July 31, 2024 • 31 mins
August is a particularly potent month for growth and transformation. We're in the midst of the Lion's Gate Portal (7/26-8/12), a powerful time for manifestation and abundance. It’s a great time to get focused on where you’ve evolved so you can pinpoint where you’re going!
Mercury retrograde on August 5th will bring about changes and challenges. Embrace these opportunities for growth - it is a chance to rewire, upgrade, and bring out the glitches that need to be worked through to LEVEL UP!
Leo season is a time for shining your light and expressing your creativity. Be bold, have courage, let your personality shine, and feel at home in your own skin. True self-confidence is magnetic - embrace your unique self!
This month is about revision, editing, and refining your goals. How have you grown this year? What has shifted and changed for you since this time last year?
When the Mercury Retrograde moves into Leo on August 14th, think about your heart's desires and what you're truly passionate about. Even if your goals seem unrealistic, explore them.
The new moon on August 4th is a perfect time to set intentions for your creative self-expression and explore your passions. The full moon on August 19th may bring up emotions and fear; focus on clearing, healing and personal power. When the sun moves into Virgo on August 22nd, we shift towards practicality and grounding - prioritize organization, health and wellness.
Use these journal prompts to aid in your reflection, growth, and connection this month:
- What aspects of my inner self need more attention and recognition this month? How will I create time for these aspects of myself?
- Reflect on a recent experience that brought you closer to your spiritual self. What did you learn from it?
- In what ways do I balance my material ambitions with my spiritual needs? Are there areas I feel out of balance?
- Describe a time where your intuition guided you to make a significant decision. What practices can I incorporate into my routine to enhance my intuitive abilities?
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi, everyone, It's Amanda Riga Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions,
and welcome to August. We are about to enter this
incredibly accelerated energy astrologically and numerologically. And I know I've
been talking about the energy accelerating all year. Now it
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feels like the pace and the speed of energy and
our consciousness is starting to get on the same frequency,
like things are happening, and if they don't feel like
they're happening immediately or fast enough, there's something accelerated that
almost feels like WHOA, I've entered a new plateau. I'm
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not sure how to navigate this, and it feels a
little bit foreign and unknown, but I know, oh, something
deeper and if you're sensing that or feeling that, that's
what I'm talking about. And it is kind of bizarre
and it can be jarring, but it's almost like being
in this quantum frequency where you show up for your day,
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you're going through the motions, but there's a piece or
a trust or a depth that goes with the surface
level stuff. And I don't mean that we just coast
in and live in this all the time, because I
can swing high to low, but when you have those
moments where you're like, oh, everything is good, or it's
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coming together, or I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
Just take a moment and really acknowledge that for yourself
and smile. I'm always like and smile because that endorphin
that's released, it's kind of like it it sets the mold,
you know, it sets it into place neurologically or energetically
or physiologically. I always love to mimic something with my
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body that way, it's like I'm giving this signal to
my brain and my biology to click into place. I'm
going to talk about the energies of August, but I
want to start out with some journal prompts for you
because the numerology in the month of August and the
astrology it really paves the way for some deep reflection
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and looking back and really going a little bit deeper
in order to go further. So a journal prompt I
want to give you to start is what aspects of
my inner self need more attention and recognition this month?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How will I create.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Time for these aspects of myself? Another journal prompt is
it's really a reflection, reflect on a recent experience that
brought you closer to your spiritual self? What did you
learn from it?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
All?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right, I've got a couple more journal prompts, but I
think I'm going to give them to you at the
end because it'll all track with some of the things
that we're talking about this month. As we enter August,
a few things are going on. One we are in
something that is called the lions Gate Portal and this
runs every year from July twenty sixth to August twelfth,
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the lions Gate Portal. And I'm going to do a
whole podcast on this next week.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You can listen.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
There'll be a blog post as well, but the lions
Gate Portal.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The actual day.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Of the lions Gate is eight eight August eighth. And
guess what you'll know, we're in an eight numerological year,
so this year it's eight eight, so it's a really
powerful astro numero code. But what happens during the lions
Gate period the Earth sun, Sirius and Orian, the constellation
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Orion come into alignment. And the ancient Egyptians recognize this.
It's very connected to planetary bodies, the Earth's gravitational pull,
but it's essentially a spiritual gateway that triggers, deeper consciousness,
higher consciousness, abundance, manifestation. So I want you to pay
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attention to this, do a little bit of research for
yourself on it. And like I said, I will be
doing a podcast on this. But the eight eight numerology
date and lions Gate that happens this year, it's a
big power play energy for setting intentions, manifestation, paying attention
to your intuition, maybe doing a little meditation. And I'll
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talk more about that later. But we are in the
lions Gate and as we shift from July to August,
we move from a six universal month in numerology in
July to a seven month in August. And here's the kicker.
And I just got the audio companion for the Numerology
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Guidebook for the second half of the year recorded, so
it's August through January, and y'all it's good. I was
so into this. I think it's probably two and a
half three hours worth of material because I was taken
the Numerology Guidebook and then I was going deeper with
all of the energy and all of the things that
I have learned and the nuances and the frequencies of
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the eight and I've been doing numerology a long time.
It's my jam, but I'm always learning and fine tuning.
