Hello everyone and welcome to the Awaken Together podcast. I'm Jen and I'm Kat and we're here
for your first season four episode. Welcome. Welcome everybody. Can't believe season four.
We've been doing this for a bit now. We're so grateful that you're here still listening
to our crazy voices. And the most impulsive decision to start this podcast and here we
are and life has had so many ebbs and flows along the way since we have started this journey.
So we love you all and appreciate you being here as always. And we wanted today's episode
really just to be kind of a drop in on what's been going on with Kat and I. I also wanted
to share some of the astrology coming up for like the first half of the year just to give
you that little forecast. And yeah, we are here. We're here. 2023. Yes. To start us off
Kat. Yeah, we realized we never shared our like words of the year. So if you want to
share yours and kind of talk about what's been coming up for you recently. Sure. Yeah.
So 2022 was a really hard year when I was doing my reflecting and my journaling prompts.
That was like the underlying feeling that was just coming up from the air. And it was
big and beautiful. And there were so many amazing moments, of course. And I don't want
to like the hardness to overshadow that. But there were so many challenges for me from
like buying a house starting the year with that. And then having like the cockroaches,
the break in. The worst start of a home. Seriously. Like you could have had that. That was a nightmare.
And just like not knowing that a lot of that stuff was normal and like to be expected.
It just seemed like the end of the world when it came up. And then yeah, there was like
a lot of other things with transitioning my work, getting a job again. That was just a
big transition to get back into after a year and a half of working for myself. And then
like yoga teacher training, leading retreats, just like a lot of busyness, especially in
September and October that all kind of felt like it came to a front and everything was
just very overwhelming and beautiful and awesome, but just like too much. So my word for last
year was rooted. And it was because like I knew I wanted to buy a house. I knew I wanted
to get that job. So my root chakra, I wanted to really focus on that and like have this
grounding energy. And it's funny because the universe was like, oh yeah, we'll give you
your root chakra stuff, but we're going to turn it on its head. And so it was like an
earthquake is what it felt like. But with that, it was so amazing just to reflect on
the highs and the lows and everything in between and just all the lessons that I could take
from that because I really think that all in all, like my intention did manifest in
the way that I needed it to. And reflecting on that too, I was able to land on the word
for this year, which is peace, inner peace, peace just like all in my life, everything
I interact with everyone, all the things that I do and engage in. So peace, peace, peace.
I know what I'm leaving in 2022, which is a lot of just like saying yes to everything.
A lot of the people pleasing a lot of even ego of like, oh, I should do this. Oh, that's
a great opportunity. I'd be stupid not to take it when I was just ignoring my needs
in many ways. And so a lot of things like conversations in my relationship with Kyle
like made me realize that really conversations with my therapist. I also like did EMDR last
year and overcame some really big fears. So all of that and the ketamine journey. Yeah,
sure. A lot of work, a lot of challenge, a lot of difficulty, but a lot of transmuting
things so that this year I feel like I'm arriving at this place of just being so ready to kind
of like take my time in this year and have less on my plate and be really intentional
with my energy so that I'm not finding myself and that depletion mode that I was in for
so much of last year. So excited. So far, so good. Of course, we're recording this. It's
still January. I know this is coming out on the third. So we'll see what the last couple
weeks of January have here. But so far it's been mostly aligned with my intention of peace.
A couple of little things here and there. We're like, oh, is this, you know, is this
aligning with peace? It's like, OK, let's come back. So I really credit all of my rituals,
meditation, my all of that has been going really well. And yeah, just peace, peace,
peace. I think what you just said is also perfect. Like landing back into peace, even
if it, you know, things kick it up. Landing back like that, knowing to come back to that.
