August 15, 2024 • 41 mins
Season 3, Episode 4: Paranormal Encounters in Carey, Ohio + Lapis Lazuli's Power & a Tarot Reading
In this spine-tingling episode of Intentional Spiritual Living with Brian, we delve into the eerie world of paranormal events and spiritual encounters in the small but mysterious town of Carey, Ohio, as well as all around Delaware, Ohio. From haunted locations to firsthand experiences with the supernatural, we explore the stories that have shaped my life.
But that’s not all—I will also introduce Lapis Lazuli, the stone of wisdom, truth, and spiritual insight, and explain why it’s a must-have addition to your crystal toolkit. Discover how this powerful blue gemstone can enhance your spiritual practice and deepen your connection to the higher realms.
Finally, I wrap up the episode with a 3-card Tarot reading, offering guidance and insight for the days ahead. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual practitioner or just curious about the unseen world, this episode is sure to intrigue and inspire.
Tune in for an enlightening journey through the mystical and the mysterious—only on Intentional Spiritual Living with Brian.
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Brian. Hello and welcome to intentional spiritual
living with Brian. This isseason three, Episode Four. I
hope everybody's having a greatAugust. So far, I'm excited
about this episode. We're gonnaveer off the beaten path just a
little and have an entireepisode, perhaps two or three.
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I've got tons of stories, butparanormal discussions. I've had
a fascination with theparanormal my entire life, and
I've had some things happenrecently at our building where
the Escape Rooms are that arejust so amazing. And tell tale
that I really want to share themwith you, but I want to back
that up and talk about all theexperiences I've had throughout
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my life. And so it's going totake a few episodes, and I think
you're going to be excited tohear it. We're also going to do
continue on right out the batwith our build your build your
crystal tool kit, and get toknow your crystals. This week,
we're going to talk about lapislazuli and how it was kind of
the day I was wearing Lapis.
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You're going to hear about a bitof a life changing story about
getting to know myself, andwe'll do a tarot card pull. So
we're going to do crystals,paranormal and Tarot this
episode. And I think you'rereally going to enjoy these
stories. And since I'm longwinded, I think we should get
started now. So with no furtherado, let's get on it.
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All right, let's get right intoit, building your crystal
toolkit for those that are justchecking out my podcast for the
first time and haven't beenfollowing along this particular
season, season three is going tobe a 10 episode season, and I'm
doing a section in each episodeof this season about how to get
to know and build your crystaltoolkit. Some of it is based
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upon things I've experienced.
Some of it, things I know,things that work for me. So this
is a spiritual living podcast,as you know, and I'm here to
tell you my experiences and howto glean anything from them that
you wish, take what you want outof them, as we all know. I'm
very eclectic, and so borrowfrom me, if you if you will.
I've been doing this stuff for avery long time. And one thing
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that happens at Raven's cauldronon a daily basis. We have new
practitioners, oldpractitioners, whatever they
they love the crystals. Theyhave tons of them at their
house, but they becometchotchkes, and they sit in
their house and stuff, andtchotchkes are a great thing. I
have several display pieces inmy house, but I also have a
massive crystal toolkitthat I use to manifest and make
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things happen, fix things on mylife and whatever. And so we're
about to talk about one of thoseparticular situations. We talked
about clear quartz on EpisodeOne. We talked about Carnelian
on Episode Two. We talked aboutrainbow Moonstone in episode
three. And now we're going totalk about lapis lazuli, the
beautiful blue stone. The mostsurprised possessions of Lapis
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sizzuli come from Afghanistan,the most beautiful royal blue
with flecks of pyrite and copperin them. It's just amazing. And
when you get high quality Lapis,it's something you'll never
forget. Always museum quality iswhat comes to mind. But
metaphysically, what do you dowith Lapis? You're at the store,
you find a piece of Lapis azuliatumble. It's the size of your
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thumbnail, for instance, and youlove it. You have to have it.
But thenthings, time moves on, and you
don't,you don't really know what to do
with it, and so you just haveit. So I'm gonna tell you a
story about me. It's kind of alife changing story, if you
will. Happened when I was 34years old. I am 52
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I was working at motoristinsurance as a database
administrator. In my previouslife, I worked in it for over 24
years, worked in data analytics,database administration, that
type of thing, before I sold thefamily farm to become a
metaphysical store owner. Soon this spring day, when I was
working at motorist, I've hadseveral motorcycles throughout
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my life, anything from littlemini bikes to dirt bikes to
scooters to trikes, anything inbetween. The only thing I really
haven't had, I haven't had, likea Harley, massive bike like
that, but I grew up in a farmingfamily. My brother and my dad,
blue collar are men that knowhow to fix and engineer
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anything. I'm the milk man'schild.
I barely know how to put in ascrew. I barely know how to
change a light bulb and so but Igrew up around that stuff in a
farming family. I was always atthe farm, riding on tractors,
playing on mini bikes and allthat stuff. So I'm no stranger
to this stuff. And so I startedhaving motorcycles. I had my
first little Honda shadow. Mymom used to throw a fit at me
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all the time because I woulddrive it on the on fast roads,
and I got a bike big enough toride on the freeway and that
type of thing. So back when Iwas 34 I got something called a
Suzuki Bergman 650,it is a scooter for all intents
and purposes, and the only wayyou can really tell it from a
distance is that you can stepthrough it, versus having the
gap, excuse me, the gas tankbetween your legs. It was a 650,
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cc. So it was a little bit of arocket ship for the weight that
it had. And I would drive it towork on the freeway, exceeding
speeds of 8090, and it wassmooth as glass.
What makes a scooter a scooteris that it was a non shifting
bike. It had an automatictransmission. And that was very
key to me because I was, I wasdriving from the city of
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Delaware, Ohio all the way todowntown Columbus. So anyway, I
bought this cool thing. It waslike, gosh, at the time, it's
like, 15, $16,000 maybe.
Now here's where the lapislazuli comes in.
This stuff just helps. LapisLazuli is all about wisdom and
self acceptance, if you will. SoI took the scooter down and I
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parked it. I'd worked there fora while. And I mean, it's a huge
piece of machinery. I mean, itwas the size of a medium sized
motorcycle. I mean, if you laidit down, you'd have a hard time
picking it back up. It was thebig deal.
Long story short, I was made funof that day by two guys, and
that will never say their names.
They were people that I knew,and they laughed and snickered
about it being a scooter.
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Now I got to tell you folks, Iwas completely out of my mind,
shocked by this, and I foundmyself as I heard this
happening. They were two cubesdown for me. They were talking
about it, and then someone elsetold me about it, and I was
embarrassed, which is somethingI never am. I was flush with red
because I'm like, I just spent$15,000 I got this new piece of
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machinery that I love, and I'mbeing made fun of it here at
work.
Now, as you know, I've practicedmetaphysical stuff since I was
in the single digits as a humanbeing, and so I always turn to
my crystals to to help me in inthese times. And so for whatever
reason, I got my tool kit outthat night, and lapis lazuli was
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exactly what was calling to me,and I just held it on my chest,
because I was really taken backby this. I was disturbed that
somebody was making fun of me,and I didn't understand why.
Now, come to come, come tofigure out why. I will tell you
why they were. It's ridiculous,but
here I was just felt very shamedand being made fun of for no
reason, and I used my piece oflapis easily. I set it on my
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chest, I meditated it with itthat night, and I carried it for
two weeks, and I slowly chippedaway at and I'm going to use a
cuss word here. This Iapologize, parents, if you're
listening, push pause here. I'mgoing to be using some curse
words. But the overwhelmingsense, when I was done with my
meditation for two weeks andkeeping that lap of sizzling,
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having this, this situation,happen to me as fuck off, is
exactly where I came out. Fuckoff. Why was I? Because I knew
the reason, because I talked toa couple of motorcycle people
and friends of mine, and it'sbecause the motorcycle,
motorcycle clan, if you will,the kind of toxic masculinity
crowd, and that's not typicallymotorcycle people, but the
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people that, the people thatwere making fun of me about
this, were not even motorcyclepeople, but it was a scooter,
and that was like a pansy typeof bike. And why wouldn't you
get a real bike type of thing?
