the Aries energy is not done.
There is still a lot to be had.
The US is still in its fourth Chiron return.
This is going to keep elevating up.
So no matter where it goes, just know that you're peace.
You've already been doing the work for it.
Just don't forget the work and keep doing it and stay plugged in.
And in reflection for this next year, like make intentions that help to highlight that
stuff because I do think we're going to need grounding cords.
I think it's going to continue to be a bit of a roller coaster because we are in like
revolution energy right now.
Like it's not, I don't think like calm is going to be the necessarily thing to anticipate
within all of it, but I think we can really be intentional about how we can show up and
reflect on all of that as we go in for this next year as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think, you know, as we're leading up to the holidays here, creating time for us
to there's an invitation naturally to slow down vacation, right?
Reflect.
Take inventory on what is working because it can get really overwhelming to see all
the things that aren't in that stuff can get loud, right?
It can get loud.
It can be bigger, feel more ominous and daunting, but taking that time to be grateful and recognizing
all the light that there is and who brings more light to you and surround yourself with
those people, those things, those places.
It's a time to slow down, reflect.
It's also a time to dream and visualize and set goals.
And we have some amazing episodes from previous years on meditations and journaling exercises
on how to do just that.
So we figure we'll kind of point you in those directions.
You can kind of check them out from past years.
It would definitely be in December.
And so I'm really excited to lean into that energy even more these next couple of weeks.
And we will do an episode in the new year at some point, definitely more to come in
2025 off season pop up episodes like this.
Well, we'll be sure to share our words of the year, our goals and spiritual updates
at that time too.
Yeah.
So using those other episodes, we've always taught the method of just looking at home,
home mind, body, spirit.
So yeah, definitely use our previous meditations, get your journal out, write down all of the
lessons of this year, write down intentions for the next use our meditations to help be
a guide.
I also highly recommend doing vision boards.
It's so fun to reflect on and we can do our own personal shares and offerings of what
we have going on.
So I actually, now I'm so excited.
I have a $10 a month membership that has all of my series and workshops and videos that
I've done.
So it feels a lot more aligned just to be contributing those to a really accessible
community versus having to vocalize and advertise whenever I create.
Cause I'm always feeling very passionate about putting programs and workshops together.
So in my monthly membership, you'll get over 90 videos.
I add to it weekly cause I teach weekly.
So there's new weekly yoga classes and I do two live events a month.
So for December, I'm doing a vision board and winter solstice party, but you can check
out for January what's coming.
Those are all available through my website, sensefulwellness.com, which is also where
I do astrology readings.
I have astrology coaching so you can kind of learn how to work with the energy of your
birth chart in a more coaching way where I can actually guide you through it.
And then I do private energy work and I'm still on TikTok.
Will TikTok exist?
In a couple of months from now, we will find out, but I am big on there.
That's been my platform.
But if that does end up crashing, all the support means a lot because TikTok has definitely
been my funnel and my channel.
And Kat, you want to share what you are offering as well?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, your offering looks amazing, Jen, and 10 bucks a month that you cannot beat
that.
That's incredible.
Like the best value membership I've ever seen.
So definitely check that out.
Everybody hop on it.
Yeah.
I am so stoked to be really moving into this, the space of having Akashic Record Readings
being my main offering that I'm able to extend to people at distance.
So it's on Zoom.
And of course, still teaching yoga here in Denver and working at Nurture.
But the Akashic Record Readings, you can find me on Instagram.
It's one of the best ways.
It's at Katarina underscore Erickson.
It's K-A-T-E-R-I-N-A underscore and then E-R-I-C-K-S-O-N.
That's my handle.
And it's tagged in my links.
So my website is catalystlivingcatalystwithak.com slash offerings.
And that's where you can learn more about record readings, but essentially what it is,
it's a 45 minute reading.
Right now they are, yeah, on Zoom, you'll get the recording and I will ask you for your
full legal name and three to four questions for the Akashic.
Now these questions can be anything around anything that will positively impact you and
your soul.
It's really great during times of transitions where you're looking for clarity, for peace,
for some guidance from the universe based on your soul.
It's really illuminating to understand different triggers and traumas that we possibly have
in this lifetime and how they can be tied to past lives and just where your soul has
been.
And I can give you a little bit of guidance on things that you can do from the Akashic
that will help you deeper understand these and then be able to kind of heal yourself.
It's always an evolutionary journey, right?
It's not like we just snap our fingers and it's done, but learning these things and it
can help provide those tools to help you get closer and just bring some more peace so that
you feel more equipped.
It's been super beautiful and I'm so stoked.
I think it's really, really important work.
And basically I'll go into the Akashic for about 30 minutes before our reading so you
don't have to just watch me meditate the whole time.
And then that 45 minutes I'll talk about what came through from your soul.
From the Akashic we'll talk about it.
You get to ask more questions.
I can always go back in.
So that's what that looks like.
I love Kat's readings.
I found out I'm on my 56th life.
They're amazing.
Highly recommend.
We love you guys so much.
We really appreciate the support both in our personal entrepreneurial ship stuff and our
spiritual work.
And then also just being in this podcast space has meant the world.
We will continue to keep you updated on the future, what we are offering and any future
retreats.
And we just thank you guys for writing all of this with us.
We hope you have the most amazing 2025 and we love you.
We love you so much.
Let's close out this year the best way we know.
With love, intention, compassion, generosity, gratitude and connection.
We love you all.
See you in 2025.
Love you.
Bye.