August 22, 2025 • 31 mins
It’s the first day of virgo season and we’re going to talk about how to leverage the energy of PURIFICATION to learn how to increase your income and NOT get stuck in the ‘back to school’ busywork that can be oh so easy to fall into this season (new stationary obsessions, anyone!?)
I just recorded an epic podcast on money healing and what to ACTUALLY focus on to not overwork yourself or get stuck in ‘healing cycles’ like the kid who can’t stop picking their scab.
Get ready for some real talk on why I DON’T believe in money blocks and what to focus on to increase your income instead, without the fear of neglecting your subconscious blocks.
Virgo is a complex conversation for me, as a Virgo rising. I’ve been through it with Virgo lessons that have been far from fun. But my Virgo strengths have become the things that serve my clients in the most powerful ways - consistency, grounded action, material results.
Some of the biggest challenges we face as multi passionate creatives, are:
The sneaky self-doubt that leads to procrastination
The scatter-brained busywork that keeps us from big momentum and big results
The low self-worth that keeps us in under-earning
The negative self-talk around what we deeply desire that keeps us from what’s possible….
Virgo season is the time to do this work, clean up that ish, and get hyper focused on powerful daily moves that bring the material results we desire with more speed and ease.
I’m going to be diving into this conversation deeply this season, so stay tuned here on IG and on the Creative Magic Club podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
What's up, this is Sarah Mack, and welcome to
Creative Magic Club.
Together, we'll discoverinspirational stories of
creative entrepreneurs livingout their dreams, doing the work
they are most passionate aboutand building wealth in magical
and fun ways, while building asix-figure income.
As a writer and coach, helpingother women to launch their
dream businesses, I've connectedwith so many incredible people
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and seen it proven again andagain that you can thrive
financially doing whatever it isyou are passionate about.
I am here to sharelife-changing strategies for
mindset, making money andreaching more people with your
work in a business and lifefilled with creativity are
passionate about.
I'm here to share life-changingstrategies for mindset, making
money and reaching more peoplewith your work in a business and
life filled with creativity,freedom and fun.
Hi, sarah Mack here and welcomeback to the Creative Magic Club
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podcast, here to help youbecome a six-figure creative by
filling your high-ticket offerthrough authentic storytelling
and astrology-guided contentstrategy.
Fogo season is here and I havedecided to talk to you today
about how to increase yourincome with money, healing and
purification, with the threethings that have made, honestly,
the most difference for me inbeing able to hit my income
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goals over and over and overagain and I am speaking from a
place of deep, deep knowledgearound Virgo energy as a Virgo
rising and it's not always aneasy one.
I think of this time of yearand this energy as kind of back
to school vibes and I feel likeyou know that exciting feeling
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of buying new stationery.
I don't know whether youresonate with this, but I feel
like we can get distracted inthis energy.
It's and I see this all thetime in myself and in my clients
when we get really enthusiasticabout a new chapter, about
hitting our goals, about goingall in, coming back from the
summer with that, you know, somuch energy to go after what it
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is that we want and we're goingall in and we're highly
motivated after having a break,hopefully is how a lot of us are
feeling, and what tends tohappen is that perfectionism
kicks in.
All of that programming aroundOK, so we need to go bigger,
which means we need to workharder, which means we need to
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be more perfect.
All of those old patterns tendto rear their ugly heads and
just stuff our plates withunnecessary busy work that
actually distracts us from doingthe things, making the moves
that actually produce theresults that we want.
So that's the conversation thatI want to have today and Virgo
energy is really.
It's a purifying energy whichcan be really freaking messy and
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uncomfortable and there's a lotof really intense shadow sides
to this energy that, especiallyas creatives, especially as
women, we tend to get pulledinto because of our cultural
programming around needing to beperfect, because of our
unconscious patterns that wecarry with us around not being
good enough, around not beingworthy of being able to have
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really abundant and fulfillingand wealthy lives, being who we
are, doing the things that welove and having so much freaking
fun.
So hopefully you've had a lotof fun in Leo season.
I know I have.
It's my absolute favoriteseason.
Obviously, I'm a Leo son and Ihave a lot of fun in Leo season,
so hopefully you can ride thatwave and bring the connection
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that having fun gives us toreally come into Virgo season to
optimize and to refine, andreally these are the two words
that I like most to describe thehighest expression of Virgo and
the way that I really findhelpful to think about it is
elevation.
We're raising our standardsright Like.
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That's why we purify, that'swhy we sift through what isn't
working, we clean out the crap.
We get clear on what we wantand we do that so that at the
end of that process it's better,it's more refined, it's more
elevated, it's more in alignmentwith what we want and who we're
evolving into.
So my relationship with Virgohas been very challenging and
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strained, like I love Leo, leovibes, leo energy that's my sun
sign, my rising sign.
I've been a bit like that's notas fun as Leo season, mainly
because you know my relationshipwith my rising sign really
kicked in at hyper speed when Istepped into entrepreneurship,
amidst my giant burnout and fiveyears of chronic fatigue which
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really pushed me to purify, torefine, and I studied physical
purification at its deepestlevels, really looking for
answers Like why wasn't my bodyworking?
Why was I having theseheadaches?
Why did I just have a massivelyreduced capacity to do the
things that I loved in my lifeand then, as I, you know, learn
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everything I could around how topurify and care for my body.
That conversation then extendedto my mental health, to my
emotional health and to myspiritual health, and each of
these layers kind of revealedthemselves to me one after the
other, after I got answers.
But I knew it had only taken meso far and that there was more.
And this really culminated inan ayahuasca trip where I was
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crying for what was probably asolid 12 hours, releasing what
felt like the entire pain of theworld from my soul.
