Mundane Miracles with Sonya Renee Taylor

11. The Great Collapse and the Great Awakening (Part 3)


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For the last installment of this 3-part tale, Sonya recalls how she rode out the remainder of COVID lockdown in Aotearoa post-breakup, post-passing of her soul dog, her life simultaneously unraveled and illuminated by spiritual messages from the divine. She reflects while recording this episode on the 5th anniversary of the beginning of her spiritual awakening.Episode guide:* Sonya's meditation about being afraid of her own power (00:06:58)* Every moment is god / love (00:12:00)* To be a human on earth is to be in a state of forgetting (00:17:34)* Experiencing the divine through multiple paths and modalities - Orishas, Buddhism, more (00:21:30)* Mice as a lesson of trauma and displacement (00:24:30)* Astrology and tarot aren't inherently spiritual - they can be used to be nosey! (00:28:07)* Healing Sonya's story of home (00:31:52)* Sonya's Chiron return (00:34:25)* Wanting out of Blackwood Manor (00:37:25)* Surrendering to the divine during Sonya's breakup aftermath (00:39:40)* The nature of awakening and enlightenment, featuring Tanzanian monks (00:43:38)* Driving to Piha Beach in the middle of the night (00:48:44)* The energy of ancestors and angels (00:55:52)* The glorious rainbow light and shimmering sea: a gift from the universe (00:57:45)* Challenging materialism and staying spiritually awake (01:01:00)* The point of awakening isn't to "sustain the light" - the work is to allow everything in (01:06:08)* Moving out of Blackwood Manor - and help with a trigger (01:10:12)- - -Listen to Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/xj-mmF92VTgAnd Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hry9N8M81Q- - -Miraculous Musings:* What type(s) of awakening(s) would you say you experienced during 2020?* How do you define "home"? Do you have wounds around home? What differentiates "home" from where you happen to be living?* Have you experienced spiritual bypassing? What have you gained by sitting with the dark as well as the light?Resources:* Astrologer Colin Bedell: https://www.colinbedell.comProducer: Sonya Renee TaylorEditor: Dr. Shannon WeberMusic: "Joy & Grief" and "Dying", The BengsonsInterested in a deeper conversation? Support Sonya's creative work as a Black queer neurodivergent cis woman midwifing new worlds of liberation and transformation. Partner with her in right relationship and join her Patreon starting at $1 a month (with video episode drops a day early): www.patreon.com/sonyareneetaylor

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