Come to find out. And I had noidea when this happened, and it
really, really, really, kind ofupset me. And where does lapis
again come in, and how I cameout the other end, thinking,
fuck you. Self acceptance andwisdom, I came into this
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completely blindsided. So I wasbeing made of, made fun of
because of a vehicle that Ibought at my place of him at my
place of employment, by mypeers. I felt very vulnerable,
vulnerable and embarrassed byit, which I laugh about now,
because if it happened today,I'd be like laugh all the way
dumb ass. I don't care. That'show I've evolved, and that's
where lapis lazuli comes in.
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It's wisdom down the road, ifyou will, our own path, our own
road, and self acceptance. Andwhen you kind of get to that
point where nothing can breakyou like this situation broke
me, you really, really become amore powerful and confident and
strong person, and that's what Iam today. But if I can think
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back to that day when I was 34I'm cringing thinking about I
remember it as if it was it justhappened this morning, and that
feeling of somebody making funof you for something that you
had no idea that you could evenbe made fun of for, it can kind
of wreck your psyche, if youwill. And that's what it did for
me. And Laplace Lazuli simplysaved.
The day, and I urge you to get agood piece of it in your
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collection, because you'll nevergo wrong with it. Lapis, easily,
beautiful blue and copper.
All right, friends, let's talkparanormal. We're going to talk
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about that for the majority ofthis episode, and lots and lots
to discuss here that havehappened in my life, and I had
to do a chronology of it. I'vebeen simply obsessed with
paranormal activity, paranormalstudies, my entire life.
I've done all the crazy things,you know, broken into in high
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school southern Ohio, to aschool that allegedly had an
explosion that was haunted. Ispent the night at the Mansfield
reformatory a couple times onGhost hunts. I've had
experiences at homes I've owned,and we're going to talk about
some of those. Had an experienceat a church in Cary, Ohio that
was life changing up until thispast three weeks, the crooked
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cottage escape room building hasbeen extremely active, and we're
going to probably not going toget to that discussion this
week. We'll talk about that innext week's episode. I don't
know how far we'll get, butwe're gonna do our best. So
let's start talking. So firstbig experience, I had a
couple things. The number 151,it was the address of two houses
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I've owned. It's the address ofone house I currently live in,
it's the address of anotherhouse I own several years ago,
it was the room that my motherstayed in at Willowbrook when we
had to move her to Willowbrookdue to her journey with
Alzheimer's. So the number 151,has repeatedly visited me in my
life. Like I said, I have livedin two different houses, the
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current house and another housethat had the address of 151 and
so the first house that I livedin
that had the address of 151 wasmy first bona fide haunting, if
you will.
I remember being at closing.
This was a Victorian house. Itwas built in the 1800s beautiful
stained glass everywhere,beautiful wood floors,
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everything that you want out ofthe Victorian house. But like
most Victorian houses have astoried history in that, you
know, it was built. I forget whothe house was built for, but
we'll say it was built for somebig, wealthy professor or
something like that, and thenthat person dies, and around
that time, we're in the mid, youknow, 40s and 50s in the United
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States, and architecture andideals have changed, and those
Victorian houses and then getcut up into five apartments and
reconfigured all the way upthrough the 80s and then the
90s, the appreciation for thatarchitecture started to trickle
back in, and people put themback together. And a lot of the
people saved the doors andthings, and now you have the
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past put back the way it wasintended to be. The point of
telling you all that is, there'sa bunch of energy change, if you
will, from what it once was towhat it is. And so we moved into
this house, it had completelybeen rehabbed, beautiful
Victorian, three stories, six,seven foot, stained glass panels
everywhere, just exquisite. AndI closing when we were buying
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that house, I was secretlyreally, really wanted it to be
haunted.
And I happened to ask the owner,because I really wanted it to be
at closing if it were haunted,and she got real white in the
face, because I only because shewas afraid that I was going to
close, stop the closing, and notbuy the house anyway. She
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admitted that she never saidthat. She never used the word,
yes, it's haunted, but it wasmany people think so, come to
find out, the previous owners,from them, also experience these
things. So let's talk about myfirst house, beginning with the
numbers 151,so when I first moved in there,
one of the telltale things thatwould happen this house had no
carpeting whatsoever. It hadoriginal parquet wood floors
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upstairs, original pine floor ordownstairs, original pine floors
on the second and third floor,so original wood everywhere. We
ended up putting some carpet onthe third floor at one point,
because those floors were nevermeant to be exposed. But at that
point, when I'm telling you thisstory, there was no carpet in
the whole house. The masterbedroom was at the top of the
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front staircase. The dining roomwas in the middle of the
downstairs, so not on top ofeach other. You could, if I were
standing in the dining room andsomeone were in the master
bedroom in that house, could youhave a conversation, not without
really yellingon more than one occasion? And
this exact phenomenon was a.
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Explained to me by the peoplethat we bought the house from,
who also heard the same storyfrom the people they bought the
house from. It was theequivalent of dropping a bowling
ball on a wood floor in themiddle of the night.
The only thing I can equate itto on a sound to help you
understand my very firstapartment when I was 21 I had a
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Greyhound, and his name was Sid.
He was ornery. He was the sizeof a pony. He was awesome. And I
had an aquarium on a probablyfour and a half foot dresser,
chest of doors that I had in theroom that had some goldfish in
it. In the middle of the night,he pulled that aquarium air
tube. He was just yanking on it,as dogs often do it. He pulled
it and the entire aquarium cameout and fell straight down on a
hardwood floor. It was the sameexact sound, I mean, just a very
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loud catastrophe sound. And thetimes that this happened, at 151
you would get up, you would turnall the lights in the house,
you'd even go down to thebasement, which was a cement
floor, would have never soundedlike that. There was never any
evidence of anything like that.
That was Story number one. Storynumber two. At this house,
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we were up on the third floor.
We would often host game nights,and we'd have friends over, and
we'd play board games, cards orfood, and that was kind of our
entertainment Palace up on thethird floor of this house. I
have standard poodles. Icurrently have two. At the time,
I had one, and his name wasNorman, and everybody looked
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around, and we're like, where'sNorman? And he would have run of
the house while we were playing,so he could run up and down the
stairs. And this is a hugehouse, so, you know, three
floors of fun for a dog. ButNorman was not a senior at this
point, but he was probably sevenyears old, so he wasn't getting
into things.
We could not find Norman to saveourselves. You just couldn't. We
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get onthe kitchen, and we notice
there's a bathroom in thedownstairs kitchen at 151 and
that door could only be lockedfrom the inside. It wasn't a key
door. It had a little twistydead bolt up really high if you
wanted to use it, lock it fromthe inside. And Norman was
inside of that bathroom, lockedin. There was no one else in the
house.
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We had to pop the door off thehinges to get him out. He wasn't
scared. He was cool, calm andcollected when he got out,
there's no way he wasn't tallenough to even if he stood up on
his hind legs and could slidedown the door to lock that
twisty dead boat. He could nothave done. It was a physical
impossibility.
And finally, Story number three,about the 151 house. So as these
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things continued to happen,there were much, many other
nuances like I'm describing toyou, but these are standout
things.
My mom spent the nightnow, she said to me, when she
spent the night there, that shewoke up in the middle of the
night and she saw what lookedlike green
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plasma, if you will. It was likea floating, gelatinous goo
across coming across the livingroom. When my mom would spend
the night at my house, she wouldnever sleep in beds. Her and dad
like to always sleep on thecouch, because it would fall
asleep watching and so this wasway down in the back of the
house, in the family room. So Ididn't think anything of it. My
parents did not drink. They didnot party. They were not
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embellishers. They were very,extremely Catholic. So these
were not the kind of people thatwould try to get your attention
by telling you a ghost story,either. But I just didn't really
think anything of it until thatexact thing happened to me. But
it was in the polar oppositepart of the house. So they were
in the family room, which, whenyou come in the back door of
that house. You were in thefamily room, and I saw this
above the staircase, which wouldgreet you when you come in, a
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big, ornate Victorian staircase.
