Reading the Room: Episode 5
Welcome to my first Choose Your Own Adventure Reading! I'm reading the energies of your year ahead in these personalized readings. Listen to the intro, choose which of the 4 symbols calls to you and find your reading in the time stamps below. These readings are timeless and relevant to your next 12 months regardless of when you're listening.
(00:00) - Intro
(04:04) - Group 1 - Owl
(17:46) - Group 2 - Phoenix
(29:27) - Group 3 - Unicorn
(43:07) - Group 4 - Python
(54:50) - Extro
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Intro
From Divine Interruption, I'm Sarah Hildreth Rankin, and this is Reading the Room. Hi, welcome back to another episode of Reading the Room.
It's been a while since I've done one of these episodes, but it feels fitting, and it feels like the right time to take a break from some of my stories and just do something different.
And because it's the start of a new year, I want to read the energy of the coming year, but I want to read it for you, the listener. I want you to actually be able to participate in this reading.
So I'm going to call this a Choose Your Own Adventure Reading.
And this means that you get to choose one of four different symbols, and each symbol is going to represent a different group of energies, and I'm going to read the coming year for each group.
This means that it's a group reading, but it's personalized, and it's also timeless, which means it doesn't matter when you're listening to this or when this episode finds you.
If this is three years from now or six months from now, I'm just reading the energy of the year ahead for you. So if that's August, it's going to be until next August. That's what's so fun about energy.
And I'm tapping into all of you who are listening and picking up on what's coming for you in the year.
And yes, it's going to be pretty general, but hopefully it will just give you an idea of what to expect or what energies might be at play for you this year over the next 12 months and what things might feel challenging, what might feel exciting, what
to lean into, that kind of thing. So when I tapped into these four groups of energies, I was given a symbol. So that's how you're going to pick which group you're in today, and I'm going to tell you what those are.
And then it's your job to feel in to which group are you. And that might be because of the symbol or the order that it's in. You're like, oh, I'm this because it's the third one in the group of all of them, and three is standing out to me.
Maybe you see it like I do, which sometimes I see these symbols in a row typically, and something will feel shiny. It will look brighter. It will stand out or it will stand in front of the other symbols.
That's how I know, okay, that's for me. Maybe for you, you will just know right away. You're like, yep, that, or it will mean something to you and you will pick that.
But it's, I don't know, just a fun exercise. I do this every day with everything. And over time, it just becomes easier and easier.
And then I trust myself. I'm like, yeah, I know that that's how I receive some of my guidance. So have fun with this.
So the four groups, starting out group number one, I got an owl. Group number two is a phoenix. Group number three is a unicorn.
And group number four is a python. There is an owl, a phoenix, a unicorn, and a python.
So now, once you kind of know which group feels like it's yours, I'm going to have timestamps down below in the show notes, and you can pick your group, and then you listen to your reading. Maybe you'll be drawn to more than one.
There's a little bit of overlap in some of the themes, but they are quite different. But I would say, go with the one that feels stronger, or the one that you initially just were like, yes, that one.
And as usual, take what resonates, leave what doesn't, choose your adventure, whichever path feels like it's the one for you, and I will see you in your reading.
4:04
Group 1 - Owl
So this is group one, your symbol is the owl. This is your reading for the energies of the upcoming year.
So when I first tapped into the energies in this group, I saw a time portal, and it was almost as if I was out in space, and I was in this tube of energy, and I just got sucked in.
And I was going on this journey, and this energy was swirling and twirling, almost like a corkscrew. It just kept going around and around and around.
And it felt like once I got in it, it went quite quickly, and then it kind of spat me out at the end. So it feels like this year is going to have a lot of movement, and it felt very quick.
Like it felt like things picked up in pace but you're also going to be called to pause quite a bit because maybe if things externally are moving quickly in your world, in your life, in your inner world, whatever it may be, I very much feel like
you're going to be called to check in with yourself quite often and kind of see, okay, how do I feel about this? Things are moving quickly, but I need to keep coming back to myself. What do I feel like? What do I want?
What feels right? What doesn't? It's very important to have that solid sense of self.
If things around you are going to be moving quite quickly. And this is a year of, well, it feels like you're going to know what's working and what's not this year.
So whatever you're trying on, whatever you're working on or working towards going through, it feels like there will be a lot of quick answers or quick feedback where maybe you're working on something or you put some sort of energy out in the world
and then right away you get a response. And it's like, oh no, I need to shift course. This is showing me, okay, I actually need to do this differently. This isn't going to work.
So it very much feels like throughout this entire year, you're going to know what's working for you and what's not.
And it might force you to readjust certain things and kind of tinker and go back and be like, no, no, no, I need to approach this differently. And very much in an empowering sense is that your choices can shift outcomes.
