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Welcome to the Awaken Together podcast.

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I am Jen.

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And I'm Kat.

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And today we are going to do a full moon episode breaking down both the full and new moon and

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what a ceremony looks like.

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So we've mentioned this kind of in a couple episodes because I'm very passionate about

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my moon ceremonies.

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And we mentioned just the importance of using the new and full moon as kind of periodic

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check-ins for yourself instead of necessarily setting a full New Year's intention, using

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the moon's already energetic qualities to break down intentions, goals, checking in

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with what you need to release.

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So we're just going to do a nice deep dive for you of what that looks like, how to start

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this ceremony if you've never done that practice in your spiritual life and break down for

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you, what you should look out for, what you should tune into and how you should set yourself

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up for using the new and full moons for your benefit.

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Yeah.

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I love this topic because it really makes me feel like I'm in tune with my witchy side.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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And it's just like whenever we pay attention to nature and the energetics behind it, we're

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able to bring to ourselves a greater understanding of what's going on with ourselves.

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Yeah.

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We are a hundred percent cyclical.

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And I do not think I realized until I really started using the moon to periodically journal

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how many times I actually felt similar qualities throughout the years.

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Like I've kept in moon journal, I think for about three years consistently now.

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And it's even wild looking at, I always put what sign the moon is in and if it's a full

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or new moon.

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And I can even see cycles within the journaling I've done and what's come to fruition.

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And when I usually feel higher energies and lowers, it's been a full guide for my own

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energetic body.

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I love that.

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And that's so impressive, Jen.

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You always inspire me to journal more.

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Thank you.

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Honestly, the moons are just the best locked in practice.

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All the other journaling comes in very like tiny, we'll call it ADHD dump.

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Hey, it works, whatever works, right?

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It does.

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Yeah.

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Well, we'll start off by talking about a little bit of the science behind the moon cycles.

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So the moon's gravitational pull, it creates high and low tides.

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It generates something called the tidal force, which causes earth and its water to bulge

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out.

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It's on the side closest to the moon and the side farthest from the moon.

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And these influxes of water are what creates high tides.

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Like, that's what they are.

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And guess what?

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We as human beings are also made up of 60% water.

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I think I've mentioned that before on here, but it always blows my mind like that we are

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mostly water.

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So we are nature too.

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And I'd like to return to that because you can bet that we are also deeply affected by

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the moon's energy on a cellular level.

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And if you are kind of resistant to thinking that the moon has any effect on us, when you

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become intentional and you keep track of it, definitely can feel it.

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And I think science for a very long time has been working on linking human behavior to

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the moon cycles.

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I know one of the studies that had pretty profound results was looking at increased

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crime rate around full moons.

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And they were able to find that pretty consistently because you just get this giant blast of energy.

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And I always can tell that my sleep cycles get affected by the moon as well.

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And there has been scientific studies working on that.

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And the funniest thing that I, before I was anywhere into yoga, spiritual practice, non-existent,

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I started working at a nursing home when I was 15, which I shared on here before, and

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that elderly population, and I hear this with kids as well, but the elderly population would

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go so wild on full and new moon days.

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All the dementia patients would be just on a whole other planet.

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No one would sleep.

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We'd have all these walkers in the hallway and I'd be like, oh my God, it has to be a

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full moon.

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Check it.

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It's so primal, right?

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What a perfect example.

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So primal.

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It's people and animals, like we all just go a little crazier at night because it's

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brighter, you're more energized, charged up.

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And yeah, you can see more in the light of the full moon at night, which causes us to

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sleep a little less usually and just feel a certain kind of way.

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And yeah, so what we're going to do, we're going to break down kind of the qualities

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of both of them.

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I will start with the full, actually, let me start with the new moon.

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The new moon is very powerful for beginnings and tapping into the energy can help us achieve

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our dreams, set intentions and really achieve our desires with more ease.

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So what you really want to do on the new moon is to think of it as a new beginning.

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It's like a new chapter is starting and from new moon to new moon, you can set out like

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what you need to do for that next month, what you're what you're focusing on, even larger

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picture beyond just that month.

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And then the full moon comes in about two weeks later.

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And that's kind of our check in point.

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So the full moon is dedicated to our darker side.

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The full moon is a powerful energy for letting go of things, releasing any negative energy

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and saying goodbye to the things that are no longer serving us.