So, as you can see, this is notfun stuff that we are talking
about.
I did a ton of diets andcleanses and it's that
willingness to get into the mess, to put on our rubber gloves,
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to clean things up so that onthe other side it feels so much
better, things are runningsmoothly and, yeah, like other
shadow sides of Virgo that I'veexperienced have been that
controllingness that is that aword, being kind of preachy, you
know, and wanting to controlothers so that they can be the
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best, that they can be, holdingreally high standards for other
people in my life, which, yeah,the shadow side of that has been
in me telling people what to do, what to eat, how to live, from
a place of genuinely wantingthe best for them.
But that doesn't always go downsuper well and obviously, like
that is a conversation I'mhaving with myself.
So you know that experience ofreally having lost my health for
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such an extended period of timereally taught me the value of
preserving and prioritizinghealth, because really, without
it, we have nothing.
I feel like this is my greatestVirgo rising lesson to date now
, because I got so many skillsand knowledge and in-depth
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understanding about myself andhow to care for myself that has
brought me so much more freedomand joy and feel good in all of
the years preceding that.
And it was this situation, thislesson, where I really learned
the power of mindset to createany even seemingly impossible
result, right when I wasn'tgetting any answers, when I was
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being told that I was fine onpaper by doctors, but I didn't
feel fine.
You know, I did it.
I transformed my health and myreality by setting my mind to it
and I made it happen.
And this is a really, reallykey mindset that carried me
through into entrepreneurship,which was deciding that
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everything is working, and Ireally did have that mindset.
You know I would hire a healerand be like this is going to be
the thing that gets me better,and I just kept going and I kept
going and I kept going and Idid so many like crazy things.
I was traveling the world, Isaw every different kind of
healer under the sun, and I donot believe all of these things
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were quite necessary.
But whatever, I had anadventure doing it, you know,
and that was, that's just alwaysgoing to be the way that I'm
going to get to my goals ishaving an adventure doing it.
And then I turned what I hadlearned from that experience of,
if I just set my sights on mygoal, if I do everything within
my power, if I decide everysingle thing, every single step,
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every investment, everyconversation, every piece of
support that I cultivate formyself in bringing my goals to
reality, if I turned thisapproach to money, anything is
possible.
And that's what grew mybusiness to six figures within
13 months.
That approach, that attitudethat I continued after
recovering my health andactually I was still recovering
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my health during that period andI completely recovered it, you
know, within a couple yearsafter my first six figure year.
And it's just so empowering togo from rock bottom to achieving
what you set your mind to.
And I did it one step at a time, you know, and that's really
what gave, has given me thecourage and the confidence to
set bigger and bigger goals formyself, because I've proven the
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approach.
I've proven that even seeminglyimpossible, huge
transformations and goals canbecome possible for somebody
like me when I take thisapproach.
So more recently, I've beengoing through a shift in my
relationship with money, andthis has really been a new
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chapter that I'm navigating,which is since my partner
finally graduated from his10,000 years of training, he
finally became a doctor andwe've been in more overflow of
money than ever before in ourlives.
So I've been navigating theshift from the drive to survive,
which was really driving methrough those two really major
transitions from rock bottom, tomeeting my objectives and my
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goals, both for my health andfor my money and my income and
my business, and so now I'mshifting into the drive of
desire.
Right, it's no longer a fear ofI'm not going to survive unless
this works.
That is driving my action anddriving my commitment and my
devotion towards my goals and myvision.
So it's been a recalibrationprocess because for the first
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time in my life, I don't feelthe pressure or the fear of not
being able to pay my basic billsif I don't hit my goals in my
business and as somebody who,you know, even when I was having
six figure years for a longtime, I was spending all of it
because I didn't have any moneymanagement skills and that was
just a whole new world for me.
You know, I thought I was likerich forever.
I thought when I had my first20k month I would never need to
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use a credit card again in mywhole life Like it's.
Every phase has been arecalibration, and so in this
new phase, I've beenrenegotiating my relationship
with money and how I make it inmy business, and I've noticed
some of that Virgo shadowcreeping in.
So let's talk about it and ifyou want a custom ritual for
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your own Virgo placement,message me the word Virgo on
Instagram to my Sarah McMagicaccount and I will send it to
you.
So, firstly, how this shiftplayed out for me was as I
started to think bigger beyondhow much money am I going to
make this month?
I've noticed that I've shiftedaway from more short term
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thinking and into longer termplanning, and this is kind of
new for me in the last few yearsand, as we know, planning is
and can be a shadow side ofVirgo when it's not done well
and in balance.
And this was a real issue for mein the beginning of my creative
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career, actually when I wasdoing my master's, and even
before that, to be honest withyou in the early phase of my
life I had so many ideas, somany creative ideas, and I would
plan and plan and plan and planand I would love to plan things
but I never actually followedthrough and executed and I
really eroded my self-trust andobviously it was all of the
mindset that I had to work on.
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You know, I really had nochoice but to work on that as I
stepped into entrepreneurshipand my income and my survival
literally depended on me beingable to follow through.
And I did, did learn.
You know, I started to makethose shifts in my masters when
it was just the sheer workloadkind of forced me to outgrow and
out like develop some of thoseresistance patterns of
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procrastination, of reallyleaving things to the last
minute, of needing that outsidepressure to really hold myself
accountable to following throughon my work and my ideas.
And obviously, since being inbusiness for many years now,
I've built habits and I've builtsystems that maintain my
business without me having tothink too much or having to
access a whole load ofmotivation, because these are
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just well established ways ofbeing, habits, practices that
have been in play for years now,and this has led to me
obviously being more capable oftaking on bigger projects like
publishing my book, you know,going through IVF, launching my
Cosmic Copy Mastermind,launching a new digital course,
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growing my podcast, and theseare some of my main projects at
the moment.