So if there is something that happens and you took a certain course of action and you don't like the response that you get, or it's not quite what you thought, you can then check in with yourself and be like, okay, what's a different way of
approaching this? And I actually have a choice here, right? It feels like once I make a different choice or I shift how I was doing something, the response can change. There can be a different outcome, but it's all about coming back to your center.
Like you very much need to have a strong center, because if we think of this corkscrew, it's like, okay, we're going around, stuff is moving, and I am in here and it's going to keep moving, but I need to know who I am and what I want within this
space, because I don't necessarily have control over the energy around me, but I do have control over how I react and how I take care of myself, and how I can keep coming back to my inner knowing. I kept seeing as well almost, you know, in a typical,
let's say a cartoon where there's like scientists, and they have the beakers, and then they've got one of those like glass tube that's twirly, and it goes into another beaker, and it's like the liquid goes up and it twirls around, and then it comes
out and it's different. I don't know a lot about science, so forgive me for what I'm trying to describe, but it very much felt like that's the corkscrew, like you're going into this year one way, as like one color liquid, let's say, and then you're
going to go through this corkscrew of energy that's going to really kind of move things around for you, and by the end of the year, you're going to come out and you're going to be different. Something is going to be different about you, about your
world, about your life. And some of the good things, and we're not going to say good or bad, that's not the right terminology, but things that might feel really positive or easier, is going to be that this year has a lot of movement. So if you've
felt stuck or like things aren't moving, it's like, oh no, energy is moving. And that can be fun, right? It can be adventurous when things are shifting and changing a lot. It's not going to be stale.
And you're in a process of refinement. So that's that corkscrew. It's like we keep maybe coming around to something, but we are refining our skills.
You're refining your beliefs or you're learning more about yourself and the world or how you are, and you're very much getting better at something. And that could be in so many different contexts.
I'm just even thinking about it personally, learning a lot about yourself. And you're like, oh, when I react this way, that thing happens. And I've always done that.
What if I shifted my response? Right? It's like we keep coming back and we are refining how we do something.
And this year is all about building resilience, because as you encounter certain things again, so that's what the corkscrew feels like to me a little bit. It could be maybe things coming back around.
You're like, I thought I dealt with this, or I thought this was settled, but it keeps coming back, or there's this relationship I have, and we keep having the same issue, and it keeps coming back, and it's repeating.
But it's like you're building resilience as you encounter these situations again, because it's getting you to see things from another perspective, check in with yourself, and be like, okay, I can actually choose differently, and I'm going to, and
this is almost a science experiment, right? I'm going to experiment with, when I do this, how does that change the outcome? How does that shift things?
So there's a lot of resilience being built as you do that, and it's really positive to have a year where you can experiment, you know, with yourself, because you probably are going to get feedback in some way in your external world of that worked,
that didn't. Now, some of the challenges could just be, maybe you can feel this with me, like we're in this corkscrew time traveling tunnel, right, in the middle of space, and it is like this fast moving energy, and I feel like I am being pulled and
pushed. So it might feel a bit jarring, it might feel a bit back and forth, and you're like, whoa, okay, like I'm just kind of figured out this situation, and this other thing is happening, and okay, that's a lot.
And you might wonder if certain things keep coming around, how am I here again? Why is this happening again? And that can be really challenging.
I think we all find that with certain patterns that keep repeating, you're just like, but no, this can't be happening again. But really, it's just these energies that want to get you, from one state to another.
So who you are and how you show up at the beginning of this year wants to be quite different from how you end this year and who you are or what your life looks like.
It could be very internal for you, it could be very external, it could be the circumstances, your relationships, your job, your home life, your creativity, or it could be very much these deep beliefs you have about yourself and how you're healing in
one area of your life. It could be so many things. And in a group reading, it means something different to everyone.
But the point is you kind of enter this year in one state, and you go and you travel through this corkscrew of energy that's refining how you are, how you show up, what you do, all of it.
So at the end of that year, you're like, whoa, I just went through a time portal. And now I am changed because I have been refining myself throughout this entire year.
If you want to lean in to things this year, it feels like lean in to just grace, that word of, okay, there's a lot moving around me, but I can still be here. I can slow down, be with myself. I can be in grace.
Also, a lot of self-learning. You can learn so much about yourself in this year and how, again, the response of how you are and how you approach things.
And you're going to know yourself so much better at the end of this year as you refine these energies. Now, things to let go of, things that maybe aren't going to be supportive this year, is, I think, needing to know how this is all going to happen.
It can be a lot of, well, okay, I'm starting out over here, and I'm doing this thing, and now I'm being thrown into this situation, or a lot is moving. How on earth am I going to get to this other point? Or I have these goals.
How am I going to get through this? How am I going to approach this? Well, you don't need to know.
You don't need to know because I feel like this energy is at play. It's like, nope, we're putting you in the tube.
You are swirling and twirling, and you're dancing with all that's going to be, I don't know, you're encountering in your world, and you can't control that.
