The Changes

Ahhh. It’s a rainy, grey Monday and I’m speaking about the energy of Spinel, which aligns with Gate 28. Heaven.In the Gene Keys, this energy moves from Purposeless to Totality to Immortality. So, no biggie, right!? 🫠 In the IGNITE Her frequencies, we move from Insignificance to Meaning to being the Purpose Warrior.

This episode explores how fear is part and parcel of bringing your soul’s work into the world - it’s literally the locus of purpose. And of course purpose isn’t really what you “do” - it’s how you are - it’s your presence, your heart, your soul. How you live.

But what do we actually do with the fear that inevitably shows up in life? How can we actually allow it instead of wanting it gone once and for all? Can we let it have its rightful place as a guide, rather than boss b******g it away by “eating it for breakfast”?

Spinel is said to help us take on the challenges that we are guided to by our soul’s longing. Yep, the soul’s longing takes us into pain and fear - it’s just how it is. It’s how we evolve. But how we relate to that is our choice and our journey…

Spinel is a crystal of revitalisation, energy, and courage - and lord knows we need courage in this life. Courage, according to Dr David Hawkins is the tipping point that moves us from the lower frequency states like fear and shame into the higher ones, like love. So, a crystal ally that confers a bit more courage is welcome in my book.

Reflection questions to accompany this episode:

💚 Is there anything you’re avoiding in your life at this time? Something you’re afraid to look at that you’re willing to gently start to pay more attention to.

💚 What does living well mean to you? I mean, really living well. What is a great day?

💚 Are there any ways in which you’re postponing living like that?

I’d love to know your experience with this energy - let me know in the comments! I read everything.

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In this episode of The Changes, we explore the exquisite energy of Danburite and its connection to Gene Key 50, which takes us on a journey from the shadow of Corruption, through the gift of Equilibrium, into the highest frequency of Harmony.In the IGNITE Her® frequencies, this energy moves from Fury, to Justice to becoming the Values Guardian.

We begin with coherence: the perfected internal order of crystals, and the image of an orchestra learning to listen to itself. How might we bring our own unique sound into harmony with something bigger?

We explore the difference between thinking about our values and listening for them through the heart. And we look at passivity: how the pain of witnessing injustice can leave us feeling overwhelmed, furious or helpless - and how tending to that grief, and finding others who care, can help us take heart.

You don’t have to know how to change the whole thing to contribute something.

Reflection questions

💚 Where are you being passive about something you care about because it feels too painful to look?

💚 What gentle step could you take towards more balance in that area?

💚 What values do you hear when you listen through your heart? What might your “heart manifesto” be?

💚 Where are the people who help you take heart - who are also moving towards something hopeful?

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In this episode of The Changes, we explore the transformative energy of Vesuvianite (Idocrase) and its connection to Gene Key 32, which takes us on a journey from the shadow of Failure, through the gift of Preservation, into the highest frequency of Veneration.

Vesuvianite is a metamorphic crystal, formed through immense heat and pressure, which invites us to reflect on our own relationship with change. How do we navigate it, why do we fear it, and why do we sometimes crave it?

We explore the paradox of change: how our desire for new experiences can keep us curious and growing, but can also prevent us from staying with something long enough to discover its deeper richness. And how, conversely, our attachment to the familiar can keep us holding on to things we’ve already outgrown…

Perhaps the greatest courage isn’t always found in making a change, but in knowing what is truly worth preserving.

Reflection questions

💚 Where in your life are you craving change, and where are you resisting it?

💚 Are you protecting something because it’s precious, or because you’re afraid of life without it?

💚 Is there something you’re tempted to abandon just as you’re beginning to develop a deeper relationship with it? Where are you being asked to stay?

💚 If everything about your life changed tomorrow, what would you want to carry with you - what’s REALLY worth preserving?Share in the comments, or my paid subs - let me know in the chat!

In this episode of The Changes, we explore the beautiful energy of Topaz and its connection to Gene Key 57, which takes us on a journey from the shadow of Unease, through the gift of Intuition, into the highest frequency of Clarity.

Topaz invites us to see the bigger picture, recognise our place within the greater cosmic order, and focus on what truly matters. Its energy reminds us of the radical simplicity of intuition - that sometimes the greatest transformation comes not through more effort, analysis or striving, but through simply getting quiet enough to listen.

We explore why clarity can be a mirage, the difference between clarity and certainty, and how learning to be comfortable with not knowing can open us to a deeper trust in life.

Perhaps you don’t need to get clarity. Perhaps by becoming deeply present, you allow the world itself to become a little clearer.

After all, you don’t need to see the whole picture to play your part in it. ✨

What if you dreams aren’t somewhere “out there” in the future? What if they’re behind you, under your feet, in your pocket, or in some other space?