I'm also bringing back in musicprojects and I also really want
to record my audio book at somepoint soon.
So what this has meant inbringing in these bigger
projects that require morein-depth work is I've been
working a little bit moreseasonally, which is different
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to how I built my business on myvery Virgo strengths of
consistent daily habits, andthis is really like my strength
and the main reason why peoplehire me is because I help others
to build consistency and buildhabits that make them money, and
this is what you know led me tomake money.
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Obviously, as a creative personwho has struggled with that, I
get it, and that's why highlycreative people come to me when
they want to realize theirvisions, when they want to
ground their revolutionarycreative ideas into material
reality and bring them intofruition.
Not only that, but to birthbusinesses that support them
consistently.
And that requires creatingthose building blocks, those
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behavioral building blocks, andonce we get going with those
things, once we've had thesupport.
Obviously it can be much easierto then sustain them because
that's who we become.
So I've gradually been makingthe shift away from doing a
little bit of everything everyday and obviously there's still
those foundational habits thatare really locked in.
You know that are a daily thing, those foundational habits that
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are really locked in.
You know that are a daily thing.
But really working to createmore space for deeper work on
top priority projects, whileputting other projects to the
side for a bit and even talkingabout it now, like it brings me
anxiety because there's that oldpart of me that just never
trusted myself.
You know that would say tomyself well, if you're putting
this to the side, you're nevergoing to finish it because I
didn't have that self-trust, Idon't have that same level.
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Obviously I have a lot moreself-trust now, but it's still
uncomfortable to be like, oh, Itrust myself, to just put this
to the side and I know that I'mgoing to come back to it if it's
meaningful and it's importantto me.
And it's still going to beimportant to me.
I know I'm going to come backto that because I follow through
.
So yeah, as someone with an ADHDdiagnosis, this is mindset
shifts.
It's also just like skillbuilding and habit formation
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that has built daily momentumthat has created evidence, more
and more and more evidence thatI can bring my ideas to fruition
.
But I started so so, so smallin that process.
So I have a very complexrelationship with planning and
organization.
Where I'm at now is I'veswitched to building with a
clear big vision in mind, andyou know this has always been
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the case.
But I guess my vision is justway bigger now because I have
built so much more in-depthself-trust with myself.
I have allowed myself to dreambigger and to actually plan for
it.
Plan for those big visions that, naturally, are just going to
take longer because they'rebigger, and this has really
given me more space and moredepth, allowing me to refine my
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work and make it better andbetter without getting scattered
in trying to do too many thingsand following every impulse.
And this has helped me tosignificantly streamline my
spending because I'm clearer onwhere I'm going, which means
that I can then let go of more.
And this is the power of cleardecisions that are grounded in
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vision.
And this has actually increasedmy profitability in my business
and it's also brought me afeeling of even more spacious
groundedness in my business aswell.
So the shadow side is I'mreally feeling the slow down to
speed up vibes, which can makeit feel harder to get started on
new projects and initiativesand really like build momentum.
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And, like I said, the highestexpression of Virgo really is
that refinement and optimizationand efficiency.
And some of the gifts of Virgoenergy is that grounded,
consistent, devoted action.
But when it's not pointed inthe right direction, what we end
up with is unnecessary busywork or getting caught in
perfectionism loops of makingthings better that don't
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actually need to be better, um,and that creates a certain type
of stagnation.
That happens when we hold backfrom just taking the messy, the
messy necessary action right.
Like it wasn't comfortable forme to get on two ferries to a
little island in Vancouver fastfor however many days I had to
fast for I think it was 24 hoursdrink ayahuasca like, puke my
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guts up and cry all night longand then I was super freaking,
depressed afterwards from justreally processing all of the
emotions that I released from mysystem.
But that became a big turningpoint in my life and my life
went in a different directionafter that.
And I'm not saying thateverybody needs to do that.
Like you get the call when thatis appropriate for you, it will
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present itself to you and thecall will become undeniable and
you'll have a desire to do itright.
And sometimes it can be thosereally small things, like
getting started with a launch,you know, like starting to talk
about what it is that you reallywant to sell on your stories
today, instead of waiting andtrying to plan out everything
perfectly in advance.
And I noticed that one of mybiggest saboteurs that is super
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common in clients is stayingbusy, doing too many things to
avoid the uncomfortable growthwork that leads to next level
results.
So the word that's reallyhelping me as a driving force in
this new relationship with mynext level of Virgo rising
expression and I want to bringwith me into Virgo season that
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word is courage.
So combining courage with thatconsistent, devoted forward
action and sticking to the planand doing what you said you were
going to do, not from a placeof comfort or limitation or just
continuing to repeat, repeat,repeat what you already know,
but really in moving into thosenext level moves one step at a
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time, but getting stretchywithin that grounded consistency
, taking one stretchy, slightlydifferent, slightly bigger move
each day, and sometimes justgetting to a move can feel
stretchy when we're in theresistance or when we have been
procrastinating, or when thoseold patterns of perfectionism or
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low self-worth or lowself-trust rear their ugly heads
, which naturally they will.
And that's how, having thatsupport system of a habit it,
helps us to override them.
Because this is always going tohappen.
There's always going to be somelevel of resistance when we
step into new things that arerequired to create new and
different results.
So this has really been mysuccess recipe for all the
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results that I have achieved inmy life and business.
And healing and purification,rather than making it the goal,
it comes from getting honest,taking stock, clearing,
refocusing and getting intomessy forward action.
This is a super important point.
Do not make healing andpurification the goal.