So it's very much about letting go of that need to know what's exactly happening, how it's going to happen, what and how it's going to happen, and getting caught up in a lot of overthinking, like needing that you need to control it or change it or do
something. And when I connect with the owl, because I'm like, oh, the owl is the symbol of this energy, how does this connect, right? When I tapped into the owl and I was like, hey, owl, what do you have to say about this year?
Or what advice do you have for this group? And the first thing he said, he was like, hoo hoo, he said, who are you? And then I heard the song by the who, who are you?
And I was like, oh, okay. And really, he's saying, he's like, you're really going to get to know yourself this year. So that's really cool.
It's like, who are you? Well, as you encounter things this year, you're going to learn more about who you are and what you believe in and how you have a choice to do certain things, say certain things, and show up for yourself. So he said that.
And also with his eyes, right? His eyes are so big and very much, he was showing me that it's all about perspective and almost like if you can zoom out. And maybe I love doing this sometimes.
You know, when you're driving, you're like, oh, I need to rely right now on my peripheral vision. If I stare forwards, I can't see everything around me, right? I'm only seeing the road in front of me.
And so you have these moments where like you're backing up in a parking lot and you're like, okay, I'm going to use my other vision or like my side vision, my peripheral vision. And that's kind of what this owl was showing me.
He's like, hey, soften your eyes so that now you're seeing a way bigger picture. You're seeing all of it. It's a little bit fuzzy.
It's not laser sharp, but you're getting a feeling that you're a part of something bigger. You're not needing to see the direct path. So, lean into that.
Lean into the big picture this year. You might be holding a lot of things at once, different things that are happening, but allow that. Because you're not meant to be laser focused on one thing.
You're gonna be going on this journey through the corkscrew, and there's gonna be a lot of movement. And sometimes that might be exhilarating, and other times that might be kind of exhausting or confusing.
But we're taking you from one way, the beginning of the year, and shifting you to another way at the end of the year. And so that requires a journey, an adventure. And the owl's saying, okay, just remember that big picture.
If you can just come back to that, and just allow your vision to almost hold all of these different pieces gently all at once, and know that it will all work itself out. You will make it from one end to the other.
It's almost the energy of an eight, right? The number eight, which is very much, you come in one way, and you leave forever changed. And different things can happen in the middle of while you're in that.
That can be letting go of a lot of things, walking away from certain things. It can be refining your skills and talents with something else, or really just like fast moving shift from one thing to the next.
And really, your job is to manage your energy, right, you're going to become the master of your own energy, and to continually check in with yourself. Where's your center? How do you feel?
What feels right? What doesn't? Whatever practices help you do that, that's going to really be supportive this year.
If that's journaling, if that's going into nature, if that's talking things out loud into your phone and listening back later, whatever it is that helps you process and just kind of, yeah, come back to yourself.
A lot of people, that's movement, right, are working out or being creative, but you might need to kind of have something in place where you can easily come back to yourself if you find yourself getting lost, because it's about you managing your own
energy amidst a lot of things moving around. Okay, thank you so much to my OWL group, and I'll see you in the next reading.
17:46
Group 2 - Phoenix
Okay, if you chose the phoenix as your symbol, these are the energies for your coming year, group two. So the first thing I was seeing and feeling was firecrackers.
I was seeing firecrackers, I was seeing a spark, this lighting of a flame to instigate a series of changes, and I know that may sound dramatic. But again, this is metaphor, right? So, we don't need to get nervous.
It just feels like there are going to be a series of small changes, or there's going to be events, things that are dispersed throughout the year that are designed to shift something, change something, shake something up in your world.
And everyone who's listening to this, those will be different things for each of you. And it might also show up in a different sequence, right?
Initially, I saw almost lighting this one firecracker that took a very long time from the moment that the flame was lit to then it exploding and something changing.
Whereas, I also felt into a bunch of different firecrackers going off, and they're much smaller, and they were at different times.
So, this will look different for everyone, but really, it feels like there are going to be just a lot of things that want to move and change and shift. And there might be things that quickly dissolve, right?
Like a circumstance where you're like, how the heck did that happen? Like I thought this was going to happen, but this happened.
Oh my gosh, and in its place, when that thing, let's say, dissolves, whatever it may be, there might be nothing left in its place right away.
It might be kind of like, huh, well, I thought I was going to do this thing, but now this trip fell through or something, whatever it may be.
But there might be, in other circumstances, something may disappear from your life or something falls through or shifts, and then that reveals something else. So that could also be the case. There's something beneath that.
They're like, oh, now I've discovered this other thing. Or now that that thing's gone, I actually really want to go after this thing. So it can look totally different.
And that's kind of the exciting part about it. It's very much this quick spark, this transformative energy, and a lot about being adaptable with changing circumstances, whether they be small things, big things.
It could just be random, one-off things. There's going to be, yeah, almost like eclipse energy. When we think of eclipses, you know, something will get eclipsed out of your life at times.