And I got up to go to thebathroom in the middle of the
night, and I walked by andhanging in the staircase
vestibule, there, right in frontof me, was a purplish green blob
of plasma, andit just it was floating around.
You could see it plain as day.
Never sell it again.
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Decided at that point this houseis a little bit haunted. We're
having all these weird thingshappen. And so I bought some
this was, this would have beenback. Gosh, what year would have
been? My math is failing me,folks, 15 years ago, we'll say,
how about that? So cameraequipment, phone, cell phone,
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cameras and stuff were not asprevalent in society as they are
today. Or I would have just setup a tripod with my phone, but
actually bought camera equipmentand started recording stuff.
There was a library in thishouse downstairs, and
nothing really ever happened inthat room. But I would move the
camera every couple nights. I'dput it up for a couple nights,
and I would fast forward it asfat, and use the software to
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kind of, to kind of reviewthings. And the software would,
you know, I would see audio. Ifthere was sound, I would see
things. So I didn't have to sitand watch footage for eight
hours.
Yes. Well, anyway, I had put inthe library downstairs one
night, and I was watching it thenext day, and all this audio
came up out of the blue. It waspretty quiet. You would hear a
thing. You know, the audio wouldcome up when the HVAC would come
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on the house a little bit. Butthis was much more and so I
narrow it down and get to thatpart of the video. It was at
324, in the morning. And I haveDVDs of this, I made DVDs and to
prove it and stuff,someone had gotten up. It was
either myself or my partner hadgot up and went to the bathroom
and flushed the toilet in themiddle. Then the toilet was on
the back of the house, notdirectly above here, but in a
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silent house. At that time inthe morning, if somebody flushed
the toilet upstairs, eventuallyyou would hear the water come
through the pipes, and as soonas that toilet flushed, you hear
a little girl's voice say, whatwas that? Rewind it 1000s of
times. I've watched it. I'veshown it to many people. There
is no explanation for it thatwas being filmed in the library
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of that house. Again, neverreally had anything happen in
the library at that house. Sothose things are my first
haunted house experiences of mylife that were that were pretty
telltale and fun, but I want toback it up a little bit before
that. Everybody just likes agood haunted house story, but
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those are the major stickouts at that house, there was
all kinds of those bowling ballsdropping in the middle of the
night, noises that would happen.
We would come home after bothbeing at work, or we, you know,
say we went to we left it, Idon't know, eight in the morning
on a Saturday, and we were goneuntil eight at night. We would
get home at night. You know thatsmell when you when you get out
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of the shower, that somebody'sfreshly showered in a house, you
get that kind of familiar smelland a little bit of that
humidity and moisture, you wouldfeel that and smell that right
when you walk in, even thoughthere were no one in the house.
Weird Things like that happenall along. But I want to back up
the haunting stuffto a little bit more paranormal,
other side, spiritual stuff. Soas you know, I was raised, born
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and raised in a very RomanCatholic family. I went to a
Catholic grade school. I went toa Catholic high school. I went
to Bishop Hartley High School inColumbus and St Pius and
Reynoldsburg is where I went tograde school. And I was actually
going to go to a CatholicCollege, Dominican, but they
didn't have the program that Iwanted for accounting, so I
didn't end up going there.
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And so I used to very muchpractice. I never missed a holy
day, nothing. I was big intoCatholicism in the church and
all that stuff. So atthe time that I'm about to tell
you about, I was living inFindlay, Ohio, and you may be
rolling your eyes or saying,Hmm, this is a guy that
practices a bunch of witchstuff. And that's true, and I've
talked about that, and we cantalk about that again, but
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Catholicism lends itself tothat. You know, the smells and
bells of the Catholic mass,incense bells, transformations
happening there. It's no wonderthat you get drawn to the people
who are grown up like that. Getdrawn to this stuff. I love all
the natural stuff. But anyway, Idigress. I was living in
Findlay, Ohio. I was working forMicrosoft, and my friend
Maureen, I had just moved upthere maybe a month before, and
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so I'd be lying if I told youthat I was in my 20s. At the
point in my 20s, I was a party.
I don't mind me. I went outevery night, or if we didn't
have five drinks, it wasn't agood night. And my friend
Maureen and I were thick asthieves in partners in crime and
doing that. And so she wascoming up to stay with me for
the weekend, because I was anhour and a half away from
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Columbus now, two hours. And sowe were going to just do our
friendship thing.
Excuse me. Maureen was havingsome personal problems at the
time. She was traveling, sellinginsurance, that type of thing,
and drinking too much, and shefelt that she had become too
dependent on alcohol, but didn'treally think anything of it.
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So we went to a place called OurLady of consolation. It's a
basilica in Cary, Ohio, which isabout 15 miles south of Findlay,
internationally known peoplefrom all over the world come to
this place. It's like a Europeancathedral. It's just beautiful.
And there are all kinds oflegend and lore about it in the
basement, if you get on thebasement, that's like their
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little Healing Center. It's nota healing center where you go to
get healed, but people that comethere and visit this, this
hallowed place, you'll seecrutches, packs of cigarettes,
needles, if you had a drugaddiction, walkers that are no
longer needed, breathing devicesthat are whatever it is. People
come there and they get healedof these things. I actually
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attended church there at thetime. I was still going to
church, and there was a guynamed Brother Andrew who worked
there, and he was kind of acharacter. He smoked a lot of
cigarettes, and he kind of heldthe grounds together at Carrie,
and so I knew him very well. Soanyway, back to my story.
Maureen has come up for theweekend, and she's having some
soul searching, drinking toomuch. What does she want to do
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with her life? Next steps, shefeels stagnant. I had just moved
to Findlay after having somemajor financial problems in my.
Early 20s, I moved to Findlayand got a full time job, and I
had been there for a year, andthis was@the.com
boom, when it people were insuch demand and all these new
skill sets and that type ofthing. And so I had a job offer
in Boston at the time. However,my parents lived in Columbus.
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Still, my brother lived inColumbus. My life was in Ohio,
but it was huge money to move toBoston, and I had this lovely
house in Findlay, and this verystable, great job, and I, for
all intents and purposes, wasvery happy, and so I couldn't
imagine leaving it, but then thecall of financial improvement
and wellness was there, and so Ididn't know what to do. So point
and take it. We were both kindof melancholy nuts at the time,
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and so I drug her kicking andscreaming. I'm like, we're gonna
go visit Carrie, because shewould just want to go the bar
and go drinking and have fun.
And I'm like, we will do that.
But first thing we're gonna dois we're gonna go to this place
and we're just gonna write ourletter of intention down there
and this healing place and justsee what happens.
And it's a beautiful place, iffor any other reason you go
there. I mean, it's just abeautiful piece of architecture,
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but so we go, Maureen's pissed.
We're there.
It's night time, so it's darkdown in the basement. It's one
of those Catholic churches. Whenyou walk down the basement, you
smell the smell of paraffin wax.
It's the smell, if you've beento those churches, you know very
well it's very spiritual. Darkin there, candle lit and just
beautiful. There's all thesestatues, St Catherine of Siena
sticks out to me as one of them,and just a very special place.
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And so we get down there, andwe're walking around, and we're
thinking about what we want toask, you know, kind of like when
you do manifestation and some ofthis witchy stuff, you know,
what do you really wantanswering? Getting to the heart
of the heart of the question ispart of the
battle out of the shadows downthere comes brother, Andrew. I
told you about him. He worked atCarrie, and he's this quirky old
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man. He's probably five footfour, so relatively short,
Italian and just in your face,funny, comedic, but also just
something about him, like, it'slike he knew you. And so he
walks out of the corner, and hejust starts talking, and this is
what he says, Yeah, you know,one time I was thinking about
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taking a job up in New England,I think it was Boston,
Massachusetts, and I realizedthat I liked it where I was, and
money isn't everything, and Ithink it was best for me, and my
life has never been better. Andso I just decided just to throw
in the towel. And at thatparticular time, I was drinking
myself into a stupor. It wasn'ta funny evening if alcohol
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wasn't involved, and I was theringleader on the drinking and I
could drink them all under thetable until I couldn't. And one
day, I woke up and I decided I'dhad enough of that, and I got
help, and I've never had a drinksince. I don't know why. I just
told you guys that stuff, butthese are just parables. I think
you should know how you doing.
