September 25, 2025 • 22 mins
The gentle wisdom of nature meets our deepest heart longings in this soul-nourishing episode celebrating the equinox energies. Standing at this powerful threshold between seasons, we explore the profound teachings that emerge when we pause to honor balance, cycles, and the eternal dance between light and shadow.
Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wright shares intimate reflections and original poetry that invite us to embrace the full spectrum of our human experience. Through readings from her works "Cranberry Dusk," "Lamentations of the Sea," and "Small Pearl's Big Wisdom," she weaves a tapestry of insights about how nature's cycles mirror our own journeys of loss, renewal, and becoming.
When life feels chaotic or overwhelming, this episode offers a centering reminder: we can always cut through the noise by asking, "What would nature say about this?" The answer invariably leads us back to our heart's wisdom and the understanding that balance isn't about perfect equilibrium but an ongoing renegotiation as we navigate life's constant changes.
The autumn equinox reminds us that when we let go—of leaves, relationships, expectations, or identities—we aren't just experiencing loss but actively nurturing the soil for new growth. "She doesn't yet realize she is watering her own roots," Dr. BethAnne reads, inviting us to see our challenges as preparation for blooming anew.
Whether you're experiencing personal winter during summer's height or finding renewal amid apparent endings, this episode affirms your journey. Allow these reflections to help you honor your authentic rhythm and recognize the sacred balance of grief and love, rest and action, holding on and letting go. As nature eternally teaches: from every ending, something new will be reborn.
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Intro/Outro Music (00:13):
Aloha and welcome to your Heart Magic, an
illuminating space wherepsychology, spirituality and
heart wisdom meet.
Here's your host, dr BethannKapansky-Wright.
Author, psychologist andspiritual educator.
Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wri (00:33):
Aloha everybody, welcome to your
Heart Magic.
This is Dr BethannKapansky-Wright, and today we
are celebrating the equinoxenergies.
Equinox just passed, on the22nd.
It is autumn equinox here inthe northern hemisphere and it
is spring in the southern.
That's hard for me to imagine,having always lived in the north
(00:56):
, growing up in Alaska, but Iwant to honor anybody who might
be listening and understand thatwe are all tuning into this
from our various points of viewand no matter where you are
right now, equinox is always atime where we celebrate balance
and harmony.
It is usually a time thatrepresents for the northern
(01:19):
hemisphere the halfway pointbetween summer and winter
solstice, and that's vice versafor the southern hemisphere.
And so it's this honoring ofnot just light and dark but
finding that equilibrium, thatfulcrum point between the two.
And I think that for us in thefall there's a little bit more
(01:42):
of an emphasis on letting go andshedding and releasing, which
echoes the turn of the seasons.
In the spring, I think theemphasis is probably more on
rebirth and regeneration andthings coming back to life.
But wherever we are, we reallyhonor the full life cycle when
we tap into equinox time and thesolstices.
(02:05):
The full life cycle when we tapinto equinox time and the
solstices, and I've always lovedthese as points on the wheel
throughout the year because theyare a wonderful time to stop,
reflect, tune into some of thespecific themes and energies and
focus points that natureinspires us to think about or be
more mindful of during thosetimes.
(02:25):
I also love nothing more thancelebrating nature on the your
Heart Magic podcast.
I got my start as a writerfocusing on nature, poetry and
writing about nature and writingsome of the lessons I felt
nature was teaching me, and I'vetalked before as an intuitive
(02:46):
that when I was first opening upmy intuition, nature really
spoke to me intuitively andwithout even realizing it.
Some of the messages that I wastaking into me is I would watch
the clouds dance in the sky, orthe light change color during a
sunset, or the solidity andsense of breath that I would get
(03:09):
from being in the trees.
I really think I was picking upon the energetic realm and my
intuition was helping me toperceive those messages and
perceive the wisdom that wascoming through, and so I always
feel like I'm going back to myroots no pun intended when we
talk about nature on the podcastand bring some nature wisdom
(03:31):
through.
So today I want to share a fewpoems that focus on the aspect
of balance for equinox andcelebrating the life cycle of
release and death and letting goand the renewal energy that
comes from that.