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Do not make trying to fix,trying to purify, trying to get
better and better and better thegoal.
That's like I don't know whatthe word I'm looking for is here
, but like that's like a Virgoillusion that is a wild goose
chase.
That's why I've never reallybelieved in money blocks and
healing money blocks, or eventalking about money blocks,
because the thing that hasalways led me to heal the things
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that were blocking me or thatwere in the way or that needed
healing.
They never came from me lookingfor what to heal.
They came from me focusing onmy vision, taking messy, forward
, action, committed devotion,making moves.
Day after day after day, yourshit is going to come up, the
things that you need to dealwith are going to present
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themselves to you and then, inthat, as we're taking that daily
action, then we can lean onsupport, then we can problem
solve and be like this is howI'm feeling, or this is what
feels really hard.
How can I problem solve, howcan I keep moving forward?
And every time I've done this,I'm really leaned into this
around a specific result.
I have created shifts fromstagnation, from procrastination
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or over complexity intosimplicity, into flow, into
momentum and into meeting mygoals.
So here are my three steps thatwill guide this process for you
.
Step number one is the elevatedvision Know where you are going
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, get specific.
So I'm a big believer in workingwith money goals and recently
I've actually shifted the wayI'm working with money goals.
So right now because here'swhat I know to be true you get
what you focus on, what youcontinually focus on over and
over and over again, that youcontinue to make moves, you
continue to bring the mindset ofthis is working, it's all
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working, I'm getting there.
This will be the thing thatgets me there.
I'm just going to keep going,keep going, keep going.
You will get there unless youquit.
Right, so decide never to quit.
So right now, I focus on growinga net worth of $4 million, and
this, to me, represents truefinancial freedom.
I could probably have financialfreedom at less than that, but
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it still raises questions.
To be honest, with you livingin LA knowing how I like to live
, this number to me representsnot only how much I plan to earn
over my lifetime, but also whatI plan to keep and grow, and
this is a shift for me, too,because I would hit my money
goals and then spend it.
That is a pattern that I'vebeen healing, and this goal
holds so much more meaning to methan an annual income goal,
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because to me, this representsthat my man can stop working if
he wants to, and we can live inLA and grow old here if we want
to, while maintaining ourcurrent standard of living with
an expectation of inflationthroughout the decades, and I'm
already living my dream life inpretty much every area, so I
know that getting there is goingto be so much fun Like that's
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not a question for me.
So step one is to pick a goalthat holds real meaning for you
in the current phase that you'rein, and if that's a monthly
income goal that will bring youlifestyle upgrades that you're
super excited about, then pickthat.
Whatever number or time frameyou actually genuinely connected
to Like I know that this isgoing to feel good when I get it
.
I know that this is going tobring me good things and I
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believe it.
You know it feels within therealm of believability for me.
So step two is the cleardecision and this is to journal
on how you would like to getthere.
What do you know you do and youdon't like doing in this life?
What do you want more of?
What do you want less of?
And this is not about havingthe perfect plan, because
obviously there are things wedon't know and things are going
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to evolve, but this is really todesign the vehicle for your
vision, based on who you are andwhat you know now.
So really just decide on theroute that you desire to get
there.
If you could pick any right now.
Pick what would be a dream cometrue for you in your life.
Don't overthink this.
And step three is the groundedritual.
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So now pick the daily andweekly habits that will move you
forward along this path.
Put them in your schedule,create a habit tracker and take
those daily steps and tick themoff.
And maybe all that is is I'mgoing to give myself x number of
minutes or hours on this day atthis time, and I'm going to
show up and I'm going to takeaction.
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I'm going to figure it out as Igo along, but I know where I'm
headed and I'm picking the nextroad that I'm going to turn down
.
I'm picking the route thatexcites me next, and then your
job is to notice the discomfortor the mess that arises as you
make the moves in that forwarddirection.
So assess, take care of, purify, clean up, but never, never,
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never, never, never, at theexpense of these three steps.
Know where you're going, make adecision and take action.
Keep moving.
The mess is going to take careof itself if you keep that
forward momentum going.
So my invitation to you is tochannel the sometimes obsessive
or rigid or tightly grippingshadow of Virgo, when it crops
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up, to unrelentingly takingforward action towards your
vision in alignment with yourdecision.
And it's going to be messy, andthat is okay.
So be honest with yourself.
This Virgo season not from aplace of self-criticism or
nitpicking or judgment or Ishould be here yet, or this
isn't good enough yet, or whyisn't it working.
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Because Virgo is ruled byMercury, this is my chart ruler.
It's also the ruler of my 10thhouse and this is really my
genius in how I serve others,and my understanding of Mercury
is like number one theconversations that we're having
with ourselves.
What stories are you tellingyourself?
What stories are we tellingothers in our immediate
relationships, in our clientwork, the people that we're in
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relationship with in ourbusiness, and then your brand
message.
What stories are you telling ineach of these three levels?
Because those are the storiesthat are going to determine your
success.
So use this ritual as a metricto assess if you are truly
devoted to your high level,refined vision.
Are you backing your cleardecision or are you getting
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bogged down by busy work and notactually taking actions towards
bringing the vision to life?
So you can assess what did I dotoday?
Where did I invest my time.
What was I telling myself?
What did I take action on, andare these actions moving me
towards my vision or not?
And just that constantreassessment and refinement and
tweaking and fine tuning untilyou get the results that you
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want.
This process is everything.
Whenever I have run my goalsthrough this process, I have
seen exactly why I don't havethe results.
Yet I got distracted, I lostmomentum.
I simply prioritized otherthings my comfort, my joy, my
rest, my relationships andthere's no judgment around this.
Comfort, my joy, my rest, myrelationships and there's no
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judgment around this.