Brian,that's how the conversation
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went.
I have my friend Maureen. We arestill in contact. She will tell
you that that night was thebeginning of her sobriety. She
hasn't touched alcohol since Istayed put in Findlay and
continued to cultivate my careerin IT and followed my sixth
sense to tell me not to leave.
But why did that man know allthat information? This
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information was talked aboutbetween me and Maureen. We drove
15 miles south of where we were,went to the basement of this
church, this Basilica, and herecomes this quirky old man to
tell usour destiny. And it was relevant
to the point of talking aboutthe city of Boston. I had a job
offer in the city of Boston tobe a database administrator at
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that time, he didn't know that.
Why would he know that? Whywould he know that Maureen was
struggling with drinking toomuch and it was time for her to
put the bottle down? Why wouldhe relate those stories to us?
And so my point in telling you Idon't even like to use the word
paranormal on this, but this isall spiritual stuff. You were
listening to, intentionalspiritual living, living with
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Brian. And this is the stuffthat I live for. This is the
stuff that I seek out, thesemoments where there's a glimmer
of proof in the corner, aglimmer of hope that there is
something more I don't have hopeI know there is. I've seen so
many hauntings and thisexperience at Cary, and what I'm
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going to tell you on the nextepisode that's been happening
over at the building I own,at cricket cottage escape rooms,
and how my crystal grid, the Ihave a power crystal grid
sitting over there right now.
And we've had some major thingshappening, and some major I
don't like to use the worddisturbances, because it's all
friendly and good, but justproof, proof, proof, friends,
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it's bigger than you. It'sbigger than me. There's
something out there, and thatmakes me smile, and that makes
me get excited about tomorrow,and I hope that I by listening
to this, I know you guys feelthe same way, and I love telling
these haunting stories. And.
So next week, we're going totalk all about the hauntings at
crooked cottage escape rooms,what we've experienced, what my
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contractors have experienced,what we have proof of as of last
week on video, very interestingand fun stuff. I hope you
enjoyed the part one of myparanormal series in how these
things have happened in my life,and I can't wait to share more
with you. All right, friends,coming up, we are going to pull
three tarot cards and see whatmother universe wants us to know
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for the week ahead, lookingforward to it. You
all right, let's talk Tarot. Igot my cards right here, and I'm
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gonna pull them as we speak. Ihad shuffled them at my break.
Here goes I have pulledMajor Arcana three, the Empress,
the ace of pentacles and MajorArcana one, the magician.
Reversed again, the Empress, aceof pentacles and the magician.
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What does the universe want usto know? This is a very nuanced
reading, not one for beginners.
I will say so. Anytime we seethe Empress, we want to think
about nurturing ourselves withabundance, creativity and
growth, self love, MotherNature, nurturing aspects of
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life, if you will. When we talkabout the ace of pentacles,
anytime we have an ace on thePIP card. So whether it be
pentacles, wands, swords orcups, it's always about new
beginnings. And in thisparticular instance, we're
talking about the suit ofpentacles. So it's everything to
do with manifestation,prosperity, material success.
And then we have the magicianreversed. And that's where the
nuanced part of this readingcomes in. Because you have those
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two positive cards. You know,we're
loving ourself, if you will,we're taking care of ourself.
We're nurturing our life. And wehave a new beginning, a
possibility to cha ching to getsome more coins. One bad thing,
if you will, one thing to keepyour eye on when you deal with
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aces and Tarot is that they arepossibilities. They're new
possibilities, and they requirework. They require follow
through on our part. And a lotof times people will get a Tarot
reading and they'll get an aceof pentacles. Is a good one
because, oh, I have a new way tomake money. This is going to
land in my lap. No, that's theuniverse telling you and telling
us that, hey, I'mpresenting you this opportunity,
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and it's ripe for you, but it'sgoing to require getting in the
weeds and getting down to it andrunning towards it and getting
your goal. If you don't followthrough, you won't get it. But
what does this was magicianreversed mean. So if I'm to look
at this again, let me reiterate,we've got the the Empress and
the ace of pentacles. So if Ijust took those two and I told a
little story, it's like I'mfiring on all eight cylinders. I
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have my priorities, right? Mylife is in order. I'm nurturing
myself with self love. I'mtaking care of myself. And now
is a ripe time to begin this newthing that I've had, this idea
that has been sprouting in mymind, and now it's time to
fertilize it and run with it.
But then the magician reversed.
What does it mean? So how Iwould say that this how I would
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read this for someone, you'remanipulating yourself.
It's a blockage in your personalpower and a misuse or mis
guidance of your talent. So it'sinternal manipulation. You can
do this goal, and you haveeverything in order and in place
to do so, but you're blockedinternally. You're struggling to
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manifest your desire. And it'sa, it's a it's a lack of focus
and belief in yourself andultimately, perhaps a clear
intention. Remember, we talkabout these new beginnings and
aces and how they'repossibilities, but we have to
work the process to get them tocome through. But you're
manipulating yourself intobelieving and something is just
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not right, and so you're alittle lackluster in your
execution, and it's all internalmanipulation and lack of
direction, if that makes sense.
And so a I'm trying to think ofan example to to throw out here
for you. Solet me think, okay, so as we all
know, I run two stores calledravens cauldron, and I also run
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an escape room complex calledcricket cottage escape room. So
let's just hypothetically saythat I've now decided I want to
open up a donut store. I do notwant to open up a donut store be
the last thing on earth I wantto do it. Let's just say I do.
You know I financially okay thatEmpress card I am investing
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appropriately. My health isgood.
I'm nurturing my life so that ischecked. This is a new money
making opportunity. I've donesome market research, let's say,
and I'm gonna put this inKalamazoo, Michigan, and I know
that it is lacking a donut shopand it the possibilities are
real, and I am ready to do it.
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I pull my tarot, and I get thesecards and I get this magician
that's reversed. How am Imanipulating myself? How am I
having a lack of direction? Howam I misusing my talents in
order to get this it's a warningnot to do this project, or if I
do it, to rethink it and get aclearer plan. Well, it's pretty
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simple in my mind for my myself,personally, and I would be able
to translate this to a queerthat was asking this question,
is that my talents are neededhere in Delaware, Ohio, I've got
two stores to run, plus anescape room complex, plus rental
properties, plus my own house,plus my pets I have. I am a
control freak, and when I run mybusinesses, I want to be there
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all the way up until the daythat they're running, and then
weeks after to make sure it'srunning like a well oiled
machine. I cannot be inKalamazoo, Michigan, and be
here. If I'm going to do that,it's going to be to the
detriment of my currentbusinesses, unless I get a
clearer plan and make and movesome levers. That's what the
magician reversed is trying totell us when we're talking about
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an empress and an ace ofpentacles, and that's how I
would read that for someone. Sofor the weeks ahead, if you have
something that you've beenwanting to do that you think is
a great idea, and it's time todo it, evaluate it from all
angles, and don't make anemotional decision about it, and
you'll be just fine.
And that is our tarot readingfor the week.
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And just like that, Episode Fouris a wrap. Thank you guys so
much for tuning in. I'm havingsuch a wonderful time recording
Season Three with covid. When weI started this podcast and
stuff, the life was different,but
so much has happened, and I justfeel really honored at 52 years
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old to share my experiences withall this witchy stuff, and what
makes me me and you can borrowfrom my path to make your
beautiful, eclectic path. And Ijust love that. And this has
been such a fun experience thisseason. So I hope you're
enjoying it as much as I am. Iwant to remind everyone for my
ravens cauldron people. Ourwebsite is@ravenscadron.com
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but we now have an app. If youwould like to download our app
on the App Store for Apple orGoogle Play, you can download
the ravenscauldron app, and inthe coming weeks, we're going to
be doing live in store eventstwice a week, and there will be
exclusive giveaways andexclusive app only discounts.
