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As Sagittarius season sparks momentum and a final supermoon draws near, we break down how to shed old identities, lighten emotional weight, and clear space for a clean vision. Think practical and soulful: a ten-item gratitude ritual, presence through retrograde delays, and small logistics—leave early, back up your files, pack the charger—that keep calm intact. We dive into manifestation that isn’t fluff: speak from chosen reality, align belief with action, and if doubt surfaces, meet it with shadow work and support. When you release resentment and regret, you reclaim attention, courage, and energy for what’s next.
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Michelle
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to Living Magically.
I am your host, MagicalMichelle.
And this week, November, um,November twenty-fourth, is the
beginning of Thanksgiving week.
And one of the the last reallybig um weeks of the Mercury
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retrograde, of so manyretrogrades.
And we're starting to sort ofcome out of it.
And I I I just, it's such animportant, um, it's such an
important week.
I and I just want to share withyou, if you've been feeling it,
if you've been cooking, likeyou've been um, you've been
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prepping for this, um, it's it'sokay.
It's intense right now.
And when when we do this, whenwe look at where we are, I want
you to take a few minutes andlook and see how far you've
come.
One of the big, big, big themesof a Mercury retrograde, and I
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love it coming overThanksgiving, um, is that we can
see how far we've come, how farhave you come this year, how
far have you come in the lastnine years, how come how far
have you come in your life?
Who are you now and who are youbecoming?
Who have you remembered to be?
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So I'm coming to you here frommy um my dear friend Abby.
Thank you, Abby, for for beingan incredible host, and to all
my friends and family here inOhio.
Um, I'm just a few miles awayfrom the home I grew up in.
And when I'm here, um I just Ifind that there is a different
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kind of support.
There's a support from peoplethat have known me literally my
whole life.
Abby has been my friend, andher family members have been
people I've known since I wasborn.
And then I also have my otherfriends like Tina, who was my
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Girl Scout, you know, bestfriend in Girl Scouts, and we've
been friends all through highschool and college and and
maintain the friendship to thisday.
And of course, Melissa, who wasmy roommate in college, that
has been kind of through thegood and the bad times.
And and I think about that, andI think about how they show up
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in my life, and how theselifelong friendships have molded
me.
And I and I and I look back andthey've loved me through many
incarnations, some of them good,some of them bad.
And can't you love yourselfthrough all of the incarnations?
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Some of them good, some of thembad.
And I think about how they showup for me when I visit.
I had a care package withMelissa brought me like a yummy,
yummy sweater to over overcoatto wear and socks and and these
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gifts, and my my friend Abby,you know, puts up her her guest
room and and my my aunt Kathyloans me her car.
And just people show up for mewhen I'm here because they know
who I am at a deepest level.
And and they show up for me athome.
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I'm not saying that people athome, like, God, everybody shows
up for me at home, too.
I could I guess I could make anentire video just thanking all
the people in my life, likeMarissa and like Scott, and and
if your name isn't mentioned,literally you, because if you're
listening to this, you're partof my world.
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But have you taken that deepdive into appreciating the
lessons that these people havegiven you, the lessons that have
come through your hardships,the lessons of what have you
gotten as a wisdom from thethings that have happened to
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you?
We talk about our enemies, wetalk about our narcissists in
our life, we talk about thepeople who've been hard or
difficult or didn't show up forus.
And the invitation I'm gonnagive you is as they come up or
they are in your world this weekwith the holiday, look at what
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you've learned.
Look at your resilience, lookat how you've learned to value
yourself.
What has the wisdom as you'rereviewing these situations, as
you're as you're in thegratitude for what has happened,
be grateful also for thenegative.
And I know that's hard.
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It's hard to look at your it atyour negative and say, wow,
that made me grow, or or thatperson was only doing the the
best they knew how to do.
Maybe you have to say, I wasonly doing what I knew how to
do.
Um so so this week, review andrelease, review and be
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appreciative, review and look atthings with wisdom.
So we talk about gratitude asthe attitude for the season, and
it certainly is, and it's it'sdeep appreciation can bring you
the highest form ofmanifestation.