But the better we can clearlyand powerfully prioritize the
habits and actions that move ustowards our clear vision, the
sooner it is going tomaterialize.
So tell me what you think, tellme what comes up for you and
again, dm me the word Virgo onInstagram at Sarah McMagic if
you want a custom ritual forwhere your Virgo sign falls in
your chart.
And do these three steps.
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Let me know what comes up foryou, let me know how it goes.
I would love to hear and we'regoing to continue to unpack
these themes over the comingepisodes, so make sure you stay
tuned.
I'm going to be sharing somebehind the scenes of how it's
going for me on my Instagram.
So I will see you on theinternet and I'm sending you so
much love.
Bye.
What's up, this is Sarah Mack, and welcome to
Creative Magic Club.
Together, we'll discoverinspirational stories of
creative entrepreneurs livingout their dreams, doing the work
they are most passionate aboutand building wealth in magical
and fun ways, while building asix-figure income.
As a writer and coach, helpingother women to launch their
dream businesses, I've connectedwith so many incredible people
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and seen it proven again andagain that you can thrive
financially doing whatever it isyou are passionate about.
I am here to sharelife-changing strategies for
mindset, making money andreaching more people with your
work in a business and lifefilled with creativity are
passionate about.
I'm here to share life-changingstrategies for mindset, making
money and reaching more peoplewith your work in a business and
life filled with creativity,freedom and fun.
Hi, sarah Mack here and welcomeback to the Creative Magic Club
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podcast, here to help youbecome a six-figure creative by
filling your high-ticket offerthrough authentic storytelling
and astrology-guided contentstrategy.
Fogo season is here and I havedecided to talk to you today
about how to increase yourincome with money, healing and
purification, with the threethings that have made, honestly,
the most difference for me inbeing able to hit my income
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goals over and over and overagain and I am speaking from a
place of deep, deep knowledgearound Virgo energy as a Virgo
rising and it's not always aneasy one.
I think of this time of yearand this energy as kind of back
to school vibes and I feel likeyou know that exciting feeling
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of buying new stationery.
I don't know whether youresonate with this, but I feel
like we can get distracted inthis energy.
It's and I see this all thetime in myself and in my clients
when we get really enthusiasticabout a new chapter, about
hitting our goals, about goingall in, coming back from the
summer with that, you know, somuch energy to go after what it
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is that we want and we're goingall in and we're highly
motivated after having a break,hopefully is how a lot of us are
feeling, and what tends tohappen is that perfectionism
kicks in.
All of that programming aroundOK, so we need to go bigger,
which means we need to workharder, which means we need to
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be more perfect.
All of those old patterns tendto rear their ugly heads and
just stuff our plates withunnecessary busy work that
actually distracts us from doingthe things, making the moves
that actually produce theresults that we want.
So that's the conversation thatI want to have today and Virgo
energy is really.
It's a purifying energy whichcan be really freaking messy and
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uncomfortable and there's a lotof really intense shadow sides
to this energy that, especiallyas creatives, especially as
women, we tend to get pulledinto because of our cultural
programming around needing to beperfect, because of our
unconscious patterns that wecarry with us around not being
good enough, around not beingworthy of being able to have
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really abundant and fulfillingand wealthy lives, being who we
are, doing the things that welove and having so much freaking
fun.
So hopefully you've had a lotof fun in Leo season.
I know I have.
It's my absolute favoriteseason.
Obviously, I'm a Leo son and Ihave a lot of fun in Leo season,
so hopefully you can ride thatwave and bring the connection
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that having fun gives us toreally come into Virgo season to
optimize and to refine, andreally these are the two words
that I like most to describe thehighest expression of Virgo and
the way that I really findhelpful to think about it is
elevation.
We're raising our standardsright Like.
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That's why we purify, that'swhy we sift through what isn't
working, we clean out the crap.
We get clear on what we wantand we do that so that at the
end of that process it's better,it's more refined, it's more
elevated, it's more in alignmentwith what we want and who we're
evolving into.
So my relationship with Virgohas been very challenging and
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strained, like I love Leo, leovibes, leo energy that's my sun
sign, my rising sign.
I've been a bit like that's notas fun as Leo season, mainly
because you know my relationshipwith my rising sign really
kicked in at hyper speed when Istepped into entrepreneurship,
amidst my giant burnout and fiveyears of chronic fatigue which
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really pushed me to purify, torefine, and I studied physical
purification at its deepestlevels, really looking for
answers Like why wasn't my bodyworking?
Why was I having theseheadaches?
Why did I just have a massivelyreduced capacity to do the
things that I loved in my lifeand then, as I, you know, learn
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everything I could around how topurify and care for my body.
That conversation then extendedto my mental health, to my
emotional health and to myspiritual health, and each of
these layers kind of revealedthemselves to me one after the
other, after I got answers.
But I knew it had only taken meso far and that there was more.
And this really culminated inan ayahuasca trip where I was
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crying for what was probably asolid 12 hours, releasing what
felt like the entire pain of theworld from my soul.
So, as you can see, this is notfun stuff that we are talking
about.
I did a ton of diets andcleanses and it's that
willingness to get into the mess, to put on our rubber gloves,
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to clean things up so that onthe other side it feels so much
better, things are runningsmoothly and, yeah, like other
shadow sides of Virgo that I'veexperienced have been that
controllingness that is that aword, being kind of preachy, you
know, and wanting to controlothers so that they can be the
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best, that they can be, holdingreally high standards for other
people in my life, which, yeah,the shadow side of that has been
in me telling people what to do, what to eat, how to live, from
a place of genuinely wantingthe best for them.
But that doesn't always go downsuper well and obviously, like
that is a conversation I'mhaving with myself.