Plus it's just cool to have ourlittle app, and we're really
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proud of it. So check that out.
And next week, we will continueon the paranormal discussions.
I'm going to dive deep intowhat's been going on at cricket
cottage escape rooms in thebuilding we own. We've had
several hardcore hauntings overthere, and we got some good
stuff on video this past weekthat's pretty amazing, and we're
really stoked about it. Untilthen, keep being the best badass
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version of yourself blessed tobe, And we'll be in touch See
you next week. You
Brian. Hello and welcome to intentional spiritual
living with Brian. This isseason three, Episode Four. I
hope everybody's having a greatAugust. So far, I'm excited
about this episode. We're gonnaveer off the beaten path just a
little and have an entireepisode, perhaps two or three.
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I've got tons of stories, butparanormal discussions. I've had
a fascination with theparanormal my entire life, and
I've had some things happenrecently at our building where
the Escape Rooms are that arejust so amazing. And tell tale
that I really want to share themwith you, but I want to back
that up and talk about all theexperiences I've had throughout
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my life. And so it's going totake a few episodes, and I think
you're going to be excited tohear it. We're also going to do
continue on right out the batwith our build your build your
crystal tool kit, and get toknow your crystals. This week,
we're going to talk about lapislazuli and how it was kind of
the day I was wearing Lapis.
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You're going to hear about a bitof a life changing story about
getting to know myself, andwe'll do a tarot card pull. So
we're going to do crystals,paranormal and Tarot this
episode. And I think you'rereally going to enjoy these
stories. And since I'm longwinded, I think we should get
started now. So with no furtherado, let's get on it.
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All right, let's get right intoit, building your crystal
toolkit for those that are justchecking out my podcast for the
first time and haven't beenfollowing along this particular
season, season three is going tobe a 10 episode season, and I'm
doing a section in each episodeof this season about how to get
to know and build your crystaltoolkit. Some of it is based
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upon things I've experienced.
Some of it, things I know,things that work for me. So this
is a spiritual living podcast,as you know, and I'm here to
tell you my experiences and howto glean anything from them that
you wish, take what you want outof them, as we all know. I'm
very eclectic, and so borrowfrom me, if you if you will.
I've been doing this stuff for avery long time. And one thing
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that happens at Raven's cauldronon a daily basis. We have new
practitioners, oldpractitioners, whatever they
they love the crystals. Theyhave tons of them at their
house, but they becometchotchkes, and they sit in
their house and stuff, andtchotchkes are a great thing. I
have several display pieces inmy house, but I also have a
massive crystal toolkitthat I use to manifest and make
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things happen, fix things on mylife and whatever. And so we're
about to talk about one of thoseparticular situations. We talked
about clear quartz on EpisodeOne. We talked about Carnelian
on Episode Two. We talked aboutrainbow Moonstone in episode
three. And now we're going totalk about lapis lazuli, the
beautiful blue stone. The mostsurprised possessions of Lapis
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sizzuli come from Afghanistan,the most beautiful royal blue
with flecks of pyrite and copperin them. It's just amazing. And
when you get high quality Lapis,it's something you'll never
forget. Always museum quality iswhat comes to mind. But
metaphysically, what do you dowith Lapis? You're at the store,
you find a piece of Lapis azuliatumble. It's the size of your
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thumbnail, for instance, and youlove it. You have to have it.
But thenthings, time moves on, and you
don't,you don't really know what to do
with it, and so you just haveit. So I'm gonna tell you a
story about me. It's kind of alife changing story, if you
will. Happened when I was 34years old. I am 52
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I was working at motoristinsurance as a database
administrator. In my previouslife, I worked in it for over 24
years, worked in data analytics,database administration, that
type of thing, before I sold thefamily farm to become a
metaphysical store owner. Soon this spring day, when I was
working at motorist, I've hadseveral motorcycles throughout
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my life, anything from littlemini bikes to dirt bikes to
scooters to trikes, anything inbetween. The only thing I really
haven't had, I haven't had, likea Harley, massive bike like
that, but I grew up in a farmingfamily. My brother and my dad,
blue collar are men that knowhow to fix and engineer
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anything. I'm the milk man'schild.
I barely know how to put in ascrew. I barely know how to
change a light bulb and so but Igrew up around that stuff in a
farming family. I was always atthe farm, riding on tractors,
playing on mini bikes and allthat stuff. So I'm no stranger
to this stuff. And so I startedhaving motorcycles. I had my
first little Honda shadow. Mymom used to throw a fit at me
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all the time because I woulddrive it on the on fast roads,
and I got a bike big enough toride on the freeway and that
type of thing. So back when Iwas 34 I got something called a
Suzuki Bergman 650,it is a scooter for all intents
and purposes, and the only wayyou can really tell it from a
distance is that you can stepthrough it, versus having the
gap, excuse me, the gas tankbetween your legs. It was a 650,
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cc. So it was a little bit of arocket ship for the weight that
it had. And I would drive it towork on the freeway, exceeding
speeds of 8090, and it wassmooth as glass.
What makes a scooter a scooteris that it was a non shifting
bike. It had an automatictransmission. And that was very
key to me because I was, I wasdriving from the city of
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Delaware, Ohio all the way todowntown Columbus. So anyway, I
bought this cool thing. It waslike, gosh, at the time, it's
like, 15, $16,000 maybe.
Now here's where the lapislazuli comes in.
This stuff just helps. LapisLazuli is all about wisdom and
self acceptance, if you will. SoI took the scooter down and I
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parked it. I'd worked there fora while. And I mean, it's a huge
piece of machinery. I mean, itwas the size of a medium sized
motorcycle. I mean, if you laidit down, you'd have a hard time
picking it back up. It was thebig deal.
Long story short, I was made funof that day by two guys, and
that will never say their names.
They were people that I knew,and they laughed and snickered
about it being a scooter.
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Now I got to tell you folks, Iwas completely out of my mind,
shocked by this, and I foundmyself as I heard this
happening. They were two cubesdown for me. They were talking
about it, and then someone elsetold me about it, and I was
embarrassed, which is somethingI never am. I was flush with red
because I'm like, I just spent$15,000 I got this new piece of
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machinery that I love, and I'mbeing made fun of it here at
work.
Now, as you know, I've practicedmetaphysical stuff since I was
in the single digits as a humanbeing, and so I always turn to
my crystals to to help me in inthese times. And so for whatever
reason, I got my tool kit outthat night, and lapis lazuli was
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exactly what was calling to me,and I just held it on my chest,
because I was really taken backby this. I was disturbed that
somebody was making fun of me,and I didn't understand why.
Now, come to come, come tofigure out why. I will tell you
why they were. It's ridiculous,but
here I was just felt very shamedand being made fun of for no
reason, and I used my piece oflapis easily. I set it on my
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chest, I meditated it with itthat night, and I carried it for
two weeks, and I slowly chippedaway at and I'm going to use a
cuss word here. This Iapologize, parents, if you're
listening, push pause here. I'mgoing to be using some curse
words. But the overwhelmingsense, when I was done with my
meditation for two weeks andkeeping that lap of sizzling,
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having this, this situation,happen to me as fuck off, is
exactly where I came out. Fuckoff. Why was I? Because I knew
the reason, because I talked toa couple of motorcycle people
and friends of mine, and it'sbecause the motorcycle,
motorcycle clan, if you will,the kind of toxic masculinity
crowd, and that's not typicallymotorcycle people, but the
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people that, the people thatwere making fun of me about
this, were not even motorcyclepeople, but it was a scooter,
and that was like a pansy typeof bike. And why wouldn't you
get a real bike type of thing?
Come to find out. And I had noidea when this happened, and it
really, really, really, kind ofupset me. And where does lapis
again come in, and how I cameout the other end, thinking,
fuck you. Self acceptance andwisdom, I came into this
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completely blindsided. So I wasbeing made of, made fun of
because of a vehicle that Ibought at my place of him at my
place of employment, by mypeers. I felt very vulnerable,
vulnerable and embarrassed byit, which I laugh about now,
because if it happened today,I'd be like laugh all the way
dumb ass. I don't care. That'show I've evolved, and that's
where lapis lazuli comes in.