I was thinking today as Ipulled some pieces to read aloud
(03:53):
on here and reflect on how muchI need these messages at this
time and how applicable theystill feel, and I was thinking
of my personal journey and someof the things that had been
coming up with an invitationinto accepting how life is,
which isn't necessarily how Ialways want it to be.
There are some things that havebeen changing in not just the
(04:17):
bigger collective, but in mypersonal journey.
I have been talking on thepodcast about our dog, frodo,
going blind and having diabetesand the challenges related to
that and aging.
Today we're celebrating mymom's 85th birthday.
I am so grateful that she'sstill here.
Anytime we have thesecelebratory moments in my family
(04:40):
, it always brings up such astrange sense in me that the
pattern didn't really shake outthe way that I thought it would.
In my family of origin and withlosing Brent before my parents,
it just is a repatterning, areadjustment.
It is different things toconsider, and so whenever we get
(05:01):
together, there's always thisbittersweet feeling because his
presence is very missed, notjust by me as the sister and the
sibling, but by my parents, whohave had to go through the loss
of a child an adult child butstill losing a child before they
pass.
And then this alchemy of allbeing on Kauai together and how
(05:28):
myself and my husband and myparents have shifted into a unit
over here, and I'm often awedand amazed and sad and joyful
and thoughtful and like all thefeelings when we have these
occasions that we gathertogether and have a moment.
(05:50):
It causes me to slow down andpause and think about the
strange dance of life and howthings have shaped themselves to
be in this time and space andto have created these
experiences.
There's just a lot of feelingsthere, and so I find these poems
today feel really timely formyself and my heart and I hope
(06:12):
they speak to you as well.
This first one is called Equinox.
It's from my poetry bookCranberry Dusk A Journey of
Becoming.
This is the first book that Iself-published and I actually
wrote this poem back in Alaskain the fall of 2015.
And it was inspired by equinoxand this beautiful hike that we
(06:36):
had done.
That was up in the mountains ofEagle River somewhere and it
was beautiful and cold that dayand windy, and the tundra was
this beautiful cranberry.
It was cranberry dusk, thetitle of the book, with all
these mahogany and burgundiesand it had that quintessential
(06:57):
Alaska in September feel whenyou're up in the mountains
equinox.
I would like to press my cheekagainst her frozen ground, hear
her whisper secrets of thechanging tides and molting
leaves and what it means to bestanding after so long.
She would tell me of how manyseasons she has watched churn,
(07:19):
how the world doesn't stop foranyone, how, no matter what,
life has a way of coming backround again.
Whoever we are, whatever ourprayers, may we be our own,
offering the life we cast outinto the world an act of worship
as each steady breath invokesour belonging to this time and
(07:41):
place.
Even on my coldest of days, Istill long for the press of that
hallowed ground, so I can burymyself in the lull of cranberry
dusk and rest in assurance oflife's promises below the leaves
rustle, as somewhere in me Ican almost hear them say only
(08:01):
love will win in the end.
Only love will win in the end.
Some of my favorite poetry waswritten in that time, when I was
really into writing naturepoetry.
I still enjoy doing it, but Idon't feel as organically
inspired as I did at thatparticular time in my life and I
(08:22):
often find myself going back tosome of the words that I wrote
then and rereading them andtapping into the wisdom that
nature helped inspire.
And something that I'm sograteful for is that we have
nature's wisdom to teach us howto live well.
There's always an insight, ananswer, a solution, a sliver of
(08:46):
guidance, something that we canfind when we tune into nature's
cycles, and some form of higherperspective that's not hard to
access if we just take the timeto shift our heart, focus and
talk to a tree or ask what wouldthe sky say about this or what
does nature have to teach meabout this, and maybe fix our
(09:09):
attention on one of nature'selements to see if we can find
the specific lesson it mighthave for us.
But there's always somethingabout living more harmoniously,
living in cycle, knowing that,no matter what happens, things
are cyclical and anything thatdies will be reborn in new form.