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So you want to think of the full moon as being more reflective, trying to relax, release,

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cleanse, start over.

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And I always use my full moons to check in on how my new moon beginning of cycle is working

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and where I'm at, at the point of the full moon.

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So it's kind of that check in point between new moon cycles because the new moon is our

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starting point.

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And then I wanted to go over a little crystal information as well, and then we'll break

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down kind of what a entire ceremony looks like for both of them.

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But on crystal talk.

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So maybe you hear this on social media, Instagram, Tik Tok.

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But a lot of people say charge your crystals on full and new moon days, which is just putting

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your crystals outside and letting them bathe in the moonlight.

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There is definitely kind of varied beliefs on this, but just getting your crystals outside

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and letting them sit in nature.

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I like to think of it as kind of a moon bath for them.

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Some people believe that you can put them out on new and full moons.

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Other people are very particular depending on what type of moon it is, like Eclipse moons

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might be a little bit more chaotic energy.

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So maybe you don't want to put your whole crystal collection outside to kind of sit

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in that more collective crazy energy.

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But other people just do it pretty consistently and don't see it as being something you have

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to be so concerned on.

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One of the things I learned and I usually focus on this way of thinking for myself is

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I put my crystals out to charge on full moons.

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So new moon is a start of an energy shift.

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It's a start of a new cycle.

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I usually sit with that new cycle for about the two weeks leading up to the full moon.

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If I feel like I've had really good energy, I will put my crystals outside for that full

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moon.

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Then I spend the next two weeks until the next moon cycle meditating a little bit more

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with my crystals.

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I usually do Reiki on myself the next couple days after I've given my crystals a little

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fresh bath.

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This is where it gets a lot more witchy and a lot more hippy and I love it.

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I love charging my crystals.

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Me too.

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I'm do.

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My crystals are way do.

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Kyle for Christmas gave me this beautiful selenite charging pad for crystals with the

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chakras on them.

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I'm super excited to get that out in the moon and charge it up.

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Along with crystals, you can also charge some other things.

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A really common thing that you can charge is water.

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You might hear it's called moon water, moon charged water, a moon charged water potion.

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My personal favorite because it just sounds really magical.

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One way that you can deepen the charge is to even put a crystal inside of your vessel.

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I like to have an open top mason jar or bowl where the moon won't be obstructed from penetrating

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the water and seeping in fully.

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So open top, especially if you're not planning on drinking it.

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If you are planning on drinking your moon water, which is one way that it can be used,

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I would recommend probably putting a top on it, especially if you live in a city or a

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buggy place.

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Ideally a clear one, maybe some plastic wrap or something like that.

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You just put it in the full moon's energy right outside.

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Probably you can do it next to a window sill if that's all you got.

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But this can be used for so many different purposes over the next few weeks, especially

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up until the next full moon really is how long they recommend.

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But you can spray your moon water on plants to give them an extra little shock of energy.

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You can spray it in your cooking.

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And then Jen actually just shared with me a really cool idea that she learned from someone

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on TikTok.

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Jen, do you want to share that?

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Yeah, I saw a girl take her moon water, freeze them into these ice pops and then use it to

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give herself an ice massage across her face in the mornings.

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That's happening on Friday.

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Absolutely.

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Like a little dash of essential oil in there too.

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That would just...

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Oh, even better.

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Whole sensory, right?

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Yes.

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I love it.

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And so yeah, there's all these rituals and we talked about it in our ritual episode.

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It's really beautiful whether you believe how potent the energy is that you start to

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create ritual in your life anyway.

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So even if you go into it a little bit as a skeptic on, I don't know if I fully buy

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that we are affected by the sky and the stars, even though there is definitely proof of all

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of this in little ways.

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It's just a beautiful periodic check in and a great practice to start.

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And it's a very easy thing to mark your calendar with of when a new moon is, when a full moon

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is, and then you're vowing to sit down in those times and just see how you're doing.

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And that is such an important practice to see your growth, which is really hard to do

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when you're moving a million miles an hour learning.

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And then it's harder to see what you've gone through, how you've transformed, how you

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shifted.

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One of the most wild things when I first came back from living on the road, I am now back

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in Denver in a home and getting used to that, but I got to reconnect with all of my old

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journals and my full and new moon ones from several years ago, I had a really good cry

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to seeing how much I was able to manifest from those journals.