So you know that experience ofreally having lost my health for
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such an extended period of timereally taught me the value of
preserving and prioritizinghealth, because really, without
it, we have nothing.
I feel like this is my greatestVirgo rising lesson to date now
, because I got so many skillsand knowledge and in-depth
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understanding about myself andhow to care for myself that has
brought me so much more freedomand joy and feel good in all of
the years preceding that.
And it was this situation, thislesson, where I really learned
the power of mindset to createany even seemingly impossible
result, right when I wasn'tgetting any answers, when I was
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being told that I was fine onpaper by doctors, but I didn't
feel fine.
You know, I did it.
I transformed my health and myreality by setting my mind to it
and I made it happen.
And this is a really, reallykey mindset that carried me
through into entrepreneurship,which was deciding that
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everything is working, and Ireally did have that mindset.
You know I would hire a healerand be like this is going to be
the thing that gets me better,and I just kept going and I kept
going and I kept going and Idid so many like crazy things.
I was traveling the world, Isaw every different kind of
healer under the sun, and I donot believe all of these things
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were quite necessary.
But whatever, I had anadventure doing it, you know,
and that was, that's just alwaysgoing to be the way that I'm
going to get to my goals ishaving an adventure doing it.
And then I turned what I hadlearned from that experience of,
if I just set my sights on mygoal, if I do everything within
my power, if I decide everysingle thing, every single step,
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every investment, everyconversation, every piece of
support that I cultivate formyself in bringing my goals to
reality, if I turned thisapproach to money, anything is
possible.
And that's what grew mybusiness to six figures within
13 months.
That approach, that attitudethat I continued after
recovering my health andactually I was still recovering
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my health during that period andI completely recovered it, you
know, within a couple yearsafter my first six figure year.
And it's just so empowering togo from rock bottom to achieving
what you set your mind to.
And I did it one step at a time, you know, and that's really
what gave, has given me thecourage and the confidence to
set bigger and bigger goals formyself, because I've proven the
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approach.
I've proven that even seeminglyimpossible, huge
transformations and goals canbecome possible for somebody
like me when I take thisapproach.
So more recently, I've beengoing through a shift in my
relationship with money, andthis has really been a new
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chapter that I'm navigating,which is since my partner
finally graduated from his10,000 years of training, he
finally became a doctor andwe've been in more overflow of
money than ever before in ourlives.
So I've been navigating theshift from the drive to survive,
which was really driving methrough those two really major
transitions from rock bottom, tomeeting my objectives and my
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goals, both for my health andfor my money and my income and
my business, and so now I'mshifting into the drive of
desire.
Right, it's no longer a fear ofI'm not going to survive unless
this works.
That is driving my action anddriving my commitment and my
devotion towards my goals and myvision.
So it's been a recalibrationprocess because for the first
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time in my life, I don't feelthe pressure or the fear of not
being able to pay my basic billsif I don't hit my goals in my
business and as somebody who,you know, even when I was having
six figure years for a longtime, I was spending all of it
because I didn't have any moneymanagement skills and that was
just a whole new world for me.
You know, I thought I was likerich forever.
I thought when I had my first20k month I would never need to
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use a credit card again in mywhole life Like it's.
Every phase has been arecalibration, and so in this
new phase, I've beenrenegotiating my relationship
with money and how I make it inmy business, and I've noticed
some of that Virgo shadowcreeping in.
So let's talk about it and ifyou want a custom ritual for
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your own Virgo placement,message me the word Virgo on
Instagram to my Sarah McMagicaccount and I will send it to
you.
So, firstly, how this shiftplayed out for me was as I
started to think bigger beyondhow much money am I going to
make this month?
I've noticed that I've shiftedaway from more short term
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thinking and into longer termplanning, and this is kind of
new for me in the last few yearsand, as we know, planning is
and can be a shadow side ofVirgo when it's not done well
and in balance.
And this was a real issue for mein the beginning of my creative
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career, actually when I wasdoing my master's, and even
before that, to be honest withyou in the early phase of my
life I had so many ideas, somany creative ideas, and I would
plan and plan and plan and planand I would love to plan things
but I never actually followedthrough and executed and I
really eroded my self-trust andobviously it was all of the
mindset that I had to work on.
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You know, I really had nochoice but to work on that as I
stepped into entrepreneurshipand my income and my survival
literally depended on me beingable to follow through.
And I did, did learn.
You know, I started to makethose shifts in my masters when
it was just the sheer workloadkind of forced me to outgrow and
out like develop some of thoseresistance patterns of
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procrastination, of reallyleaving things to the last
minute, of needing that outsidepressure to really hold myself
accountable to following throughon my work and my ideas.
And obviously, since being inbusiness for many years now,
I've built habits and I've builtsystems that maintain my
business without me having tothink too much or having to
access a whole load ofmotivation, because these are
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just well established ways ofbeing, habits, practices that
have been in play for years now,and this has led to me
obviously being more capable oftaking on bigger projects like
publishing my book, you know,going through IVF, launching my
Cosmic Copy Mastermind,launching a new digital course,
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growing my podcast, and theseare some of my main projects at
the moment.
I'm also bringing back in musicprojects and I also really want
to record my audio book at somepoint soon.
So what this has meant inbringing in these bigger
projects that require morein-depth work is I've been
working a little bit moreseasonally, which is different
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to how I built my business on myvery Virgo strengths of
consistent daily habits, andthis is really like my strength
and the main reason why peoplehire me is because I help others
to build consistency and buildhabits that make them money, and
this is what you know led me tomake money.
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Obviously, as a creative personwho has struggled with that, I
get it, and that's why highlycreative people come to me when
they want to realize theirvisions, when they want to
ground their revolutionarycreative ideas into material
reality and bring them intofruition.
