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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darling. Here's your perfectly timed taro and intuitive reading for
the week starting twenty second of December twenty and twenty five. Now,
very shortly, as I do each week, I'm going to
pull some Tarot cards for you. This week, I'm using
my beautiful ride Away Smith Vintage deck. Then I'm going
to read the cards, explain them as I go along.
I'm also going to share some intuitive messages and guidance
(00:23):
that I receive for you as well. All you need
to do is trust the timing and the wisdom and
the magic of your life. Trust that you're hearing this,
receiving this reading, and that we're connecting at exactly the
right time for you and also in exactly the right way.
And just know that whenever you're listening to this, there's
going to be valuable messages, insight, and guidance that you
(00:45):
can use to move forward powerfully in your life, manifest
your goals, and most importantly, step into your power. What
I recommend you do especially for this episode, but you
can certainly do this for every episode you listen to
on here is take a moment, set the intention that
you're open to the message that you most need, and
then just notice what jumps out at you. You can also,
(01:07):
if you would like, use the podcast as like a
divination practice, so you can take a breath, set your intention,
and then scroll scroll through the library of episodes and
just stop when you feel called to and notice which
episode you landed on, and then of course trust and
know that that was aligned for you, and write down
what jumps out at you. Now, before we do the
(01:28):
reading this week, I want to give you some very
exciting news. The Confident Reader Mastermind is now officially open.
So a huge welcome to those of you who've said
yes and move forward powerfully and come into the program.
This is going to be such an incredible round. This
is the fifth time that we're doing this program. Amazing
group of people. If you're brand new to me and
(01:49):
my work and you've not heard about this before, the
Confident Reader Mastermind is my signature program. It's a six
month container where I coach and mentor you on reading
Taro with confidence, understanding and using the cards in magical ways.
But we also do a lot of mindset work on
developing your unique gifts and abilities as a reader, your
intuitive gifts, also your confidence as a reader. I train
(02:13):
you in lots of skills and techniques to use in
your readings, from starting and ending a session on time
to connecting to intuitive messages without draining yourself. We also
do lots of practical pieces on how to run a
session with confidence you know what to say when, and
we do lots of great mindset work as well on
how to charge well for your readings. We do tons
(02:34):
of work on self concept and boundaries and identity, and
of course a lot of taro as well. When you
join the program, you get access to some getting started assignments,
plus some bonus trainings to listen to, and then there's
a library of content that you get access to as
well that you can use between sessions to sort of
top up what you're learning as well. Now we do
(02:56):
have a lot of people from different time zones in
the program, so yes, we meet twice a month on
Zoom for live group sessions and group coaching, but you
can also connect to the material at your own time
and in a way that suits you as well. We've
actually had people in the program before who just signed
up for the recordings because of the time zone, So
if that's how you'd like to connect, you are also
(03:17):
very very welcome to do so as well. Now we
do have a special savings on at the moment, plus
a bonus gift when you join, so check out the
links in the show notes, and of course you can
also drop me a message if you have any questions.
This is a particularly powerful time to join the program.
We've just had winter Solstice, We've got this fresh new energy,
and it's also the sort of I guess what i'd
(03:38):
call like the it's that bridge period between twenty twenty
five and twenty twenty six, right, So this is a
powerful time to do something to really symbolize you taking
yourself seriously as a reader. One of the things I'm
so proud of about the program is not only do
we get people repeating the program and coming back, you know,
time and time again, but everyone who takes it comes
(04:01):
away more confident with their gifts, charging well for their readings,
and really understanding themselves and their practice in a much
deeper way. So if you're ready for that, definitely reach out.
I will give you a little heads up. It's not
a fluffy program. It's not a wishy, washy love and
light fluffy vygue. You know you're doing amazing sweetie type thing.
(04:23):
It's a really practical, very grounded, very powerful and of
course witchy, but it's very very capricorn in nature. Right
obviously I'm caprical myself. So it's really designed to get
you learning, practicing and doing and implementing. And whether you're
brand new to Taro or you've been on the path
for a while, you're going to learn magical new things
(04:44):
about the cards and how to use them in readings.