That's the point of an intention, right? As we have that word that then even when things
go different, we can, you know, let that be our guiding light. That's why setting a word
is always like so important and fun. But thanks for sharing all that, Kat. And yeah, I think
for me, last year we talked some in our reflection. My I let my words be inspired action. And
I was 100 percent in action mode last year. I had taken the year on the road the year
before that. So last year included coming back to Denver, getting a place again, moving
fully into that, making my home my own and lots of stuff. So it was busy. I think a lot
happened with business stuff for me and getting back into the flow of working then and finding
that balance. And it's my Saturn return and lots of lessons within that. So it was just
a very busy year. But I think inspired action was beautiful. I felt really pretty consistent
energy throughout that year because last year because I had given myself a year of rest
before and rest is not maybe the best depiction of what it was because there was a lot that
came up around rest wounds around rest. But yeah, I felt inspired last year. It felt really
beautiful to like re enter everything with like fresh eyes. And I think I really needed
that. And yeah, my energy was fairly consistent throughout the year. And that was really great.
I think I'm going to share some of the astrology of what has been happening like like through
November, December, January here. I think a lot has come up at the end of 2022 coming
into 2023 for me. I set my word as experience because even as I was entering into the new
year, I had so much stuff coming up for me. And I actually just like cried and was overwhelmed
because I wanted to set a word. I've always said a word and I just like, yeah, I felt
like I couldn't even bring thoughts into the equation. I was feeling so much from the retrogrades
we just went through. And then I was like, within all this feeling, like maybe I'm just
meant to experience. And I think yeah, this year is going to be I think a lot of leaning
into my sensitivities and my softness and a lot of that like feminine kind of energy,
like really owning it and staying in feelings longer. I think last year would have been
a little bit more of a masculine action year for me. I was going a lot and I think I was
going in a much healthier way than you know, I ever have before. But still think this year
is going to be leaning into a lot. I've already felt from the stars that I haven't been able
to really grip that same kind of control and that same kind of being able to know exactly
what's coming and having a plan that's mapped out. Like I already feel like I can't even
predict what's happening in two weeks in this moment, let alone like what's coming up months
from now. And so it's yeah, I'm being called into really present minded thinking again,
which happened a lot on the road. So it's kind of funny the swing of it. I feel like
last year was a totally different energy than I think what this one's going to include.
And I think there's gonna be a lot of transitions in my life this year. There's a lot of things
that we have discussed and talked about. So it'll be very fascinating to see where my
life lands in this. But yes, I'm going to experience it all. Really nice and a good
word for it. And something you brought up too of like, with our own years reflecting
on them as being like, oh, a masculine year with like a lot of doing or feminine year
like this, like with the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the rabbit, which is a
year year. So naturally with that energy comes like some slowness and softness and more femininity.
And I think it had me reflecting on how last year, my word rootedness, like I mentally
had gone into it thinking it was going to be more yin and feminine with like, oh, just
like leaning into safety security. But no, it was very masculine. And so that's why I
had to like flip it so much this year for the feminine.
And we're both wanting the same thing. So I like that. Yes. Received. Yes. Peace. So
good. And I would love, Kat, before I go nerding into astrology mode, if you could just give
a few bullet points, like I know this podcast, what we've always wanted out of this is to
just be able to talk through a lot of concepts that have helped us have like just a full
embracing of everything that life is giving us share spiritual tools, like, you know,
emotional healing tools, things that have helped us get into our body all to kind of
ride the waves of life. But you know, where we call ourselves awakened together because
awakening is this endless journey that doesn't stop. And I would love to hear like where
you feel like you are somewhat in your spiritual journey and just, yeah, any any themes around
that if there's anything separate from what you've already shared?
Yeah. Well, I'll say that, I mean, so far this year, I feel like my piece, something
I've been really prioritizing to keep my piece on the pedestal is really in my morning ritual.