Something will leave. That could just be a belief system. That could be a friendship.
That could be an opportunity. And I think a lot of times when we hear that, we think, oh, scary, negative. Oh, no, something's leaving.
But really, this year feels like it's all about shaking some things up, shaking some things loose. And just so that at the end of this year, you're ready to kind of embark on another journey, right?
Like this year is about shaking loose some of the things that are meant to go that maybe you're not aware of or had no idea that there was going to be a change in your path. But that's what's happening.
And things might look quite different at the end of the year, or you just may feel quite different, or things may have just looked. If you looked back, you're like, oh, wow, that really took a different turn of events.
I wasn't not able to handle any of it. I just really didn't think that that was what was going to happen.
So some of the more positive feelings that come with this year that we might label as, I like that, this feels good, I want more of this, could be that feeling of excitement of the unknown. Maybe you felt stuck or things have been quite stagnant.
So the idea of things changing and maybe not knowing what those changes are going to be, that could feel really good. It could really open you up. That can be fun.
There can be a lot of mystery in that. There doesn't need to be fear attached to things changing or unpredictability. It can be kind of an adventure.
And yes, if things have felt like they haven't been moving in certain areas of your life, some of those blockages might just be removed to allow more movement.
So if you imagine like a stream and you've got some boulders in there and the stream is just trickling by, you know, this could be certain parts of your life. You're like, oh, I just want more movement here. I'm ready for something new and different.
This firecracker energy could just be like, oh, we remove one of those rocks. And wow, there's way more flow now in this area of your life. Or this opens up another opportunity here, which causes something else.
Like it could be a ripple effect that way. And there's a lot of learning around what is it like to ride the wave? If we let go of control, which as we know, we never really have control anyway.
We like to think we do. But this type of year might really show us, it's like, okay, no, I don't have as much control as I think I do. But I can be adaptable.
I can kind of move with this unpredictability and be more fluid. So that's a really positive thing, learning to be more adaptable. And by the end of the year, just maybe being just open to that, being like, oh no, like I got this.
I know how to ride the wave. I am not being a stick in the mud anymore. I'm not going to prevent things from falling away or changing or shifting.
And some of the things that might feel more challenging could be a sense of either like you're kind of waiting for something to change. Because again, the cadence of these shifts, we don't know what those will look like.
But you could feel like you're kind of waiting for something to change, or you're like in the change. It's almost like might feel like you're in either or. And that can be kind of challenging or like everything feels so stuck.
And then, oh my gosh, everything feels like it's moving. So that either or feeling could be a lot. And it won't be predictable.
I don't sense any predictability with this. That randomness can be a bit unnerving. The unknown can be a bit unnerving.
And again, everyone has a different relationship with the unknown and what that feels like.
And sometimes, you just might not know in the moment when something happens, let's say one of these little firecrackers goes off and plans change on a dime, you just might be like, I don't know how I'm going to manage this.
Or like, what do I do with this situation? There may be sometimes those moments. But just know that this is training you to adapt and you are more than capable.
Like you will meet what appears. You will meet the challenge. You will show up and just recognize that, oh, yeah, there's a lot of unpredictable things and I'm here for it.
I can do this even if I don't know how. I don't need to know how right in this moment. It will all fall into place.
I will learn. I will adapt. So things to lean into in this year, was very much kind of like the Choose Your Own Adventure.
I'm seeing this almost like, choose to be the main character of your story this year.
You can be the hero in your story, and imagine that you're, I don't know, riding on a horse and you're entering this forest, and you need to get to the other side because you're on this journey to go do something magnificent.
And just know it's like, oh, when the hero or the protagonist enters this forest, there can be feelings of, I don't know what I'm going to meet in the forest, like how many fairy tales are built around that, right? What are we going to encounter?
But just knowing that you are the main character is kind of fun. Like it's reframing this as a bit of an adventure, like this year might have a lot of unpredictable moments. And that's okay, I'm going to meet that challenge.
And things that you can let go of, so if we're leaning into being that hero, being brave, and brave's the wrong word, because that means that I'm saying this is a fearful thing, which it doesn't feel fearful, it just feels like change, change can be
a little hmm. But then what we want to let go of, or what would be supportive, is any sort of fear or hiding. Like don't hold yourself back out of fear.
You know, you're standing on the edge of this for us, and you're not going in because you're afraid of what you're going to meet.
Well, that's not going to solve anything, you know, because your life is in there, and you're on a journey to get to the other side of this for us.
So things are meant to be shaken or stirred this year, you know, they're not meant to stay the same necessarily, and it's all for you.
So even planning too much, trying to control, that doesn't feel like something that's going to be super helpful this year, or just might not work. Even trying to plan really far in advance and be like, this is exactly what I'm going to do.
This is how I want this to roll. I think it's just taking a step back and allowing it to be a little bit more unpredictable.