I actually did a private session for an amazing client
of mine yesterday who's in the program, and she was
telling me about a recent reading she did, and she
told me how much more confident she felt using the
cards and connecting to her gifts. So you know who
you are, I'm sending you a big hug, and it's
just always such a pleasure to connect with you. Any questions,
(05:06):
feel free to reach out. So talking about connecting and readings,
let's dive in and do your Tarot and intuitive reading
for this week. Okay, go ahead and just take a beautiful,
beautiful deep breath, and I'd like you to just set
the intention that you're open to the message that you
most need or the messages that you most need, and
(05:26):
let's dive in and do your reading. Okay, first card
this week beautiful nice Okay, very nice. Let's do a
bonus as well, hicky bonus. Okay. First card this week
is the five of Pentacles. Now, this just came up
in a video I did on TikTok, and obviously I've
(05:48):
shuffled the cards several times since then. So whenever things
like this happen, I always take it as a beautiful
wink from the universe. But five is Pentacles is a
beautiful card that's really inviting you to look at where
you might be in the frequency of lack, and I
want to remind you of something. I say this all
the time on my TikTok, all the time on my
Instagram for good reason. It never manifests when you're focusing
(06:12):
on the lack of it. Okay, it never manifests and
comes in when you're focusing on the lack of it.
If you're trying to manifest something whilst you're deeply in
the absence of it, you're not going to get the
results that you want. You don't manifest wealth and abundance
and more clients by feeling scarcity and like pissed off
that people aren't booking, right, you don't manifest lovely new
(06:36):
friends from feeling like no one likes you. Right. I'm
using very dramatic examples, but I hope you understand my point.
I've been practicing the craft for twenty six years now,
and one of the biggest things I learned was exactly
that it's all about your frequency, your energy, and your mindset.
And I don't just mean, you know, sit on your
sofa and visualize it, although that is very helpful. It's
(06:57):
about how what you're embodying in your life. So five
of Pentacles is really asking you to look at where
you might be in lack and scarcity. And it doesn't
have to be as dramatic as the word scarcity sounds.
It could be as simple as you know, maybe you
maybe even you're saying things like I want to be
(07:18):
more confident. Be very careful with this, because the issue
of wanting something like that implies the lack of it.
What I would be doing if I was coaching you
is sort of reframing that for you into I'm becoming
more confident. I'm enjoying being more confident. If you listen
to people say things like I want to be more confident.
(07:39):
Very often, you know you'll catch up with them a month,
three months, six months later, and it's the same narrative.
I'm working on being more confident. Those of you who
are listening, who come to my workshops and classes, you'll
know that I have. It's a joke, really, but it's
also not a joke. But I say to people I
sort of ban the phrase I'm working on myself or
I'm doing work because it kind of implies like you're
(08:02):
broken and need fixing. Right, You're not broken at all, babe.
It's about choosing to step into who and what you
want to be rather than being in the lack of it. Okay,
next card is Temperance. Temperance is just a beautiful magical card.
It represents the power of an angel. It's also talking
about spiritual cleansing and alignment. Now intuitively, I want to
(08:24):
remind you to call on your angels and your spirit
guides and your spirit team if you haven't already done so,
it's super easy to do it. I actually have a
class on my website called how to Connect to your
Spirit Guides. That's one of my most popular. Go and
check it out under the Learn Magic section. But temperance
is also about alignment. Now, I've told this story many
(08:44):
times and for good reason. I think it's a great story,
so I'll repeat to hear very often. When we push
and force things, we are coming from lack. There is
also a concept I think that isn't talked about enough
in the magical manifestation community, and that's the fact that
you need things to be in alignment right. So what
I mean is this, you might do a spell or
(09:06):
a ritual for something right, and let's say you don't
get instant results. That doesn't mean that it's not working.
It most likely means you just need to sort of
be consistent with your approach and understand that there's a
cycle to things. Right. You plant a seed in the
ground or water it, it doesn't mean the seed isn't
working just because it didn't, you know, pop up the
(09:27):
next day. The story I want to tell you is
about sort of the road leading up to my gym.
I was walking down to the gym probably last year,
and there was this beautiful apartment building being built right now.