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It's wisdom down the road, ifyou will, our own path, our own
road, and self acceptance. Andwhen you kind of get to that
point where nothing can breakyou like this situation broke
me, you really, really become amore powerful and confident and
strong person, and that's what Iam today. But if I can think
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back to that day when I was 34I'm cringing thinking about I
remember it as if it was it justhappened this morning, and that
feeling of somebody making funof you for something that you
had no idea that you could evenbe made fun of for, it can kind
of wreck your psyche, if youwill. And that's what it did for
me. And Laplace Lazuli simplysaved.
The day, and I urge you to get agood piece of it in your
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collection, because you'll nevergo wrong with it. Lapis, easily,
beautiful blue and copper.
All right, friends, let's talkparanormal. We're going to talk
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about that for the majority ofthis episode, and lots and lots
to discuss here that havehappened in my life, and I had
to do a chronology of it. I'vebeen simply obsessed with
paranormal activity, paranormalstudies, my entire life.
I've done all the crazy things,you know, broken into in high
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school southern Ohio, to aschool that allegedly had an
explosion that was haunted. Ispent the night at the Mansfield
reformatory a couple times onGhost hunts. I've had
experiences at homes I've owned,and we're going to talk about
some of those. Had an experienceat a church in Cary, Ohio that
was life changing up until thispast three weeks, the crooked
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cottage escape room building hasbeen extremely active, and we're
going to probably not going toget to that discussion this
week. We'll talk about that innext week's episode. I don't
know how far we'll get, butwe're gonna do our best. So
let's start talking. So firstbig experience, I had a
couple things. The number 151,it was the address of two houses
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I've owned. It's the address ofone house I currently live in,
it's the address of anotherhouse I own several years ago,
it was the room that my motherstayed in at Willowbrook when we
had to move her to Willowbrookdue to her journey with
Alzheimer's. So the number 151,has repeatedly visited me in my
life. Like I said, I have livedin two different houses, the
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current house and another housethat had the address of 151 and
so the first house that I livedin
that had the address of 151 wasmy first bona fide haunting, if
you will.
I remember being at closing.
This was a Victorian house. Itwas built in the 1800s beautiful
stained glass everywhere,beautiful wood floors,
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everything that you want out ofthe Victorian house. But like
most Victorian houses have astoried history in that, you
know, it was built. I forget whothe house was built for, but
we'll say it was built for somebig, wealthy professor or
something like that, and thenthat person dies, and around
that time, we're in the mid, youknow, 40s and 50s in the United
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States, and architecture andideals have changed, and those
Victorian houses and then getcut up into five apartments and
reconfigured all the way upthrough the 80s and then the
90s, the appreciation for thatarchitecture started to trickle
back in, and people put themback together. And a lot of the
people saved the doors andthings, and now you have the
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past put back the way it wasintended to be. The point of
telling you all that is, there'sa bunch of energy change, if you
will, from what it once was towhat it is. And so we moved into
this house, it had completelybeen rehabbed, beautiful
Victorian, three stories, six,seven foot, stained glass panels
everywhere, just exquisite. AndI closing when we were buying
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that house, I was secretlyreally, really wanted it to be
haunted.
And I happened to ask the owner,because I really wanted it to be
at closing if it were haunted,and she got real white in the
face, because I only because shewas afraid that I was going to
close, stop the closing, and notbuy the house anyway. She
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admitted that she never saidthat. She never used the word,
yes, it's haunted, but it wasmany people think so, come to
find out, the previous owners,from them, also experience these
things. So let's talk about myfirst house, beginning with the
numbers 151,so when I first moved in there,
one of the telltale things thatwould happen this house had no
carpeting whatsoever. It hadoriginal parquet wood floors
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upstairs, original pine floor ordownstairs, original pine floors
on the second and third floor,so original wood everywhere. We
ended up putting some carpet onthe third floor at one point,
because those floors were nevermeant to be exposed. But at that
point, when I'm telling you thisstory, there was no carpet in
the whole house. The masterbedroom was at the top of the
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front staircase. The dining roomwas in the middle of the
downstairs, so not on top ofeach other. You could, if I were
standing in the dining room andsomeone were in the master
bedroom in that house, could youhave a conversation, not without
really yellingon more than one occasion? And
this exact phenomenon was a.
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Explained to me by the peoplethat we bought the house from,
who also heard the same storyfrom the people they bought the
house from. It was theequivalent of dropping a bowling
ball on a wood floor in themiddle of the night.
The only thing I can equate itto on a sound to help you
understand my very firstapartment when I was 21 I had a
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Greyhound, and his name was Sid.
He was ornery. He was the sizeof a pony. He was awesome. And I
had an aquarium on a probablyfour and a half foot dresser,
chest of doors that I had in theroom that had some goldfish in
it. In the middle of the night,he pulled that aquarium air
tube. He was just yanking on it,as dogs often do it. He pulled
it and the entire aquarium cameout and fell straight down on a
hardwood floor. It was the sameexact sound, I mean, just a very
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loud catastrophe sound. And thetimes that this happened, at 151
you would get up, you would turnall the lights in the house,
you'd even go down to thebasement, which was a cement
floor, would have never soundedlike that. There was never any
evidence of anything like that.
That was Story number one. Storynumber two. At this house,
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we were up on the third floor.
We would often host game nights,and we'd have friends over, and
we'd play board games, cards orfood, and that was kind of our
entertainment Palace up on thethird floor of this house. I
have standard poodles. Icurrently have two. At the time,
I had one, and his name wasNorman, and everybody looked
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around, and we're like, where'sNorman? And he would have run of
the house while we were playing,so he could run up and down the
stairs. And this is a hugehouse, so, you know, three
floors of fun for a dog. ButNorman was not a senior at this
point, but he was probably sevenyears old, so he wasn't getting
into things.
We could not find Norman to saveourselves. You just couldn't. We
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get onthe kitchen, and we notice
there's a bathroom in thedownstairs kitchen at 151 and
that door could only be lockedfrom the inside. It wasn't a key
door. It had a little twistydead bolt up really high if you
wanted to use it, lock it fromthe inside. And Norman was
inside of that bathroom, lockedin. There was no one else in the
house.
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We had to pop the door off thehinges to get him out. He wasn't
scared. He was cool, calm andcollected when he got out,
there's no way he wasn't tallenough to even if he stood up on
his hind legs and could slidedown the door to lock that
twisty dead boat. He could nothave done. It was a physical
impossibility.
And finally, Story number three,about the 151 house. So as these
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things continued to happen,there were much, many other
nuances like I'm describing toyou, but these are standout
things.
My mom spent the nightnow, she said to me, when she
spent the night there, that shewoke up in the middle of the
night and she saw what lookedlike green
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plasma, if you will. It was likea floating, gelatinous goo
across coming across the livingroom. When my mom would spend
the night at my house, she wouldnever sleep in beds. Her and dad
like to always sleep on thecouch, because it would fall
asleep watching and so this wasway down in the back of the
house, in the family room. So Ididn't think anything of it. My
parents did not drink. They didnot party. They were not
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embellishers. They were very,extremely Catholic. So these
were not the kind of people thatwould try to get your attention
by telling you a ghost story,either. But I just didn't really
think anything of it until thatexact thing happened to me. But
it was in the polar oppositepart of the house. So they were
in the family room, which, whenyou come in the back door of
that house. You were in thefamily room, and I saw this
above the staircase, which wouldgreet you when you come in, a
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big, ornate Victorian staircase.
And I got up to go to thebathroom in the middle of the
night, and I walked by andhanging in the staircase
vestibule, there, right in frontof me, was a purplish green blob
of plasma, andit just it was floating around.
You could see it plain as day.
Never sell it again.
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Decided at that point this houseis a little bit haunted. We're
having all these weird thingshappen. And so I bought some
this was, this would have beenback. Gosh, what year would have
been? My math is failing me,folks, 15 years ago, we'll say,
how about that? So cameraequipment, phone, cell phone,
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cameras and stuff were not asprevalent in society as they are
today. Or I would have just setup a tripod with my phone, but
actually bought camera equipmentand started recording stuff.
