Aligned & Abundant: Align Your Soul, Manifest Your Dreams, Love Your Life.

Send us Fan Mail

Learning to trust your intuition starts with one quiet voice that keeps tapping you on the shoulder, the one telling you to reach out, sign up, say no, or finally start the thing you keep saving for someday. In this solo episode of Aligned & Abundant, I'm sharing how to build self-trust and follow your inner knowing in a way that feels safe, simple, and really doable.

I start with the question I hear most from clients: how do you know whether it's your intuition or just your mind making things up? I'll walk you through why your intuition is quiet, calm, and neutral, why it keeps coming back no matter how long you ignore it, and how fear sounds completely different. Fear is loud and urgent and loves a worst-case scenario. Your intuition simply shows you the next step, not the whole staircase.

I also open up about my own nudge to leave the public school classroom after nineteen years. I loved my students and my colleagues, and still the pull kept returning until it felt like I was living Groundhog Day. When the choice was finally made for me, I started the business I had always dreamed of and the podcast I'd been thinking about for three years. The biggest lesson from that chapter is that clarity came after I started moving, not before.

From there, we look at the four ways we talk ourselves out of our own guidance: timing, money, what other people will think, and the sneakiest one, "who am I to do this?" I call it the committee in your head, and I explain why it always votes for staying the same. Familiar feels safe to your nervous system, even when it isn't what's best for you.

Then we get practical. Self-trust is built the same way trust with any person is built, through small kept promises. I share how tiny yeses rebuild that trust, how to shrink a big nudge down to one honest step, and the very real story of my TikTok daily channeled message challenge, including the day 12 moment that surprised me, the day I skipped, and how my community helped me restart.

You'll leave with a simple practice for the week: a nudge list, plus one small action taken within 24 hours. And a permission slip to trust yourself before anyone else agrees with you.

I'm also sharing details on my New Jersey retreat with Casey Taton, host of the Inner Spark podcast, happening November 5–7. If something flickered when you heard about it, I'd love for you to listen to that.

30 in 30 Day Challenge with Niki Sterner

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Only eight seats. One weekend. A sisterhood that doesn’t end when you drive home.

If you’ve been showing up for everyone except yourself, this episode is your invitation. Intuitive Spiritual Teacher Christine Marcario and her co-host Casey Taton of the Inner Spark podcast open up about Gathered, their intimate women’s retreat happening November 5–7, 2026 in Toms River, New Jersey. They share why this weekend was created, who it’s for, and why the first weekend of November is the perfect time to get calm, get clear, and come home to yourself before the holiday rush begins.

A few seats are still open, and doors close Monday. If this conversation speaks to your heart, don’t wait.

👉 Reserve your seat at Gathered

Gathered isn’t a one-and-done event with a rigid hour-by-hour schedule. Christine and Casey are personalizing the entire weekend around the women in the room, so every part of it is shaped by what you actually need. You’ll reconnect with your inner knowing, get clarity on your next aligned step, and leave feeling renewed, confident, and ready to finish your year strong, whether you’re starting a business, rebranding, or simply craving more of something in your life.

And with the retreat capped at just eight women, everyone gets to be truly seen and heard. No performing. No rushing to the next agenda item. Just real, heart-centered connection that continues long after the weekend, inside an ongoing sisterhood.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How Gathered came together through divine timing (and why it moved from Sedona to New Jersey)
• Why there’s no hour-by-hour itinerary, and how the retreat is tailored to you
• How to get grounded and clear before the November and December chaos begins
• Why this time of year, when the veil is thinnest, is so energetically powerful for transformation
• Why the retreat is capped at eight seats
• What to wear, what it costs, and why the price was kept accessible
• Exactly how Christine and Casey help with airports, places to stay, and travel
• The honest truth about mom guilt, rearranging your schedule, and filling your own cup
• Why you don’t need to be afraid to travel solo, and how strangers become lifelong friends

Still on the fence? You don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Christine and Casey have a list of nearby airports and places to stay, there’s still space in one of the Airbnbs being rented, and they’re happy to answer any question. Fear doesn’t get to be the thing that stops you.

You go in a stranger. You leave with sisters.