And when I connected with the Phoenix, so your symbol, I was like, okay, Phoenix, what do you have to say to this group about this coming year? Do you have any advice? And the Phoenix said, shed.
It said, allow what wants to fall to fall. And it was showing me again, it's fire, right? Because the Phoenix rises, right?
Out of the ashes, like it burns, and then it rises up. And it was showing me the fire, like all these little, again, I saw them as firecrackers, right?
Going off, just these little things, little changes being dropped throughout the year at different times. And it said, imagine my flames as a gift, and know that you will be lighter, you'll be more aligned, so that then you can rise.
Like I saw, that whatever is lighting up or shifting or changing or falling away is really just to help you on your path, right? We're lightening the load, we're letting go of things that aren't working anymore.
Even if they feel like they are, or we want to take everything with us and we want it all to stay the same, the phoenix was like, no, like, you're going to rise. Other things are going to happen.
You might not know what those are, but we need to kind of lighten the load here, and that's why I'm dropping these sparks. That's why we're burning up certain things. So, it's very much about lightening your load, and shackles will be released.
That was the final message.
So, if there's things that have felt like they're holding you back, or maybe you don't even know they're holding you back, that is the purpose of this year, is to release those shackles, and you don't necessarily need to do that consciously and
intentionally and work on this. It's more, okay, the energies of this year are going to take you on a journey to be able to do some of that.
It's really the energy of the number five, and five is very much like an unpredictable number with a lot of changes and surprises and just different things. And again, it doesn't have to be this big grand thing.
It could be a lot of tiny little shifts and changes, but yeah, there's a lot in store this year. So, take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and best of luck on this coming year. Sure, amazing Phoenix energy.
29:27
Group 3 - Unicorn
Hello group three. If you chose the unicorn as your symbol, this is your Choose Your Own Adventure, where I will read the energies of the coming year for you. So, the unicorn.
The first thing that I felt into with the energy of this group was very much being ready to be seen.
And almost moving from a space of maybe being more hidden or in the background to coming out of what I saw as like a dark forest, like being hidden in the forest.
And then I saw this beautiful unicorn, and it actually just starts shining and it starts to step out and you're like, I didn't know you were even there. This allowing of your uniqueness to really come through this year.
So I felt a lot of energies around maybe being a bit tentative or shy or unsure.
There is a bit of vulnerability, feeling nervous a little bit about this new energy, but it feels like maybe you've been doing a lot of work on yourself up till this point. Maybe you've been doing a lot of healing.
Maybe you've been stepping into more of yourself and just have been on a journey of, I don't know, expanding yourself, figuring out who you are and just what you stand for. Because basically this year was like, we're done hiding.
There's no more hiding. There's no more pretending. I feel like you have shifted something, not even in your life necessarily, but in your energy where you are now different and you are ready to come forward more.
So something has changed and it's almost like you are forever changed. And so now you're going to approach life and be in life in a different way, if you want to or not. Like this is kind of, your energy is different now.
You are different now. And there's this big perspective shift this year. There's a lot of trusting your inner knowing, embodying just who you are, what your truth is, right?
Not the truth, but you're like, what is my truth? Who am I? What do I feel?
Who am I? I'm going to stand in that. And not doing anything for show.
It very much felt like when I say embodied, it's like, oh, you are the unicorn. Like you are the unicorn. You don't have to try to be a unicorn.
You just are that. You know who you are. You're in your own energy.
And so now when you approach life, when you are in different scenarios, when you are confronted with different people and situations, like you are going to respond differently or you're being asked to respond differently, it may even be extremely
painful to keep doing things or responding to situations in the way that you were before because now, no, like your energy is different and you can't pretend that you're not this magnificent unicorn. So it feels like throughout this year, it may be a
slow burn, like I almost see you in this forest and you're emerging, but you're a bit tentative and you're looking around, you're like, how do I feel about this now? Okay, how do I feel about that?
Oh, normally I would have said this thing, but now I'm going to say this thing. And so it felt like there's a lot of kind of testing the waters, maybe assessing the reactions, the responses you get from scenarios or people around you.
And you may feel a bit naked. That was the feeling I was like, oh, I feel a bit naked. I feel a bit weird.
I feel kind of vulnerable. Like, as I'm being seen now for maybe who I really am, and maybe before I wasn't fully being myself, but now I am. And so I feel like a little bit like a baby.
Like I'm coming out in this new way. And this year is about getting your legs, right? It's about growing.
It's about expanding into this energy of who you truly are. It's not about rushing. You're not rushing anything.
You're very much empowered. Like I said, embodied. Like this is who you are now, but it's quite new.
And it may have been a shift that happened internally, and now you are bringing that to the external world.
And you're going to be quite present, or you're being asked to be quite present, because the world around you might shift as you are now different.
It might respond to you differently, and that might be amazing, and it might be a bit confronting, it might be confusing, it might just be a lot to take in.