And what I shared in the guidebook and I the
audio Companion and go deeper into is August, September, October, November.
They are so poignant and rich for growth and transformation
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and working with the number codes. If you're new to numerology,
if you're already like ye, yes, numerology is my jam,
You're gonna love this. These months are important, they're out comizing.
I am hyped up and excited for the next few months.
And guess what we freaking have mercury retrograde happening at
the beginning of August, and I'm like, bring it on, Universe,
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rewire me, upgrade me, give me the downloads, give me
the glitches so I can work them out, tweak them
and go higher. And I mean, I truly feel exuberant
about it. I usually am. I'm like, bring on mercury retrograde.
And that last mercury retrograde we had a few months
ago was a pain in the ass. Like I've got
no other language for it. It was glitchy and weird,
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and look, we got a lot of glitches and weird
stuff going on, but I'm like, show me the glitches,
you know, crack my codes, Universe, bring it on. I
feel enthusiastic because that's how the energy is starting to
amp me up and feel and again, hey, I have
my moments and my mood swings, but in general, I'm
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feeling this excitement and peace simultaneously, and it's creating this
really innate sense of higher consciousness and being and living.
And I'm seeing it in other people too, and that
accelerates and excites me. So August is a seven month
in an eight universal year. This is significant for a
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couple of reasons, numerologically and astrologically. Numerologically, if you reflect
back to twenty twenty three, we were in a seven
year in numerology, and we are in a seven month
in an eight year in August. This is an excellent
time to go back and reflect on what you were
learning last year, where you were last year at this time,
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and where you are now, what you've learned through the
course of this year, how you've grown, how you've shifted
and changed. The seven is also a very reflective energy
in it and of itself. Plus mercury will retrograde on
the fifth. It retrogrades at like one am Eastern Time
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on the fifth, so it essentially if you're on the
Pacific coast of the United States, it retrogrades you know,
later in the evening on the fourth. So on the
fourth and the fifth, mercury is stationing retrograde in Virgo,
which is very practical. It's about analysis, precision, laser focus.
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So while mercury is retrograding in Virgo and it will
back up into Leo on the fourteenth of August. And
I'm going to delineate some of this for you all.
But the combination of mercury retrograde and the seven in
numerology says, get very focused internally on where you've grown,
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what you're learning, where you've evolved, so you can pinpoint
where you're going. And the numerology reflects that the eight
universal year the energy of abundance and expansion really tapping
into your unlimited potential. And that may sound like pie
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in the sky, but to me, it's expanding your heart
and expanding your light, shining your light, and for goodness sakes,
the sun is in Leo. If there's ever a time
not only to shine your light, but ignite the light
in others.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's now.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And that's the thing I love about Leo energy. It
is about being bold and it's about courage, but it's
about the development of personality, creative self expression. When the
Leo energy shines. When Leo's are in their light and
their element, they inspire light in others. And while Leo
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is ruled by the Sun. And if you think about
the Sun, I always laugh about this because I'm like, yes,
Leo is about the development of ego because the Sun
is at the center of the solar system and it's like,
look at me, look at me, you know, like I
want to be seen, all eyes on me, which really
denotes the ego.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But Leo is ruled.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
By the heart, the heart chakra and the connection between
the solar plexus chakra and the heart chakra. When those
two chakras energetically are aligned, opened and balanced, it radiates
higher consciousness because it comes from pure source energy, pure light.
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And think about this when you are expressing yourself and
your talents, when you feel at home in your own skin, comfortable,
and you are able to fully be yourself. Usually if
you are with other people and in community inn with
other people, your energy is magnetic or infectious or contagious.
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And if you remember a while back, and if you
remember a while back, I was talking about dark energy,
heavy energy in people and being able to see that,
and then also recognizing how just because you see that,
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it doesn't mean we dim our light or lower our
frequency to match the heavier energy of someone around us.
And it's also not about overpowering and overshadowing somebody's energy.
But it's finding the right balance of being true to yourself,
shining the light within and not needing your light to
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be calibrated by anything external. And if there isn't a
good time to focus on your inner light and how
you express yourself and how you are embracing your sovereignty,
your unique self, this is the time so harness that
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light with the energy of the seven and the eight combination.
The seven is more introspective and reserved, and the eight
is more emboldened and extrovertedly dynamic because it pushes, it drives,
it wants to spread out, whereas the seven.
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Wants to go deep.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It to me gives us a great opportunity to balance
the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine,
the internal and the external. And the eight Energy is
also about creating balance and harmony and flow. So really
looking at your quiet time, your solitude, and finding a
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balance between quiet solitude, reflection and then the external expression, socialization,
and connectivity of yourself. So just think about balance this
month and what balance looks like for you today. And
I remember, you know how used to we would say
work life balance, and I don't ever say that anymore.
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I say life work balance, and I actually don't even
really say that anymore because I love what I do.
I genuinely love my work. And yes, there are some
days where it's like, oh, I got all this on
my plate, But more often than not, my work is
my life and my life is my work.