👉 Claim one of the last seats at Gathered

Chapters
0:00 Welcome + a special episode from the Inner Spark podcast
1:00 Introducing Gathered: Toms River, NJ, November 5–7
2:00 Doors close Monday (and what to do if you’re hearing this after)
2:30 From Sedona to New Jersey: how the retreat was born
4:00 Why there’s no hour-by-hour itinerary
6:30 Getting calm and clear before the holidays
8:30 A sisterhood that continues after the retreat
10:00 Why early November is so energetically powerful
11:00 Real connection without performing
12:30 Why we capped it at eight seats
16:00 What to wear: come as you are
16:45 The cost, and why we kept it accessible
19:00 Why we’re hosting it at Christine’s home
19:45 Airports, places to stay, and travel help
21:45 The transformation you’ll walk away with
23:30 Mom guilt, schedules, and filling your own cup
25:15 A missed dance recital and a life-changing retreat
28:00 Don’t be afraid to travel solo

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

The Hunter’s Moon Full Moon in Taurus is here, and it’s asking you one soul-level question: what are you carrying with you into winter?

In this Frequency Friday episode, Intuitive Spiritual Teacher Christine Marcario guides you through the October 26, 2026 Hunter’s Moon, what Mercury retrograde in Scorpio and Venus retrograde mean for your life and business, and a three-card collective tarot reading to help you loosen your grip on what feels safe so you can finally receive.

The Hunter’s Moon is the full moon that follows the Harvest Moon, the moon our ancestors used to gather and prepare for winter. This year it rises in grounded, Venus-ruled Taurus, peaking Sunday night into Monday at 12:11 AM Eastern. With Venus retrograde already underway and Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio on October 24, this is a powerful moment to look honestly at what you value, what you’re worth, and what truly makes you feel safe.

If Tuesday’s episode helped you notice you’ve drifted away from yourself, this full moon is your invitation back home: into your body, your intuition, and a life you’re actually experiencing instead of managing.

In this episode:

• The spiritual meaning of the Hunter’s Moon and why this Taurus full moon is all about safety, self-worth, and receiving
• Mercury retrograde in Scorpio and Venus retrograde: what they mean for your relationships, money, and business
• Why this is a season to review, refine, and reconnect, not launch
• Collective tarot reading: Four of Pentacles (what you’re releasing), The Empress (what you’re stepping into), and Eight of Pentacles (your aligned action)
• A message from Archangel Ariel on trusting that you are always provided for
• Three full moon journal prompts and a simple Hunter’s Moon release ritual

This week’s theme: Loosen your grip so you can come home to yourself and receive.

Full moon journal prompts:

1. What am I holding onto because it feels safe, not because it feels aligned?
2. What do I truly need to feel nourished and supported this winter?
3. Where in my life or business am I ready to receive more?

🎧 Listen next: Feeling Disconnected From Yourself: How to Trust Your Intuition and Come Back Home | Ep. 78

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Feeling disconnected from yourself, even when nothing in your life is technically wrong, is a sign your intuition is asking for your attention. In this episode of Aligned & Abundant, Intuitive Spiritual Teacher Christine Marcario explores why we lose touch with ourselves, how people pleasing and constant busyness drown out your inner knowing, and the small, gentle shifts that help you reconnect with who you really are.

Disconnection rarely happens all at once. It builds through a thousand tiny moments, like the yes you said when your whole body was saying no or the dream you set aside because someone else needed you more. Christine invites you to ask yourself one honest question: are you experiencing your life, or are you managing it? She shares her own story from a year and a half ago, when an hour-long commute, a full classroom, and years of people pleasing left her showing up for everyone except herself, until her soul made it clear it was time for a bigger classroom. Hear the full story in Episode 11.

Through a spiritual lens, Christine reframes disconnection as a message rather than a problem. Craving deeper conversations, feeling more sensitive to energy, or questioning what you once accepted can point to exhaustion, spiritual growth, or both. You'll learn why intuition speaks as a quiet knowing instead of a dramatic sign, why rest and receiving are essential to self-trust, and why your worth was never tied to how much you produce.

Christine also guides you through the Come Home Check-In, a simple five-minute reflection practice with three journal prompts to help you notice what you're carrying, what part of yourself you've been missing, and what you actually need. She closes with a permission slip and a powerful question to journal on this week: what would change if you started treating your own needs as something worth honoring?

If you're ready for support on this path, Christine shares how the Soul Shine Collective community and 1:1 intuitive coaching help you keep coming back to yourself, plus an invitation to Gathered: A Cozy Fall Retreat, co-hosted with Casey Taton, November 5–7, 2026 in Toms River, New Jersey. Expect breathwork, bodywork, Reiki, meditation, meaningful connection, and space to simply exhale.

