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Welcome back to the Re-Enchant Your Life Podcast.

We’re back with regular doses of inspiration but this time with more of an intuitive twist.

Earlier this year, I released a deck of Oracle cards called the SHEro Toolkit Oracle. I created them because I wanted cards that could give me quick, clear guidance and that guidance I wanted to be practical and magical. I called them a toolkit because I want them to be a resource that you had in your own personal toolkit. One that would guide you back home to yourself, to remind you that the guidance you seek lies within and the cards are here to help you access it.

The cards follow the same format as the Re-Enchant Your Life Podcast always has, there’s some guidance for you and then some practical action. I believe that following any kind of spiritual path or a life of conscious creation is more about taking action and experiencing life rather than just navel gazing.

Using the cards and these podcasts, I want to offer you insight to inspire you, to take action so that you can move forward on your chosen path, embracing the joy, navigating the obstacles and trusting yourself deeply.

Just like the cards, I want you to continue to use this podcast as a sacred pause in your day, a space where you can tune into your own inner wisdom to become present, to reconnect you to your personal power and confidently embrace who you’re becoming.

It’s so important to embrace who you are and who you’re becoming. It’s important to become full of yourself, full of your own essence and full of your own dreams and desires because when you don’t, you become full of other people’s dreams and desires and full of their expectations that they have for you. And then you begin to lose a sense of self. And we certainly don’t want that.

I want you to use the podcast as a way for you to reconnect to your inner wisdom, your intuition, so that you can learn to identify the way in which your intuition talks to you so that you can begin to trust it and trust yourself and your choices again.

For each episode, I’m going to start by asking you to think of a question that you want an answer to. It could be a daily question such as what would be the outcome of me making this choice, or it could be a bigger question about the meaning of your life. The choice is completely yours.

We’ll start by looking at one of the SHEro toolkit cards, explore its meaning and then I’m going to draw a second card for you so that you can explore how that card changes the meaning or the nuance of the first card.

And, because I love charm casting, I’m going to draw a charm too. Again, allowing you to build your own story and find the answer to your own question whilst being held in the space and the magic and support of this podcast.

The SHEro toolkit, the cards take you on a journey through the SHEro’s journey and we’re going to follow that same path. We’ll with the initial call, that call to adventure. And then we’re going to end at the return. As we reclaim our sovereignty.

Today, you join us at the very beginning of this journey with the feather as our guide.

The Feather – Ignite Your Joy

What do you think of when you think of feathers?

I’m going to share my thoughts, but as with everything in this podcast, what you think is far more important and relevant than what I think. Use my thoughts as a tool, or to guide you to start your own thought process, but follow and trust in your own thoughts more.

So let’s begin.

So first of all, think of a question.

Maybe it’s something that you just want decision on throughout the day, perhaps it’s bigger.

What am I doing with my life?

What’s the meaning of life?

Decide your question. And then we’re going to look to the feather for guidance.

So you might just want to close your eyes and feel into the energy of a feather.

• What does a feather represent to you?
• What colour feather are you imagining?
• Is it laying on the ground?
• Is it floating through the air?
• Is it still attached to a bird?
• How does each of those scenarios make that feather feel different?

I started the journey with a feather. It’s the symbol of the innocent SHEro archetype. Feathers represent innocence and clarity of thought. They are a reminder to connect more deeply with your soul’s purpose, to tread lightly through life and to feel more joy.

But what do they represent to you?

I’m going to read to you the information in the toolkit guidebook and just see whether it resonates for you whether there’s a word that pops out more.

The feather reminds you to ignite your joy.

You may often feel a tug of war within you, one between what you think you should do or are expected to do, and what you feel called to do.

It can be easy to ignore your desire for joy, for freedom and fun. And to override it with shoulds and expectations. You may ignore this desire because you don’t want to appear childish or selfish, or because you want to be taken seriously.

But joy is important.

You’re not childish. You’re not being selfish. Joy is an inherent part of who you are. It’s something that’s always inside of you, a relationship that you have with yourself and the world around you. Joy is an inner attitude and you can access it and create more of it.

So when you think of the feather, how does that add to answering your question?

How does that help you to know what path to take?

So what I want to do now is I’m going to draw another card from the toolkit to help us get some deeper understanding of the feather. And in answering your questions, I’m just shuffling the cards. I’m just going to draw another card. And that card, it’s called the potion bottle. And the words on the card read “re-chant your life”. It couldn’t be a more perfect card to pick today.

ADDITIONAL CARD:
The Potion Bottle – Re-Enchant Your Life

So if you think about bringing more joy into your life and the idea of re-enchanting your life, where does that now take you in answering your question?

What brings you enchantment into your life?

What has quite literally sucked the joy out of your life?

How can you bring back more joy, more hope, more opportunities, more curiosity, more fun, more magic, more awe, more wonder?