(09:29):
It might look very different,but from death life will grow
and it will shape itself intosomething new and finding how to
balance grief and love and joyand sorrow and hold space for
all of that.
To me, that's what balance isreally all about.
It's not necessarily being ableto map out on a piece of paper
(09:52):
a balanced life or a balancedeating plan or the kinds of ways
that we might take the conceptbalance and try and quantify it
and make it into a number orcalculate it somehow.
That's a slightly differentform of balance.
I think.
In nature's balance it's moreabout looking at things
(10:12):
holistically and knowing thatover time things have a way of
moving towards wellness, ofmoving towards balance.
If something is really out ofwhack or something has been in
one season for overly long, wecan know that things will shift
and something will come to helpbalance things out and to help
(10:35):
move things back towards centerand back towards that fulcrum
point, that cusp of both shadowand light, life and death, chaos
and creativity, love and grief,all of those things.
There's a balance point andnature helps us find that.
And on our individual journeysI often find when the world is
(10:56):
so terribly complex withinformation and last week on the
podcast we were talking aboutthe guidance from the Akashic
Records who invited us to cutthrough the noise and really
look at the layers ofinformation and the many things
that are distracting us andpulling at our attention right
now, and I love that guidance somuch.
(11:18):
And a really simple way to payattention to that is just take
it back to.
What would nature say aboutthis?
What wisdom does nature havefor my life at this time?
And that will cut through allthe noise almost instantaneously
and take us into our hearts,take us into simple wisdom, take
us into our truth and help ustap into whatever it is we most
(11:41):
need as heart medicine for ourjourney at this time.
This next passage that I want toshare is from Lamentations of
the Sea.
I also wroteations of the Sea.
I also wrote this in the fall.
I wrote it in the month ofOctober and I know this because
I referenced the month in thepoem.
But this is called From theGround Up and it's in the autumn
section of that book, which Idivided into four seasons, and
(12:05):
it is about embracing the ideathat when we let go, something
new will eventually be rebornFrom the Ground Up.
I think perhaps October is themost beautiful yet saddest month
of all.
Her trees drip leafy tearssoaking the ground with her loss
.
The more she tries to grasploss, the more she tries to
(12:33):
grasp to save, to hang on, theharder they fall.
She doesn't yet realize she iswatering her own roots,
strengthening, lengthening,nourishing the space she
inhabits so she can rise up andbe bigger, be taller, bloom anew
, then fall in love with life.
Taller, bloom anew, then fallin love with life.
Fall in love with herself.
No-transcript.
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I wrote the original version ofthat poem back in the fall of
2013.
And at the time I had beenthrough a lot of heartache.
The summer prior to that I hadhad, I think, a breakup and a
heart betrayal.
I'd lost somebody that I reallycared about to cancer.
There was just a lot going onthat really put my heart in a
(13:20):
space of grief and it was aninteresting summer for me
because I remember the summer of2013.
It was such a summer ofbecoming.
When I look back at some of thepoetry that I wrote and it's
interspersed through some of mylater books, I really see this
grief inside of me that wascoming out and a lot of mourning
, but I also see this heartwisdom that came out of it and
(13:43):
this realization of how big myheart must be my capacity to
love, that I could grieve sohard and grieve so much.
And for me that was such arevelation to flip the script on
grief and to realize that I wasin such emotional pain over
these betrayals and losses andgriefs because I love so much
(14:05):
and I love so hard and I reallywent all out when I care about
people in my life.
And realizing that helped mesee what I was feeling from a
place of strength.
And that was really when Istarted to see love as a
superpower.
I think I had already beentuned into that concept some,
but it's like it clicked in mymind in a really different way
(14:27):
than before and I thought, wow,I am grieving and mourning from
such a deep love, all some ofthese things and I'm writing
this poetry that some of it wasbeautiful, some of it was just
kind of miserable and badbreakup, bad love poetry, bad
grief poetry, and all of it wasa reflection of this deep ocean
(14:48):
of feelings that I carry insideof me.
I could see that as an assetand realize that it takes a
really strong heart and it takesa special heart, a sacred heart
, a light-filled heart, to lovethat much and to hold so much
space for both love and grief.