Reserve your spot at Gathered

0:00 Feeling disconnected from yourself
1:05 Welcome to Aligned & Abundant
2:45 How people pleasing and busyness pull us away from ourselves
4:20 Christine's story of outgrowing the classroom
6:00 The spiritual meaning of disconnection
7:40 How to hear your intuition through the noise
9:25 What coming home to yourself really looks like
10:45 Community and the Soul Shine Collective
11:25 The Come Home Check-In: three journal prompts
13:35 Gathered: a cozy fall retreat in New Jersey
16:10 Your permission slip and weekly reflection

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Release the fog. Claim your throne. Answer the call. This week’s collective tarot reading brought the Ace of Swords, The Emperor, and Judgement, and together they’re asking you to stop second-guessing what you already know and step into your own authority.

In this Frequency Friday, I share the energy for the weekend of October 16–18 and the week ahead through October 22. We talk about the waxing moon in Capricorn and Sunday’s First Quarter Moon, a supportive Mars–Saturn trine, and Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius, which brings the inner transformation you’ve been doing since May out into your life. For the week ahead, the moon moves through Aquarius and then Pisces, building toward the Full Moon in Taurus. Every part of the forecast includes how to work with the energy in your personal life and your business.

Building on Tuesday’s Tarot for Beginners episode, we try that episode’s intuition practice together with this week’s three cards before I share their meanings. You’ll hear why the Ace of Swords is about releasing overthinking, how The Emperor invites you to lead your life with steady, loving structure, and why Judgement is a card of rebirth, not something to fear.

Archangel Michael comes through for the weekend with a message about trusting what you see and cutting away what clouds your clarity. Archangel Gabriel, the messenger connected to the trumpet on the Judgement card, guides the week ahead and helps you share your voice.

In the retrograde report, we cover Venus retrograde in Scorpio and what it means for love, self-worth, pricing, and past clients. We also touch on Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Aries, Uranus retrograde in Gemini, and Mercury’s pre-retrograde shadow, with simple tips to get organized before Mercury stations retrograde on October 24.

Your energetic focus this week is sovereignty, with a two-minute morning practice and this mantra: “I see clearly, I lead my life with love, and I answer my calling.”

This week’s journal prompts:

1. What do I already know deep down that I’ve been pretending I’m still figuring out?
2. Where in my life am I ready to sit on my own throne?
3. What is calling me right now, and what would it look like to say yes?

If tarot is calling to you, my course, Tarot for Beginners: From Curious to Confident, begins November 3rd. It’s four live classes, and founding cohort members join at the special price of $177. Enrollment is open through November 2nd.

Missed Tuesday’s episode? Listen to Tarot for Beginners: The History of Tarot & How to Trust Your Intuition as the perfect companion to this one. 💜

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Tarot for beginners starts with a surprising truth: the history of tarot begins with a card game, played by noble families in 15th-century Italy, not in a secret temple. In this episode of Aligned & Abundant, I walk you through where tarot really came from, how tarot cards became a tool for self-reflection, and the grounded ways tarot can help you trust your intuition.

We travel from the late 1300s, when playing cards first arrived in Europe through trade with the Islamic world, to the 1440s in northern Italy, when artists added the illustrated "triumph" cards that became the game of tarocchi. I share the hand-painted Visconti-Sforza decks of Milan, full of gold leaf and rich color, and I'll be posting some of these gorgeous cards over on Instagram so you can see them for yourself.

From there, we follow tarot's shift from game to spiritual tool. You'll hear how Antoine Court de Gébelin's 1781 belief in tarot's Egyptian roots sparked a whole new way of seeing the cards, how Etteilla created one of the first decks made for reading, and how Éliphas Lévi and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn connected tarot to mystical traditions and spiritual growth. Then we land in 1909 with the deck so many of us learned on, and I pause on the artist Pamela Colman Smith, who illustrated all 78 cards with full scenes. Her quiet gift is the reason beginners can feel a card before they ever memorize it, and there's such a beautiful lesson in her story about honoring your intuitive gifts, whether or not anyone sees them yet.

In the second half, we explore the benefits of tarot. Tarot gives your intuition a language, creates a pause that helps your nervous system settle, and works as a mirror rather than a master. It brings clarity to decisions and, over time, deepens your self-trust as you notice how often your first instinct was right. I also share the things I wish someone had told me as a beginner, including why there's no such thing as a bad card, even The Tower.

Your invitation this week is simple. Pull one card each morning, sit with it for one full minute before looking up its meaning, and write one sentence about what you sense. You might be surprised how often your intuition was already there.

If tarot is calling to you, my brand-new course, Tarot for Beginners: From Curious to Confident, begins November 3rd. It's four live classes, and as part of my founding cohort, you'll join at the special price of $177. Enrollment is open through November 2nd: [course link]. This is the first of two courses, with an intermediate course to follow.