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It's one and the same.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And yes, I do work on boundaries and healthy boundaries,
and you know, looking at my schedule and the time
I'm spending, but in general, I am in this state
of enjoyment and gosh, I think about last year this
time and I was really grieving and recuperating. And it's
funny because I'm recording this on the twenty ninth of July,
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and today is my mom's birthday, and you know she
is deceased. I miss her but last year this time
on her birthday, I really really was sad, like I
felt heavy, I felt a sadness and I missed her
and I can viscerally remember her birthday last year and
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it just feeling strange that she wasn't here, and I
was feeling grief, you know the stuff that comes with grief.
There's like guilt and maybe I should have done this,
and I could have done this. I was feeling all
those things like why did what didn't I behave better?
Or why did I give her such a hard time?
You know, all that stuff was coming up, and yeah,
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I've dug deep and I've done the work, and I'm
in a different place today. And today on her birthday,
of course I knew it was her birthday and there's
muscle memory, but I felt nothing but joy. And I've
had some of the sweetest people reach out to me
to say, thinking about your sweet mom today, hoping you're well,
wishing her a happy birthday. I have a really dear
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friend who shares her birthday, these two Leo's, and of
course I reached out to her and she's like, oh,
you've been on my mind today it's her birthday. But
she's like you've been on my mind because I was
thinking about Lisa and missing Lisa and missing you. But
it was joyful, you know, it was lighter this year.
So as I was saying, reflect back to this time
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last year, reflect back to what you were walking through
this year, you know, during the month of August a
little bit use the mercury retrograde. Mercury retrograde is a
time of reflection, revising, editing some things. And because mercury
governs the mind, our thoughts, information gathering, and sharing, it
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is very helpful to really use the time as a
time of revision. It's a time of editing, and mercury
will be retrograde in virgo to start. And when mercury
is retrograde in virgo, which I love, by the way,
I love it when mercury is in virgo because it's
detail oriented, it's analytical, and it's super practical. And what
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feels good to me is and this is the question
I always ask myself, is this useful? Am I being useful?
Is my productivity the actions I'm taking, the things on
my plate today?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is it productive and useful?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
With mercury retrograde, it's a really good time to focus
on the details while it's in Virgo, So mercury will
be retrograde in Virgo until the fourteenth of August. So
think practically, what can you do around the house, What
can you do to clean up your desk? What needs
revising in your life, whether it's at work, it's at home.
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Think revision, revision, revision, redo, reorganize, put ree in front
of whatever you want to do, and then do something practically.
Do it logically, you know, make a list and scratch
stuff off the list, or put things in an order
and check them off in that order.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's that's the best.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Way to harness this energy. Once mercury backs up into Leo,
if it's a different energy, it's a different mercury retrograde.
So we get like a split personality for this mercury retrograde.
So with the sun in Leo and mercury retrograding in Leo,
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it is a beautiful time to say, gosh, what are
my heart's desires? What do I desire? What am I
passionate about? Even if it is totally over the top, outlandish,
outside your budget, outside the scope of your reality, just
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dream desire, get clear with that stuff, because there's something
spiritual of nature to it. And it's not about living
in desire and passion all the time. It's about getting
into your subconscious of wow, what really lights my fire
or what would be so amazing or exciting. And it's
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funny because sometimes when we get into desires and then
they manifest into reality, we're like, WHOA, this isn't all
it's cracked up to be. But this is not an
exercise in playing things out. It's more about getting in
tune with dreams that you have seated deep down and
feelings and emotions and how that can be expressed in
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your life creatively. So while mercury is retrograde in LEO,
it may feel more passionate or emotional, or you may
even feel more reserved detach emotionally because the numerology triggers
that a bit, but that astrology it kind of gives
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this reserved quality, so you might feel a little emotionally detached.
You might not be feeling super passionate. Take note of
that it's not right or wrong, positive or negative. It's saying, WHOA, like,
I can't tell you what I'm desiring and feeling and
ask for it to be revealed because something may be
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happening in your unconscious and reformulating or rewiring that. So
when Mercury does station direct, which happens on the twenty
eighth of August, which means hello, Mercury's retrograde all month.
So just pack your patients, miscommunications, glitches, do not sweat
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the small stuff. Know that it will shake out and
more will be revealed and feel clearer and more directed
in August. The numerology will help push that through. Just
know that you're going through a cosmic upgrade and you
you really may feel that there's a new moon on
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August fourth, and that's in Leo, so the sun and
the moon are joined in Leo. And I tell you what,
if there's a good time to burn something, this is
the new moon to burn it because it's a it's fiery,
and it's also fire. Burning things has this beautiful quality
of disintegrating something. But it also the smoke that is
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created from burning something is like an offering to the gods.
And I will never forget my friend Yael, we were
doing a retreat together in Belize and we were doing
like a fire ceremony and she was telling me, how,
you know, while we were doing this fire ceremony, that
the smoke that goes up to the gods, the indigenous people.
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We were talking about the Mayans because we were in Belize.
It was like offerings to the gods, offerings to the universe.
So it stuck with me and it rang true of
whenever I am burning a candle or burning sage and
the smoke is burning, it's not just a clearing of energy.
It's an honoring and an offering. There's something mystical about it.