(15:09):
It made me stand up straighterand it gave me back this piece
of myself that I didn't evenrealize I was missing.
It helped me take myself backinto myself and really come back
into a space of belonging tomyself.
And as the summer went into thefall, I found more healing and I
started to find some revivalagain.
(15:30):
And so when I wrote that poemit was this symbiotic reflection
of seeing the leaves fallingfrom the trees and I had been in
an autumn and winter of my lifeduring that summer and then,
ironically, in the fall.
It's like I was coming back tolife and going through this
spring, awakening in my summerseason.
So I was really off with whatwas happening in nature at the
(15:53):
time, but I appreciated thisidea of seeing that the leaves
are so beautiful falling fromthe tree and it's also so sad
and yet there is this alchemygoing on that they are going to
nourish the ground and go intodecay and rot into the soil but
that gets fertilized somehow tohelp feed the ground and
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nature's mysterious ways wouldbe recycled into new life in
springtime, and I really relatedto that.
I so love that wisdom.
The last passage that I want toshare with you today is more of
a reflection from Small Pearl'sBig Wisdom and it's passage 144
, balance an OngoingRenegotiation.
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One of the tricks to learning tobe at peace with life is
learning how to be at peace withour ebbs and flows.
Learning when to act, move andpush ourselves to show up and
create, endeavor or produce.
Learning when to be still andreceive and rest instead of a
step.
We are constantly invited tokeep learning how to interpret
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our moods, emotional states andlife's ups and downs in a way
that supports our expansion andcompassion and keeps us growing
on the journey of self-love.
Finding balance in our lives isoften fleeting, because life's
change is constant.
When we think we have itfigured out, or everything
(17:20):
juggled, or have created a newequilibrium of steadfast
circumstance, then something isbound to change and we will find
ourselves renegotiating ourrelationship with the energies
in our lives.
This requires a lot of shiftingand fluidity learning to step
when we feel called, slowingdown and resting when there is
(17:42):
nothing else to do, givingourselves permission not to know
, and finding a new rhythm ofmotion and receptivity.
Asking ourselves how can I bestlove myself in this season.
What do I need to supportmyself right now?
What's my best course of actionor conscious receptivity in
(18:03):
this moment?
Then we do our best to listento what comes through and stay
with our process of self.
I absolutely appreciate thisidea that balance is an ongoing
renegotiation.
So I often think it'sunobtainable, like maybe we'll
have it for a hot minute andthen something changes and
(18:26):
things are out of balance again.
So I love this idea of lookingat balance as moving towards
wholeness or more of a greaterarc, that we can't always judge
balance in a single moment, butwe can look at the pattern over
time and see where we have movedinto greater harmony in our
lives, see where something hasperhaps gotten out of balance or
(18:48):
out of alignment and think interms of long vision of how can
I move towards a space ofrebalancing these energies right
now.
And I also love the idea thatsometimes we are completely at
odds with what's going on in theexternal world and we are
having our own season and that'sokay.
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I really appreciate that in somany ways.
Nature works in this harmony andthis symmetry and everything
feeds into each other and it'sinterconnected.
And yet if you break downindividual elements, they are
independent and they might beinterdependent on what's
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happening around them and partof that whole, but we can almost
always find an example wheresomething is marching to the
beat of its own drummer innature or doing its own thing or
growing outside the lines ornot doing what it's supposed to
do, and I think that's inspiringtoo, and it's really a profound
reminder to know that we existindependently and autonomously
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within this greater whole andthis greater interconnection.
And so this idea that, nomatter what else, we can always
come back to how do I lovemyself in this season?
How do I find my next step ormy next rest, if we're being
invited to rest in this season?
And what element of naturemight hold inspiration for me
(20:16):
right now?
Maybe it's something that isreally different than what the
seasonal change or seasonalshift is doing outside of you.
We are always invited to comeback into our space of heart,
wisdom and soul sovereignty andthink about what is right for my
authenticity at this time, andI think that's really celebrated
(20:36):
and I think that's reallyhonored by the patterns that
nature reflects.