You're also warmly invited to Gathered: A Cozy Fall Retreat for women, which Casey Taton and I are hosting November 5th through 7th in Toms River, New Jersey: aligned-and-abundant.kit.com/retreat. And if you'd love ongoing support as you grow your intuition, come join us inside the Soul Shine Collective.

Stay tuned for this week's Frequency Friday, with the energy for the weekend ahead and into the week. 💜

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

The New Moon in Libra lands on the 10/10 portal this weekend, and with Venus retrograde, this fresh start isn't asking you to rush. If your new moon intentions feel flat or you're not sure what you want yet, you're not doing it wrong. This is a new moon for quiet decisions, small steps, and beginning gently.

In this Frequency Friday drop, I walk you through the energy of the weekend and the week ahead, October 9 to 15, 2026. We look at why a new moon in a Venus-ruled sign feels different while Venus is retrograde, and what the 10/10 portal brings as a doorway of completion and new beginnings. I also share how Tuesday's Micro-Rituals for Fall episode connects to this weekend. One candle and one sentence is a new moon ritual, and it counts.

✨ In this episode:

• New Moon in Libra on October 10, 2026, and the 10/10 portal energy
• Venus retrograde in Scorpio: reviewing relationships, money, offers, and pricing instead of reinventing them
• The moon moving through Scorpio and Sagittarius this week, and the best days for reflection, sales conversations, and visibility
• Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius on October 15 and what begins to loosen
• Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Aries, Uranus retrograde in Gemini, and the Mercury retrograde shadow ahead of October 24
• A three-card collective tarot reading: Seven of Wands (release), Knight of Wands (stepping into), and Four of Pentacles reversed (focus)
• Archangel Chamuel's message about what returns during Venus retrograde, and a simple prayer to call in his support
• My channeled messages on TikTok and how they arrive in divine timing
• Three reflection questions, a nightly candle practice, and a journal prompt for the week
• A first look at my upcoming six-week Tarot for Beginners course

Your energetic focus this week is begin small. Mantra: "I can begin quietly and still begin."

💜 Get the 10/10 Portal Activation Ritual: Subscribe to my newsletter to receive the ritual and work with the new moon and portal energy together. Every Tuesday after that, you'll get reflections, practices, and the energy I'm feeling for the week.
 👉 https://aligned-and-abundant.kit.com/weeklyinspo

Mentioned in this episode:

• Micro-Rituals for Fall: Tarot, Candles & Archangel Jophiel | Ep. 76: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2456542/episodes/19915819
• Frequency Friday Drop 53, Open Your Hands: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2456542/episodes/19899409

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Micro-rituals can build real spiritual resilience, and you don't need a two-hour morning routine to feel connected to your soul. Fifteen minutes a day and a little intention is enough to strengthen your intuition, soothe your nervous system, and bring you back to yourself, even in the busiest season of your life.

As fall settles in and our calendars fill up fast, so many of us let go of the very practices that keep us grounded. In this solo episode, I share my own story from 19 years as a middle school English teacher, when I'd get so psyched up for elaborate 5 AM routines and then talk myself out of them the moment the alarm went off. What I know now is that I was never failing. I was trying to fit my soul into a schedule that wasn't built for my life.

We explore micro-changing, the idea that lasting transformation comes from small shifts practiced consistently rather than big shifts practiced occasionally. Your nervous system can actually receive small practices, relax into them, and come to trust them. Over time, they become a path back to yourself that you can find even on your hardest days.

I walk you through three simple, seasonal micro-rituals that each take about five minutes: a morning espresso ritual where your first few sips become a moment of intention, a quick intuitive card pull with tarot, oracle, or angel cards to strengthen your inner knowing, and intentional candle lighting to bring warmth and rest into those darker fall evenings. I also connect today's conversation to last week's Frequency Friday, Open Your Hands, and how Venus retrograde is inviting us to release old ideas of what spiritual practice should look like, while Archangel Jophiel helps us notice the sacred in the ordinary.

You'll leave with a simple seven-day action step, a permission slip to let your practice be small and imperfect, and an invitation to practice alongside others inside the Soul Shine Collective or go deeper with me through one-on-one coaching.

If your spiritual practice has been waiting for the perfect quiet morning, this is your sign to start small. Pour the coffee, pull one card, light one candle, and remember that you never left yourself. You're simply finding your way back.

Mentioned: Frequency Friday Drop 53, Open Your Hands: Venus Retrograde, Last Quarter Moon & Archangel Jophiel 

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Want to see what Spirit has to say to you? Check out my channeled messages on Tik Tok here. 