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And this new moon is about setting some intentions around
your passion, around your creative self expression and how you
shine your light out in the world. And I would
take it a step further to say, how can I
shine my light out in the world and inspire others
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and then feel that inspiration so it feels symbiotic. It's
like inspiration, creativity, passion runs to and through me. So
really think about where you feel creepy, creative, you feel fun, enjoyable, joyful, generous,
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and how you can express that to people in your
life or out in the world, and do something on
the fourth to be generous because that way you're tracking
with the energy. But I would definitely either light a candle,
burn some sage. I have some eucalyptus and some roses,
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some roses I had dried. They're sitting outside, they've been drying.
And on that new moon, I'm going to have a
little fire ceremony and burn that stuff and write out
of my intentions. And I might burn my intentions and
make it an offering. Do something magical, do something that
signifies that you are taking action, but also align it
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with some external action where you can be generous.
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On the fourth and harness that energy.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
We have a full moon on August nineteenth, and it's
a full moon in aq which is the opposite of Leo,
and this is an intens full moon. Mercury will be
full on in its retrograde. It'll be in Leo retrograde.
And I have a feeling it's going to be jarring
and wonky and bring a lot of old gunk and
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fear up to the surface. Maybe on the collective stage,
it feels very disjointed, It feels a little bit uneasy,
and what is being triggered during this full moon when
the moon is full in Aquarius. Aquarius is about humanity
and the collective. It is about the collective consciousness. It's
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about the future. It's about a revolutionary future and its polarity.
Leo is about there's this element of the I am
and living from the heart and living from love. So
it is a beautiful moon to embrace your love and
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your love light and how you express and experience and
give and receive love. But what it will evoke is
the opposite of that is fear. So anywhere that fear
is showing up for you, whether it is on the
home front, work, money, health, relationships, romance, like, wherever it is,
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wherever you are uncomfortable, fearful and afraid, can you take
your personal power and can you set some intentions around
clearing and healing and whatever is happening on the world
stage and in world events that is triggering and disjointed,
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not taking that energy on and using your voice, your light,
your empowerment, and your sovereignty to really control the narrative
in your life, to be the leader of your own life.
The sun will move into Virgo on the twenty second,
and once the sun moves into Virgo, there we go
right into our practical energy of get it done. I
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was about to say get shit done, so I just
went ahead and said it. But it's like that's the energy.
Like to me, when the sun moves into Virgo, I'm like,
let me reorganize things, let me get stuff done, and
let me get it off my plate.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And it feels good.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
But it's also a time to focus on health because
Virgo does rule day to day routines, but it also
rules our health and wellness. When the sun moves into
Virgo and then we will have at Virgo new moon
in early September, it's always a good time to focus
on your health and wellness routines. And it doesn't mean
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you have to just start something new, but thinking about
one thing you can add to your day or one
thing you might take away that's going to contribute to
your wellness.
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This is the best.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Time for that now. As I said earlier, I was
going to give you a couple more journal prompts, and
this really relates to mercury retrograde, the Lion's Gate, and
the numerology, the energy of the seven and the eight,
which is in helping to balance the material and the
spiritual world, which is a big cornerstone of the eight
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energy and the seven really gives us the empowerment to
think about this and bring it to our conscious awareness.
So the journal prompt is, in what ways do I
balance my material ambitions with my spiritual needs? Are there
areas where I feel out of balance? How can I
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use my achievements and success to further my spiritual growth.
I'm going to give you another set of journal prompts,
and I hope you can reflect on and come back
to these this month. I wanted to give you some
journal prompts, some reflections, because I find this such a
reflective month. And when I am reflective and I get
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and I think back and I start to put puzzle
pieces together, which is definitely the energy of the seven,
It's like I begin to move forward more discerningly and
with more empowerment. So here's another couple of journal prompts.
Describe a time when your intuition guided you to make
a significant decision. What was the outcome? And this specifically
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relates to virgo energy. When the sun moves into Virgo.
What practices can I incorporate into my daily routine to
enhance my intuitive abilities? You could also put to enhance
my wellness at the end of that. But the reason
I'm bringing in intuitive abilities is I find the energy
to be really synchronistic in psychic right now, like the
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downloads that are coming through and the psychic connections and
the cosmic dots are blowing my mind. And I have
to share this with everybody. I did the podcast last
week and we were talking about numerology and seeing number codes,
and I was talking about seeing like eleven eleven on
the clock in my car and then looking down and
seeing like, you know, three ones on the odometer. I
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got so many people that reached out to me that
were like, oh my gosh, I did that, and these
are the numbers that I saw, and they correlated and
they tracked and it was really funny. One of our listeners, Sarah,
who came on the podcast and we talked about how
much she loved numerology. She's the one that printed out
the Numerology guidebook. She said, Amanda, I was listening to
the podcast and literally, as you said that, I decide.
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I was driving and I looked at the clock face
on the car, and then I looked down at the
odometer and they matched. And so she said, immediately when
she heard it, she did it. And then another friend
of mine reached out and said, I.
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Did the same thing and it was.
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I heard that, and then I looked down and the
numbers were correlating. And listen, y'all, like, where I get
high with that is not what are the numbers mean?
I get high by Oh my gosh, We're.
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All paying attention.
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We're all seeing little bits of magic and higher frequency
in our day. And does it have to have deep
spiritual meaning. No, But what it has is a really
high frequency and it's just fun.
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It connects us.