Not only that, but to birthbusinesses that support them
consistently.
And that requires creatingthose building blocks, those
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behavioral building blocks, andonce we get going with those
things, once we've had thesupport.
Obviously it can be much easierto then sustain them because
that's who we become.
So I've gradually been makingthe shift away from doing a
little bit of everything everyday and obviously there's still
those foundational habits thatare really locked in.
You know that are a daily thing, those foundational habits that
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are really locked in.
You know that are a daily thing.
But really working to createmore space for deeper work on
top priority projects, whileputting other projects to the
side for a bit and even talkingabout it now, like it brings me
anxiety because there's that oldpart of me that just never
trusted myself.
You know that would say tomyself well, if you're putting
this to the side, you're nevergoing to finish it because I
didn't have that self-trust, Idon't have that same level.
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Obviously I have a lot moreself-trust now, but it's still
uncomfortable to be like, oh, Itrust myself, to just put this
to the side and I know that I'mgoing to come back to it if it's
meaningful and it's importantto me.
And it's still going to beimportant to me.
I know I'm going to come backto that because I follow through
.
So yeah, as someone with an ADHDdiagnosis, this is mindset
shifts.
It's also just like skillbuilding and habit formation
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that has built daily momentumthat has created evidence, more
and more and more evidence thatI can bring my ideas to fruition
.
But I started so so, so smallin that process.
So I have a very complexrelationship with planning and
organization.
Where I'm at now is I'veswitched to building with a
clear big vision in mind, andyou know this has always been
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the case.
But I guess my vision is justway bigger now because I have
built so much more in-depthself-trust with myself.
I have allowed myself to dreambigger and to actually plan for
it.
Plan for those big visions that, naturally, are just going to
take longer because they'rebigger, and this has really
given me more space and moredepth, allowing me to refine my
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work and make it better andbetter without getting scattered
in trying to do too many thingsand following every impulse.
And this has helped me tosignificantly streamline my
spending because I'm clearer onwhere I'm going, which means
that I can then let go of more.
And this is the power of cleardecisions that are grounded in
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vision.
And this has actually increasedmy profitability in my business
and it's also brought me afeeling of even more spacious
groundedness in my business aswell.
So the shadow side is I'mreally feeling the slow down to
speed up vibes, which can makeit feel harder to get started on
new projects and initiativesand really like build momentum.
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And, like I said, the highestexpression of Virgo really is
that refinement and optimizationand efficiency.
And some of the gifts of Virgoenergy is that grounded,
consistent, devoted action.
But when it's not pointed inthe right direction, what we end
up with is unnecessary busywork or getting caught in
perfectionism loops of makingthings better that don't
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actually need to be better, um,and that creates a certain type
of stagnation.
That happens when we hold backfrom just taking the messy, the
messy necessary action right.
Like it wasn't comfortable forme to get on two ferries to a
little island in Vancouver fastfor however many days I had to
fast for I think it was 24 hoursdrink ayahuasca like, puke my
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guts up and cry all night longand then I was super freaking,
depressed afterwards from justreally processing all of the
emotions that I released from mysystem.
But that became a big turningpoint in my life and my life
went in a different directionafter that.
And I'm not saying thateverybody needs to do that.
Like you get the call when thatis appropriate for you, it will
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present itself to you and thecall will become undeniable and
you'll have a desire to do itright.
And sometimes it can be thosereally small things, like
getting started with a launch,you know, like starting to talk
about what it is that you reallywant to sell on your stories
today, instead of waiting andtrying to plan out everything
perfectly in advance.
And I noticed that one of mybiggest saboteurs that is super
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common in clients is stayingbusy, doing too many things to
avoid the uncomfortable growthwork that leads to next level
results.
So the word that's reallyhelping me as a driving force in
this new relationship with mynext level of Virgo rising
expression and I want to bringwith me into Virgo season that
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word is courage.
So combining courage with thatconsistent, devoted forward
action and sticking to the planand doing what you said you were
going to do, not from a placeof comfort or limitation or just
continuing to repeat, repeat,repeat what you already know,
but really in moving into thosenext level moves one step at a
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time, but getting stretchywithin that grounded consistency
, taking one stretchy, slightlydifferent, slightly bigger move
each day, and sometimes justgetting to a move can feel
stretchy when we're in theresistance or when we have been
procrastinating, or when thoseold patterns of perfectionism or
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low self-worth or lowself-trust rear their ugly heads
, which naturally they will.
And that's how, having thatsupport system of a habit it,
helps us to override them.
Because this is always going tohappen.
There's always going to be somelevel of resistance when we
step into new things that arerequired to create new and
different results.
So this has really been mysuccess recipe for all the
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results that I have achieved inmy life and business.
And healing and purification,rather than making it the goal,
it comes from getting honest,taking stock, clearing,
refocusing and getting intomessy forward action.
This is a super important point.
Do not make healing andpurification the goal.
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Do not make trying to fix,trying to purify, trying to get
better and better and better thegoal.
That's like I don't know whatthe word I'm looking for is here
, but like that's like a Virgoillusion that is a wild goose
chase.
That's why I've never reallybelieved in money blocks and
healing money blocks, or eventalking about money blocks,
because the thing that hasalways led me to heal the things
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that were blocking me or thatwere in the way or that needed
healing.
They never came from me lookingfor what to heal.
They came from me focusing onmy vision, taking messy, forward
, action, committed devotion,making moves.
Day after day after day, yourshit is going to come up, the
things that you need to dealwith are going to present
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themselves to you and then, inthat, as we're taking that daily
action, then we can lean onsupport, then we can problem
solve and be like this is howI'm feeling, or this is what
feels really hard.