And that's really nothing new. But this is my first opportunity of the day where I feel
like I can really connect with my higher self, connect with spirits, and I do that through
meditation. So I love that it's not even something I have to think about right now when in the
past in my journey, like, it, it would sound really, really hard to sit down for meditation
three days a week. And now I'm doing it like most, you know, almost every day, sometimes
like five to seven days a week. And that's just normal. And I noticed when I haven't
had that time, like midday, because my thoughts are just going a little bit faster and a little
bit more chaotic, but just having that time to connect. I've been doing some spirit guides,
meditations, and just sitting with my guides more often. Also, actually, close towards
the end of last year, something kind of just came to me where, as you know, like you're
vegetarian, I've been a pescatarian for the past five years. And I just had this this
feeling like right around Thanksgiving time, which is funny, that I didn't feel aligned
with being pescatarian anymore, that I felt that it was kind of holding me back and that
I would feel guilty when I would want something that had like bacon on it, or that I would
feel shame if I had something like unknowingly that had meat in it. And I sat with that and
I kind of reflected on that. And I just came to this point of like, why am I doing this
harm to myself? Like, no one else cares. This is strictly self imposed that I am creating
these food rules. And that's something that I work with my clients on a lot in health
coaching is like, not not having your food equal your worth, or like the amount of food
or the quality of food, of course, like, we want to keep it high vibe so that we're feeling
our best and that that's coming from a place of self love. But if these rules aren't coming
from a place of self love, what are they for? You know? And so I've made the decision I'm
not like a meat eater, I would not identify again. But if I had to choose a word in this
silly, but I'd go with flexitarian. Wow, that's a good one. God. Aquarius season is here.
I got with the jokes.
You can always count on me.
I love that.
Not that I'm gonna go put myself in another box right away. But that's kind of another
big thing that's been surfacing for me. And then the last thing that I'll share that's
been shifting for me is for a good chunk of last year, the majority of last year, maybe
all of it, I was really finding myself operating from this place of scarcity. And I think,
you know, it was the big transition of really having a couple years to reflect on like,
oh, my old salary was really nice. And working for myself, obviously, like I had a lot more
time and flexibility. And in many ways, like I value that more than money in many cases.
But after buying a house, like, okay, we have expenses, I kind of have to tap back into
that 3d realm of, okay, the reality of that. And so I did a lot of manifesting a lot, a
lot of just like, trying to identify when the scarcity mindset came up, and then kind
of being with it and asking it like, is this because I'm feeling like I just don't have
enough? Or is this because of something else? And basically, I had some really hard conversations
for me, but like, really, really important ones and growth oriented at work, advocating
for myself and got to hate those conversations more than anything where you're like asking
for a raise asking for more money, because I think especially as women, we are told that
like, that's a big no no and taught that from a young age. But I did the things I listened
to a great audio book about boundaries, actually, it's called boundaries, how to set the limits
that will set you free, something like that, by Melissa urban, who is the creator of the
whole 30. So she knows rules. But I'd highly recommend that book. And then yeah, kind of
how that has all played out over the past six months is I got the raise, I got a bonus
and on Friday actually got in a bonus that I wasn't even anticipating. So it seems like
abundance is just coming my way this year. And I am welcoming it with open arms. Time,
money, all the things that felt like I didn't have enough of are here. So grateful. Beautiful.
Beautiful. How about you, Jen? You've got a lot going on. Literally so much. Yeah, I
think on my spiritual journey, as of now, I think I've had a lot of conversations with
different people and like my community and stuff. And just yeah, various deep talks with
people about, you know, I still think from the big spiritual social media wave that kind
of all happened in the pandemic, which was really beautiful in a lot of ways, I think
there's been a lot of misinterpretation of some things. And so I've had a lot of conversations
more around what spirituality like means to me more recently. And it's been fun to kind
of talk that out. But I think so much that this isn't you do your practices perfect.
And then you know, it goes away. I think as Kat was saying with meditation, I have habit
loops for things now that used to take the utmost effort to get me to do and I would,
you know, shame myself when I wasn't doing it. And it took really little baby steps to
build habit loops and to where now yeah, I meditate three times a week and I have some
form of body movement or yoga practice three times a week. I still do my happiness formula,
all this is in it, my reading and then my nature walk or run and then some form of like
lifting for my body because I am neurodivergent and hypermobile and my body's super sensitive.