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It brings joy to anything in the day that lights
my fire that people are doing that, and then they
reach out to me, and then I just get this
boost of excitement and to me that also brings forth
This Leo energy I'm talking about is like spread the
freaking love, you know, connect with the people you love,
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share stuff with the people you love, little happy bits
in your day or sad bits in your day. Just
connect and reach out and shine your light. Let's make
August poignant, loving, expansive, and let's do this retrograde to
the best of our ability so we can upgrade and
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up level our consciousness and see a brighter, more loving
light film future because we deserve it and we are
here for it. Be well, everybody, thank you, so much
for listening to Soul Sessions. If you've got questions, do
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Speaker 2 (30:33):
With other people.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
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Thanks for listening.
Hi, everyone, It's Amanda Riga Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions,
and welcome to August. We are about to enter this
incredibly accelerated energy astrologically and numerologically. And I know I've
been talking about the energy accelerating all year. Now it
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feels like the pace and the speed of energy and
our consciousness is starting to get on the same frequency,
like things are happening, and if they don't feel like
they're happening immediately or fast enough, there's something accelerated that
almost feels like WHOA, I've entered a new plateau. I'm
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not sure how to navigate this, and it feels a
little bit foreign and unknown, but I know, oh, something
deeper and if you're sensing that or feeling that, that's
what I'm talking about. And it is kind of bizarre
and it can be jarring, but it's almost like being
in this quantum frequency where you show up for your day,
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you're going through the motions, but there's a piece or
a trust or a depth that goes with the surface
level stuff. And I don't mean that we just coast
in and live in this all the time, because I
can swing high to low, but when you have those
moments where you're like, oh, everything is good, or it's
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coming together, or I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
Just take a moment and really acknowledge that for yourself
and smile. I'm always like and smile because that endorphin
that's released, it's kind of like it it sets the mold,
you know, it sets it into place neurologically or energetically
or physiologically. I always love to mimic something with my
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body that way, it's like I'm giving this signal to
my brain and my biology to click into place. I'm
going to talk about the energies of August, but I
want to start out with some journal prompts for you
because the numerology in the month of August and the
astrology it really paves the way for some deep reflection
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and looking back and really going a little bit deeper
in order to go further. So a journal prompt I
want to give you to start is what aspects of
my inner self need more attention and recognition this month?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How will I create.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Time for these aspects of myself? Another journal prompt is
it's really a reflection, reflect on a recent experience that
brought you closer to your spiritual self? What did you
learn from it?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
All?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right, I've got a couple more journal prompts, but I
think I'm going to give them to you at the
end because it'll all track with some of the things
that we're talking about this month. As we enter August,
a few things are going on. One we are in
something that is called the lions Gate Portal and this
runs every year from July twenty sixth to August twelfth,
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the lions Gate Portal. And I'm going to do a
whole podcast on this next week.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You can listen.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
There'll be a blog post as well, but the lions
Gate Portal.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The actual day.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Of the lions Gate is eight eight August eighth. And
guess what you'll know, we're in an eight numerological year,
so this year it's eight eight, so it's a really
powerful astro numero code. But what happens during the lions
Gate period the Earth sun, Sirius and Orian, the constellation
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Orion come into alignment. And the ancient Egyptians recognize this.
It's very connected to planetary bodies, the Earth's gravitational pull,
but it's essentially a spiritual gateway that triggers, deeper consciousness,
higher consciousness, abundance, manifestation. So I want you to pay
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attention to this, do a little bit of research for
yourself on it. And like I said, I will be
doing a podcast on this. But the eight eight numerology
date and lions Gate that happens this year, it's a
big power play energy for setting intentions, manifestation, paying attention
to your intuition, maybe doing a little meditation. And I'll
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talk more about that later. But we are in the
lions Gate and as we shift from July to August,
we move from a six universal month in numerology in
July to a seven month in August. And here's the kicker.
And I just got the audio companion for the Numerology
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Guidebook for the second half of the year recorded, so
it's August through January, and y'all it's good. I was
so into this. I think it's probably two and a
half three hours worth of material because I was taken
the Numerology Guidebook and then I was going deeper with
all of the energy and all of the things that
I have learned and the nuances and the frequencies of
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the eight and I've been doing numerology a long time.
It's my jam, but I'm always learning and fine tuning.
And what I shared in the guidebook and I the
audio Companion and go deeper into is August, September, October, November.
They are so poignant and rich for growth and transformation
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and working with the number codes. If you're new to numerology,
if you're already like ye, yes, numerology is my jam,
You're gonna love this. These months are important, they're out comizing.
I am hyped up and excited for the next few months.
And guess what we freaking have mercury retrograde happening at
the beginning of August, and I'm like, bring it on, Universe,
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rewire me, upgrade me, give me the downloads, give me
the glitches so I can work them out, tweak them
and go higher. And I mean, I truly feel exuberant
about it. I usually am. I'm like, bring on mercury retrograde.
And that last mercury retrograde we had a few months
ago was a pain in the ass. Like I've got
no other language for it. It was glitchy and weird,
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and look, we got a lot of glitches and weird
stuff going on, but I'm like, show me the glitches,
you know, crack my codes, Universe, bring it on. I
feel enthusiastic because that's how the energy is starting to
amp me up and feel and again, hey, I have
my moments and my mood swings, but in general, I'm
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feeling this excitement and peace simultaneously, and it's creating this
really innate sense of higher consciousness and being and living.