In this week’s episode of The Changes, we explore the remarkable geology of Jade - a metamorphic crystal formed deep within the Earth through immense heat and pressure. Unlike igneous rocks, born from fire, or sedimentary rocks, shaped by layers of time and memory, metamorphic rocks begin as something else entirely before being transformed into a new substance. The way they’re formed shapes the qualities they carry.

What if the same is true for us?

Together, we’ll contemplate Gate 59 and its movement from dishonesty to intimacy to transparency, asking what it really means to become deeply honest with ourselves. Are the dreams we’re pursuing truly our own? Or have they been inherited from a world that tells us what success should look like?

Jade has long been associated with dreams, abundance and inner transformation. Rather than seeing dreams as distant goals to strive towards, this episode offers a different possibility: perhaps your life has been artfully preparing you for a dream that already exists within you.

Along the way, we’ll explore what abundance feels like when it begins with intimacy rather than acquisition, and how even the smallest acts of beauty, gratitude and presence might be expressions of the life you’re already here to live.

So this week... listen. Contemplate. Create.

The doors are open to my upcoming 21 day challenge “Sacred Limelight” - it’s going to be a beautiful journey to unlock your creative expression and new levels of visibility that actually feel good. We start 11th September.

Episode two of The Changes is up, and we’re exploring Gate 29 along with the energy of Turquoise 🩵

This one’s about commitment - but not the version of commitment that gets sold to us as never giving up, never wavering, picking a “lane” and gritting your teeth through it until the bitter end. I’m talking about a kind of commitment that is wise about when to stay, and when to go. When to embrace change, and when to stick around a bit longer…

Leaky energy

The current transit is Gate 29, which in the Gene Keys moves from half-heartedness, through commitment, into devotion. For me, the pressure that shows up around this theme is this: don’t be flaky, don’t flit from thing to thing, stay the course.

But I don’t think that’s actually what commitment is asking of us. The deeper version isn’t commitment to one thing. It’s commitment to yourself, in the present moment, whatever life happens to be asking of you right now. Whether the direction is staying or changing…can you stay with yourself either way?

Gil Fronsdal, a Zen teacher I love, once said one of the best ways to simulate life in a Monastery is to just do one thing at a time. Making tea, you make tea. Writing an email, you write the email. Eating an apple, you eat the apple. Richard Rudd makes a related point about this Gene Key: real commitment can only ever be commitment to the present, because you can’t actually know what you’ll be committed to in the future. So the pushy energy of forcing yourself to stick with something because you said you would? That’s leaky. It’s a different frequency entirely from committing because you’re grounded enough to stay with yourself, no matter whether the cycle ends or continues.

The whole rainbow, not just the best bits

This week’s crystal is Turquoise, and one of its central themes is wholeness. Naisha Ahsian writes, in The Book of Stones: you can’t have a rainbow with just the colour purple. I love that image. A rainbow needs the whole spectrum, not just its highest frequency colour.

So much of the self-improvement instinct is a purifying instinct. If I could just get rid of the half-heartedness. If I could just get rid of the way I jump from thing to thing, get rid of the inner critic, then I’d be higher vibration, better at calling in what I want. But is wholeness really about filtering yourself down to the best parts? I think not. I think it’s the capacity to hold the full spectrum of who you are, and let the wisdom of when to stay and when to change come from that fuller place.

Because what actually makes you want to jump ship too early? Usually discomfort. Not wanting to feel a thing you’re already feeling. And what makes you stay too long? Often the same discomfort, just facing the other direction, not wanting to feel what leaving would require. I have a lot of third line energy in my own profile - I’m always exploring, always drawn to new experiences, so I’ve had to build a litmus test for myself: am I changing because I’m bracing against reality, or because something has genuinely come to a natural end? Either way, the real question underneath is the same. How do I not abandon myself, whether I stay or whether I change?

A traveler’s stone

Turquoise is traditionally a protector of travellers, which makes sense, because aren’t we all on a journey somewhere? I want to be careful with the idea of protection here, though. It can tip into superstition, into a fear that without the right talisman you’re somehow unsafe.

What I mean by it is closer to this: what helps you not abandon yourself while you’re moving through uncertainty? Maybe it’s a practice. Maybe it’s a person. Maybe it’s simply the decision that you won’t abandon yourself, whatever happens. A strong back and a soft front, as Roshi Joan Halifax says. What if the ultimate protection isn’t surrounding yourself with an energetic, but being rooted in love?

Luck comes from going all in

Turquoise has one more association I couldn’t leave out: it’s traditionally linked to cloud-busting, to calling rain. And Gene Key 29 carries a teaching that luck comes from commitment, from going all in, heart-centered rather than white-knuckled, rather than keeping one foot out of the door.

