this audio is the september 1 collective energy reading, “don’t ride the wave. find the river.” using words, numbers, playing cards, colors, drawings, and intuitive symbolism, i explore the energy showing up around ears, saturn, hunger, rivers, ancestry, ride the wave, finding external evidence, going outside, the number three, november, and 10.

none of these symbols have one fixed meaning, and the reading is not presented as fact or prediction. some, all, or none of it may resonate.

for the full written interpretation, images, context, and disclaimer, read the complete post here. (tastelikemagic.com/9-1-26-dont-ride-the-wave-find-the-river/)

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part two picks up after a long break, but that break becomes part of the reading. you can listen to part one at https://rss.com/podcasts/itastelikemagic/.

the energy shifts toward rest, receptivity, constraint, and the difference between waiting for permission and deliberately creating the conditions you need. the same balance between feminine and masculine, internal and external, continues, but this time the focus moves more directly toward where energy may be leaking and what it might take to refill your own reservoir.

“i deserve rest.”

“resting is allowing us to be in the receptive energy.”

“find your center. what will it take for you to find your center?”

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this is also where the reading becomes more participatory. instead of handing over every interpretation, i keep asking you to notice what the cards, words, numbers, objects, sounds, and even interruptions feel like to you. bureaucracy, tourist, rest, boredom, uniforms, currency, 808, water, creative blocks, and constraint begin circling the same larger question: what is draining you, what are you still asking permission for, and what changes when you read the energy differently?

• bureaucracy, tourist, rest, boredom, uniforms, currency, 808, balance, duality, feminine, masculine, internal, external, receptive, action, constraint, energy leaks, reservoir, creative block, ready, you’re not ready, go study, what are my gifts, it’s an ending, you’re not a victim, move around furniture, pluto in the eighth house, sex, death, taxes, rebirth, other people’s money, sugar, 10:10, 1:11, 7:07, 16:16, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, power, love, good times, main character, discipline, declaration, intuition, release, energetic crumbs, flow

the deeper message is less about predicting what happens next and more about shifting your relationship to your own authority. rest, restraint, receptivity, action, discipline, release, and self-trust are not opposites here. they are different parts of the same system.

“stop asking for permission.”

“be the star and the main character of your own story.”

“this changes the story. now doesn’t it.”

Disclaimer: These pick-a-card and psychic readings are provided for entertainment and personal reflection only. They are not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice and should not be used as a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional. You are responsible for your own decisions, actions, and choices. By participating in or purchasing a reading, you acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own discretion and accept full responsibility for any decisions you make based on the reading.

today’s reading starts with experimentation and develops into two distinct but connected streams of energy. what first looks like a random arrangement of words and cards begins forming around balance, duality, the seen and unseen, feminine and masculine, internal and external, blockage and passage, and the difference between forcing something and allowing it to move.

there is also an unexpected thread around resolution. a broken twig, handmade objects, shells, water, friendship, memory, and repeated numbers begin connecting with questions about timing, reconciliation, flow, and what becomes possible when you look at something from another perspective.

“some of you give up too soon.”

“balance and duality. that just feels like the strongest energy.”

“energy is always shifting.”

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as the reading develops, water becomes more than water. rivers, currents, currency, abundance, and energetic flow begin speaking to one another. another side of the reading turns toward inheritance, grandmothers, roots, blood, and the knowledge that may already exist closer to you than the places you have been looking for answers.

“you are your bible.”

“go back to your roots to find some answers and some solutions.”

“you already have the authority to do the thing.”

the words, cards, numbers, and messages that came through include: balance, duality, dualism, seen, unseen, hidden, opportunity, blockage, passage, weaknesses, strengths, feminine, masculine, internal, external, resolution, making up, water, flow, current, currency, abundance, stability, bureaucracy, rivers, tourists, grandmas, rest, inheritance, boredom, root, uniforms, blood, ready, creative block, you’re not ready, ask for a sign, go study, crossroads, intersection, 25, 7, seven of hearts, seven of diamonds, 17:17, 19, 26, 808, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, love, relationships, faith, sensitivity, overcoming, mastery

somewhere between “you’re not ready” and “you already have the authority,” this reading asks you to sit with the contradiction instead of rushing to resolve it. there may be another route to readiness, knowledge, or power that does not look like the process you were told you had to follow.

Disclaimer: These pick-a-card and psychic readings are provided for entertainment and personal reflection only. They are not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice and should not be used as a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional. You are responsible for your own decisions, actions, and choices. By participating in or purchasing a reading, you acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own discretion and accept full responsibility for any decisions you make based on the reading.

question for today (qotd) -- saturday, august 29, 2026

what can you learn from them? -- selection number three

selection number three is less about figuring somebody else out and more about noticing how much of your own energy is being spent watching, reacting, overthinking, doubting yourself, or carrying things that may not even belong to you anymore. the person on your mind may be demonstrating a very different relationship with attention, organization, boundaries, and self-trust.

this reading asks what happens when you stop making somebody else the center of the story and start paying closer attention to where your own energy is going. there is also something here about knowing when not to respond, when not to fight, and when the most effective move is simply conserving your energy.