And I'm seeing it in other people too, and that
accelerates and excites me. So August is a seven month
in an eight universal year. This is significant for a
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couple of reasons, numerologically and astrologically. Numerologically, if you reflect
back to twenty twenty three, we were in a seven
year in numerology, and we are in a seven month
in an eight year in August. This is an excellent
time to go back and reflect on what you were
learning last year, where you were last year at this time,
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and where you are now, what you've learned through the
course of this year, how you've grown, how you've shifted
and changed. The seven is also a very reflective energy
in it and of itself. Plus mercury will retrograde on
the fifth. It retrogrades at like one am Eastern Time
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on the fifth, so it essentially if you're on the
Pacific coast of the United States, it retrogrades you know,
later in the evening on the fourth. So on the
fourth and the fifth, mercury is stationing retrograde in Virgo,
which is very practical. It's about analysis, precision, laser focus.
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So while mercury is retrograding in Virgo and it will
back up into Leo on the fourteenth of August. And
I'm going to delineate some of this for you all.
But the combination of mercury retrograde and the seven in
numerology says, get very focused internally on where you've grown,
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what you're learning, where you've evolved, so you can pinpoint
where you're going. And the numerology reflects that the eight
universal year the energy of abundance and expansion really tapping
into your unlimited potential. And that may sound like pie
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in the sky, but to me, it's expanding your heart
and expanding your light, shining your light, and for goodness sakes,
the sun is in Leo. If there's ever a time
not only to shine your light, but ignite the light
in others.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's now.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And that's the thing I love about Leo energy. It
is about being bold and it's about courage, but it's
about the development of personality, creative self expression. When the
Leo energy shines. When Leo's are in their light and
their element, they inspire light in others. And while Leo
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is ruled by the Sun. And if you think about
the Sun, I always laugh about this because I'm like, yes,
Leo is about the development of ego because the Sun
is at the center of the solar system and it's like,
look at me, look at me, you know, like I
want to be seen, all eyes on me, which really
denotes the ego.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But Leo is ruled.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
By the heart, the heart chakra and the connection between
the solar plexus chakra and the heart chakra. When those
two chakras energetically are aligned, opened and balanced, it radiates
higher consciousness because it comes from pure source energy, pure light.
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And think about this when you are expressing yourself and
your talents, when you feel at home in your own skin, comfortable,
and you are able to fully be yourself. Usually if
you are with other people and in community inn with
other people, your energy is magnetic or infectious or contagious.
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And if you remember a while back, and if you
remember a while back, I was talking about dark energy,
heavy energy in people and being able to see that,
and then also recognizing how just because you see that,
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it doesn't mean we dim our light or lower our
frequency to match the heavier energy of someone around us.
And it's also not about overpowering and overshadowing somebody's energy.
But it's finding the right balance of being true to yourself,
shining the light within and not needing your light to
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be calibrated by anything external. And if there isn't a
good time to focus on your inner light and how
you express yourself and how you are embracing your sovereignty,
your unique self, this is the time so harness that
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light with the energy of the seven and the eight combination.
The seven is more introspective and reserved, and the eight
is more emboldened and extrovertedly dynamic because it pushes, it drives,
it wants to spread out, whereas the seven.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Wants to go deep.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It to me gives us a great opportunity to balance
the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine,
the internal and the external. And the eight Energy is
also about creating balance and harmony and flow. So really
looking at your quiet time, your solitude, and finding a
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balance between quiet solitude, reflection and then the external expression, socialization,
and connectivity of yourself. So just think about balance this
month and what balance looks like for you today. And
I remember, you know how used to we would say
work life balance, and I don't ever say that anymore.
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I say life work balance, and I actually don't even
really say that anymore because I love what I do.
I genuinely love my work. And yes, there are some
days where it's like, oh, I got all this on
my plate, But more often than not, my work is
my life and my life is my work.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It's one and the same.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And yes, I do work on boundaries and healthy boundaries,
and you know, looking at my schedule and the time
I'm spending, but in general, I am in this state
of enjoyment and gosh, I think about last year this
time and I was really grieving and recuperating. And it's
funny because I'm recording this on the twenty ninth of July,
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and today is my mom's birthday, and you know she
is deceased. I miss her but last year this time
on her birthday, I really really was sad, like I
felt heavy, I felt a sadness and I missed her
and I can viscerally remember her birthday last year and
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it just feeling strange that she wasn't here, and I
was feeling grief, you know the stuff that comes with grief.
There's like guilt and maybe I should have done this,
and I could have done this. I was feeling all
those things like why did what didn't I behave better?
Or why did I give her such a hard time?
You know, all that stuff was coming up, and yeah,
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I've dug deep and I've done the work, and I'm
in a different place today. And today on her birthday,
of course I knew it was her birthday and there's
muscle memory, but I felt nothing but joy. And I've
had some of the sweetest people reach out to me
to say, thinking about your sweet mom today, hoping you're well,
wishing her a happy birthday. I have a really dear
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friend who shares her birthday, these two Leo's, and of
course I reached out to her and she's like, oh,
you've been on my mind today it's her birthday. But
she's like you've been on my mind because I was
thinking about Lisa and missing Lisa and missing you. But
it was joyful, you know, it was lighter this year.