We are meant to be theseglorious, fabulous individuals
that are unique and beautifuland are change and awkward
sometimes and going throughgrowing pains and shocking
sometimes and how we might tryand renegotiate our life, and
(20:59):
other times stagnant and mundane, where we sort of blend in and
nothing extraordinary hashappened and then somehow, maybe
we have an epiphany and breathefresh energy into something and
we rebirth ourselves anew, andI'm here for all of it.
So I hope, wherever you're atright now on this Equinox week,
that you are listening to yourheart, asking yourself what
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rhythm am I in right now, atthis time, and staying with your
own magic and, of course, beinginspired by nature's magic in
whatever way speaks to you.
Thank you so much for joiningme on the podcast today.
I will be back next week with anew your Heart Magic episode.
As always, have an amazing weekand be well, be love, be you
(21:50):
and be magic.
Intro/Outro Music (21:54):
You've been listening to your Heart Magic
with Dr Bethann Kopansky-Wright.
Tune in next week for a newepisode to support and empower
your light.
Aloha and welcome to your Heart Magic, an
illuminating space wherepsychology, spirituality and
heart wisdom meet.
Here's your host, dr BethannKapansky-Wright.
Author, psychologist andspiritual educator.
Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wri (00:33):
Aloha everybody, welcome to your
Heart Magic.
This is Dr BethannKapansky-Wright, and today we
are celebrating the equinoxenergies.
Equinox just passed, on the22nd.
It is autumn equinox here inthe northern hemisphere and it
is spring in the southern.
That's hard for me to imagine,having always lived in the north
(00:56):
, growing up in Alaska, but Iwant to honor anybody who might
be listening and understand thatwe are all tuning into this
from our various points of viewand no matter where you are
right now, equinox is always atime where we celebrate balance
and harmony.
It is usually a time thatrepresents for the northern
(01:19):
hemisphere the halfway pointbetween summer and winter
solstice, and that's vice versafor the southern hemisphere.
And so it's this honoring ofnot just light and dark but
finding that equilibrium, thatfulcrum point between the two.
And I think that for us in thefall there's a little bit more
(01:42):
of an emphasis on letting go andshedding and releasing, which
echoes the turn of the seasons.
In the spring, I think theemphasis is probably more on
rebirth and regeneration andthings coming back to life.
But wherever we are, we reallyhonor the full life cycle when
we tap into equinox time and thesolstices.
(02:05):
The full life cycle when we tapinto equinox time and the
solstices, and I've always lovedthese as points on the wheel
throughout the year because theyare a wonderful time to stop,
reflect, tune into some of thespecific themes and energies and
focus points that natureinspires us to think about or be
more mindful of during thosetimes.
(02:25):
I also love nothing more thancelebrating nature on the your
Heart Magic podcast.
I got my start as a writerfocusing on nature, poetry and
writing about nature and writingsome of the lessons I felt
nature was teaching me, and I'vetalked before as an intuitive
(02:46):
that when I was first opening upmy intuition, nature really
spoke to me intuitively andwithout even realizing it.
Some of the messages that I wastaking into me is I would watch
the clouds dance in the sky, orthe light change color during a
sunset, or the solidity andsense of breath that I would get
(03:09):
from being in the trees.
I really think I was picking upon the energetic realm and my
intuition was helping me toperceive those messages and
perceive the wisdom that wascoming through, and so I always
feel like I'm going back to myroots no pun intended when we
talk about nature on the podcastand bring some nature wisdom
(03:31):
through.
So today I want to share a fewpoems that focus on the aspect
of balance for equinox andcelebrating the life cycle of
release and death and letting goand the renewal energy that
comes from that.
I was thinking today as Ipulled some pieces to read aloud
(03:53):
on here and reflect on how muchI need these messages at this
time and how applicable theystill feel, and I was thinking
of my personal journey and someof the things that had been
coming up with an invitationinto accepting how life is,
which isn't necessarily how Ialways want it to be.
There are some things that havebeen changing in not just the
(04:17):
bigger collective, but in mypersonal journey.
I have been talking on thepodcast about our dog, frodo,
going blind and having diabetesand the challenges related to
that and aging.