We're in that new moon waxingin with a full moon peaking
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December 4th, the last full moonof the year, and it'll be a
supermoon.
So there is an opportunity hereto use this portal for growth,
for transformation.
It's a really good time,though, to review with wise
eyes, with gratitude,appreciation, and a open heart
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what has come true for you.
And take accountability, takefull on accountability.
I was a jerk here.
I didn't do this.
I I was scared, Iprocrastinated, I didn't know
any better.
Make it make a good apology andaccept apologies right now.
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With this many planets inretrograde, and specifically
Mercury retrograde, we invitefull release, full apologies.
And and a good apology takesaccountability and also says,
This is what I would dodifferently in at going forward.
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It it's you've got to put alittle action behind an apology,
too.
But sometimes an apology comesin your own mind, and it you
can't even tell the person, oryour need to release and forgive
is gonna come from someone whodidn't apologize, who never even
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acknowledged their placement.
Uh, forgiveness is for you andthrough you, not from them.
They don't you're a lot of uswant closure and we're never
gonna get closure.
We're never gonna get thatperson giving uh you what you
want.
Forgive them anyway, acceptthem anyway, and look at the
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lesson, the wisdom of whatyou've gone through.
Because now that we're inSagittarius season, now that
we're getting close to the endof the year, now that we're
getting close to the end of theyear of the snake, we are gonna
be going into a fire year.
We're gonna go into fireseason, I should say, with
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Sagittarius.
So we're burning it down, we'rerenewing it, we're phoenixing
it, and even getting ready forthe year of the horse, we're
letting go of this last sheddingof the skin.
It is the most beautiful timeto shed your skin right now, to
shed the last identity, um,pounds, weight, emotions, things
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you've been carrying around,even belongings and objects.
And as we do that, we become,we remember, we allow.
And I've put together a reallybeautiful coaching program, um,
which is absolutely ignite yourdreams and your desire.
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And in that coaching program,we have a 90-day transformation
that will cover this last bit ofthis year, releasing and
shedding the cycle of the snakeand igniting and firing up and
putting in the new you for theyear of the horse, for the year
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of the one year.
And one of the things that'sinteresting is you are whole and
you are complete, and thisclosing out of the season is one
for the books.
This is one to really do that.
I remember I had a similarfeeling in 2019, where I was
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like, I need to just finisheverything.
And I I got rid of my storageunit, I let go of my office
space, I let I finished andcompleted a program that I was
in.
And I was like, I'm not doinganything, I'm not taking
anything into this next year.
Everything has to be closed, nocontracts, no nothing.
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And of course, that was thebeginning of a new season.
I feel that same way is thatit's really important to go into
this year as empty as youpossibly can, but with a new
vision, starting this new seasonwith potentiality, starting
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this new season without the oldstory.
And so that's this part thatwe're in right now with all
these retrogrades, is to beburning away, cleansing, and
removing that story so that youare right on track for the build
of the new experience.
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You're right in the energy offorward motion and momentum
that's going to be the year ofthe fire, of the year of the
horse.
It's not the fire horse.
I keep wanting to call it thefire horse, but it is so
powerful and it is so potent tobe going into this energy, and
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this energy has a sense ofurgency.
If you haven't felt it, checkand see if your soul isn't
trying to lean into this urgencyright now.
It's an absolutely magnificentopportunity.
And yes, it's been Mercuryretrograde.
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So of course, my plane has uhwas laid, of course, paperwork
has been delayed, of course,payments are being delayed.
Of course, you know, you go toput something on and the zoom
isn't working quite right.
So check and remember that thisisn't a punishment.
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This is more about teaching youto be present.
And so be present this holidayseason.
Be be present this season ofgratitude.
You don't have to be doing ittraditional, you can just take a
nice list.
One of the things that I dowith a group of people is a
10-item gratitude list, and wedo it by text.
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It's beautiful.
What are you grateful for?
What where how far have youcome?
That's the review.
And reset and ignite.
That's the um, that's thethat's the moment we're in right
now.