And so I have to have these practices to feel good in my body and mind and soul. And I've
kept up with this happiness formula for a long time. I've shared it before. But yeah,
I've stuck with that. But I've really realized to that spirituality for me is not what practices
you are and aren't doing throughout things. It's really learning to feel connected and
not shaming yourself through all the different stuff that can happen. Like there's so much
that can be out of our hands and just being able to kind of, you know, look at it from
a point where we're honoring our space for feelings and space for perspective and asking
for help and digging into the why we felt a certain way about things. It's all about
just like more intentional reflection to realize that there's always a personal way to look
at things. There's always a way to kind of zoom out. And I think it's the balance of
zooming in and zooming out. That's really helpful with spirituality. It's not about
this perfection energy. If we start bringing that in, yeah, that is not what this is about.
And I think I've had a lot of conversations on that. And I think for me, on top of having
kind of this even formula for mind, body and spirit within that, I still will sometimes
get so regiment that I forget that those practices are there to help me get back to my body and
to feel into things. I almost treat it then like a checklist. So I've had to learn to
come back to intention with thought and all of those. So what one day is a problem? Like
all I wanted so bad, if you would ask me like four years ago, I just want a routine, help
me. I could not get a routine for the life of me. Now I have a really perfect routine.
I don't break my routine. And now that's my new problem is breaking my routine and knowing
how to like safely honor feelings within it. So just remember that it's not all one thing.
The thing that's a solution one day is a problem the next. And that's how it all goes. But
I think perspective within all of that and reflection within all of that is just so important.
And for me, the most spiritual of things, I still go to regular Reiki and I still have
had like really cool energy experiences and really cool stuff that's happened in meditations.
I've been playing a lot more with like chanting meditations and it's been really fun. And
yeah, lots of little things, but I think the biggest is astrology. I am like, I've done
so many readings now and I'm so grateful for that. And I think it's just endlessly just
points to another like frame of reference for us to kind of surrender in different ways,
because so much of what is often coming up for us is to show us another side of our soul.
And when you like know the astrology for me, I think, you know, you can turn everything
toxic. People can use astrology to once again deflect feeling all of their shit and you
know, judging other people, you can use it as a weapon just as much as a strength. But
I think yeah, astrology just endlessly makes me feel so spiritually in tune because I depersonalize
a lot of the stuff happening to me. And that allows me to actually feel it more. I'm like,
okay, I know up in the sky, this is happening. Like, what does this feel like to me? I feel
like I'm communicating with all of the planets, what they're doing up there. And it just makes
me feel like so in tune and whole. And I love having astrology as that kind of reference
and being able to look at a bunch of individuals charts and their souls and like all the people
that have let me dig into that with them, your birth chart and how you are. It just
it points to the uniqueness. No two people can have the same birth chart. And it just
shows that we're all like pieced in this together. And as I've shared in other astrology themed
episodes is we have some stuff that links us in with our yet our peers are close and
age peers collective like our generation. And then there's just so much cool connectivity
and all of it. And I think every time I dig into astrology, I feel a lot closer to the
universe and that higher higher force. So I'm going to talk a little bit about that.
Yeah,
lowdown for what to expect in 2020.
Literally. And first, before even going into 2023, I just want to share and validate if
yeah, start. So I'll start we'll start in August of last year, just to say one other
little thing here. Mars is the planet of intensity and drive and our energy. And it's passionate
and angry sometimes it has that fiery energy. And it's how we get moving. And so it's a
really powerful part of our chart in a lot of ways. But normally it only stays in one
sign for two to three months. So we get to be charged by an air sign that we get charged
by a fire sign and we get charged by a water sign and we get all this energy kind of directed
in different ways for us. Mars went into Gemini in August and all the astrologers were like
kind of freaking out about it because they were like it is staying in in Gemini until
let me get the exact date. 325. So March 25th. So we still have more time. And Gemini is
such a Gemini Gen over here. Gemini is such a busy thinking sign and it's constant thoughts.