From the front, it looks like this stunning, beautiful building,
and as I got round closer to the gym, look
back half the building literally wasn't finished, right, wasn't finished
(09:48):
being built. I think that's often the case with the
things that we're manifesting in our lives right the things
that we want to create an experience. We might not
understand why it's not happy yet, but the truth is
there's more that needs to be done behind the scenes,
practically and energetically. So always focus on alignment over speed
(10:08):
and rushing and forcing. Here's an intuitive message that's coming
to me. That ideal client that's going to be with
you for years and introduce you to their amazing network
might be wrapping up with another coach right now. That
ideal partner for you might be in therapy right now,
right that new best friend or friend group might be
(10:29):
at a retreat right now. My point here is, you know,
trust the process of things instead of pushing and forcing
and needing to make things happen. Trust and trust and allow,
and always go back to yourself and say, if it's
not in alignment, I don't want it. That embodies detachment,
hugely powerful tool, but also raises your self worth. You
(10:52):
don't want a client, you don't want your quote ideal
client to manifest now if they can't pay you do you?
You don't want your ideal client to manifest if they're
not in a good headspace, and they'll be difficult to
work with. You don't want that partner that you're you know,
you put on your vision board. You don't want to
meet them if they're you know, if they have a
lot of therapy to do. You get my point here, right?
(11:13):
I could keep using examples, but always focus on alignment
first and check in with yourself. Ask yourself, am I
ready to really step into that? Am I being that
version of myself energetically and practically? I remember doing a
coaching session for a client a few weeks ago and
they were talking about like wanting what they wanted to
(11:35):
sign on more high end clients into a program. And
I said, Okay, if you met that per if you've
got a DM right now from someone wanting to sign
up to your VIP program, are you actually ready to
take you know, to enroll them, to send them the links,
to send them a welcome back, to send them their loggins,
to send them some bonus gifts, right? And they went no?
(11:59):
And I said, okay, so you're not being the version
of yourself that even has those clients are you Like
in Magic for Modern Life, when people sign up, for example,
to the Confident Reader Mastermind, they get a welcome email
from me, they get a personalized video, they get some
bonus goodies, and they get logins to the Mastermind page
and the Facebook group and a few other different things.
(12:19):
It is ready to go. It's hugely abundant, full of
gifts and you know, surprise content and like welcome messages.
But that's very deliberately done because the clients I attract
are all on that frequency. So it can also be
worth looking at in your life, you know, physically and
practically are you ready, but also of course energetically as well.
(12:40):
Next card is the Eight of Pentacles. This actually couldn't come,
I think at a better time. In the reading Eight
of Pentacles is really about building what you do want.
It's about building and investing in what you do want
and also who you want to be. Now at the
time of recording, right, we've just had the winter solstice,
thinking about let me check my in nine days something
(13:06):
like that. We've got, you know, the sort of Western
New Year's Eve, so it's a great time to be
thinking about like goals and what you want to create
and what you want to sort of step into now.
I think a lot of people make the mistake of
setting very external goals, like some sort of external force
is going to kind of give those things to them.
(13:27):
The truth of the matter is it's about you giving
it to yourself by becoming that person, by becoming that
version of yourself. You know, it's like saying I'm going
to be more confident when I've done those things. That's
not how it works. You do those things by choosing
to act confidently. It's like saying I'll go to the
gym when i'm stronger. No, you get stronger by going
(13:49):
to the gym, right. You want to show yourself that
you can trust yourself. Eight of Pentacles is also about
you building and creating habits in your life that support
where you want to be, support who you want to be.
A lot of I think a lot of people get
very stuck with this. They'll say, I'm visualizing this, I'm
affirming this, I'm doing this. But then I'll ask them like,
(14:10):
what are your daily habits? How are you showing up
for yourself? And their daily habits represent their old self.
So you want to be mapping out the daily habits
and sort of routines of the person that you're stepping into.
And that's really how you build and new identity. It's
not just how you visualize, right, it's what you practically
invest in. Ato Pentacles can also be about skill building.