So as I was saying, reflect back to this time
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last year, reflect back to what you were walking through
this year, you know, during the month of August a
little bit use the mercury retrograde. Mercury retrograde is a
time of reflection, revising, editing some things. And because mercury
governs the mind, our thoughts, information gathering, and sharing, it
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is very helpful to really use the time as a
time of revision. It's a time of editing, and mercury
will be retrograde in virgo to start. And when mercury
is retrograde in virgo, which I love, by the way,
I love it when mercury is in virgo because it's
detail oriented, it's analytical, and it's super practical. And what
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feels good to me is and this is the question
I always ask myself, is this useful? Am I being useful?
Is my productivity the actions I'm taking, the things on
my plate today?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is it productive and useful?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
With mercury retrograde, it's a really good time to focus
on the details while it's in Virgo, So mercury will
be retrograde in Virgo until the fourteenth of August. So
think practically, what can you do around the house, What
can you do to clean up your desk? What needs
revising in your life, whether it's at work, it's at home.
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Think revision, revision, revision, redo, reorganize, put ree in front
of whatever you want to do, and then do something practically.
Do it logically, you know, make a list and scratch
stuff off the list, or put things in an order
and check them off in that order.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
That's that's the best.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Way to harness this energy. Once mercury backs up into Leo,
if it's a different energy, it's a different mercury retrograde.
So we get like a split personality for this mercury retrograde.
So with the sun in Leo and mercury retrograding in Leo,
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it is a beautiful time to say, gosh, what are
my heart's desires? What do I desire? What am I
passionate about? Even if it is totally over the top, outlandish,
outside your budget, outside the scope of your reality, just
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dream desire, get clear with that stuff, because there's something
spiritual of nature to it. And it's not about living
in desire and passion all the time. It's about getting
into your subconscious of wow, what really lights my fire
or what would be so amazing or exciting. And it's
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funny because sometimes when we get into desires and then
they manifest into reality, we're like, WHOA, this isn't all
it's cracked up to be. But this is not an
exercise in playing things out. It's more about getting in
tune with dreams that you have seated deep down and
feelings and emotions and how that can be expressed in
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your life creatively. So while mercury is retrograde in LEO,
it may feel more passionate or emotional, or you may
even feel more reserved detach emotionally because the numerology triggers
that a bit, but that astrology it kind of gives
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this reserved quality, so you might feel a little emotionally detached.
You might not be feeling super passionate. Take note of
that it's not right or wrong, positive or negative. It's saying, WHOA, like,
I can't tell you what I'm desiring and feeling and
ask for it to be revealed because something may be
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happening in your unconscious and reformulating or rewiring that. So
when Mercury does station direct, which happens on the twenty
eighth of August, which means hello, Mercury's retrograde all month.
So just pack your patients, miscommunications, glitches, do not sweat
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the small stuff. Know that it will shake out and
more will be revealed and feel clearer and more directed
in August. The numerology will help push that through. Just
know that you're going through a cosmic upgrade and you
you really may feel that there's a new moon on
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August fourth, and that's in Leo, so the sun and
the moon are joined in Leo. And I tell you what,
if there's a good time to burn something, this is
the new moon to burn it because it's a it's fiery,
and it's also fire. Burning things has this beautiful quality
of disintegrating something. But it also the smoke that is
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created from burning something is like an offering to the gods.
And I will never forget my friend Yael, we were
doing a retreat together in Belize and we were doing
like a fire ceremony and she was telling me, how,
you know, while we were doing this fire ceremony, that
the smoke that goes up to the gods, the indigenous people.
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We were talking about the Mayans because we were in Belize.
It was like offerings to the gods, offerings to the universe.
So it stuck with me and it rang true of
whenever I am burning a candle or burning sage and
the smoke is burning, it's not just a clearing of energy.
It's an honoring and an offering. There's something mystical about it.
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And this new moon is about setting some intentions around
your passion, around your creative self expression and how you
shine your light out in the world. And I would
take it a step further to say, how can I
shine my light out in the world and inspire others
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and then feel that inspiration so it feels symbiotic. It's
like inspiration, creativity, passion runs to and through me. So
really think about where you feel creepy, creative, you feel fun, enjoyable, joyful, generous,
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and how you can express that to people in your
life or out in the world, and do something on
the fourth to be generous because that way you're tracking
with the energy. But I would definitely either light a candle,
burn some sage. I have some eucalyptus and some roses,
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some roses I had dried. They're sitting outside, they've been drying.
And on that new moon, I'm going to have a
little fire ceremony and burn that stuff and write out
of my intentions. And I might burn my intentions and
make it an offering. Do something magical, do something that
signifies that you are taking action, but also align it
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with some external action where you can be generous.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
On the fourth and harness that energy.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
We have a full moon on August nineteenth, and it's
a full moon in aq which is the opposite of Leo,
and this is an intens full moon. Mercury will be
full on in its retrograde. It'll be in Leo retrograde.