It's almost like, yeah, you're seeing the world from this new lens, and you're like, whoa, okay, this is like aligned with my soul, and I know how I feel about stuff, but there's a lot of new things to navigate here.
And what's really awesome about this year, like some of the things that may feel really positive, it's just that you've made a lot of progress in your life.
Just know that and give yourself a pat on the back and be like, oh, you know what, I'm awesome. I've really worked on myself. I have really expanded, and that's amazing.
So you may feel that appreciation for the work that you've put in, or the shifts that you've made, or the different person that you may feel you are now. And that different person may just be like that truer version of who you really are, right?
There's a lot of opening up to life in this new way. It's like a blossoming energy. It's like this slow, gentle blossoming of really coming into your uniqueness and authenticity, building confidence.
That can happen this year. And trust in self, which is everything. You're going to learn to trust yourself more.
You're going to be standing more in your power. But from this place of just knowing, right? You're not like, I'm powerful and I can do anything that's there, but it's this more gentle version of that, which is, oh, I like really love myself.
And when I really love myself, because I know who I am, I can't be anything but me, right? I can't be different.
I've said that already, but you're showing up from a different place, and it's just this beautiful expansion, which will mean that you will likely do things a little bit differently. So those are all really positive things.
Some things that may feel more challenging this year could be just feeling a little bit out of sorts in possibly old situations or old dynamics, like maybe in certain relationships or in work situations, families, whatever it may be.
There might be things that you used to be a part of that were just normal, even if they didn't really suit you. But now that you're feeling different, those things might not feel as aligned anymore, which can be quite uncomfortable.
So there might be a lot of feelings of like, oh man, I thought I was fine here, but now I feel uncomfortable, or I know this isn't for me, but I don't know what action to take yet. So just know some of that might come up.
And that means that you will likely need a bit more processing time. You might need more rest. You need to be a bit more gentle with yourself.
Because again, if you're like this baby, like let's say you've, I don't know, we're gonna say shifted your frequency, right? Whatever it is, something has shifted within you. Now that that's shifted, this is still fairly new.
So it might take you a little bit of time to adjust to what it feels like to be you now, right? And you need to give yourself some time and gentleness to experience that.
Because if you throw yourself back into maybe what you were doing before, same situations where now you're like, I'm not sure if I'm into this, it can sometimes pull you down or it might make things more confusing or dramatic.
When really, you're just being asked to go a bit slower and kind of suss out how you feel. Rest a little bit more and just be gentle with this like a baby-ness of this new energy.
And surround yourself with things that support you, nurture you, that just keep you in this new alignment that you found.
It doesn't mean old patterns or habits or relationships or whatever it is that maybe is challenging you, like all of us are being challenged at all times, right, by certain things. It doesn't mean those don't exist.
It just means you might see them now from a different perspective where you're like, oh, yeah, that wasn't working for me. I can't believe I didn't see that before. That's not who I am.
I don't stand for that anymore.
So you might want to distance yourself from certain things and just give yourself that space to be in your own energy, right, where you can like really solidify into this new feeling and this new connection with yourself.
And you'll likely need more boundaries. That's a tough, that can be a tough one.
Like I said, just to make sure you're surrounding yourself with the right things that nurture this newness, so that you don't get dragged down into things that make you feel the way you did before or that pull you down out of this space of, oh, this
is who I am now. This is my authenticity. We don't want to get dragged down into other things. So boundaries, boundaries, so fun, so fun.
And likely over this year, it might be like a gentle unfolding. It might not be just like, oh, I'm different now. Maybe, but it feels more like you've been working towards something and you've made some big internal shifts.
And now you are shifting and your external world may shift in response to that. So it feels like it's unfolding over the year. Think of it as like a rose opening.
It's not this linear path. It's more one gentle pedal at a time. You kind of dip your toe in over here and you're like, how do I feel about that?
Okay. Right? You're going a bit slower.
And some things to lean into this year, just trust yourself really because you got yourself here. So really trust that how you feel about things is true to you, especially since you've made such big shifts and personal growth.
Be gentle, like I said, and give yourself a lot of space and time and possibly be in the observing mind. So you're observing your life more maybe than taking a bunch of action because, again, you're like, how do I fit into this now?
How do I fit into my family dynamics now that I feel a bit differently or I have this different perspective on life, whatever it may be? And things to let go of. Oh, wait, one more thing to lean into, patience.
Be patient with yourself. You've made a lot of strides and shifts, and now just go slow with it. You don't need to change everything in your life at once if it feels like it doesn't fit anymore.
Just be patient. And then things to let go of, pushing, right? Pushing ahead, taking on too much.
And again, maybe being in a bunch of scenarios that don't feel good anymore. Try not to feel like you have to put yourself in these situations. Give yourself the trust that you're like, I know that's not for me.
And so you can step away. So I connected with the Unicorn to see if it had any messages for you. And the Unicorn was all about owning it.