There was a library in thishouse downstairs, and
nothing really ever happened inthat room. But I would move the
camera every couple nights. I'dput it up for a couple nights,
and I would fast forward it asfat, and use the software to
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kind of, to kind of reviewthings. And the software would,
you know, I would see audio. Ifthere was sound, I would see
things. So I didn't have to sitand watch footage for eight
hours.
Yes. Well, anyway, I had put inthe library downstairs one
night, and I was watching it thenext day, and all this audio
came up out of the blue. It waspretty quiet. You would hear a
thing. You know, the audio wouldcome up when the HVAC would come
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on the house a little bit. Butthis was much more and so I
narrow it down and get to thatpart of the video. It was at
324, in the morning. And I haveDVDs of this, I made DVDs and to
prove it and stuff,someone had gotten up. It was
either myself or my partner hadgot up and went to the bathroom
and flushed the toilet in themiddle. Then the toilet was on
the back of the house, notdirectly above here, but in a
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silent house. At that time inthe morning, if somebody flushed
the toilet upstairs, eventuallyyou would hear the water come
through the pipes, and as soonas that toilet flushed, you hear
a little girl's voice say, whatwas that? Rewind it 1000s of
times. I've watched it. I'veshown it to many people. There
is no explanation for it thatwas being filmed in the library
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of that house. Again, neverreally had anything happen in
the library at that house. Sothose things are my first
haunted house experiences of mylife that were that were pretty
telltale and fun, but I want toback it up a little bit before
that. Everybody just likes agood haunted house story, but
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those are the major stickouts at that house, there was
all kinds of those bowling ballsdropping in the middle of the
night, noises that would happen.
We would come home after bothbeing at work, or we, you know,
say we went to we left it, Idon't know, eight in the morning
on a Saturday, and we were goneuntil eight at night. We would
get home at night. You know thatsmell when you when you get out
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of the shower, that somebody'sfreshly showered in a house, you
get that kind of familiar smelland a little bit of that
humidity and moisture, you wouldfeel that and smell that right
when you walk in, even thoughthere were no one in the house.
Weird Things like that happenall along. But I want to back up
the haunting stuffto a little bit more paranormal,
other side, spiritual stuff. Soas you know, I was raised, born
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and raised in a very RomanCatholic family. I went to a
Catholic grade school. I went toa Catholic high school. I went
to Bishop Hartley High School inColumbus and St Pius and
Reynoldsburg is where I went tograde school. And I was actually
going to go to a CatholicCollege, Dominican, but they
didn't have the program that Iwanted for accounting, so I
didn't end up going there.
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And so I used to very muchpractice. I never missed a holy
day, nothing. I was big intoCatholicism in the church and
all that stuff. So atthe time that I'm about to tell
you about, I was living inFindlay, Ohio, and you may be
rolling your eyes or saying,Hmm, this is a guy that
practices a bunch of witchstuff. And that's true, and I've
talked about that, and we cantalk about that again, but
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Catholicism lends itself tothat. You know, the smells and
bells of the Catholic mass,incense bells, transformations
happening there. It's no wonderthat you get drawn to the people
who are grown up like that. Getdrawn to this stuff. I love all
the natural stuff. But anyway, Idigress. I was living in
Findlay, Ohio. I was working forMicrosoft, and my friend
Maureen, I had just moved upthere maybe a month before, and
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so I'd be lying if I told youthat I was in my 20s. At the
point in my 20s, I was a party.
I don't mind me. I went outevery night, or if we didn't
have five drinks, it wasn't agood night. And my friend
Maureen and I were thick asthieves in partners in crime and
doing that. And so she wascoming up to stay with me for
the weekend, because I was anhour and a half away from
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Columbus now, two hours. And sowe were going to just do our
friendship thing.
Excuse me. Maureen was havingsome personal problems at the
time. She was traveling, sellinginsurance, that type of thing,
and drinking too much, and shefelt that she had become too
dependent on alcohol, but didn'treally think anything of it.
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So we went to a place called OurLady of consolation. It's a
basilica in Cary, Ohio, which isabout 15 miles south of Findlay,
internationally known peoplefrom all over the world come to
this place. It's like a Europeancathedral. It's just beautiful.
And there are all kinds oflegend and lore about it in the
basement, if you get on thebasement, that's like their
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little Healing Center. It's nota healing center where you go to
get healed, but people that comethere and visit this, this
hallowed place, you'll seecrutches, packs of cigarettes,
needles, if you had a drugaddiction, walkers that are no
longer needed, breathing devicesthat are whatever it is. People
come there and they get healedof these things. I actually
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attended church there at thetime. I was still going to
church, and there was a guynamed Brother Andrew who worked
there, and he was kind of acharacter. He smoked a lot of
cigarettes, and he kind of heldthe grounds together at Carrie,
and so I knew him very well. Soanyway, back to my story.
Maureen has come up for theweekend, and she's having some
soul searching, drinking toomuch. What does she want to do
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with her life? Next steps, shefeels stagnant. I had just moved
to Findlay after having somemajor financial problems in my.
Early 20s, I moved to Findlayand got a full time job, and I
had been there for a year, andthis was@the.com
boom, when it people were insuch demand and all these new
skill sets and that type ofthing. And so I had a job offer
in Boston at the time. However,my parents lived in Columbus.
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Still, my brother lived inColumbus. My life was in Ohio,
but it was huge money to move toBoston, and I had this lovely
house in Findlay, and this verystable, great job, and I, for
all intents and purposes, wasvery happy, and so I couldn't
imagine leaving it, but then thecall of financial improvement
and wellness was there, and so Ididn't know what to do. So point
and take it. We were both kindof melancholy nuts at the time,
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and so I drug her kicking andscreaming. I'm like, we're gonna
go visit Carrie, because shewould just want to go the bar
and go drinking and have fun.
And I'm like, we will do that.
But first thing we're gonna dois we're gonna go to this place
and we're just gonna write ourletter of intention down there
and this healing place and justsee what happens.
And it's a beautiful place, iffor any other reason you go
there. I mean, it's just abeautiful piece of architecture,
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but so we go, Maureen's pissed.
We're there.
It's night time, so it's darkdown in the basement. It's one
of those Catholic churches. Whenyou walk down the basement, you
smell the smell of paraffin wax.
It's the smell, if you've beento those churches, you know very
well it's very spiritual. Darkin there, candle lit and just
beautiful. There's all thesestatues, St Catherine of Siena
sticks out to me as one of them,and just a very special place.
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And so we get down there, andwe're walking around, and we're
thinking about what we want toask, you know, kind of like when
you do manifestation and some ofthis witchy stuff, you know,
what do you really wantanswering? Getting to the heart
of the heart of the question ispart of the
battle out of the shadows downthere comes brother, Andrew. I
told you about him. He worked atCarrie, and he's this quirky old
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man. He's probably five footfour, so relatively short,
Italian and just in your face,funny, comedic, but also just
something about him, like, it'slike he knew you. And so he
walks out of the corner, and hejust starts talking, and this is
what he says, Yeah, you know,one time I was thinking about
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taking a job up in New England,I think it was Boston,
Massachusetts, and I realizedthat I liked it where I was, and
money isn't everything, and Ithink it was best for me, and my
life has never been better. Andso I just decided just to throw
in the towel. And at thatparticular time, I was drinking
myself into a stupor. It wasn'ta funny evening if alcohol
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wasn't involved, and I was theringleader on the drinking and I
could drink them all under thetable until I couldn't. And one
day, I woke up and I decided I'dhad enough of that, and I got
help, and I've never had a drinksince. I don't know why. I just
told you guys that stuff, butthese are just parables. I think
you should know how you doing.
Brian,that's how the conversation
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went.
I have my friend Maureen. We arestill in contact. She will tell
you that that night was thebeginning of her sobriety. She
hasn't touched alcohol since Istayed put in Findlay and
continued to cultivate my careerin IT and followed my sixth
sense to tell me not to leave.