Maybe you will recognise where this connects: Gene Key 46 carries the story of the rainmaker. His secret was never that he could make it rain - he simply knew where it was already about to rain, and he went there. That’s the same wisdom turquoise is pointing at here. Alberto Villoldo’s line always stays with me: Information is knowing water is H2O. Wisdom is knowing how to make it rain. Commitment to the present, and devotion to how life is actually unfolding is the road toward that kind of wisdom. And wholeness is what emerges along the way. Not a rainbow that’s only purple, but one with every frequency present.

If you have turquoise, give it a cleanse and carry it with you this week, or wear it if it’s set in jewellery. I’ll be doing the same, and I’ll let you know what it brings up.

Here’s my question to you in the meantime:

If you were handed a traveler’s stone right now, what would you want it to carry for you?

I just recorded the first episode of something new, and I want to tell you about it before I lose my nerve.

Why did I almost not do this? Because it didn’t feel “neat”.

I’ve been preparing to launch a new programme and crystallising the way I talk about the work I’m here to do - or rather the work I am here to make.

The core is EXPRESSION. Tapping back into your creativity and life force because nothing becomes income, impact, or recognition until it becomes expressed. This requires us to have the courage to own our multi-faceted natures. Do you think you could turn to the energy of the divine feminine and ask her to summarise what she does in a 2 sentence bio?

Of course not. So why should you? Don’t you want permission in your life to actually love things and bring parts of you into your business that previously felt off limits? I know I do.

So, in the spirit of walking the sacred walk, I’m making a podcast for the sheer pleasure of it. It’s a series that brings together two of my favourite things: the Gene Keys transits, and crystal energy. When I discovered that the Gene Keys has a list of crystals corresponding to each of the 64 frequencies, I wanted to DRIBBLE it was so exciting.

These are two passions I’ve been keeping in separate little compartments for some time, but here I am being offered the opportunity to bring them together.

The fact is, I can’t point to this on a content calendar and say this serves the funnel. It’s just something I wanted to express through my heart. And not putting it out, because it doesn’t “make sense” just feels stingy to my soul.

7th Gene Key & Galena

Right now we’re in the seventh Gene Key, and its crystal is Galena. A dark grey, heavy, shining stone that looks solid and dense but is, underneath, surprisingly soft.

Moody shot of my Galena in the sunlight 👆🏻Maybe that’s the whole teaching in one object. The duality we all carry, and the duality inside every Gene Key: something that looks hard-edged is often a portal to gentleness. Something that looks soft is often full of strength.

The seventh Gene Key moves from division to guidance to virtue, and it has everything to do with listening. Not the guidance where you, as the leader or coach or guide, arrive with the answer. The guidance where you sit back and listen so deeply that a person’s own inner knowing surfaces on its own.

Now that’s what I would love to happen with this podcast.

What it means to keep beginning

Galena is known as the stone of alchemical transformation. It carries the vibrational pattern of lead, and lead is the beginner’s metal in alchemy. So the question the crystal hands you is: what does it mean to be a beginner? What does it mean to move from beginning towards mastery, and do you ever actually want to arrive?

I don’t think we do. Because the beginner’s mind and the listening quality the 7th Gene Key invokes are the same thing. When you become truly present with someone, really see them, really listen instead of just hearing, aren’t you beginning again? Empty, receptive, starting from scratch. Every time you resist the urge to reach for advice too quickly, yours or anyone else’s, you’re choosing that beginner’s mind on purpose.

Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian write, in The Book of Stones, that Galena “places within your field the restless desire of the seeker who won’t stop until the journey to enlightenment is complete.”

So: as leaders of the new earth, when do we stop seeking? I’d suggest never, and that this is good news. We’re always expanding, always getting to listen more deeply, to ourselves and to our people. That restlessness can look like lack, like craving. But I think it depends entirely on the energy underneath it. There’s a seeking that grasps. And there’s a seeking that’s childlike, pure, alchemical - asking what what might happen next

I’ve started thinking of it this way: when I feel like a beginner, like a novice, like I don’t have enough experience yet, I try to remember I’m not a beginner, I’m just beginning. Again.

A grounding note

Galena also has a cubic internal lattice, which makes it deeply stabilising. Meditate with it and it anchors you straight into the earth, which matters more than it sounds, because none of the above works if you’re not grounded enough to actually listen.

You cannot listen while distracted, absent, floating off somewhere else. My own litmus test for how healthy my whole system is this: Am I allowing time to actually listen to the people I love most? When the answer is no, I know I need to reground before anything else.

Galena is reminding me that I’m always beginning. That I’m always turning lead to gold. And that listening more deeply is what makes the alchemy possible at all.Thank you for listening and I would love to know how this landed for you.

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