It was saying, you know, own your magnificence and your uniqueness and have this reverence for yourself that allows you to be seen as who you truly are, right? Like this Unicorn stands out. It is sparkly, it is bright and shining.
It has this beautiful like aura around it. And it's saying, can you see that in yourself? Just appreciate that about yourself.
We are all these unique beings. And when you actually show up as who you are, it's amazing. So really, you're allowing yourself to shine and to evolve until it's so natural that you're just kind of glowing.
And maybe that sounds a bit out there.
But really, what I'm seeing is you start out, you're in this forest, and you are this magnificent unicorn, and you're shining and you're glowing, but you're going slowly, and you're not sure how you feel about the forest anymore because you used to
hide, and now you're coming out. And as you traverse this year and approach situations with this gentleness for, okay, I'm doing this, I'm being vulnerable, I'm showing who I am now, that over time, it becomes more natural, right?
It might take you a little while to feel comfortable and just be okay with that. But at the end of the year, the goal is that you're doing it naturally. You just are fully embodied as this version of you, and you're starting to really shine.
And you can't turn off the shine. The shine is just there. So that's what Unicorn wanted to say.
And really, this year, it's kind of like you're connecting with life again. It feels like there's this new forged relationship with yourself that is just beautiful, that is very expansive.
This year feels like the energy of a six, which the number six has a lot to do, again, about this expansion, about healing, about relationships.
And I'm seeing this as, yeah, this relationship with yourself that then expands out into a relationship with the world. And just think about the changes you make in yourself.
That is like the number one decider of what will show up for you in your external life, right? It's like how you are internally. So you're taking that from the inside and you're starting to shine it out.
Amazing. OK, so take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and I hope you have an awesome year. Thank you.
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Group 4 - Python
OK, this is group four. You chose the symbol of the python. So this is your reading for the year ahead.
What does the next 12 months hold for you? So when I first connected with the energy of this year ahead, I very much got this slow and steady wins the race. There's this very measured energy.
There's a lot of pausing and choosing aligned action over moving quickly, moving sporadically. It's very much about being very intentional. It's like a smooth energy that when you think of the python and why a snake moves, right?
It's this smooth, continuous motion that has all these, like, you think about how a snake moves. It's like all the tiny little, like, ligaments and bones and muscles and whatever it may be in the snake's body that allows it to move smoothly.
It's made up of all these tiny, small parts working together. And that feels like a lot of the energy of this year is about this continuous motion, but it's slow and steady and aligned.
And you're being able to see things from a higher perspective, see situations almost from above. So you're likely going to rise above trivialities are going to be asked to.
So things that may be small or petty, or that may just like trip you up if you're trying to make progress in certain parts of your life.
This year is about, okay, I'm going to stop, I'm going to pause, I'm going to see things from a higher perspective. I know I'm building something or moving towards something or many different things at once.
But how can I approach this in a measured way and not get caught up and dragged down by things that I think are not working out for me right now?
There's a lot of this like higher perspective that allows you to pause and then make better decisions and continuously moving towards a goal.
You may have many irons in the fire, but it's approaching all of these things with this like smooth flexibility. And it's about taking one step after another step after another step, almost like in succession, right?
These baby steps, little actions over time that will get you to the space that you want to be in. And so this year, you start out and there may be things like you've got some grand plans, or maybe you've already been setting up certain things.
Maybe you're working towards a creative project or something. This can be with anything, right?
Insert ten other things that could be going on in your life and goals that you have for yourself, for your relationships, for your work, for your creativity, your family, whatever it may be.
Just know that this year isn't about jumping ahead and making huge leaps or big grand gestures. It very much feels more, okay, I'm moving towards this thing, and I'm going to be taking measured steps to get there.
And I'm going to be flexible because life is life, and things may come up. But instead of getting caught up in it, I'm going to keep my focus, right? My focus is there.
And having that perspective, like this wider perspective, is going to be very helpful. And that's going to allow you to zoom out and be like, okay, there's all these annoying things that are tripping me up in this thing over here.
I need to attend to those details, though. I'm going to take care of this thing and this annoying thing, and then I'm going to do this thing because I'm going to take one step after another because I'm building something.
And building something at this stage, the energies of this year, is about building, and some other years might be about fast action or huge expansion or self-learning or being stuck. This year feels like slow measured progress. In areas of your life.
And it's not about doing things faster or better or doing more. It's very much about alignment. So am I making aligned choices and decisions for myself?
Am I being intentional? And am I having the confidence to just know that I'm getting there? But it's a set of steps over time, and I can be flexible with that.
It might not all go my way just because I have this focus, but I can show up for that and I can take care of the things that need to get taken care of and not lose my confidence because I know that that's a part of what I'm doing and how to get
there. So some things that might seem really positive about this year is really that you might see some parts of things that maybe you've been working on for a while. You might see some of those parts come together, or you might make connections.