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One of the top things I had wrote was I just wish so bad that I had an online community

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while we know that that has happened.

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And I just really wanted a person to be able to inspire me in business.

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Here I am with a podcast with my soul sister, Kat.

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So happy.

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And so yeah, it's beautiful just to see your list kind of checked off periodically and

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just to have something to refer back on for different periods of your life.

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But let's go into ceremony and what it looks like.

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So the very first thing I want to talk about is before you sit down and get into the zone

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to have whatever version of a ceremony looks like for you, I highly recommend starting

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by cleansing your space.

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And this is very important to do periodically.

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So why not use the full and new moons as a time to remember?

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What I like to do is to take incense or sage and do counterclockwise circles along my own

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energy aura.

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And just to say a little prayer with that, like, may anything that is not serving me

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be released.

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Yeah, I let go of anything that has been holding me back and just sit with that.

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Let the smoke kind of clear the space for you.

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I like to do from the crown of my head across my face, across my arms, down the center of

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my chest, under my feet even just to sit with that for a moment.

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And then I like to crack my windows open and do a full house cleanse.

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If you don't want to do a full house cleanse, you already have the door shut.

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You have your private space.

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You can do the room that you are in, but you just take the sage or the incense and do counterclockwise

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circles either fully around the room a couple of times or just circling the smoke counterclockwise

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getting into the corners, getting across all of the walls with the windows open.

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And just say, you can say a prayer out loud or in your mind's eye that I ask that this

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space be reset and cleanse.

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I ask that anything be removed that is stagnant or not serving me.

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And once I've done a full clear, I will say a little thank you prayer.

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Thank you for this new energy reset.

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Thank you to the sage or thank you to the incense.

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And then yeah, this said give a little ceremony reset.

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Then you're ready.

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Then the fun.

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So for a new moon, a couple of things that I like to do, I like to really just begin

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by pulling a card.

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That's like a personal thing for me because we know new moons are all about setting intentions

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and starting fresh, starting new, being open to what you're meant to receive and intentionally

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taking action on what you want more of in life.

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So pulling a card for me is a great way for me to tap into my one intuition by trusting

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that the card that I pull is the one that's most meant to me in the moment.

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And then reflecting on that, like what, how does this relate to my life?

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What is this encouraging me to do?

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What are my guides coming forth and validating for me?

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Beautiful.

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And yeah, I love the moonology deck.

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I always whip that one out for my moon ceremonies, but that is perfect.

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Whatever cards you have, that's really fun.

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is to close your eyes and maybe pull up your music and your phone and ask for it to come

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via song.

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I do that a lot of times too.

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I think that's a really fun way to just maybe hear a deeper message.

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Maybe it just inspires your writing prompts.

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So we're sitting down, we've drawn a card, you want to get your space nice and cozy.

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I like to bring all of my crystals into my space.

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the previous moon cycle.

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So if you're at a new moon, you want to check that last full moon and maybe check the previous

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new moon that you did and just kind of see what's happened, see what you need to adjust,

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see if maybe your priorities have completely shifted and that is okay.

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the top what the date is, what moon it is.

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So I have two apps I like to use.

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I've shared them I think on here before, but I have Moon Reader and I have Time Passages.

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Now Moon Reader will tell you when the full and new moon is coming and what cycle the

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moon is in every single day.

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Time Passages will tell you what sign the moon is in each day if you want to kind of

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reflect on that as well.

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But looking at the astrology behind the full moon can be also really inspiring for what

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your journaling is going to be.

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If it's a full moon in Virgo, which we're having on the day this episode is released,

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you want to look at the qualities of Virgo.

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Maybe that gets a little more emphasized and I think that's very dependent off your chart,

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but it's a good read to just check in and see if maybe I'm feeling this one a little

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bit more and this is the sign it's in.

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And when you start into your journaling, you have that as a reference point and then maybe

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the following year when that same moon comes around, you can even look back to where you

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were the last moon.

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Does that make sense?

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It sure does.

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I mean, considering how many new and full moons we have each year, just consider if

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this isn't a practice that you do at all right now and then think about if you are to adopt

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something like this into your practice.

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Most people, you know, common people just do it once a year and then maybe at the end

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of the year.

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And how much more power can this give you if you're doing this just so much more often?