How can I problem solve, howcan I keep moving forward?
And every time I've done this,I'm really leaned into this
around a specific result.
I have created shifts fromstagnation, from procrastination
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or over complexity intosimplicity, into flow, into
momentum and into meeting mygoals.
So here are my three steps thatwill guide this process for you
.
Step number one is the elevatedvision Know where you are going
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, get specific.
So I'm a big believer in workingwith money goals and recently
I've actually shifted the wayI'm working with money goals.
So right now because here'swhat I know to be true you get
what you focus on, what youcontinually focus on over and
over and over again, that youcontinue to make moves, you
continue to bring the mindset ofthis is working, it's all
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working, I'm getting there.
This will be the thing thatgets me there.
I'm just going to keep going,keep going, keep going.
You will get there unless youquit.
Right, so decide never to quit.
So right now, I focus on growinga net worth of $4 million, and
this, to me, represents truefinancial freedom.
I could probably have financialfreedom at less than that, but
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it still raises questions.
To be honest, with you livingin LA knowing how I like to live
, this number to me representsnot only how much I plan to earn
over my lifetime, but also whatI plan to keep and grow, and
this is a shift for me, too,because I would hit my money
goals and then spend it.
That is a pattern that I'vebeen healing, and this goal
holds so much more meaning to methan an annual income goal,
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because to me, this representsthat my man can stop working if
he wants to, and we can live inLA and grow old here if we want
to, while maintaining ourcurrent standard of living with
an expectation of inflationthroughout the decades, and I'm
already living my dream life inpretty much every area, so I
know that getting there is goingto be so much fun Like that's
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not a question for me.
So step one is to pick a goalthat holds real meaning for you
in the current phase that you'rein, and if that's a monthly
income goal that will bring youlifestyle upgrades that you're
super excited about, then pickthat.
Whatever number or time frameyou actually genuinely connected
to Like I know that this isgoing to feel good when I get it
.
I know that this is going tobring me good things and I
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believe it.
You know it feels within therealm of believability for me.
So step two is the cleardecision and this is to journal
on how you would like to getthere.
What do you know you do and youdon't like doing in this life?
What do you want more of?
What do you want less of?
And this is not about havingthe perfect plan, because
obviously there are things wedon't know and things are going
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to evolve, but this is really todesign the vehicle for your
vision, based on who you are andwhat you know now.
So really just decide on theroute that you desire to get
there.
If you could pick any right now.
Pick what would be a dream cometrue for you in your life.
Don't overthink this.
And step three is the groundedritual.
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So now pick the daily andweekly habits that will move you
forward along this path.
Put them in your schedule,create a habit tracker and take
those daily steps and tick themoff.
And maybe all that is is I'mgoing to give myself x number of
minutes or hours on this day atthis time, and I'm going to
show up and I'm going to takeaction.
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I'm going to figure it out as Igo along, but I know where I'm
headed and I'm picking the nextroad that I'm going to turn down
.
I'm picking the route thatexcites me next, and then your
job is to notice the discomfortor the mess that arises as you
make the moves in that forwarddirection.
So assess, take care of, purify, clean up, but never, never,
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never, never, never, at theexpense of these three steps.
Know where you're going, make adecision and take action.
Keep moving.
The mess is going to take careof itself if you keep that
forward momentum going.
So my invitation to you is tochannel the sometimes obsessive
or rigid or tightly grippingshadow of Virgo, when it crops
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up, to unrelentingly takingforward action towards your
vision in alignment with yourdecision.
And it's going to be messy, andthat is okay.
So be honest with yourself.
This Virgo season not from aplace of self-criticism or
nitpicking or judgment or Ishould be here yet, or this
isn't good enough yet, or whyisn't it working.
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Because Virgo is ruled byMercury, this is my chart ruler.
It's also the ruler of my 10thhouse and this is really my
genius in how I serve others,and my understanding of Mercury
is like number one theconversations that we're having
with ourselves.
What stories are you tellingyourself?
What stories are we tellingothers in our immediate
relationships, in our clientwork, the people that we're in
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relationship with in ourbusiness, and then your brand
message.
What stories are you telling ineach of these three levels?
Because those are the storiesthat are going to determine your
success.
So use this ritual as a metricto assess if you are truly
devoted to your high level,refined vision.
Are you backing your cleardecision or are you getting
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bogged down by busy work and notactually taking actions towards
bringing the vision to life?
So you can assess what did I dotoday?
Where did I invest my time.
What was I telling myself?
What did I take action on, andare these actions moving me
towards my vision or not?
And just that constantreassessment and refinement and
tweaking and fine tuning untilyou get the results that you
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want.
This process is everything.
Whenever I have run my goalsthrough this process, I have
seen exactly why I don't havethe results.
Yet I got distracted, I lostmomentum.
I simply prioritized otherthings my comfort, my joy, my
rest, my relationships andthere's no judgment around this.
Comfort, my joy, my rest, myrelationships and there's no
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judgment around this.
But the better we can clearlyand powerfully prioritize the
habits and actions that move ustowards our clear vision, the
sooner it is going tomaterialize.
So tell me what you think, tellme what comes up for you and
again, dm me the word Virgo onInstagram at Sarah McMagic if
you want a custom ritual forwhere your Virgo sign falls in
your chart.
And do these three steps.
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Let me know what comes up foryou, let me know how it goes.
I would love to hear and we'regoing to continue to unpack
these themes over the comingepisodes, so make sure you stay
tuned.
I'm going to be sharing somebehind the scenes of how it's
going for me on my Instagram.
So I will see you on theinternet and I'm sending you so
much love.
Bye.
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