Today we're celebrating mymom's 85th birthday.
I am so grateful that she'sstill here.
Anytime we have thesecelebratory moments in my family
(04:40):
, it always brings up such astrange sense in me that the
pattern didn't really shake outthe way that I thought it would.
In my family of origin and withlosing Brent before my parents,
it just is a repatterning, areadjustment.
It is different things toconsider, and so whenever we get
(05:01):
together, there's always thisbittersweet feeling because his
presence is very missed, notjust by me as the sister and the
sibling, but by my parents, whohave had to go through the loss
of a child an adult child butstill losing a child before they
pass.
And then this alchemy of allbeing on Kauai together and how
(05:28):
myself and my husband and myparents have shifted into a unit
over here, and I'm often awedand amazed and sad and joyful
and thoughtful and like all thefeelings when we have these
occasions that we gathertogether and have a moment.
(05:50):
It causes me to slow down andpause and think about the
strange dance of life and howthings have shaped themselves to
be in this time and space andto have created these
experiences.
There's just a lot of feelingsthere, and so I find these poems
today feel really timely formyself and my heart and I hope
(06:12):
they speak to you as well.
This first one is called Equinox.
It's from my poetry bookCranberry Dusk A Journey of
Becoming.
This is the first book that Iself-published and I actually
wrote this poem back in Alaskain the fall of 2015.
And it was inspired by equinoxand this beautiful hike that we
(06:36):
had done.
That was up in the mountains ofEagle River somewhere and it
was beautiful and cold that dayand windy, and the tundra was
this beautiful cranberry.
It was cranberry dusk, thetitle of the book, with all
these mahogany and burgundiesand it had that quintessential
(06:57):
Alaska in September feel whenyou're up in the mountains
equinox.
I would like to press my cheekagainst her frozen ground, hear
her whisper secrets of thechanging tides and molting
leaves and what it means to bestanding after so long.
She would tell me of how manyseasons she has watched churn,
(07:19):
how the world doesn't stop foranyone, how, no matter what,
life has a way of coming backround again.
Whoever we are, whatever ourprayers, may we be our own,
offering the life we cast outinto the world an act of worship
as each steady breath invokesour belonging to this time and
(07:41):
place.
Even on my coldest of days, Istill long for the press of that
hallowed ground, so I can burymyself in the lull of cranberry
dusk and rest in assurance oflife's promises below the leaves
rustle, as somewhere in me Ican almost hear them say only
(08:01):
love will win in the end.
Only love will win in the end.
Some of my favorite poetry waswritten in that time, when I was
really into writing naturepoetry.
I still enjoy doing it, but Idon't feel as organically
inspired as I did at thatparticular time in my life and I
(08:22):
often find myself going back tosome of the words that I wrote
then and rereading them andtapping into the wisdom that
nature helped inspire.
And something that I'm sograteful for is that we have
nature's wisdom to teach us howto live well.
There's always an insight, ananswer, a solution, a sliver of
(08:46):
guidance, something that we canfind when we tune into nature's
cycles, and some form of higherperspective that's not hard to
access if we just take the timeto shift our heart, focus and
talk to a tree or ask what wouldthe sky say about this or what
does nature have to teach meabout this, and maybe fix our
(09:09):
attention on one of nature'selements to see if we can find
the specific lesson it mighthave for us.
But there's always somethingabout living more harmoniously,
living in cycle, knowing that,no matter what happens, things
are cyclical and anything thatdies will be reborn in new form.
(09:29):
It might look very different,but from death life will grow
and it will shape itself intosomething new and finding how to
balance grief and love and joyand sorrow and hold space for
all of that.
To me, that's what balance isreally all about.
It's not necessarily being ableto map out on a piece of paper
(09:52):
a balanced life or a balancedeating plan or the kinds of ways
that we might take the conceptbalance and try and quantify it
and make it into a number orcalculate it somehow.
That's a slightly differentform of balance.
I think.
In nature's balance it's moreabout looking at things
(10:12):
holistically and knowing thatover time things have a way of
moving towards wellness, ofmoving towards balance.
