WEBVTT - Being Bruja: How One Journalist Tapped Into Her Ancestral Power and Became a Witch 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.080 Dear, let you know USA listener. Before we start, you 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.119 should know that if you want to listen to this episode, 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.600 add free just join and you can join for as 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.320 little as seven dollars a month. Joining also gets you 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.759 behind the scenes access and yes, some cheese may so 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.880 click the link in the episode description and after you 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:32.560 do that, then click play. Let's go to the show. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.519 Before saida Rivera and I sat down to talk, we 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.159 did something well, kind of unusual for an interview. She 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.319 asked to cleanse our recording studio. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.840 Any energies that were in this room before this moment 0:00:58.560 --> 0:00:59.320 be cleansed. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.959 And that's because Zaida is a Bruha. She's a witch. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.160 Today, I call on benevolent ancestors to enter this room 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:11.280 and join me. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.080 Once the ancestors had been invited to join the space 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.240 and the room had been cleansed, I stepped in and 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:32.000 I also did something unusual. I took off my six 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:45.200 inch platform heels. Our interviews started with a limpia, a cleansing. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.680 Let us begin. Zaida is performing an egg olympia. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:54.560 I was gonna ask if you ever had one. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.480 My mom did a linka awaivo like when I was 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.200 a little girl. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.800 But There are, in fact, many different kinds of lempias, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.880 because all of this has been around since before the 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.440 colonization of Latin America. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.519 But I haven't had one in several decades. Okay. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:18.040 At their core, lempys are indigenous health and spiritual practices, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.960 and lemphys are good for a lot of things. You 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.680 can get a limpia to help you get over a 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:30.000 breakup or to remove bad energy around you. So I'm 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.360 lying on the floor and Zaida kneels over me. Now 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.040 she's rubbing her hands together and prepping the egg. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.760 Are you okay with me? Suestion, you totally okay. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:46.359 Zaida lets the egg guide her hand over my body, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:51.800 and it's believed that the egg is absorbing negative energy 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.000 and leaves you with a sense of being cleansed of 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.160 whatever bad thing you had going on. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.760 I asked the egg to pull out any energy that 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.200 no longer serves you. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.880 The egg guides Zaida from my feet to the crowd 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:07.639 of my head. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.880 Opening up this beautiful center for creation, removing any self doubt. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.200 Sometimes, as Zaida explains, a spot on your body will 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.560 call for more attention and the egg has to hover 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:21.680 for a little bit longer. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.079 Misag is removing and cleansing her aura ad. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:32.760 Yeah, you can take a tea, breath in whenever you 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:33.360 feel called. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.680 You can open your eyes combat. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:37.160 The seating position. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.400 I gently open my eyes and then I see Zayda's 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:49.120 big brown eyes, and Zaida is helping me off the 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.400 floors so I can get back to standing. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.800 I've never started an interview with them, so the first 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:56.720 time for everything. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.040 Okay, I try to love it. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.320 But we're not done yet. There is a final thing 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:04.160 that needs to happen. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.080 I cracked the egg. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:13.400 Now the raw egg splashes into a clear glass of water. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.160 Now, I'm just going to leave that egg in the 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:23.400 water for about ten minutes before we read that egg. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.880 From Fudro Media. It's Latino USA. I'm Maria your Hoosa. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.920 Today we're going to practice the ancient tradition of Bruhetia. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.160 We're going to learn about the history and stop second 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:55.000 guessing ourselves. All of that with Za Rivera. For twenty years, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.640 Zaida was an entertainment journalist. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:58.560 This is your girl. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.520 Saya Rives couldn't wait for John like Guizamo to take 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:03.920 off his clothes. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.800 But after two decades in the business, she felt a shift. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.240 You're having this conversation with the universe that not everybody's 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:11.880 tuned into. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.599 It was an inner voice, an inner knowing, you might 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.159 call it, that she was meant to be doing magic. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.320 Her body was telling her that she was meant to 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:27.000 pursue brukhetiet and mysticism. But of course there were a 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.039 lot of critics. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.600 You've been an entertainment reporter for how many years? Now 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.520 you're a mystic. This is a joke, You're a joke. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.720 It hurt, but I got it. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.440 I understood how on the outside that might look that way. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.719 Zido was confident in her choice. She trusted that feeling 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:43.960 deep within her. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:45.839 I'm so sure of my connection. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.640 And so I finally said, well, they don't see it, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:50.880 and it's okay. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:52.400 Maybe they never will. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.279 It's not going to deter me from continuing to open 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.960 more and more and more. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.839 And one day she was now saida la brucha. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:08.279 In the words of my Taino ancestors, an ankatou anankatu 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.240 anhan catu, so be it. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.200 And well, that gut feeling has worked out pretty well 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.800 for Saida. She says she feels more in line with 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.320 her purpose in life, and that resulted in her debuting 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.960 her young adult guide. It's called Being Bruja. The Spanish 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.839 translation of the book is bivi Bruga. It's a one 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.800 oh one guide for young Latinas to help them get 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.120 in touch with their inner Brucha self and to learn 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.400 how to decipher the messages that come from beyond. So 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.960 let's get back to the studio, but this time in 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.159 front of the microphones and not on the floor doing 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:58.120 a limpia. Here's our conversation. What does it feel like 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:59.400 when you get those messages? 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.440 It's it's really just in all the years of work 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:07.400 in this it's trusting. It's not second guessing. I've gotten 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:13.760 enough confirmations to say, Sitha, stop second guessing. You're connected 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.800 and you're receiving these messages, and. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.880 You know, I've had a lot of reading, spiritual etc. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.480 But no one has actually said stop the second guessing 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.280 so clearly and in English. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.400 Which is why this book was so important. This is 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.000 the book that I wish I had when I was 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.400 a little girl. I feel like I've always been connected 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.000 in a very deep way spiritually, but didn't know what 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:39.559 that meant. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.760 But I had my grandmother, my maternal grandmother. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.040 Who I respectfully say bruha. And I say respectfully because 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.560 I don't know if she would feel like that's a 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.000 respectful word. But she would do bruha things all over 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.440 her house and I would watch her do it. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.320 At Florida water. She introduced that to me IgA de Florida. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:00.480 What is flora the water? 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.360 So it's like a spiritual cologne, if you will, but 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.080 like it's more than the spiritual work is Like when 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.920 we were younger and would tell my grandmother we have 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.840 period cramps and she would be like, mihah, bring us 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.680 to the bathroom, tell us to move our hair over 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.360 and pour it on the back of our neck and 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.840 go take a nap. Every time it worked every time. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:27.240 I love that. So yeah, so take me Saia too 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.840 when you were a little girl, because those were the 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:36.240 very first moments. What was that like with Esosentimiento's. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.040 It was interesting because I was in and out of 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.760 different houses of worship with different family members. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.280 So I went to Catholic. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.400 Church with my grandmother, Baptist church the big choir and 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.679 everything with my Titi Julie, and Pentecostal with my dad. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:56.160 But I just felt like the connection wasn't there. So 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.640 I talk about it in the book. Unfortunately, I came 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:04.480 from a house that had domestic violence, and so as 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.679 a little girl, I would run to my room to 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.400 escape those moments, and without even knowing, I would just 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:12.280 sit in meditation. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.280 I was just breathing, breathing through it. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.800 But on multiple occasions I felt like someone was rocking me. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.160 I remember one day distinctively opening my eyes to look 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.360 at my knee and see if I'm really rocking, my 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.080 knee won't be moving, and it was. And I knew 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.440 in that moment, Maria, that there was something beyond what 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.840 our two eyes could see that is here guiding us 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.720 along our journey. And my journey has been amazing thus far. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:48.920 So I know that spirit is looking over watching over me. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.000 How often do you think that, in this case, young kids, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:59.520 but very specifically young Latinas are experiencing or practicing spiritual 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.319 magic and they don't even know it. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.520 I think it happens a lot because I didn't even 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.440 know what I was doing, and then I find out 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.640 in a class that, oh, this is a spiritual tradition 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.800 that's been around for generations. So I feel like a 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:20.080 lot of a lot of Latinas there's an innate response 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.160 to this because it comes from our ancestors. This is 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.840 stuff our great great great great grandmothers was practicing. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.280 They were practicing this work. 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:35.560 So let's talk about colonization and Catholicism. They're injuxtaposition to 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.480 our indigenous ancestral roots, right, But how do you put 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:40.640 those two things together. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.360 I want these young people or anybody reading it to 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.480 realize that they're not alone in any confusion there. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:50.040 Right. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:55.080 So, just like I mentioned, my grandmother devout Catholic, but 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.720 when she came home, she would have bowls of water 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.880 above her refrigerator to soak up negative And so that 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.880 is how I make sense of it. That bringing Christianity 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:11.480 into areas of indigenous people that did not practice it 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.760 and telling them this is what you're going to practice. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.120 It's not a choice. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.559 It's either this or you're going to suffer great consequences. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.440 So a lot of it happened in shadows, behind the 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.240 doors at night, where it wasn't under the watchful eyes 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.320 of colonizers, and then they would show up in the 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.920 houses of worship. Now we get to my grandmother, who 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.240 still believes in these traditions from the island of Puerto 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.640 Rico from Borinquin, right, but also feels so drawn to 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:49.400 the Bible and the Catholic Church and feels safe in 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:50.920 both spaces. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.480 And that's what I feel. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.800 I could go to a house of worship and absolutely 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.560 feel God in that space, But then I can go 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.640 and sit by a body of water and I feel 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:04.240 God there too. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.839 You're not gonna want to miss what comes next, because 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.640 when we come back, Zaida will read the egg and 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.800 find out what it tells her after the limpia that 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:22.480 she did on me. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.440 There's not a lot of fogginess, which is nice, but 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.880 there is some fog around the yolk, and you see 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.720 those three big bubbles right there. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.520 Yeah, people talking crap gossip. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:48.200 Stay with us, Yes, hey, we're back. And before the break, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:53.120 zaidivera author of Being Brucha, was about to read the 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.560 egg in the glass cup. All right, let's get back 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.120 to the story. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.520 I'm going to stand up to look at it. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.680 So as we look at the cup, it looks pretty clear. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.280 There's not a lot of fogginess, which is nice, but 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.559 there is some fog around the yolk, and you. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.040 See those three big bubbles right there. Yeah, people talking 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.839 crap gossip. Dude. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.920 Yeah, So small bubbles usually mean the cleanse took place. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.720 Everything's good. But the bubbles are big. It's like, ooh, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.480 there's some haters in the mix, so keep doing what 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.440 you're doing. Mightey because we people are watching now. One 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.360 thing I see as a string right here is kind 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.520 of floating by itself. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.360 That was a cord cutting of some sort. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.720 You might have had an energetic connection to somebody that 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.320 you didn't want that anymore, and the egging. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:41.760 Yet cleared that. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.040 Sometimes I'll see the strength still sort of attached, and 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.000 it shows me, oh, we should schedule a chord cutting. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.280 But in this case it seems like it's already detached. Nice. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:53.319 Otherwise it looks beautiful. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.720 It just seems like there might be a little gossip 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:10.400 happening around. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.480 Your book being Brucha. I do love the title in Spanish, 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:08.400 almost a little bit. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:13.120 More vv brucha, which I mean live it live brucha. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.679 I mean, but you know, I'm sure the publishers are like, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.200 what do you mean, live bruka. That's going to be 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.200 too much. But you did decide to write it's a 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.720 it's a young adult book one and it's not only 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.000 in English. It's in Spanish. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.840 Yes, why it was so important. The traditions, the rituals, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.760 everything that I'm speaking about come from those countries that 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.840 Spanish is spoken. You know, how could I write it 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.120 and not have a young person in Mexico that doesn't 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.520 speak English not feel seen. So you know, I credit 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.840 my publisher a lot. They were very excited to do 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.520 it in Spanish, and so was I. And coming from 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.360 somebody that Spanish is not my first language, I've learned 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.080 over the years in my adult life, how to write 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.800 in Spanish, how to speak in Spanish. But it just 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.440 you know, Maria, I I manifested this years ago. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:03.000 I was in. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.760 Meditation and I asked, God, please let me bring this 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.920 work to young people. I don't know how, but I 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.800 need the little girl, SAIDA that was nine on her bed. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.120 Seeing myself rocked. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.960 I need that nine year old to read this, and 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:22.600 I'm going to share something really wild. I was guided 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:27.600 through a past life regression meditation. And guess what I 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.560 saw in that meditation, what myself as an adult woman 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.080 walking into the room where I lived as a little girl, 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.800 where I was sitting crying on my bed, and I rocked. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.440 Myself, Old, are you rocking younger you. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.920 So it was inner child healing work that was being 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.760 done already. And when I saw that, I thought, wow, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.920 this makes so much sense because in that moment, as 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.320 a nine year old, I felt so safe. I felt 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.320 like whatever was happening outside of the room wasn't going 0:15:59.400 --> 0:15:59.880 to get to me. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.400 What I love about your book is that it really 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.000 is a starter guide for Like, if you had a thea, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.640 who is going to tell you all about it? Great? 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.640 But if we don't have a thea, you can read 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.840 the book. So what do you think just if you're 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.040 doing that starter guide for our listeners, what do they need? 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.560 What is the what are the basic things that you need? 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.720 I mean, it's really interesting because most of the stuff 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.840 is in our kitchen. Like I use a lot of 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.280 things that are right in my kitchen, cinnamon, rosemary, like 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.960 these herbs. But if I was going to say, like 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.120 where do you start right like this is a bluha, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.200 one on one kind of book, I would really start 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.320 working with the moon. That's one way that you could start. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.360 It's a way to introduce that connection to nature and 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.040 everything around us. The new Moon is manifesting. What do 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.480 you want to manifest? The foll moons. What do you 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.200 want to let go of? What is it that's in 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.560 your way? What is taking up space that no longer 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.879 needs to be there. That's one way, but also another 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.120 way is manifestation. I would say, try some manifestation work. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:15.199 Grab yourself some crystals. You know, my oldest daughter, I 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.720 can't wait for her to hear that she was the 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:17.919 one anti all of this. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.840 I go in her room. Now, she got crystals. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:26.040 She has angel numbers on her mirror like it resonates. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.919 So even getting yourself some crystals, writing down something you 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.680 want to manifest, folding it and putting the crystal over 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.000 that piece of paper. The biggest thing and the biggest 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:43.040 ingredient is trust. Trusting and believing that what you're saying, 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:48.880 what you want is being heard and received. And if 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.800 it is in line with your purpose, there's no stopping it. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.239 It's going to be yours. But the big key of 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.120 this is making sure it's in line with your purpose. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.520 I don't think that if you failed at something, it's 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.119 like I'm not magic, I can't make this manifestation stuff work. No, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.280 if it was a failure, that means there was a 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:10.919 lesson in it. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:32.040 We're gonna take a quick pause, like, hey, we're back 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.880 before the break. So I that was breaking down some 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.320 of the essential items that she has in order to 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.560 be Abrucha. But now she's going to guide me through 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.920 some of the witchy items that she actually brought into 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.640 the studio with us for the interview. So before we're 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.240 going to get to the next part, right, you're going 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.439 to do a quick little reading, yes, but before you 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.080 do that, can you just tell me what you brought 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:55.560 that's on the table in front of us. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:55.880 Yeah? 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.240 Absolutely, So I brought some crystals, and I believe that 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.760 crystals have energy. They're from the Earth, they're pressed together 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.200 to create these amazing colors and all of these things. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.040 And then of course I have the symbol of love, right, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.119 and then we have a just a clear quartz. So 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.680 this is really like connected to the crown chakra, which 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.880 was really powerful in your egg Limpia. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.040 I always bring Florida water, and then I always always 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.679 travel with her. She is the Diosa Luna of the 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:27.600 Tin tradition. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:32.040 She is the moon goddess and I love her little story. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.200 She like sits in a cave during the day and 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.560 lets the sun just you know, shine and be in 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.720 the spotlight. And then once that sun goes down, she's like, Okay, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.160 now it's my time to work, and she comes out 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.399 of her cave and illuminates the night sky. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.600 I have a Tibetan sombol. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.480 I brought a smaller one today because I have bigger soundbols. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.600 I use this to cleanse the room. Sound is a 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.679 wonderful way to do that. That wave that carries with 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:01.120 the sound is going to move the energy around the room. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.880 So I do that and then my cards. 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:04.920 So what's going to happen now? 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:06.440 So let's do a little reading. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.560 Okay, do I have to do anything or no. 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.480 Not at all. We're just going to pull three cards. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:11.240 Okay. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.920 The cards will from left to right. They signify past, present, future. 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.920 So all I need you to do is just look 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:26.080 at the cards as I'm shuffling, and just think about things. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:31.720 Think about whatever it is that you're asking these cards. Ooh, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.679 when cards fly out, they're met for you. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.800 Oh my god, this one fool out. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:40.480 So we'll put it to the side. What guidance? What messages? 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.399 Mm hmm, okay, thank you great spirit. Okay, so we 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.240 had cards fly out, and I'm going to show you. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.440 So you got nine of Wands for past. But nine 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.359 of Wands is basically saying you're a work in progress 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.320 and you know that they there's little blockages in the way, 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.560 but you don't let that limit you. I love the 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.440 imagery of this car too, because she's standing like behind 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.680 a broken fence, so it's just showing she could step 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:11.280 right over that. 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.200 She's super tall, she could absolutely step right over. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:18.000 But this really resonates to me with your work present 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.240 night of ones. If you got a page, it's more 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.960 like thinking about it, but the nights is like, let's 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.920 do it, let's live life. I'm feeling like you're you're 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.920 happier in your life now than you probably have been 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.160 in a long time. It's true, and at this time 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.200 in your life, at this age, there's a wisdom that 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.920 you feel that you haven't before. Correct Three of Swords says, 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:47.199 you're still going to be disappointed by things. Three of 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:51.720 Swords comes to say, heartbreak is real, but our bodies, 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.680 our spirits are so resilient that the heart will heal. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:59.760 So I do feel like this reading has a lot 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.520 to do with your work and that you have been 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:07.680 feeling heartbreak in what you've been seeing Oh my god, yeah. 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.359 Oh my god. Oof. Yeah, no idea. 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.880 And this means in every way, not just work, but family. 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:20.920 You are the lead in your story, not your children, 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.600 not your partner. And that sounds funny to Latina's to 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.919 say that, but you see that if you lead and 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:30.160 you're at the top of your priority list and you're 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:34.840 taking care of yourself like you do physically spiritually, that's 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.680 going to resonate with everyone else around you, and your 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:39.840 kids will carry that with them for the rest of 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:41.520 their life. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:43.600 God, I feel so light. 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:44.639 Yeah. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.560 And when I came in I wasn't you know, I 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:52.560 was asthmatic and tight. But I'm feeling just completely different 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.480 about it. So I'm just so glad that I had 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:56.320 this time to sit and. 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:58.320 Talk with you. Me too, I'm so honored. 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:05.800 Thank you, thank you, saida thank you. 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