“put your damn phone down.”

“they do not doubt themselves as much as you do.”

“not every fight is worth it.”

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the words and messages that came through in this reading include:

• overthinking
• no doubt
• less phone time
• clean
• tidy
• organized
• diversify
• diverse
• reciprocity
• clear
• no
• strategize
• alchemy
• 12:12
• names
• blood
• rivers
• graves
• hospitality
• mirrors
• tourist
• shame
• inheritance
• uniforms
• costumes
• instincts
• windows
• bureaucracy
• silence
• ancestry
• neptune energy
• wired

there is a larger question underneath all of it: who is actually occupying the starring role in your life? some of what you can learn from this person may have nothing to do with copying them and everything to do with reclaiming your own attention.

“you need to be your own main character and stop allowing other people to be your main character.”

“they pause or don't respond at all before cutting people off.”

Disclaimer: These pick-a-card and psychic readings are provided for entertainment and personal reflection only. They are not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice and should not be used as a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional. You are responsible for your own decisions, actions, and choices. By participating in or purchasing a reading, you acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own discretion and accept full responsibility for any decisions you make based on the reading.

question for today (qotd) -- saturday, august 29, 2026

what can you learn from them? -- selection number two

selection number two turns the question back around. the person or energy you have in mind may frustrate you, fascinate you, or simply move through the world in a way you do not understand. but instead of focusing on what they are doing, this reading asks what their behavior might be showing you about your own strategy, attention, boundaries, and power.

there is something here about going bigger, staying focused, seeing situations more clearly, and becoming much more honest about where your attention and energy are actually going. this person may know how to keep moving without allowing other people to distract them, and that may be part of the lesson.

“go bigger. go bigger.”

“stop worrying about what other people are doing.”

“you can learn from them how to see things more clearly.”

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the words and messages that came through in this reading include:

• stop lying
• savage
• ask again
• tourist
• windows
• salt
• bread
• hospitality
• fences
• go bigger
• focus
• intelligence
• clarity
• boundaries
• sensuality
• sexual energy
• grounding
• power

there is also a question in this reading about access. who has access to your attention, your energy, your time, and possibly more intimate parts of you? what looks like somebody else's strength or behavior may actually be pointing toward a boundary you need to understand differently.

“they have boundaries. you don't.”

“there's something in your shadow that is your moneymaker around that.”

Disclaimer: These pick-a-card and psychic readings are provided for entertainment and personal reflection only. They are not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice and should not be used as a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional. You are responsible for your own decisions, actions, and choices. By participating in or purchasing a reading, you acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own discretion and accept full responsibility for any decisions you make based on the reading.

question for today (qotd) -- saturday, august 29, 2026

what can you learn from them? -- selection number one

sometimes the person who irritates you, confuses you, or seems to move through the world completely differently from you is carrying something worth studying.

in selection number one, the question is not whether you want to become like them. it is whether there is something about the way they move, present themselves, make money, maintain their power, or refuse to obsess over perfection that you could learn from.

there is an energy here around refinement, discipline, professionalism, details, money, magnetism, power, and knowing exactly when enough is enough. but some of what makes this person effective may also be the very thing other people criticize about them.

“the details matter.”

“as opposed to being annoyed by them, will definitely bring you luck.”

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the words and messages that came through in this reading include:

• luck
• bread
• markets
• magnet
• what’s your shadow?
• running out of time
• different sides of the same coin
• refinement
• discipline
• professionalism
• entrepreneurial energy
• gold
• power
• assertion
• mystery

and perhaps the strongest lesson has less to do with what this person does while everyone is watching and more to do with knowing when to disappear.

“even if you don’t have shit else to do, just float out.”

“leave them wanting more.”

Disclaimer: These pick-a-card and psychic readings are provided for entertainment and personal reflection only. They are not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice and should not be used as a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional. You are responsible for your own decisions, actions, and choices. By participating in or purchasing a reading, you acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own discretion and accept full responsibility for any decisions you make based on the reading.

what is a mystic? and can you have spiritual gifts without practicing any religion at all?

courtney, known as sisi in brasil, says yes, and she has the strangers' stories to back it up. recorded live from her patio in bahia, brazil, with the ocean breeze coming through the window, she describes what it actually feels like to live mystic. "my everyday reality feels like i'm moving in and out of different levels of different realms," she says, "and into people's energetic spheres and portals that are often unseen, sometimes felt."

she does not get there through ceremony or substance. she gets there through repetition. sanding wood. working in the yard. anything that lets her hands move while her mind goes somewhere else. master craftsmen talk about the same thing, she says, that quiet drop into another place.

then the part that is harder to explain away. multiple people, strangers to each other, in different cities, on separate occasions, have described seeing her during their own altered states, years before they ever met her in person. "i've never met in advance, i've met after the fact," she says. same description. same energy. every time.

she is not claiming to be rare. "we all are the tool," she says. not the crystal, not the card deck, not the substance. you.

this episode is for the woman who already feels something stirring that she has no religious language for. the one who has never done a ceremony but recognizes herself anyway. the one done waiting for a teacher's permission to believe her own experience counts.

sisi also asks a question she thinks more people should ask before handing over their trust: how is your spiritual teacher showing up in the flesh, healthy or not?