Like it's just it comes in on a stream. And so everyone kind of got hit with that. If
you have Gemini energy in your chart, it might not have felt too big of a shake at once.
But then Mars went retrograde and whenever a planet goes retrograde, it takes the energy
of it and then kind of manifests it a little bit more inward. So from October 31st until
January 16th, we had Mars retrograde in Gemini after it and it's still in Gemini the whole
time. But then all of that, all those excitable thoughts that you maybe had all come in all
at once, like all these ideas, all of a sudden you couldn't really do anything with it. It
just was kind of floating in your head. I think it made a lot of people very exhausted,
like the burnout level of just thinking too much. It's like, I want the thinking to stop.
Like that was very much kind of the energy and you almost manifested it yourself because
there just wasn't action you could take on your thoughts. So you had to just let them
be so you couldn't really cling to the thoughts the same way, which actually then in ways
like makes you have to tune into other sides of yourself. And I know I've gotten to talk
to a few people that this Mars retrograde since October has really brought up a lot.
Any unconscious patterns around what you have shared, your thoughts, your thinking, like
anything that's Gemini themed probably has bubbled up in some way, shape or form. And
yeah, then we had a Mercury retrograde, which that happens three times a year and that's
very expected, but that Mercury retrograde, which always hits Gemini and Virgo in some
ways because Mercury is the ruler of those two signs. It was the Mercury retrograde is
actually in peppercorn, but the two planets doing that at the same time. I think I have
listened to people's lives and what happened and what has happened in my own freaking life.
I feel like I'm a different person. I feel like I just lived 10 years in this cycle.
So yeah, just some validation there. If things have been a little intense, like we are sitting
here and it's January 21st, this episode comes out two, three, we are entered into Aquarius
season now. We have an Aquarius new moon and yeah, it's actually kind of like the start
of the year energy now. Like what we were going through before was not really the start.
So it just wasn't, it wasn't accurate. It was a really weird start to the year. I had
a program going on in this and it's just been talked about a lot too. It's just been hard
to do what you normally do. So here we are. Let's talk about this year now, but yeah,
we have actual direct energy now. So all of the planets are now direct and that we get
that for a while and that just means that the energies kind of feel more normal and
are playing out. Mars is still going to be in Gemini until 325 and then it goes into
cancer and then it's on a normal rhythm again. So Mars going into cancer is going to just
be like it's normal two to three months and Mars is going to be going normal now. So we're
not going to have as much of that coming up in the first half of the year. We should feel
probably a pretty big shift just getting out of that Gemini energy. And then yeah, we had
Jupiter go into Aries 1220 and it's lasting until May 16th. And Jupiter and Aries is just
... Jupiter is the planet of luck and abundance and Aries has this fiery energy of getting
some stuff going and being more clear. There's also a good independent component with Aries
that you can make some stuff happen for yourself. So I think it's a lot of honoring your needs
within that and that's a really cool energy to get to have on top of everything going
direct now. So we should be feeling like, okay, all that just happened, but I can do
this stuff for myself. I can write my story. I can navigate things in a more clear way.
Think it got a little convoluted there at the beginning of the Jupiter Aries, but we
can feel into that energy a little bit more. And then the really freaking big one, there's
actually three big ones to share in this year, but we'll start with, I guess we can do Saturn
first. March 7th, Saturn is going to enter into Pisces and Saturn stays in a sign for
like two and a half years because Saturn's a lot slower moving. So everyone that had
Saturn in Aquarius, we're almost done with the Saturn returns for the Saturn in Aquarius
generation. That was like a two and a half year period. We all just went through it.
