WEBVTT - Wellness From the Earth and Stars 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.120 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKA F Daily with 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.000 me your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording not So live from 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.240 our podstream studios in Times Square. Folks, it is feel 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.920 Good Friday, and after a week away, I am feeling very, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.160 very good, and so I'm excited to bring you this 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:36.800 conversation with doctor Kay Hubbard and Tracy L. Rogers this 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.800 week as we end the week. You know, it is 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.519 often right that I'm trying to find ways that we 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.800 can have more expansive conversations around what it means to 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.479 be woke, about what it means to be conscious, And 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.960 in these conversations that I have with doctor Kay Hubbard, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.840 who is a nature path and working with Black and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.640 Well mag scene and Black and Well if you follow 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.360 them on Instagram, is all about wellness and black culture, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.800 and she's in residence there and talks a bit about 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.360 what it means to move from a place not only 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.120 of self practice but also of healing. And then my 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.440 conversation with Tracy L. Rogers. She is an astrologist, and 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.040 we talk about the ways in which the stars are 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.480 aligned or how we feel aligned, and the difference between 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:32.000 astrology right and you know, being a psychic and how 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.520 those two things aren't not connected, but that you know, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.679 we all have these significant star maps that are created 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.280 on the day of our birth, and so she talks 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.319 about the importance of that and the guiding principles that 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:49.840 come with understanding our sun sign, our moon sign, our sending, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.480 how we are in mercury, and our communication and thus 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.320 for and how it creates a kind of pathway for 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.240 our lives. So I do hope that you all enjoy 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.640 this feel good Friday episode as we close out the 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.120 week with me away on vacation. I will be back 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.120 next week and I'm super excited to reconnect with all 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:17.400 of you folks. I am so happy to be joined 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.400 on Woke f Daily by doctor k Hubbard, who is 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.720 one of the wellness providers in residence at Black and Well. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.160 I want you to talk to us a bit about 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:34.520 why wellness right now, particularly for black people, is of 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.680 the utmost importance. I have been talking about it as 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.600 making this shift on my show, which is you know, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:48.320 focused on progressive politics in the age of white supremacies, 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.000 uprising reasurgence right and that work in it of itself 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.880 is exhausting people paying attention to what is happening on 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.760 a daily basis is exhausting, It is disheartening. It produces 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.680 a lot of different levels of anxiety depression. And so 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.480 I've tried to over the last several months and over 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.880 the last year plus of this pandemic, wanting to make 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.000 a focus and a shift in talking about wellness, in 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.560 talking about self care. So can you talk to us 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.320 a bit about your journey into this work and then 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.960 how it has been showing up in these really precarious 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.800 times that we're living in. Yeah, well, thank you for 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.040 having me, and thank you for that introduction. For me, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:39.120 I wellness was from my own journey. It was for myself. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.120 I chose it because I needed it, and then I 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.840 chose to become a provider of it to others because 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.800 people were asking for advice and I didn't have the 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.600 skill set where training. So I went to school. I 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.000 went to medical school, and I'm also in school to 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.320 be a therapist because I see the need for it, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.240 especially our community. But for me, even in writing the book, 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:04.880 it was like I need this and I got to 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.520 write it down and then people ask for it and 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.840 I've provided it more broadly. But when it comes to 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.080 this time. In particular, I have seen a lot of people, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:19.799 all the black people being more specific, who are wondering 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.719 what they did wrong and wondering why why the self 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.080 care that they've been doing for so long it doesn't 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:31.880 seem to be enough because it's not just well, life 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:37.000 is stressful for many people always. It's also dealing with, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.760 you know, the fear of COVID and all anxiety around health, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.400 all the anxiety around what's happening next in our world 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.840 is just so much uncertainty, and because of that, there's 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.360 all those layers. And then of course there was the 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:55.440 George Floyd murdered summer, and so we really got hit 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.960 from all sides. So I tend to focus on mental 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:03.120 health with people, but it does manifest in our but 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.800 so in that, I think now is this time to 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.119 really dig in and go deeper on what is self 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.800 healing and not just self care, because we have to 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:18.039 be doing repair work and creative restoration to get more 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.520 filled up. I want to talk about that more because 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.160 one the feeling, or at least what people have expressed 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.720 to you, of feeling like they're doing something wrong because 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.840 whatever it is that they're doing doesn't seem to be working. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.880 What do they mean by that or what do you 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.120 interpret as what they mean by that that it's not 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.360 working that. Let's say I started, for instance, last year, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.000 a meditation practice, a regular meditation practice where I meditate 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.680 now at least once a day, but often times two 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.800 and three times a day, and when I'm feeling a 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:57.120 sense of dread, you know, taking more time out to 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:01.480 just walk in nature, really reconnecting ground. But there are 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.360 some days where for me, you know, I could spend 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.880 all day meditating and and I still feel you know, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.919 I still feel restricted, I still feel um down. I 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.159 may not be it may not feel like it's irreparable, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.320 but I still feel the feelings that are that are 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.480 coming up. Is that what folks mean when they say 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.520 or you have heard, it's not it's what am I 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.839 doing wrong? It's not working because it hasn't washed completely away. Yeah, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.920 that's a that was a great example of what I mean. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.280 I mean, I'm in Los Angeles, and I feel like 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.240 we're the land of the try everything for healing, right. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.800 I mean a lot of cities are but Las and Mecca, 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.240 hug So you know, I know people who are like, well, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.960 I meditate and I exercise and I'm good free Derothy 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.640 refined sugar free and I'm taking all these supplements and 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.160 like they do all of the thing, and they're like, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.599 I've gone to this healing, I've done pran of this, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.560 I've got like everything, I have all the crystals, I 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:10.320 sat in the moon, I yes, all of it. And 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.760 they're like, well, what is it? And it's like, well, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.680 what are you searching for? Because you have tried everything? 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.360 Do you know would you know what you're looking for 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.000 if you found it? Because it seems that you're kind 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.320 of really into the idea of searching at this point, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.720 So I do. That's one side of it. Other pieces 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.080 what you mentioned where especially with the meditation practice. UM 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.680 meditation is kind of a baseline or like a prep work. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:42.360 Like it it means next time a stressor comes your way, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.040 it might feel a bit less than it wouldn't if 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:50.600 you didn't have a meditative practice. It can definitely help 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.080 in the moment, breathing techniques, all of that to flip 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.880 you from your sympathetic nervous system to your parentsympathetic nervous 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:01.840 system and relax something. But having a very long practice 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.040 is what helps the most. According to studies of meditation 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.720 M So it is always it's definitely so helpful, but 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.560 in the immediacy of it, it may not help as 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.520 much if the stress of that day is more intentional. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.960 And when you say to move from because again, over 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.680 the past you know, year plus, I would say, and 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.120 you know, and this is my observation. So I want 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.920 to hear your thoughts. Is that self care and the 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.360 term self care became so prevalent in twenty twenty, right, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.319 we have this big global slowdown and there are some 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.400 people who were not essential workers, and we had the 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.880 opportunity to actually slow down, had the opportunity to transition, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.840 to go from and the privilege to go from working 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.400 in an office to working from home, so could adopt 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.400 different practices in their lives that they hadn't when they 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.800 are hopping on subways or trains or in their car 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.880 to get to work and back and so forth. What 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.280 do you mean when you say to move or people 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:11.160 are moving from this expression of self care into self healing, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.520 So that folks understand what these two things are and 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:21.439 how they are different but could in fact be related. Yeah, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.640 they are very related. So I don't I don't want 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:29.960 to diminish anyone's work. In self care, it's a very 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.800 necessary practice and it's it's a daily thing, and it 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.280 is to me. It's the preventative work, is what self 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.080 care is. So it may be your skin routine or 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.840 the way that someone cares about their hair, or a 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:51.840 quick daily meditation practice. It can be checking in and 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.600 going do I really want this right now? I think 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.320 that's something we don't do enough to really like feel ourselves. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.839 But self healing for me would be defined as really 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.520 digging in and being self aware enough to go, Okay, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.880 what are my patterns in the past, How am I 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.720 showing up every day? What do I know that I need? 