Burn it down and then use thatsame flame to light the ember to
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be building the next season,the next version of you.
The empty space creates spacefor what you're becoming.
You have to have the room.
And we know from frommetaphysics, from Theta Healing
that if you have anger,resentment, regret, shame, all
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the stories, um, I'm not worthy,I'm not enough, going through
your mind and your body, there'sno room for the expectations,
for the certainty, for theclarity, for the truth.
And the truth is, if you candream it, the potential for it
to be real, the potential for itto be made manifest is already
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there.
It's already there.
And that's universal law.
And we may not see it in thethree-day reality, but it's
true, it's available in thefield of miracles, in the field
of possibilities.
And so if you can imagine it'sreally your soul, it's you
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telling yourself from time andspace, this is what I want and
this is what's possible.
And so the manifesting withgratitude peace is to talk
yourself right into I'm sograteful and thankful this is
already in my life, and reallymake a statement of choosing it.
Really make a statement thateven if your bank account's
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empty, I'm so grateful andthankful for the great wealth
that is arriving.
I am so grateful for the energyof this is already mine.
And that, whether you're doingit for a soulmate, whether
you're doing that for the home,the job, whatever it is that you
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feel that you're in lack of,you're not in lack.
It's already in the field.
You are looking at a certainform of reality, but you can
call it, and this circumstanceof miracles, you can call that
in from the field ofpossibilities, from the field of
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miracles, and everything shiftsas soon as you believe it.
Do you believe it is possible?
And do you believe it'spossible for you?
And if you don't, then this isthe perfect time for shadow
work.
Get a coach, see somebody, seeyour coach, see your counselor,
see your manifestation, do thework.
And I'm here for that.
If that is something you want,I've opened my books for five
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slots for this specialtransformational process that
I'm doing December, January, andFebruary to be ready for the
year of the horse.
We will finish the sheddingseason, we will get started with
fierceness, we will be ready totake on this new version of
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you.
So just in the last few days,I've had such incredible um
people in my life telling me.
Um, we had a class, and Ericawas telling me how literally in
five years her life iscompletely changed.
And it started with theteachings that she worked with
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me in in 2020.
And we continue to worktogether.
Someone else talked about lastyear's one year program and how
I was present with them in theirtransformation and that they're
a different person, and we'veseen miracles continue in their
lives.
And these were these are justsome of the messages I've
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received in the last 24 hours.
So I'm just saying this is thetime.
And in our personal gratitudefrom me and Marissa, we do have
a holiday sale for the week ofgratitude.
And so this new coachingprogram is very affordable this
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week.
It's 50% discounted, um, 50%off this week only for um for
those of you who are friends andfamily.
We love you and we want to behere with you in this
transformation in every everyway, any way possible.
So renew and reboot andrecalibrate and make this the
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end of a very powerful season aswe are grateful for you, and
you are grateful for you as wego into the new season.
I also wanted to just put ashout out that we have three
more slots available forEngland.
If you want to come with us toour our Avalon, Glass and Berry
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Avalon tour, and we have reallywe're ready to do our 2027 um
trip to Egypt.
We're getting that already.
So if you want to know aboutthat and you want to book a
special call with me for that,please let me know because we
haven't officially put it outthere yet, but we're already um
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we're already starting to fillup for 2027.
So whatever is going on withyou, if you're here, if you're
watching this video, it is mybiggest gratitude that I've ever
had to be this at this momentwith you.
5,000 people now.
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We we it just blew my mind thatwe hit that 5,000 mark.
And so my gratitude goes out toyou, whether you've done a
session, watched a video, takena class or a program, went on a
trip with me, whether you're afriend, a family member,
whatever has been true for you.
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I just want you to know I loveyou.
I'm grateful for you.
And whatever you do this week,be kind to others.
It is Mercury retrograde andmany other retrogrades.
So be kind, be patient, leaveearly, check your check your
itinerary, check your paperwork.
If your computer needs backedup, do that.
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Make sure you take your carchargers with you to recharge
your phones in the car andwhatnot.
Um, but just be gentle withyourself and others and live
magically.
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