If something is really out ofwhack or something has been in
one season for overly long, wecan know that things will shift
and something will come to helpbalance things out and to help
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move things back towards centerand back towards that fulcrum
point, that cusp of both shadowand light, life and death, chaos
and creativity, love and grief,all of those things.
There's a balance point andnature helps us find that.
And on our individual journeysI often find when the world is
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so terribly complex withinformation and last week on the
podcast we were talking aboutthe guidance from the Akashic
Records who invited us to cutthrough the noise and really
look at the layers ofinformation and the many things
that are distracting us andpulling at our attention right
now, and I love that guidance somuch.
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And a really simple way to payattention to that is just take
it back to.
What would nature say aboutthis?
What wisdom does nature havefor my life at this time?
And that will cut through allthe noise almost instantaneously
and take us into our hearts,take us into simple wisdom, take
us into our truth and help ustap into whatever it is we most
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need as heart medicine for ourjourney at this time.
This next passage that I want toshare is from Lamentations of
the Sea.
I also wroteations of the Sea.
I also wrote this in the fall.
I wrote it in the month ofOctober and I know this because
I referenced the month in thepoem.
But this is called From theGround Up and it's in the autumn
section of that book, which Idivided into four seasons, and
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it is about embracing the ideathat when we let go, something
new will eventually be rebornFrom the Ground Up.
I think perhaps October is themost beautiful yet saddest month
of all.
Her trees drip leafy tearssoaking the ground with her loss
.
The more she tries to grasploss, the more she tries to
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grasp to save, to hang on, theharder they fall.
She doesn't yet realize she iswatering her own roots,
strengthening, lengthening,nourishing the space she
inhabits so she can rise up andbe bigger, be taller, bloom anew
, then fall in love with life.
Taller, bloom anew, then fallin love with life.
Fall in love with herself.
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I wrote the original version ofthat poem back in the fall of
2013.
And at the time I had beenthrough a lot of heartache.
The summer prior to that I hadhad, I think, a breakup and a
heart betrayal.
I'd lost somebody that I reallycared about to cancer.
There was just a lot going onthat really put my heart in a
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space of grief and it was aninteresting summer for me
because I remember the summer of2013.
It was such a summer ofbecoming.
When I look back at some of thepoetry that I wrote and it's
interspersed through some of mylater books, I really see this
grief inside of me that wascoming out and a lot of mourning
, but I also see this heartwisdom that came out of it and
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this realization of how big myheart must be my capacity to
love, that I could grieve sohard and grieve so much.
And for me that was such arevelation to flip the script on
grief and to realize that I wasin such emotional pain over
these betrayals and losses andgriefs because I love so much
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and I love so hard and I reallywent all out when I care about
people in my life.
And realizing that helped mesee what I was feeling from a
place of strength.
And that was really when Istarted to see love as a
superpower.
I think I had already beentuned into that concept some,
but it's like it clicked in mymind in a really different way
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than before and I thought, wow,I am grieving and mourning from
such a deep love, all some ofthese things and I'm writing
this poetry that some of it wasbeautiful, some of it was just
kind of miserable and badbreakup, bad love poetry, bad
grief poetry, and all of it wasa reflection of this deep ocean
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of feelings that I carry insideof me.
I could see that as an assetand realize that it takes a
really strong heart and it takesa special heart, a sacred heart
, a light-filled heart, to lovethat much and to hold so much
space for both love and grief.
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It made me stand up straighterand it gave me back this piece
of myself that I didn't evenrealize I was missing.
It helped me take myself backinto myself and really come back
into a space of belonging tomyself.
And as the summer went into thefall, I found more healing and I
started to find some revivalagain.
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And so when I wrote that poemit was this symbiotic reflection
of seeing the leaves fallingfrom the trees and I had been in
an autumn and winter of my lifeduring that summer and then,
ironically, in the fall.
It's like I was coming back tolife and going through this
spring, awakening in my summerseason.