It's like, oh, again, insert one of 10 million different scenarios.
But maybe you've been, I don't know, working on a project for a couple of years or getting some sort of work relationship going or something, and you've been putting in work here or there and nothing's come together.
You might finally make some connections where you're like, oh, I need to do this step and this step. Okay, that's coming together. So you might see some things start to connect that have maybe been loose ends before.
Because it does feel like you're tying up some things. You're like, okay, these are the missing pieces that I need to get to my goal. And so I'm going to start working on these things I wasn't previously working on.
And this year is going to be, I don't support you at being really focused on what matters, right? If you know what matters to you, you can move towards those things.
And you can build on past successes or things that you've already been setting up, or that you've been ready for. It's almost like this is a part of your building phase. You're setting up foundations.
It doesn't mean you're necessarily making it to the finish line, but you're putting things in order. You're like, okay, I want to build this house. I've had the plans for this many years.
I had to get all these people in place and get the builders to come here on time. And this is the year where we start building.
And I might not see a finished house at the end of the year, but I know that now I've got things in place and I'm working towards that goal.
Some of the things that might feel more challenging, and this will be different for everyone, but could be the sense of I might not have everything moving at the same time.
So I was almost seeing like, let's say you've got five different things on the go at once. You know, in a life, we do so many different things and there's maybe a lot of things you're trying to break ground with or make progress on.
And maybe you're going to see a bit of progress over here with your significant other and this, you know, in your relationship. But over here in work, you're like, oh, I'm still building this, but it's not coming to fruition.
Or I've got this garden I'm working on and I've been planting this and this part is working and this part isn't. So there might be, it feels like a lot of progress in different areas at different stages. And that could just be a lot to deal with.
You're like, oh, I just wish something would like really move forward a lot. Like you might make some connections to help them grow, but it might not feel like things are fully wrapping up, or they're not breaking ground the way you want.
And it might feel like you're juggling a lot of different parts at once, right? You want to see all this progress, but really you're in the building phase with many things and different stages of that building.
But really this year is more of a building year, you know? There might be small winds that kind of help you be like, oh, cool, okay, yes, that's coming together. Overall, it's this sense of growth in the right direction over time.
So what you want to lean into this year are baby steps. Keeping track of where you are, keeping track of what you want so that you still are checking in with yourself. You're like, okay, this is right for me, this is aligned.
Okay, I'm going to keep moving forward. And you're taking aligned action again over time, right? You're building foundations for bigger changes that are going to happen later on.
Maybe at different stages or the next year, whatever it may be, next cycle in your life.
But you really want to lean in to making really smart decisions, trust your decision making abilities, and lean in to those knowing that you're playing a long game and that these decisions are going to lead to different actions that are then going to
lead to things coming to fruition later. So you want to do things properly, you want to do things right, you want to build that foundation really strong.
And if you're cheaping out on certain things, or you're like, I don't know if I could invest in that, or that feels annoying, I don't want to go get those documents to do this thing. It's like, no, you know what? You want to do it right.
You want to set the foundation now so it's solid, so that will serve you later on when you're at a different stage of growth.
Things to let go of this year, I've mentioned this already, just moving too fast, trying to move ahead, taking any sort of rash action, getting really caught up in being overwhelmed because you want to be more ahead, and then thinking you have all
these open-ended things that aren't getting done, or you're never going to make it to your goal. It can be easy to get disheartened or discouraged, but again, you don't want to skip any steps.
You want to go slowly and know that the change is coming, but now you're in the building phase. So this is very much like energy of, I felt the number four, I felt four energy, which is very much foundational.
It's kind of like slow moving, but it's aligned and it's getting somewhere, and we're creating structure, we're creating a container so that then we can expand out of that in another phase.
And when I connected with the Python, I said, okay, Python, what do you have for this group, and what their year ahead is going to be like? Do you have any advice? The Python was saying to conserve your energy.
So can you keep your focus on what you want to build? Right? Always coming back to that trueness of like, no, this means something to me, this is important, this feels right.
And then pausing before you take action. So again, checking in with, is that aligned with my focus? And just doing it right.
Align with your values, don't skimp on things. Make sure that you are following what feels true to you, what feels important to you, and conserving your energy as you go.
Because sometimes we want something big to grow, and then we want to take a rest. This feels more like, okay, can you take measured rest along the way, and continue to kind of build over time. And you will get there.
Give yourself a lot of rest, and allow yourself to pause, and just trust. Trust yourself, because the Python seems pretty badass to me, and makes it way there, right, on its path, and then it can also raise itself up.
So I saw it lifting up, and kind of looking around, and being able to see all the parts, and then coming back on the ground, and being like, okay, now I've seen the bigger picture again, I've checked in, now I'm gonna keep moving towards my goal.
So yes, take what resonates, leave what doesn't. Thank you for listening, and I'm wishing you, yeah, the best year ahead. I'll see you in the next reading.