But why did that man know allthat information? This
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information was talked aboutbetween me and Maureen. We drove
15 miles south of where we were,went to the basement of this
church, this Basilica, and herecomes this quirky old man to
tell usour destiny. And it was relevant
to the point of talking aboutthe city of Boston. I had a job
offer in the city of Boston tobe a database administrator at
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that time, he didn't know that.
Why would he know that? Whywould he know that Maureen was
struggling with drinking toomuch and it was time for her to
put the bottle down? Why wouldhe relate those stories to us?
And so my point in telling you Idon't even like to use the word
paranormal on this, but this isall spiritual stuff. You were
listening to, intentionalspiritual living, living with
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Brian. And this is the stuffthat I live for. This is the
stuff that I seek out, thesemoments where there's a glimmer
of proof in the corner, aglimmer of hope that there is
something more I don't have hopeI know there is. I've seen so
many hauntings and thisexperience at Cary, and what I'm
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going to tell you on the nextepisode that's been happening
over at the building I own,at cricket cottage escape rooms,
and how my crystal grid, the Ihave a power crystal grid
sitting over there right now.
And we've had some major thingshappening, and some major I
don't like to use the worddisturbances, because it's all
friendly and good, but justproof, proof, proof, friends,
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it's bigger than you. It'sbigger than me. There's
something out there, and thatmakes me smile, and that makes
me get excited about tomorrow,and I hope that I by listening
to this, I know you guys feelthe same way, and I love telling
these haunting stories. And.
So next week, we're going totalk all about the hauntings at
crooked cottage escape rooms,what we've experienced, what my
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contractors have experienced,what we have proof of as of last
week on video, very interestingand fun stuff. I hope you
enjoyed the part one of myparanormal series in how these
things have happened in my life,and I can't wait to share more
with you. All right, friends,coming up, we are going to pull
three tarot cards and see whatmother universe wants us to know
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for the week ahead, lookingforward to it. You
all right, let's talk Tarot. Igot my cards right here, and I'm
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gonna pull them as we speak. Ihad shuffled them at my break.
Here goes I have pulledMajor Arcana three, the Empress,
the ace of pentacles and MajorArcana one, the magician.
Reversed again, the Empress, aceof pentacles and the magician.
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What does the universe want usto know? This is a very nuanced
reading, not one for beginners.
I will say so. Anytime we seethe Empress, we want to think
about nurturing ourselves withabundance, creativity and
growth, self love, MotherNature, nurturing aspects of
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life, if you will. When we talkabout the ace of pentacles,
anytime we have an ace on thePIP card. So whether it be
pentacles, wands, swords orcups, it's always about new
beginnings. And in thisparticular instance, we're
talking about the suit ofpentacles. So it's everything to
do with manifestation,prosperity, material success.
And then we have the magicianreversed. And that's where the
nuanced part of this readingcomes in. Because you have those
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two positive cards. You know,we're
loving ourself, if you will,we're taking care of ourself.
We're nurturing our life. And wehave a new beginning, a
possibility to cha ching to getsome more coins. One bad thing,
if you will, one thing to keepyour eye on when you deal with
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aces and Tarot is that they arepossibilities. They're new
possibilities, and they requirework. They require follow
through on our part. And a lotof times people will get a Tarot
reading and they'll get an aceof pentacles. Is a good one
because, oh, I have a new way tomake money. This is going to
land in my lap. No, that's theuniverse telling you and telling
us that, hey, I'mpresenting you this opportunity,
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and it's ripe for you, but it'sgoing to require getting in the
weeds and getting down to it andrunning towards it and getting
your goal. If you don't followthrough, you won't get it. But
what does this was magicianreversed mean. So if I'm to look
at this again, let me reiterate,we've got the the Empress and
the ace of pentacles. So if Ijust took those two and I told a
little story, it's like I'mfiring on all eight cylinders. I
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have my priorities, right? Mylife is in order. I'm nurturing
myself with self love. I'mtaking care of myself. And now
is a ripe time to begin this newthing that I've had, this idea
that has been sprouting in mymind, and now it's time to
fertilize it and run with it.
But then the magician reversed.
What does it mean? So how Iwould say that this how I would
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read this for someone, you'remanipulating yourself.
It's a blockage in your personalpower and a misuse or mis
guidance of your talent. So it'sinternal manipulation. You can
do this goal, and you haveeverything in order and in place
to do so, but you're blockedinternally. You're struggling to
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manifest your desire. And it'sa, it's a it's a lack of focus
and belief in yourself andultimately, perhaps a clear
intention. Remember, we talkabout these new beginnings and
aces and how they'repossibilities, but we have to
work the process to get them tocome through. But you're
manipulating yourself intobelieving and something is just
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not right, and so you're alittle lackluster in your
execution, and it's all internalmanipulation and lack of
direction, if that makes sense.
And so a I'm trying to think ofan example to to throw out here
for you. Solet me think, okay, so as we all
know, I run two stores calledravens cauldron, and I also run
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an escape room complex calledcricket cottage escape room. So
let's just hypothetically saythat I've now decided I want to
open up a donut store. I do notwant to open up a donut store be
the last thing on earth I wantto do it. Let's just say I do.
You know I financially okay thatEmpress card I am investing
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appropriately. My health isgood.
I'm nurturing my life so that ischecked. This is a new money
making opportunity. I've donesome market research, let's say,
and I'm gonna put this inKalamazoo, Michigan, and I know
that it is lacking a donut shopand it the possibilities are
real, and I am ready to do it.
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I pull my tarot, and I get thesecards and I get this magician
that's reversed. How am Imanipulating myself? How am I
having a lack of direction? Howam I misusing my talents in
order to get this it's a warningnot to do this project, or if I
do it, to rethink it and get aclearer plan. Well, it's pretty
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simple in my mind for my myself,personally, and I would be able
to translate this to a queerthat was asking this question,
is that my talents are neededhere in Delaware, Ohio, I've got
two stores to run, plus anescape room complex, plus rental
properties, plus my own house,plus my pets I have. I am a
control freak, and when I run mybusinesses, I want to be there
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all the way up until the daythat they're running, and then
weeks after to make sure it'srunning like a well oiled
machine. I cannot be inKalamazoo, Michigan, and be
here. If I'm going to do that,it's going to be to the
detriment of my currentbusinesses, unless I get a
clearer plan and make and movesome levers. That's what the
magician reversed is trying totell us when we're talking about
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an empress and an ace ofpentacles, and that's how I
would read that for someone. Sofor the weeks ahead, if you have
something that you've beenwanting to do that you think is
a great idea, and it's time todo it, evaluate it from all
angles, and don't make anemotional decision about it, and
you'll be just fine.
And that is our tarot readingfor the week.
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And just like that, Episode Fouris a wrap. Thank you guys so
much for tuning in. I'm havingsuch a wonderful time recording
Season Three with covid. When weI started this podcast and
stuff, the life was different,but
so much has happened, and I justfeel really honored at 52 years
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old to share my experiences withall this witchy stuff, and what
makes me me and you can borrowfrom my path to make your
beautiful, eclectic path. And Ijust love that. And this has
been such a fun experience thisseason. So I hope you're
enjoying it as much as I am. Iwant to remind everyone for my
ravens cauldron people. Ourwebsite is@ravenscadron.com
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but we now have an app. If youwould like to download our app
on the App Store for Apple orGoogle Play, you can download
the ravenscauldron app, and inthe coming weeks, we're going to
be doing live in store eventstwice a week, and there will be
exclusive giveaways andexclusive app only discounts.
Plus it's just cool to have ourlittle app, and we're really
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proud of it. So check that out.
And next week, we will continueon the paranormal discussions.
I'm going to dive deep intowhat's been going on at cricket
cottage escape rooms in thebuilding we own. We've had
several hardcore hauntings overthere, and we got some good
stuff on video this past weekthat's pretty amazing, and we're
really stoked about it. Untilthen, keep being the best badass
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version of yourself blessed tobe, And we'll be in touch See
you next week. You
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