Have you been the one holding everyone up, keeping the home running, the business running, everyone fed, and sitting down last? This weekend, Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio and the Last Quarter Moon lands in Cancer, and the energy is asking you to loosen your grip and let yourself receive.

This week's energy forecast helps you release what's no longer yours, heal what your heart has been holding, and make room for the abundance that's meant for you.

What you'll hear in this Drop:

• Why the Last Quarter Moon in Cancer is a release weekend, not a push weekend, and how to tidy your "energetic back office"
• Venus retrograde in Scorpio (October 3 – November 13): what it means for love, money, pricing, and self-worth, plus why past people and patterns may resurface
• Your day-by-day guide: Leo moon visibility days, Virgo moon systems days, and the Wednesday spark from Mars and Uranus
• The three-card collective tarot pull: Queen of Pentacles, Three of Swords, and Four of Pentacles reversed
• A channeled message from Archangel Jophiel about seeing the beauty that's already here
• Three reflection questions and the "Clear One, Beautify One" practice for the week
• How this Drop connects to Tuesday's episode on why the universe keeps sending you versions of your parents

Mentioned in this Drop:

• Tuesday's episode on breaking parent-pattern loops and releasing resentment
• Archangel Jophiel
• Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra, plus Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto retrogrades
• The New Moon in Libra (October 10)

Friend, you're not losing anything by letting go. You're making room. Be gentle with yourself this week, and let it be easy.

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...

Send us Fan Mail

Healing the parent wound begins when you understand why the boss who's never satisfied, the partner who runs hot and cold, and the friend who drains you all feel so familiar. This episode brings together inner child healing, soul contracts, energy work, astrology, and cord cutting with the archangels to help you release resentment and stop attracting versions of your parents.

The word resentment comes from the French ressentir, meaning to feel again, and that one definition explains so much. Resentment is re-feeling the same hurt, and whatever we keep feeling, we keep practicing. I walk you through why this happens from three angles. Spiritually, karma is unfinished energy, and our parents are often our first and most intense soul contract, so when a lesson isn't learned with them, it gets reassigned to someone new. Energetically, resentment creates cords held in the heart, solar plexus, and throat chakras, broadcasting a frequency that draws in matching people. Psychologically, Freud's repetition compulsion and Harville Hendrix's Imago Theory show that part of us is still hoping for a different ending.

For my astrology lovers, we map the parent wound in your birth chart through your Moon, Saturn, Chiron, South Node, and the fourth and tenth houses, and talk about why your Saturn return between 28 and 30 so often brings these patterns into the light. You'll also hear five of the most common ways the loop shows up, including the one I've lived again and again: friends who leave.

Then comes the part you'll return to. Your toolkit for breaking the loop includes the trigger trace, three simple questions that turn any trigger into medicine; the unsent letter for clearing the throat chakra; the Hawaiian practice of Hoʻoponopono; an EFT tapping setup statement for resentment; a cord cutting prayer with Archangel Michael and Archangel Zadkiel; and the practice of rewriting your response when the next lesson arrives. We close with a guided release meditation to meet your younger self and let the cord go. If you're driving, save it for when you can close your eyes.

Journal prompts from this episode: Who in my life right now reminds me of a parent, and in what way? What am I still hoping that parent will say or do? What role did I play in my family, and where am I still playing it? What would I do differently if I no longer needed their approval? If I fully release this, what kind of people would I make room for?

Releasing resentment doesn't mean what happened was okay, and your boundaries are sacred. It means you take your energy back, and when you heal this, you heal backward through your lineage and forward for the next generation. The loop isn't happening to you, it's happening for you. If this stirred something up, you don't have to do this work alone. Come heal with us inside the Soul Shine Collective. 💜

Support the show

✨ Loved this episode? Here's how to go deeper:

📩 Weekly Newsletter: Spiritual tools, soulful inspiration, and behind-the-scenes podcast insights — plus a freebie just for joining. 👉 Sign up here

💫 The Soul Shine Collective on Skool: This is where the real magic happens. Live channeled calls each month, energy + manifestation guidance, and a community of women who get it. 👉 Join us here

✨ TikTok: Channeled messages from spirit all in Divine timing. 

🌿 Aligned & Abundant: Coaching, Reiki, workshops, retreats, and current offerings, all in one place. 👉 linktr.ee/alignedandabundant

🖊 Substack: The deeper dives and reflections that go beyond the mic. 👉 substack.com/@christinemarcario

📲 Instagram: Daily inspiration, real talk, and soul-led content. 👉@the.christine.marcario

🎵 Music by Purple Planet

Aligned & Abundant is for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Please seek a qualified professional for health, financial, legal, o...