(14:32):
So think about your goals the twenty twenty six what
you want for yourself and ask yourself, like, what skills
do I need to build? You know what. Let's get
practical for a second. Let's say that you really you know,
you're listening to this and you're thinking, you know what,
I'd like to give readings with confidence. I'd like to
charge well for them. I'd like to really take myself
(14:52):
seriously as a reader. Join Confident Reader, Mastermind. That's literally
the ideal program for you. Maybe you want to get
in the best shape of your life. Great, hire a trainer, right,
don't just think about it. Do something to show yourself
you're serious. Maybe you're thinking, I want to give classes
and do videos and workshops. Great, start practicing, get some coaching,
(15:14):
you know, dive in. So eight of Pentacles is just
that beautiful card there. Next card is the Queen of
One's She's all about courage, confidence in yourself and aligned
action intuitive aligned action. Again, I'm going to say this,
it's about you stepping into who you want to be,
rather than just visualizing things and then acting as your
(15:36):
old self. You want to be taking aligned action with
who you're choosing to be. If you start showing up
as that version of yourself, if you start doing those things,
taking action from that place, that's going to do more
for your mindset and energy than sitting on the sofa
doing affirmations ever will Okay, remember magic works through you,
(15:56):
not just for you. So you want to be of
course lighting your handles, doing your magic, doing your you know,
vision boarding, your manifestation techniques, but you want to also
be living into that new version of yourself. Next card
is Page of Pentacles. This is all about trusting yourself.
It's about opportunities being around you. It's also about trusting yourself.
(16:19):
The Page of Pentacles. I love this card for you know,
for a few reasons, but one of which is the
power of self. Trust is really life changing. It's something
I would say change my life in a number of ways,
like deeply trusting myself and my intuition. And that doesn't
mean that you need to know everything that's going to unfold,
or you need to know every step of the way
(16:41):
right now you're actually not meant to. It means that
you trust your intuition. It means you trust the fact
that you can figure things out, you can make things work,
you can take you know next steps, and you can
do so magically. You can do so with joy and
fun and pleasure. You know. I think this doesn't get
talked about enough, but like ask you how much fun
(17:01):
can I allow myself to have whilst I'm manifesting this goal?
How much fun can I have or can I allow
myself to have whilst I'm manifesting this intention, figuring out
this challenge whatever it is? Okay? And then the final card,
my darling, is Justice. Now, justice might seem like a
strange card, sort of wrap this reading up with I'm
(17:22):
thrilled it's come up. Justice is really about you having
your own back. It's about dropping the people pleasing overly
nice performative bs and really deeply having your own back
and putting yourself first. Whenever I look at the stats
on my podcast, I actually haven't for a long time,
but whenever I look at them, if ever, I do
(17:42):
an episode called like stop being so nice that always
gets like triple the views of the ones that like
you know about other things we say. So my point
here is, I know a lot of you need to
hear this. Justice is really inviting you to put yourself first.
Stop people pleasing, over delivering, waiting for permission, and I
(18:03):
want you to give yourself permission right here and now,
to do what's best for you. Say no without apology,
charge well for your time, energy, and gifts. And also
understand that you don't have to be what everybody wants
you to be. Right, if you're a reader, for example,
and people are just like bugging you for free readings
(18:24):
and stuff, give yourself permission to just say no without apology.
I'd love to do a reading for you. Here's a
link to book. If they want to get weird with
you because you don't work for free, that's embarrassing for them. Right.
Same thing in friendships. Right if you have a friend
or someone in your social group who, for whatever reason
like you, just you know, something that they're doing or
saying or how they're showing up isn't working for you anymore.
(18:47):
Stop sitting there and feeling like you need to tolerate
that stuff and be clear about your boundaries. On the
other end of things, justice can also be about giving
yourself that moment of like, I am going to take
myself seriously. I'm going to take pass awful action on
my goals and move forward. So think about what you
can do right now to show yourself you're serious. Because
(19:07):
every time you set a goal and do nothing about it,
you erode your self trust. Every time that you say
you'll do something and then you don't do it, you
wear down your self confidence because you're not showing up
for yourself. One of the best ways you can absolutely
upgrade your SELFF concept, your identity, your self trust is
(19:28):
by doing things when you don't feel like it really,
you know, going to that walk, posting those videos, reaching
out to those people, whatever it is, when you show yourself, hey,
I've got your back, You're unstoppable. Okay, I'm sending you
magic and blessings for a beautiful week. Remember to put
yourselves first this week. I know it's a busy one
for many of you. If you'd like to know more
(19:49):
about joining the Confident Reader Mastermind, check out the links
in the show notes, or feel free to message me
if you have any questions,
Darling. Here's your perfectly timed taro and intuitive reading for
the week starting twenty second of December twenty and twenty five. Now,
very shortly, as I do each week, I'm going to
pull some Tarot cards for you. This week, I'm using
my beautiful ride Away Smith Vintage deck. Then I'm going
to read the cards, explain them as I go along.