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I truly believe that's a big reason of why like you, like me, like many people out there

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who have embodied these rituals are able to really just feel aligned with the life they

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lead because they're making these changes and bringing intentionality to it every month.

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And one of the other things I really love, which you can definitely YouTube a bunch of

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options for this, but I love to do moon salutations.

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So in the yoga world, we have sun salutations, which maybe you've heard of before.

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That's kind of to give your body this this big energy wake up.

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Moon salutations have a little bit of a different energetic effect.

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You're doing a lot of turning around the mat.

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You have to move a little slower and it's a little bit disorienting because you kind

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of move around.

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But it's you do it in a slow, intentional way, and it kind of has this more passive

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energy to it.

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I love to do a few rounds of moon salutations just to get into my body because it's so hard

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for me to drop right into meditation.

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So I like to burn some energy out before I do my journaling.

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That is obviously up to you.

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And maybe it's just you stand up, play the song that you just ask your spirit guides

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to give you, do a little dancing.

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You can even just shake for a minute, but something just to get you out of your head

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so that you are really dropping into the ceremonial aspect as well.

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Yeah.

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Getting out of the mind and into the body and then just letting it flow.

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An ever ending practice.

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So yes, that's my checklist.

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Get my space nice and cozy.

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Make sure I've cleansed and reset my body and my personal space.

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Have my decks close by or just some way to tune in to maybe our higher power or guides,

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whatever your belief system is with that.

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Find a way to move and connect with my body and then pull out my journal and start on

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some prompts.

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So Kat, you want to give us some specific prompts for each of the moons that we can

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refer back to?

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I'd love to.

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So if you're listening to this in real time, I will encourage you to go ahead, grab your

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journal, pen, pencil, something to write with.

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And I'm going to say these slow so that you can pause them and just write them down so

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you can return to them when it's a new moon, when it's a full moon like today.

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So the first one, we're going to start with our new moon prompts.

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I have five of these for you.

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And the reason that these, I have so many of them is because this is, you know, it's

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the beginning.

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This is your intention setting.

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This is considering your month ahead.

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So we always like to start with this first one and it is, how am I currently feeling?

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How am I currently feeling from the heart?

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Not just tired, you know, maybe you are tired and maybe there's a lot of reasons for that.

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And getting deep with yourself rather than just saying good, like, how are you?

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Good.

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Moving on.

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Number two, what are my intentions for this month?

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So ask yourself, what are my intentions for this month?

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What do you want to cultivate more of?

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And then number three, what am I needing more of?

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What am I needing more of?

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So consider your life holistically.

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Maybe it's an energy, maybe it's a thing, maybe it's a person.

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Maybe it's a place for me to loom.

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I am needing that right now.

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A little vacation.

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Number four, when I imagine my greatest manifestations coming true, what emotions do I feel?

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I'll say it again a little slower.

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When I imagine my greatest manifestations coming true, what emotions do I feel?

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And then finally, just go ahead and list out some of your current dreams and goals.

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Maybe you return to your New Year's intention, your word, anything that you have set out

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for this year for yourself and just write them down.

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You can track your progress, make this as deep or a surface level as you'd like.

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Yes, and before you go into the full moon ones, I want to reiterate that for the new

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moon, it's really beautiful to make the practical goals and lists for like the next month.

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But I also usually use the new moon to get really big with my imagination.

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So that's one of the reasons I still like to do a body practice is I like to let myself

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kind of write down some really big, large goals as well, because one of my top problems,

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I think as I really started working on my healing journey was I always thought so small

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and I was always so scared to think really big because I didn't want to disappoint myself

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if it couldn't come true.

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And one of the things that I think this practice has helped is why don't I just write really

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big things down and then watch if I shift on those.

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If something stays consistent month to month to month, and I'm like, I still want that

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just as bad.

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It helps me really start to make more practical steps to it.

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So don't be afraid to write some of the biggest things.

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And maybe it's really hard to go there.

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And it's a practice that maybe gets a little easier as you add it in to each new moon.

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But dream big.

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Think of if every possible thing could go right, what that would look like.

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And I love that question on what it feels like to have everything that you're wanting,

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because it's really important to work on embodying the emotion behind not just the objective

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things that we are wanting, but what it would feel like, what it feels safe, what it feel

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like, yeah, I have enough.