And I have a feeling it's going to be jarring
and wonky and bring a lot of old gunk and
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fear up to the surface. Maybe on the collective stage,
it feels very disjointed, It feels a little bit uneasy,
and what is being triggered during this full moon when
the moon is full in Aquarius. Aquarius is about humanity
and the collective. It is about the collective consciousness. It's
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about the future. It's about a revolutionary future and its polarity.
Leo is about there's this element of the I am
and living from the heart and living from love. So
it is a beautiful moon to embrace your love and
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your love light and how you express and experience and
give and receive love. But what it will evoke is
the opposite of that is fear. So anywhere that fear
is showing up for you, whether it is on the
home front, work, money, health, relationships, romance, like, wherever it is,
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wherever you are uncomfortable, fearful and afraid, can you take
your personal power and can you set some intentions around
clearing and healing and whatever is happening on the world
stage and in world events that is triggering and disjointed,
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not taking that energy on and using your voice, your light,
your empowerment, and your sovereignty to really control the narrative
in your life, to be the leader of your own life.
The sun will move into Virgo on the twenty second,
and once the sun moves into Virgo, there we go
right into our practical energy of get it done. I
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was about to say get shit done, so I just
went ahead and said it. But it's like that's the energy.
Like to me, when the sun moves into Virgo, I'm like,
let me reorganize things, let me get stuff done, and
let me get it off my plate.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And it feels good.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
But it's also a time to focus on health because
Virgo does rule day to day routines, but it also
rules our health and wellness. When the sun moves into
Virgo and then we will have at Virgo new moon
in early September, it's always a good time to focus
on your health and wellness routines. And it doesn't mean
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you have to just start something new, but thinking about
one thing you can add to your day or one
thing you might take away that's going to contribute to
your wellness.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
This is the best.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Time for that now. As I said earlier, I was
going to give you a couple more journal prompts, and
this really relates to mercury retrograde, the Lion's Gate, and
the numerology, the energy of the seven and the eight,
which is in helping to balance the material and the
spiritual world, which is a big cornerstone of the eight
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energy and the seven really gives us the empowerment to
think about this and bring it to our conscious awareness.
So the journal prompt is, in what ways do I
balance my material ambitions with my spiritual needs? Are there
areas where I feel out of balance? How can I
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use my achievements and success to further my spiritual growth.
I'm going to give you another set of journal prompts,
and I hope you can reflect on and come back
to these this month. I wanted to give you some
journal prompts, some reflections, because I find this such a
reflective month. And when I am reflective and I get
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and I think back and I start to put puzzle
pieces together, which is definitely the energy of the seven,
It's like I begin to move forward more discerningly and
with more empowerment. So here's another couple of journal prompts.
Describe a time when your intuition guided you to make
a significant decision. What was the outcome? And this specifically
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relates to virgo energy. When the sun moves into Virgo.
What practices can I incorporate into my daily routine to
enhance my intuitive abilities? You could also put to enhance
my wellness at the end of that. But the reason
I'm bringing in intuitive abilities is I find the energy
to be really synchronistic in psychic right now, like the
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downloads that are coming through and the psychic connections and
the cosmic dots are blowing my mind. And I have
to share this with everybody. I did the podcast last
week and we were talking about numerology and seeing number codes,
and I was talking about seeing like eleven eleven on
the clock in my car and then looking down and
seeing like, you know, three ones on the odometer. I
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got so many people that reached out to me that
were like, oh my gosh, I did that, and these
are the numbers that I saw, and they correlated and
they tracked and it was really funny. One of our listeners, Sarah,
who came on the podcast and we talked about how
much she loved numerology. She's the one that printed out
the Numerology guidebook. She said, Amanda, I was listening to
the podcast and literally, as you said that, I decide.
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I was driving and I looked at the clock face
on the car, and then I looked down at the
odometer and they matched. And so she said, immediately when
she heard it, she did it. And then another friend
of mine reached out and said, I.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Did the same thing and it was.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I heard that, and then I looked down and the
numbers were correlating. And listen, y'all, like, where I get
high with that is not what are the numbers mean?
I get high by Oh my gosh, We're.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
All paying attention.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
We're all seeing little bits of magic and higher frequency
in our day. And does it have to have deep
spiritual meaning. No, But what it has is a really
high frequency and it's just fun.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It connects us.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It brings joy to anything in the day that lights
my fire that people are doing that, and then they
reach out to me, and then I just get this
boost of excitement and to me that also brings forth
This Leo energy I'm talking about is like spread the
freaking love, you know, connect with the people you love,
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share stuff with the people you love, little happy bits
in your day or sad bits in your day. Just
connect and reach out and shine your light. Let's make
August poignant, loving, expansive, and let's do this retrograde to
the best of our ability so we can upgrade and
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up level our consciousness and see a brighter, more loving
light film future because we deserve it and we are
here for it. Be well, everybody, thank you, so much
for listening to Soul Sessions. If you've got questions, do
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not hesitate to reach out. Email us podcast at soulsessions
dot me. If you love this podcast and you want
to hear more, make sure you're following it, liking and
subscribing and sharing it with other people. Send this energy out,
share it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
With other people.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Remember, you can always get your dose of Soul Sessions.
New episodes drop on Wednesdays. You can also follow me
on Instagram, TikTok it's at soul pathology or check out
soulpathology dot com. I appreciate you and your life.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Thanks for listening.
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