I'm also going to share some intuitive messages and guidance
(00:23):
that I receive for you as well. All you need
to do is trust the timing and the wisdom and
the magic of your life. Trust that you're hearing this,
receiving this reading, and that we're connecting at exactly the
right time for you and also in exactly the right way.
And just know that whenever you're listening to this, there's
going to be valuable messages, insight, and guidance that you
(00:45):
can use to move forward powerfully in your life, manifest
your goals, and most importantly, step into your power. What
I recommend you do especially for this episode, but you
can certainly do this for every episode you listen to
on here is take a moment, set the intention that
you're open to the message that you most need, and
then just notice what jumps out at you. You can also,
(01:07):
if you would like, use the podcast as like a
divination practice, so you can take a breath, set your intention,
and then scroll scroll through the library of episodes and
just stop when you feel called to and notice which
episode you landed on, and then of course trust and
know that that was aligned for you, and write down
what jumps out at you. Now, before we do the
(01:28):
reading this week, I want to give you some very
exciting news. The Confident Reader Mastermind is now officially open.
So a huge welcome to those of you who've said
yes and move forward powerfully and come into the program.
This is going to be such an incredible round. This
is the fifth time that we're doing this program. Amazing
group of people. If you're brand new to me and
(01:49):
my work and you've not heard about this before, the
Confident Reader Mastermind is my signature program. It's a six
month container where I coach and mentor you on reading
Taro with confidence, understanding and using the cards in magical ways.
But we also do a lot of mindset work on
developing your unique gifts and abilities as a reader, your
intuitive gifts, also your confidence as a reader. I train
(02:13):
you in lots of skills and techniques to use in
your readings, from starting and ending a session on time
to connecting to intuitive messages without draining yourself. We also
do lots of practical pieces on how to run a
session with confidence you know what to say when, and
we do lots of great mindset work as well on
how to charge well for your readings. We do tons
(02:34):
of work on self concept and boundaries and identity, and
of course a lot of taro as well. When you
join the program, you get access to some getting started assignments,
plus some bonus trainings to listen to, and then there's
a library of content that you get access to as
well that you can use between sessions to sort of
top up what you're learning as well. Now we do
(02:56):
have a lot of people from different time zones in
the program, so yes, we meet twice a month on
Zoom for live group sessions and group coaching, but you
can also connect to the material at your own time
and in a way that suits you as well. We've
actually had people in the program before who just signed
up for the recordings because of the time zone, So
if that's how you'd like to connect, you are also
(03:17):
very very welcome to do so as well. Now we
do have a special savings on at the moment, plus
a bonus gift when you join, so check out the
links in the show notes, and of course you can
also drop me a message if you have any questions.
This is a particularly powerful time to join the program.
We've just had winter Solstice, We've got this fresh new energy,
and it's also the sort of I guess what i'd
(03:38):
call like the it's that bridge period between twenty twenty
five and twenty twenty six, right, So this is a
powerful time to do something to really symbolize you taking
yourself seriously as a reader. One of the things I'm
so proud of about the program is not only do
we get people repeating the program and coming back, you know,
time and time again, but everyone who takes it comes
(04:01):
away more confident with their gifts, charging well for their readings,
and really understanding themselves and their practice in a much
deeper way. So if you're ready for that, definitely reach out.
I will give you a little heads up. It's not
a fluffy program. It's not a wishy, washy love and
light fluffy vygue. You know you're doing amazing sweetie type thing.
(04:23):
It's a really practical, very grounded, very powerful and of
course witchy, but it's very very capricorn in nature. Right
obviously I'm caprical myself. So it's really designed to get
you learning, practicing and doing and implementing. And whether you're
brand new to Taro or you've been on the path
for a while, you're going to learn magical new things
(04:44):
about the cards and how to use them in readings.