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in this episode of i taste like magic, sisi in brasil explains why she created the respite, what it is, and what it is not. this is not the porch. it is not guided. it is not a place where she is holding conversation, facilitating energy, or carrying the room.

it is a quiet online space built for pause, grounding, privacy, and energetic reset.

recorded from bahia, brazil, this episode moves through the real reasons behind the space: privacy, nervous system overload, social media noise, energetic sensitivity, detachment, and the need for somewhere softer that still lets people feel connected without being swallowed by algorithms.

major talking points:

• the respite is not the porch, and there are no peer guides or guided conversations.
• sisi explains why privacy and security matter now, especially compared to how things felt when the porch began in 2017.
• she talks about living between two places in brazil, both with beautiful views she cannot fully share publicly.
• she describes feeling heavy, itchy, foggy, and energetically affected before connecting it to a larger energetic shift.
• she explains how social media, loud trending audio, and constant scrolling can affect the nervous system.
• the respite was created as an online space that feels offline.
• visitors can watch quiet videos, listen to natural sounds, sit with scenery, or use the private forum.
• the forum is hosted outside major social platforms, so people can speak without feeding an algorithm.
• sisi makes clear that she is not there to facilitate conversation or hold everyone’s energy.
• she talks about detachment, friendship, capacity, and why disappearing is not always personal.
• the space includes reminders from past homes and sacred places, including detroit, oklahoma, and florida.
• the point is not to make the respite the tool. the point is to remind people to regulate themselves.

the respite is a pause.

not a performance.

not a classroom.

not another place to be consumed.

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Podcast Description

In this episode of I Taste Like Magic, Courtney, also known as Sisi in Brasil, talks about what it means when someone “makes you sick” literally, not as a figure of speech.

Using mirror touch synesthesia as the entry point, she explains how her body has long responded to other people’s pain, hidden pressure, emotional misalignment, and dishonesty. She reflects on her years as haveAwonderful... and THOTReader, her work with intuitive women, and why she has never believed spiritual gifts need to fit a polished aesthetic. The episode moves from intuitive body-reading to the power of words, especially casual phrases like “I’m dead,” “you make me sick,” and “wait till you get old.”

Courtney makes clear that she is not speaking as a doctor or therapist. This is a personal reflection on intuition, embodiment, language, spiritual integrity, and the way repeated untruths or careless words can create real energetic and physical consequences. She also connects the conversation to a Lingua by Sisi https://lingua.faafo.app/ bilingual song about exhaustion and rest.

Takeaways

• Your body may know when something is out of alignment before your mind admits it.
• Words are not harmless just because they are common.
• Spirituality does not require a costume, crystal, aesthetic, or external tool.
• Dishonesty becomes heavier when someone claims they want healing, growth, or alignment.
• Not every phrase passed down by elders needs to be accepted or repeated.
• “I’m exhausted” is different from casually speaking death (Tô Morta) over yourself.
• Pay attention to who makes you sick, and whether you are making yourself or others sick through words, behavior, or avoidance.

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she didn't end the friendship in anger. she ended it in clarity.

this episode is about a betrayal that happened here in brazil --- someone sisi trusted, introduced to people, vouched for, and helped get settled. someone who started lying by omission, claiming experiences they'd only seen through sisi's pictures, and ignoring the one clear boundary she'd set before any of it started.

there was no blowup. no dramatic exit. just observation, patience, a calm voicemail, and then silence.

but the episode goes somewhere deeper than the fallout. it goes into what sisi realized after --- that she has never, not once, been close to a friend or lover who didn't carry childhood trauma. and she started thinking hard about what that means. not as a judgment. as a question.

and then she found her answer in an unlikely place: a conversation with someone she'd just met, who had grown up clean from all of it --- a golden child, a rare thing in this world. sitting with him reminded her what that energy actually feels like. and she wasn't willing to settle for less anymore.

"those of us who know how rare we are are fiercely protective of our energy --- and our boundaries are like fort knox."

if you've ever been told your standards are too high, your limits too strict, your self-protection too much --- this one's for you.

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"i'm past the evidence phase at this point as i sit here in brazil. pulling all the things together and just really reflecting."

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