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What is that underlying emotion that you're looking to find underneath the big dreams?

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And I love that.

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Yeah.

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Hell yeah, Jen.

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Love, love, love.

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Be big, right?

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It's like sometimes we get in our own ways and we stop ourselves from dreaming big because

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it's embarrassing, or yeah, we're afraid that we'll fail.

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But this is your time.

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This is your journal.

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No one's going to see what you write except for you, unless you start telling people,

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which is actually the next step of manifestation, is putting it out there into the universe.

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So go big, go big.

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Love it.

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So then moving into our full moon prompts.

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This is the time to reflect and go back to your prompts that you set for the new moon

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of that same month and check it out.

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What did you do?

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That thing that you said you needed more of, did you give yourself that?

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Did you stay true to your intentions for the month and how?

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And how are you on the journey towards your greatest manifestations, your dreams, your

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goals?

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What's that looking like?

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What's that feeling like?

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So we have three prompts.

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The first one is how am I currently feeling?

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Just like before, tuning into yourself, to your heart, how am I currently feeling?

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The second one now, it's what do I need to let go of?

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What do I need to let go of?

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What are you releasing?

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What's no longer serving you in this space that you're just ready to part with?

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And then finally, the third one, it's what has been holding me back?

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What has been holding me back?

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Again, it could be a person, it could be a principle, just considering that.

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And then when it becomes time to look forward, see what you learned from all of this.

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You can use that information to make your situation better, even in a small way.

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But these things add up, don't they?

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Yes.

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And thank you for those prompts.

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I love it.

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Yeah, if you don't have much of a self-care practice, I also think this is a really, if

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you have a family or you're really busy just saying like, I need a little bit of time on

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these specific days of the month.

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I love taking baths on full and new moon so I can just kind of like hone in on myself.

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It can even just be even more of a self-care ritual where you, yeah, give yourself like

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a home little spa day or something, something where you're really checking in with your

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energy body and you're letting it have a little bit of reset.

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Because on the new and full moons, I usually feel a lot of energy.

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I am very sensitive to the moons and I usually already have kind of a more anxious temperament.

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So if I don't do some stuff to wind myself down and calm down before I had this kind

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of intentional practice, I really felt kind of an anxious energy, usually days before

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and days after because it was already shifting in my body.

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I was just trying to blame it on other stuff or just not thinking of it.

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But yeah, use it as a self-care practice if anything as well.

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And yeah, add in anything that kind of works for you in addition to what we've shared with

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you.

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Yeah, love a good bath, connecting with that water, just treating yourself really well,

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nourishing and yeah, maybe even getting together with some friends and seeing what they do,

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just making it more of a conversation, more of a presence.

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Oh, that's such a good point to make to like looking in your area for moon ceremonies,

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like they are definitely out there and happening.

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Like I love it.

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I started going to.

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Yeah, that was how I first even got into it.

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And I remember my first moon ceremony.

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I was like, oh no, is this like too witchy?

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I had this was still so early on in the healing days.

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I'm like, should I be doing this?

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Like, I don't know.

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So I had so much work to do.

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That religious trauma slipping in.

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That religious trauma coming up.

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Yeah, it's come so far since that.

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But yeah, you can search in your area like what's going on, maybe using it as a time

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for even community, not just by yourself, but maybe that becomes your goal.

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Instead of finding that self care alone time, maybe it's your chance to get out and find

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a community circle that does this.

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I guarantee there's more out there than you probably think.

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And there's a lot of virtual options now as well for that.

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Absolutely.

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It's something that I'm looking to do more of in the future myself.

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Yeah.

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I pop on TikTok a lot for him, but no promises, but I am on and yeah, me and Kat have done

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a few virtual ones too.

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So always be on the lookout.

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And with that, we wanted to just remind you that the reviews really help.

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So if you can go on Spotify or Apple, wherever you listen to our podcast and give it a review

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that really helps to boost us.

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We have a lot of exciting things coming in the month of April.

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So follow along at the Awaken Together podcast Instagram and remember that our doors are

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always open for questions.

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Absolutely.

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We love to hear from you.

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We have some really amazing guest speakers coming up.

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So stay tuned, lots to share.

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Thanks everybody.

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Thank you Kat.

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Thanks Jen.

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We'll see you next time.

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Bye.