I actually did a private session for an amazing client
of mine yesterday who's in the program, and she was
telling me about a recent reading she did, and she
told me how much more confident she felt using the
cards and connecting to her gifts. So you know who
you are, I'm sending you a big hug, and it's
just always such a pleasure to connect with you. Any questions,
(05:06):
feel free to reach out. So talking about connecting and readings,
let's dive in and do your Tarot and intuitive reading
for this week. Okay, go ahead and just take a beautiful,
beautiful deep breath, and I'd like you to just set
the intention that you're open to the message that you
most need or the messages that you most need, and
(05:26):
let's dive in and do your reading. Okay, first card
this week beautiful nice Okay, very nice. Let's do a
bonus as well, hicky bonus. Okay. First card this week
is the five of Pentacles. Now, this just came up
in a video I did on TikTok, and obviously I've
(05:48):
shuffled the cards several times since then. So whenever things
like this happen, I always take it as a beautiful
wink from the universe. But five is Pentacles is a
beautiful card that's really inviting you to look at where
you might be in the frequency of lack, and I
want to remind you of something. I say this all
the time on my TikTok, all the time on my
Instagram for good reason. It never manifests when you're focusing
(06:12):
on the lack of it. Okay, it never manifests and
comes in when you're focusing on the lack of it.
If you're trying to manifest something whilst you're deeply in
the absence of it, you're not going to get the
results that you want. You don't manifest wealth and abundance
and more clients by feeling scarcity and like pissed off
that people aren't booking, right, you don't manifest lovely new
(06:36):
friends from feeling like no one likes you. Right. I'm
using very dramatic examples, but I hope you understand my point.
I've been practicing the craft for twenty six years now,
and one of the biggest things I learned was exactly
that it's all about your frequency, your energy, and your mindset.
And I don't just mean, you know, sit on your
sofa and visualize it, although that is very helpful. It's
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about how what you're embodying in your life. So five
of Pentacles is really asking you to look at where
you might be in lack and scarcity. And it doesn't
have to be as dramatic as the word scarcity sounds.
It could be as simple as you know, maybe you
maybe even you're saying things like I want to be
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more confident. Be very careful with this, because the issue
of wanting something like that implies the lack of it.
What I would be doing if I was coaching you
is sort of reframing that for you into I'm becoming
more confident. I'm enjoying being more confident. If you listen
to people say things like I want to be more confident.
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Very often, you know you'll catch up with them a month,
three months, six months later, and it's the same narrative.
I'm working on being more confident. Those of you who
are listening, who come to my workshops and classes, you'll
know that I have. It's a joke, really, but it's
also not a joke. But I say to people I
sort of ban the phrase I'm working on myself or
I'm doing work because it kind of implies like you're
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broken and need fixing. Right, You're not broken at all, babe.
It's about choosing to step into who and what you
want to be rather than being in the lack of it. Okay,
next card is Temperance. Temperance is just a beautiful magical card.
It represents the power of an angel. It's also talking
about spiritual cleansing and alignment. Now intuitively, I want to
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remind you to call on your angels and your spirit
guides and your spirit team if you haven't already done so,
it's super easy to do it. I actually have a
class on my website called how to Connect to your
Spirit Guides. That's one of my most popular. Go and
check it out under the Learn Magic section. But temperance
is also about alignment. Now, I've told this story many
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times and for good reason. I think it's a great story,
so I'll repeat to hear very often. When we push
and force things, we are coming from lack. There is
also a concept I think that isn't talked about enough
in the magical manifestation community, and that's the fact that
you need things to be in alignment right. So what
I mean is this, you might do a spell or
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a ritual for something right, and let's say you don't
get instant results. That doesn't mean that it's not working.
It most likely means you just need to sort of
be consistent with your approach and understand that there's a
cycle to things. Right. You plant a seed in the
ground or water it, it doesn't mean the seed isn't
working just because it didn't, you know, pop up the
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next day. The story I want to tell you is
about sort of the road leading up to my gym.
I was walking down to the gym probably last year,
and there was this beautiful apartment building being built right now.