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.040 And it can be a more intensive period. Another example 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:25.599 would be if you eat well or reasonably balanced at it, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.480 whatever that is for you most days out of the year, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.160 then that's self care. You're doing good, You're not eating 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.960 things that are diminishing who you are. But self healing 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.800 would be more like, Okay, right now, I'm going to 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.200 do a full detox and I'm going to fast for 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.240 this period or just to juice or make sure that 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.720 my supplements are exactly where they should be for these 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.440 six weeks because I'm trying to rebuild and set myself 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:59.560 back up. Folks, I'm so excited to welcome to Willkate 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.760 f were the very first time professional astrologer and certified 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:09.239 life coach Tracy L. Rogers, who I, in full disclosure, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.880 had the opportunity to do a reading with UM. I 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.360 guess it would be a couple of months ago, a 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.839 couple of weeks ago. I've lost track of time in 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.360 the way that we are living now, but I really 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.880 enjoyed it, and you know, and it's funny because I've 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.080 been going back and forth between what came up for 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:35.679 me and like what is unfolding now and incredibly eye opening. Tracy, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:40.360 talk to me about essentially how you got into astrology, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.280 what made you become a professional astrologist, and I would 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.120 I would ask him, maybe this is this is me too, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.439 not knowing much about the field. But you're a black woman, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.520 and whenever I think or see astrologers, it is very 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.160 rare that I see black people, let alone black women. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.800 So I'd love for you to tell us a little 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.720 bit about your journey into this space that I don't 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.160 think you know necessarily, we see a lot of ourselves 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.240 reflected back at us. In this space. Yeah, well, thank 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.440 you so much for having me. I'm really excited to 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.559 connect with you again, and I'm so glad that you 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.600 found your reading eye opening and hopefully it's playing out 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:26.800 as we discussed. As far as my background, I come 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.280 from a line of seers in readers, so astrology runs 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.040 in my family in other words, and I've been learning 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.839 some aspect of astrology ever since I was a kid. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.320 There are terror readers in my family as well spiritualist 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.600 and so I've always been learning some aspect of this 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.520 practice for a very long time. It was never anything 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.480 I aspired to do for a living. I guess the 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.760 universe just aligned itself for me to step fully into 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.160 this path and it's been wonderful. And as far as 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.720 the coaching go, you know, I decided to get certified 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.520 as a coach because I found that it was a 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.880 helpful compliment to the readings. You know, Folks come to 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.800 me they want information on themselves for the purpose of 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.200 greater awareness or future forecasts, and I provide that for them, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.840 but oftentime they're stuck with, Okay, now what do I 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.360 do with this? How do I use this to empower myself? 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.640 And so that's where the coaching comes into play. And 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.080 then as far as being a black woman in this field, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.040 You're right, the pool of us is small, which is 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.880 unfortunate because there are so many wonderful black astrologers out there, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.280 and I'm grateful to be able to connect with my 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.520 fellow colleagues and friends in the black community to do 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.440 this work. We support each other, we uplift each other, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.720 and we're just trying to keep doing our thing and 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.480 make sure that we stay connected to our own lineage. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.440 You know, our people, they developed this practice and so 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.920 we try to stick true to that in supporting each 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.679 other in our work. You know, I always think that 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.520 it's really interesting when I talk to folks that are 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.040 in what I consider to be healing spaces, work in 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.320 healing and wellness spaces, and I think that astrology, for me, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.560 at least how it has shown up in my life, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.640 has been about seeing myself in a different way, has 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:24.280 been about understanding patterns and my relationships with myself with friends, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.600 with intimate partners, and so also, you know, the question 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.520 that I have for you too is a lot of 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:35.400 people too, those seem to confuse astrology and like a 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.160 psychic right so can you can you can you bust 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.920 that myth for us and laying out let it. It's 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.120 not like, well, I see your future and all of 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.480 these things. Can you explain the difference? Yeah? Sure, So 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.800 I'm always quick to emphasize that when it comes to 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.280 getting in astrology reading, your free will is very much 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.480 kept intact. So I am not predicting your future. I 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.520 am not tell you what you should be doing, what 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.359 you shouldn't be doing. My job, literally is to interpret 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.520 how planet alignments in the sky are affecting your life. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.480 That's it. What you choose to do with that information 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.160 is completely up to you, and that's the beauty of 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.320 astrology because you have this information of how planets are 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.800 aligning themselves to support you and evolving into the best 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.080 version of yourself. And when you have that information, you 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.520 can then choose to make decisions that a reflection of 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.040 what's important to you, what your priorities are, what's truth 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.000 for you. It's kind of like my Angela says, when 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.040 we know better, we do better. And so that's really 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.440 my aim with astrology, and that is the aim of 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:46.080 any good consulting astrologer who attempts to keep this practice 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.840 in its integrity is by empowering you to take the 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.960 information that you have and curate a life in a 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.080 way that's a reflection of your truth. That's really what 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.240 astrology is. It's not predictive. I'm not telling you when 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.000 you're going to meet your soulmate. I'm not telling you, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.440 you know, go out and play this lottery. I'm saying, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.000 this is how your life is being impacted by planet alignments. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.040 Do what you will with that information. So you know, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.560 my my job is about telling people how they're being 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:19.360 impacted by the politics that's around our everyday lives. And 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.600 you know I have been saying and not funny, but 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.920 like I've been saying, you know, I believe that there 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.040 was some type of tear in the universe that no 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.240 one will discover for you know, a millennia, because where 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:37.640 we are currently in our world, in our country is 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.200 it feels like we are completely out of whack, out 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:45.920 of alignment, um working against you know, the grain as 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.560 opposed to going with the flow. Do you feel like 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.400 that what comes up for you when you're like, you know, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:57.760 in your in your practice as an astrologer, like understand 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.600 how do you use it to understand kind of where 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.960 we are right now. Yeah, that's a really important question 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:10.600 question because when you're giving readings, you have interpretations that 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.960 have immediate effects on how society or how individuals are 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:20.120 being impacted. But then you have these longer term trends 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.960 and themes happening courtesy of planet alignment second last decades, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.800 if not longer. And so you're absolutely right. I love 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.359 how you phrase it, this terror in the universe where 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.280 we are in fact going against the grain. And it's 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.160 funny because I think it was actualcy Ford who said 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.359 something to the extent of when you live in a 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.639 society that you have to run away from, it says 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.720 a lot about the dysfunction of that society, right, And 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:52.399 so it's really kind of fascinating and also overwhelming to 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.800 see how the planets are are essentially trying to reroute 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.479 us so that we're on the right path, and then 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.080 the resist stance that comes with it just being human beings. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.680 So it's definitely something that I notice in Track, and 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.800 I try to be mindful of that when it comes 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.439 to how I'm giving readings, how I'm coaching clients and 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.159 letting them know maybe these are some narratives you need 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.239 to change. Maybe these are some stories that you need 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.520 to unlearn, Maybe these are some new perspectives that you 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.320 may need to consider. I mean, it's like we live 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.840 in a society that would have us betray our own 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.440 knowledge and wisdom and intuition, right, And so I'm learning 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.359 that and seeing yourself as your own frame of reference. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.520 That's the power of astrology. Wow, seeing yourself as your 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.639 own frame of reference. Oh, I will remember that, you know. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.800 I find that for myself and I you know, and 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.639 I offer all these on my show, the things that 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.600 I'm going through so that other folks, you know, either 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.600 can connect to or just be enlightened by those varied perspectives. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.720 But for me, what I found over the last you know, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.080 year and a half living in this global health pandemic 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.840 is a desire to ground myself in ways that I 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.119 have never grounded myself before. I often talk on the 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:14.720 show about having been stuck in grind culture, having been 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.639 stuck in you know, the need and the expectation of 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:23.000 the hustle, right, particularly as an entrepreneur and in politics 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.600 and in this kind of industry. And what has been 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.440 offered to me during this time has been the ability 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.520 you know and the privilege to be reflective to say, like, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.800 you know, what is happening outside I may not ultimately 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.040 be able to control. I can bear witness to it, 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.640 and I can offer that analysis to folks that will 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.919 listen to me or follow me, but I may not 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.400 be able to change it. But what can I change? 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.920 Have you found there to be more of an uptick 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.399 or a difference in the reasons why over this past 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.880 year and a half people maybe coming to see you 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:06.199 or has it been Yeah? Yeah, absolutely. Last year was 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:10.359 the busiest year of my career in this practice, in 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:15.320 this field, the busiest by far, and folks were reaching 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.639 out because folks were panicking wanting to know what was 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:22.160 going on. And then, of course you have that time 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.040 to reflect and you start to ask important questions of 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.240 yourself and do a lot of self reflection and self inquiry, 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.040 and then it's like, well, everything you thought you knew 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.160 is no longer the same was it ever true? So 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.160 then folks are reaching out for that for guidance, for coaching, 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.600 and so yes, that's definitely been my experience and really 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.000 the experience of a lot of healers, but especially astrologers 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.840 who have just seen an uptick in business because folks 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:53.840 need some guidance. That is it for Today's Woke, a 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.359 F daily podcast. To hear more from today's show, including 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.760 my full interviews with doctor Ka Howard and Tracy L. Rogers, 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.320 do support me on Patreon at patreon dot com. Slash 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.040 Woke a F Power to the people and to all 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.560 the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.