Last night on the Temple Steps, I pulled Wolf Spirit from the Animal Spirit Oracle and had to stop for a second.
Wolf’s message was “turn knowledge into wisdom,” and the wolf on that card has the exact expression my husky Sky used to give me. Sky passed last November. Of all my animals, he challenged me the most, and he’s the one who pushed me into bigger versions of myself. I felt him right there with me, and I teared up in front of everyone.
That moment became the whole teaching. You can know a lot about a partner, a parent or an animal and still miss the wisdom sitting inside the hardest parts of that relationship.
We spent the night on Venus retrograde in Scorpio and the Illusion of Drama. Someone in the chat asked whether what they were feeling was drama or confrontation, which is a question most people are too embarrassed to ask out loud. Confrontation happens when a truth finally gets said and a boundary finally gets named. Drama is the performance of emotion that lets us avoid saying it.
The performance part is worth sitting with. Sometimes we cry, vent and share our feelings with everyone, and we call that being open. What I asked on the live, and what I’m asking you now, is what’s underneath the performance, because that’s where the real intimacy lives.
The collective cards backed this up: Queen of Wands reversed, The Shadow and King of Cups reversed. This retrograde is going to show you exactly where you leak energy and hand your power away in your relationships. Anytime you catch yourself saying “I can’t because…,” that’s the Shadow talking, and it’s lying to you. The full moon in Aries on Saturday puts all of it right in front of you.
I also shared something on the live that I don’t talk about much. When I started doing these streams ten years ago, Junior (my word for ego) screamed at me the entire time, telling me I sounded ridiculous and nobody had any idea what I was talking about. I kept going anyway. Fear yells at you to stay safe, and intuition is the quiet nudge that put you in front of the camera in the first place.
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With Love and Wisdom,
Lauren
Your Black Belt Mystic, Psychic, and Animal Communicator
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