Now Saturn's going to enter into Pisces. So then the Saturn Pisces crew that will start
having their Saturn returns, but Pisces is so spiritual and so intuitive and so sentimental.
And there's like a lot of feeling and yeah, feminine energy around Pisces. And Saturn
is like opposite, like kind of a masculine sign and hardworking and like, how can we
do this? And this energy though, I feel like is really going to bring about a lot of shifts
around spirituality, like what's actually appropriate. I read a few blogs with people
talking about how this has caused a lot of upheaval in the past with different religious
stuff getting called out. It's like a redefining of spirituality, a re-embracing of creativity
and doing it in a way that's like healthy and yeah, just actually surrendering and not
being like stifled by previous boxes. Like Pisces is the most flowy intuitive wisdom
sign in a lot of ways. So that's going to be a really fun energy to feel into starting
in March and then March 23rd, Pluto is entering it into Aquarius and Pluto moves so freaking
slow. So for the past 30 years, it's been bouncing between Capricorn and Scorpio. And
yeah, this energy has been, I actually, I need to fact check on the Scorpio, but yeah,
it's mainly been in Capricorn. Pluto has been in Capricorn and that energy is a way more
collective energy. So Pluto shifting into Aquarius, it's going to be there for three
months and then it's kind of going to go retrograde. And then once it actually fully enters into
Aquarius in 2024, it's going to be there for like 30 years. So this is huge. We're going
to get like a little nugget of what the Pluto Aquarius is going to do and Pluto shifts everything.
It's the transformer in the sky and Aquarius is like, what do we need to do for humanity?
How can we be like, let everyone express their uniqueness, their own individuality? So Pluto
Aquarius is going to like, everything I think is finally going to fall. That's been keeping
people having to stay boxed in and not embracing their individuality. So very fucking cool.
Very excited for that one. I think, yeah, we're going to see a lot of shifts. We're
going to get a little, a little taste there, like March, starting March 23rd, and it goes
until June. It's going to retrograde back a little bit, but yeah, noting what's going
on in that little period is probably going to be fine. I guarantee when Pluto does something,
you see it on a more massive level. And I already, there's already been so many protests
and stuff coming up and people fighting like Aquarius just is going to break down everything.
It's all about freedom seeking for all. So it's going to be really cool. And yeah, there's
one other transit, the lunar nodes are going to be switching into Aries and Libra and that
happens in July. And just that we can circle back to that when it comes. But the nodes
are so much tied to like our, our soul and our karma and just like seeing how we relate
to maybe things our souls already mastered versus what we're being called into and how
much we avoid that and go to what's comfortable. And we've been playing on this Taurus and
Scorpio energy, which is a lot of like how you relate to money and scarcity and themes
about what you own and how much material world versus spiritual of Scorpio. Like, yeah, there's
been a lot of themes collectively on that. So Aries and Libra is going to be a big shift
and the nodes also move very slow. So I think it's going to be individuality versus collaboration.
I think there's going to be a lot more themes on relationship energy in some ways and the
balance between those things versus all of the energy that's been kind of like more rampant
around money themes, which it makes sense with what we went through in the pandemic
and coming out of that. And I think the pressure of all of that's going to feel a lot less
heavy when that switches up. So yeah, that has been your astrology forecast.
Oh my God, Jen, thank you so much. I feel like I have a couple dates now to keep in
mind and just look out for a little shifts in the energy happening.
Yeah. And mark your calendars with this stuff. And also, yeah, go ahead. We use Moon Tracker.
We've shared that before that app. You can mark all your full and new moons for the year.
I feel like we finally just had our like, yeah, start of the year energy. So mark that
stuff, write it down. So then you kind of just know like how to reflect better on what's
going on. And maybe you can get deeper insight to the connectivity of all of it.
That's right. Yeah. Keep an eye on your word and come back to it. See how your actions
are aligning with that intention you set for this year. So thank you all so much. We're
so excited for another season with you all. We have some amazing guest speakers and topics
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