So I was really off with whatwas happening in nature at the
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time, but I appreciated thisidea of seeing that the leaves
are so beautiful falling fromthe tree and it's also so sad
and yet there is this alchemygoing on that they are going to
nourish the ground and go intodecay and rot into the soil but
that gets fertilized somehow tohelp feed the ground and
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nature's mysterious ways wouldbe recycled into new life in
springtime, and I really relatedto that.
I so love that wisdom.
The last passage that I want toshare with you today is more of
a reflection from Small Pearl'sBig Wisdom and it's passage 144
, balance an OngoingRenegotiation.
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One of the tricks to learning tobe at peace with life is
learning how to be at peace withour ebbs and flows.
Learning when to act, move andpush ourselves to show up and
create, endeavor or produce.
Learning when to be still andreceive and rest instead of a
step.
We are constantly invited tokeep learning how to interpret
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our moods, emotional states andlife's ups and downs in a way
that supports our expansion andcompassion and keeps us growing
on the journey of self-love.
Finding balance in our lives isoften fleeting, because life's
change is constant.
When we think we have itfigured out, or everything
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juggled, or have created a newequilibrium of steadfast
circumstance, then something isbound to change and we will find
ourselves renegotiating ourrelationship with the energies
in our lives.
This requires a lot of shiftingand fluidity learning to step
when we feel called, slowingdown and resting when there is
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nothing else to do, givingourselves permission not to know
, and finding a new rhythm ofmotion and receptivity.
Asking ourselves how can I bestlove myself in this season.
What do I need to supportmyself right now?
What's my best course of actionor conscious receptivity in
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this moment?
Then we do our best to listento what comes through and stay
with our process of self.
I absolutely appreciate thisidea that balance is an ongoing
renegotiation.
So I often think it'sunobtainable, like maybe we'll
have it for a hot minute andthen something changes and
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things are out of balance again.
So I love this idea of lookingat balance as moving towards
wholeness or more of a greaterarc, that we can't always judge
balance in a single moment, butwe can look at the pattern over
time and see where we have movedinto greater harmony in our
lives, see where something hasperhaps gotten out of balance or
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out of alignment and think interms of long vision of how can
I move towards a space ofrebalancing these energies right
now.
And I also love the idea thatsometimes we are completely at
odds with what's going on in theexternal world and we are
having our own season and that'sokay.
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I really appreciate that in somany ways.
Nature works in this harmony andthis symmetry and everything
feeds into each other and it'sinterconnected.
And yet if you break downindividual elements, they are
independent and they might beinterdependent on what's
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happening around them and partof that whole, but we can almost
always find an example wheresomething is marching to the
beat of its own drummer innature or doing its own thing or
growing outside the lines ornot doing what it's supposed to
do, and I think that's inspiringtoo, and it's really a profound
reminder to know that we existindependently and autonomously
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within this greater whole andthis greater interconnection.
And so this idea that, nomatter what else, we can always
come back to how do I lovemyself in this season?
How do I find my next step ormy next rest, if we're being
invited to rest in this season?
And what element of naturemight hold inspiration for me
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right now?
Maybe it's something that isreally different than what the
seasonal change or seasonalshift is doing outside of you.
We are always invited to comeback into our space of heart,
wisdom and soul sovereignty andthink about what is right for my
authenticity at this time, andI think that's really celebrated
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and I think that's reallyhonored by the patterns that
nature reflects.
We are meant to be theseglorious, fabulous individuals
that are unique and beautifuland are change and awkward
sometimes and going throughgrowing pains and shocking
sometimes and how we might tryand renegotiate our life, and
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other times stagnant and mundane, where we sort of blend in and
nothing extraordinary hashappened and then somehow, maybe
we have an epiphany and breathefresh energy into something and
we rebirth ourselves anew, andI'm here for all of it.
So I hope, wherever you're atright now on this Equinox week,
that you are listening to yourheart, asking yourself what
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rhythm am I in right now, atthis time, and staying with your
own magic and, of course, beinginspired by nature's magic in
whatever way speaks to you.
Thank you so much for joiningme on the podcast today.
I will be back next week with anew your Heart Magic episode.
As always, have an amazing weekand be well, be love, be you
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and be magic.
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