From the front, it looks like this stunning, beautiful building,
and as I got round closer to the gym, look
back half the building literally wasn't finished, right, wasn't finished
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being built. I think that's often the case with the
things that we're manifesting in our lives right the things
that we want to create an experience. We might not
understand why it's not happy yet, but the truth is
there's more that needs to be done behind the scenes,
practically and energetically. So always focus on alignment over speed
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and rushing and forcing. Here's an intuitive message that's coming
to me. That ideal client that's going to be with
you for years and introduce you to their amazing network
might be wrapping up with another coach right now. That
ideal partner for you might be in therapy right now,
right that new best friend or friend group might be
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at a retreat right now. My point here is, you know,
trust the process of things instead of pushing and forcing
and needing to make things happen. Trust and trust and allow,
and always go back to yourself and say, if it's
not in alignment, I don't want it. That embodies detachment,
hugely powerful tool, but also raises your self worth. You
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don't want a client, you don't want your quote ideal
client to manifest now if they can't pay you do you?
You don't want your ideal client to manifest if they're
not in a good headspace, and they'll be difficult to
work with. You don't want that partner that you're you know,
you put on your vision board. You don't want to
meet them if they're you know, if they have a
lot of therapy to do. You get my point here, right?
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I could keep using examples, but always focus on alignment
first and check in with yourself. Ask yourself, am I
ready to really step into that? Am I being that
version of myself energetically and practically? I remember doing a
coaching session for a client a few weeks ago and
they were talking about like wanting what they wanted to
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sign on more high end clients into a program. And
I said, Okay, if you met that per if you've
got a DM right now from someone wanting to sign
up to your VIP program, are you actually ready to
take you know, to enroll them, to send them the links,
to send them a welcome back, to send them their loggins,
to send them some bonus gifts, right? And they went no?
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And I said, okay, so you're not being the version
of yourself that even has those clients are you Like
in Magic for Modern Life, when people sign up, for example,
to the Confident Reader Mastermind, they get a welcome email
from me, they get a personalized video, they get some
bonus goodies, and they get logins to the Mastermind page
and the Facebook group and a few other different things.
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It is ready to go. It's hugely abundant, full of
gifts and you know, surprise content and like welcome messages.
But that's very deliberately done because the clients I attract
are all on that frequency. So it can also be
worth looking at in your life, you know, physically and
practically are you ready, but also of course energetically as well.
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Next card is the Eight of Pentacles. This actually couldn't come,
I think at a better time. In the reading Eight
of Pentacles is really about building what you do want.
It's about building and investing in what you do want
and also who you want to be. Now at the
time of recording, right, we've just had the winter solstice,
thinking about let me check my in nine days something
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like that. We've got, you know, the sort of Western
New Year's Eve, so it's a great time to be
thinking about like goals and what you want to create
and what you want to sort of step into now.
I think a lot of people make the mistake of
setting very external goals, like some sort of external force
is going to kind of give those things to them.
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The truth of the matter is it's about you giving
it to yourself by becoming that person, by becoming that
version of yourself. You know, it's like saying I'm going
to be more confident when I've done those things. That's
not how it works. You do those things by choosing
to act confidently. It's like saying I'll go to the
gym when i'm stronger. No, you get stronger by going
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to the gym, right. You want to show yourself that
you can trust yourself. Eight of Pentacles is also about
you building and creating habits in your life that support
where you want to be, support who you want to be.
A lot of I think a lot of people get
very stuck with this. They'll say, I'm visualizing this, I'm
affirming this, I'm doing this. But then I'll ask them like,
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what are your daily habits? How are you showing up
for yourself? And their daily habits represent their old self.
So you want to be mapping out the daily habits
and sort of routines of the person that you're stepping into.
And that's really how you build and new identity. It's
not just how you visualize, right, it's what you practically
invest in. Ato Pentacles can also be about skill building.