How, perhaps the question that you’ve asked yourself, you’ve been too much in your own head, trying to intellectualize things, trying to rationalize things, and yes, of course being rational, being intellectual is hugely important, especially at the moment when we look around the world around us, we need discernment.

We need to understand, like, our intuition and the rational side of ourselves, but perhaps you’ve been too much into the intellectual side. How can you come back into awe and wonder how can you re-enchant yourself with your own magic to know that you already have the answers?

To help you express more of the joy?

Where can you start to, you know, the mind doesn’t like open loops. And so if we always think it has to be a yes, no answer, it doesn’t really help us to access our creative, like, our big juicy brains that love exploring and bringing everything together.

So how could you ask more open questions?

Like, I wonder what would happen if I followed this path and then just allow your mind to wander off. I wonder what I’m here to do in the world, and then just let your mind wander and just trust it’s going exactly where it needs to go.

No filter, no expectation, no judgements of yourself.

Just let that information wander through. Okay. So you’re going to hear me rattle now.

As I delve my hand into my charms into my charm casting, if you follow me on Instagram, you know that I am slightly obsessed with charm casting, and I probably have like 400 charms in my little box here.

So I’m just gonna, like, turn my head away so I’m not looking and just pull out one charm and it’s a peacock. Oh my goodness. So when you think of a feather, a potion bottle, so we re-enchant our life what does the peacock bring to that?

I mean, obviously he has enormous feathers, so it’s definitely more of that feather energy. But when I think of the peacock added to ignite your joy and to re-enchant your life, it’s like to be seen to take up space, to be unapologetically you, to show off your feathers in all of their beautiful glory.

It’s interesting ’cause the feather on the card is a white feather, innocent joy. The peacock, feather it, this is a male feather with his big plume of feathers open. And it’s like, here I am, this is me. So it’s like, how can you embrace more of that “Here I am. This is me energy”. As you ignite your joy, as you bring back that spark and re-enchant your life.

How can you just, you know, I mentioned earlier, it’s like, how can you become more full of yourself full of your joy, full of your wonder full of your own magic ’cause now it’s time. And it’s almost like the energy of the peacock is not shying away from anything. So it’s like, where do you need to become more visible, more seen in the energy of who you are?

So if you take all of that information, where does that take you on your journey in answering your question?

Okay. So what I want you to do is or rather what I want to do now is just, wrap up this podcast by reading out the SHEro action to ignite your joy. So this is something that you can do that’s very practical now.

So the SHEro action “Ignite your joy, create a joy list, a list of the top 10 things that nourish you and bring you joy. This could include anything that you can do regularly to bring more joy. It might be wearing your favourite clothes, eating delicious foods with friends, walking in nature, dancing or creatively expressing yourself.

Take your time, creating your list and add to it each time you feel more joy. Then make a date with yourself to ensure that joy becomes a regular part of your life.

Pause and take a breath as you begin to feel more joy.

So thank you for joining me and I’ll see you again very soon for another episode of the Re-Enchant Your Life Podcast, where we’re going to spiral deeper on this journey together, hoping that you learn to trust yourself and your intuition so that you can make better choices, ones that are aligned with your deepest desires and the truth of who you are.

ADDITIONAL CHARM:
A Peacock

I mean, obviously he has enormous feathers, so it’s definitely more of that feather energy. But when I think of the peacock added to ignite your joy and to re-enchant your life, it’s like to be seen to take up space, to be unapologetically you, to show off your feathers in all of their beautiful glory.

It’s interesting ’cause the feather on the card is a white feather, innocent joy. The peacock, feather it, this is a male feather with his big plume of feathers open. And it’s like, here I am, this is me. So it’s like, how can you embrace more of that “Here I am. This is me energy”. As you ignite your joy, as you bring back that spark and re-enchant your life.

How can you just, you know, I mentioned earlier, it’s like, how can you become more full of yourself full of your joy, full of your wonder full of your own magic ’cause now it’s time. And it’s almost like the energy of the peacock is not shying away from anything. So it’s like, where do you need to become more visible, more seen in the energy of who you are?

So if you take all of that information, where does that take you on your journey in answering your question?

Okay. So what I want you to do is or rather what I want to do now is just, wrap up this podcast by reading out the SHEro action to ignite your joy. So this is something that you can do that’s very practical now.

So the SHEro action “Ignite your joy, create a joy list, a list of the top 10 things that nourish you and bring you joy. This could include anything that you can do regularly to bring more joy. It might be wearing your favourite clothes, eating delicious foods with friends, walking in nature, dancing or creatively expressing yourself.

Take your time, creating your list and add to it each time you feel more joy. Then make a date with yourself to ensure that joy becomes a regular part of your life.

Pause and take a breath as you begin to feel more joy.

So thank you for joining me and I’ll see you again very soon for another episode of the Re-Enchant Your Life Podcast, where we’re going to spiral deeper on this journey together, hoping that you learn to trust yourself and your intuition so that you can make better choices, ones that are aligned with your deepest desires and the truth of who you are.