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So think about your goals the twenty twenty six what
you want for yourself and ask yourself, like, what skills
do I need to build? You know what. Let's get
practical for a second. Let's say that you really you know,
you're listening to this and you're thinking, you know what,
I'd like to give readings with confidence. I'd like to
charge well for them. I'd like to really take myself
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seriously as a reader. Join Confident Reader, Mastermind. That's literally
the ideal program for you. Maybe you want to get
in the best shape of your life. Great, hire a trainer, right,
don't just think about it. Do something to show yourself
you're serious. Maybe you're thinking, I want to give classes
and do videos and workshops. Great, start practicing, get some coaching,
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you know, dive in. So eight of Pentacles is just
that beautiful card there. Next card is the Queen of
One's She's all about courage, confidence in yourself and aligned
action intuitive aligned action. Again, I'm going to say this,
it's about you stepping into who you want to be,
rather than just visualizing things and then acting as your
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old self. You want to be taking aligned action with
who you're choosing to be. If you start showing up
as that version of yourself, if you start doing those things,
taking action from that place, that's going to do more
for your mindset and energy than sitting on the sofa
doing affirmations ever will Okay, remember magic works through you,
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not just for you. So you want to be of
course lighting your handles, doing your magic, doing your you know,
vision boarding, your manifestation techniques, but you want to also
be living into that new version of yourself. Next card
is Page of Pentacles. This is all about trusting yourself.
It's about opportunities being around you. It's also about trusting yourself.
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The Page of Pentacles. I love this card for you know,
for a few reasons, but one of which is the
power of self. Trust is really life changing. It's something
I would say change my life in a number of ways,
like deeply trusting myself and my intuition. And that doesn't
mean that you need to know everything that's going to unfold,
or you need to know every step of the way
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right now you're actually not meant to. It means that
you trust your intuition. It means you trust the fact
that you can figure things out, you can make things work,
you can take you know next steps, and you can
do so magically. You can do so with joy and
fun and pleasure. You know. I think this doesn't get
talked about enough, but like ask you how much fun
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can I allow myself to have whilst I'm manifesting this goal?
How much fun can I have or can I allow
myself to have whilst I'm manifesting this intention, figuring out
this challenge whatever it is? Okay? And then the final card,
my darling, is Justice. Now, justice might seem like a
strange card, sort of wrap this reading up with I'm
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thrilled it's come up. Justice is really about you having
your own back. It's about dropping the people pleasing overly
nice performative bs and really deeply having your own back
and putting yourself first. Whenever I look at the stats
on my podcast, I actually haven't for a long time,
but whenever I look at them, if ever, I do
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an episode called like stop being so nice that always
gets like triple the views of the ones that like
you know about other things we say. So my point
here is, I know a lot of you need to
hear this. Justice is really inviting you to put yourself first.
Stop people pleasing, over delivering, waiting for permission, and I
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want you to give yourself permission right here and now,
to do what's best for you. Say no without apology,
charge well for your time, energy, and gifts. And also
understand that you don't have to be what everybody wants
you to be. Right, if you're a reader, for example,
and people are just like bugging you for free readings
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and stuff, give yourself permission to just say no without apology.
I'd love to do a reading for you. Here's a
link to book. If they want to get weird with
you because you don't work for free, that's embarrassing for them. Right.
Same thing in friendships. Right if you have a friend
or someone in your social group who, for whatever reason
like you, just you know, something that they're doing or
saying or how they're showing up isn't working for you anymore.
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Stop sitting there and feeling like you need to tolerate
that stuff and be clear about your boundaries. On the
other end of things, justice can also be about giving
yourself that moment of like, I am going to take
myself seriously. I'm going to take pass awful action on
my goals and move forward. So think about what you
can do right now to show yourself you're serious. Because
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every time you set a goal and do nothing about it,
you erode your self trust. Every time that you say
you'll do something and then you don't do it, you
wear down your self confidence because you're not showing up
for yourself. One of the best ways you can absolutely
upgrade your SELFF concept, your identity, your self trust is
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by doing things when you don't feel like it really,
you know, going to that walk, posting those videos, reaching
out to those people, whatever it is, when you show yourself, hey,
I've got your back, You're unstoppable. Okay, I'm sending you
magic and blessings for a beautiful week. Remember to put
yourselves first this week. I know it's a busy one
for many of you. If you'd like to know more
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about joining the Confident Reader Mastermind, check out the links
in the show notes, or feel free to message me
if you have any questions,
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