What Is Going On, Anyway?

Full Beaver Moon in Gemini, November 27th, 2023. Have you been tending your inner fire lately? This podcast is here to remind you that not only do you need the warmth and coziness of a fire to keep you happy this winter, your spirit needs its flame tended as well. Of course not everyone has a woodstove or fireplace to tend, but we can all celebrate the season of darkness with lights, candles, and flame of some sort or another. Let's welcome Hestia and find our feet on the ground once again. Creativity awaits!

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New Beaver Moon in Scorpio. November 13, 2023. What does storytelling have to do with desire? This time on the podcast I consider how rethinking storytelling is one way that I am forming the world I want to live in. This new moon isn't giving us relief from the current intensity of the world. Political strife is omnipresent, and a humanitarian crisis is on my mind. Join me for a moment of storytelling magic that brings me back to my childhood.

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October 28, 2023. We've come to the Full Hunter Moon with a partial lunar eclipse. Times are turbulent and people are exhausted. The grief of so much destruction is overwhelming. This time on the podcast we are being called to look into the dark and pull out the corruption which no longer has a place in the hidden realms. It's time to look, really look, at what must come to surface and what hidden talents and intelligences are ready to emerge.

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October 14, 2023. This is the New Moon in Libra and Annular Solar Eclipse. This time on the podcast I take time to focus on the recent war declared by Israel on Hamas. It deeply affects me and I'm sharing how I'm coping with the daily fear that arises from having family in this region.

The I Ching gives us notice that once again, the place we are in is steeped in the unknown and we must attend to what being that vulnerable means. How do we stay with that uncertainty? How do we lend our strength? I also pull a Wild Unknown card for a little extra support.

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September 29th, 2023 Full Harvest Moon in Aries. What is going on when you are so full to the brim that everything feels sloshy and messy? Which is worse a real bully in the form of another human or the one who keeps saying mean things to myself? I remember how lovely it is to wander the stacks of a public library. Our hexagram gives us the wisdom of the Vessel and transformation.

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It’s the New Harvest Moon (in Virgo) on September 14, 2023 and despite my best intentions, I left the studio and ran to the ocean to play hooky. What do you do with inner conflict when one part of you wants to ‘do it right’ and the other just wants to play. Who wins? This time on the podcast, me - your host, Ann Hedly, goes rogue and we meet Hecate, goddess of crossroads. We will find out this moon’s hexagram and discover some wisdom about joining forces to move together into this unknown future.

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Full Blue (Super!) Moon. August 30-31, 2023. What do you do when you're afraid you might give up on your dreams? Do you push onward, refocus, or do you give up and change course? This time on the podcast I consider this question and ask advice from the Oracle. This time, we're considering a full blue moon, which is also a supermoon so it appears just slightly bigger in the sky to our eye. And it's a blue moon, which means it's the second full moon of August and the last blue moon until the year 2037. This full moon is having me ask the question, What is going on when you're afraid you might give up on something you thought you wanted?

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But for real this time, What is going on, anyway? Why do things seem like they could be easy, but then they are just hard? And also summer is weird. It's either too hot and sweaty or too rainy and it's all just bothersome isn't it? This full super moon is bringing up issues of head versus heart. We must learn the flexibility to move easily from both perspectives. The I Ching offers us "Great Exceeding" and that is just like my garden right now. What is overloaded? What have you outgrown? What must you do? This leads us to facing that which is our obstacle, or the thing that blocks us. Our question to consider is "what work can you do when nothing is working?' We can look at this personally and collectively. Isn't it the strangest thing that congressional hearings brought up alien testimony and yet the public response is very mild, muted almost as if everyone is thinking "so what". What if the wildest truth is unearthed in you and your head receives a 'so what'? Our hearts are longing for some relief from the insanity of modernity, yet we still have to carry on, get the meals made and pay our bills to live. Welcome to midsummer, folks.

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Danger. Don't worry, I'll talk you through it. Yes, these two weeks will probably bring up challenges, but they have purpose. With the mindset of inquiry you will be able to find out how to flow with the waters. I'm asking questions about how I was raised and by whom. Why am I so much like my siblings and my mother? We react in such similar ways when anxiety arises, I have to wonder where they end and I begin.
So yes, these two weeks may be challenging, but it's not meant to wreck us. If we can listen carefully to our heart's desires and practice courage we might come away from this time with a new resolve towards inserting our understanding into creating a just world.
Take a walk me, or a drive or just push play and I'll talk to you while you do busywork. Thanks for joining me this time on the podcast. As you listen, you may notice some volume changes please adjust your sound as needed. I’m just a baby podcaster and haven’t figured out how to solve my sound input problem after I’ve already recorded! I’ll do better in future: maybe, probably, I hope!

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Welcome to this Full Buck Moon. Do you know how to ask a good question? Let's consider what goes into this process. Yes, discernment is necessary and also having healthy personal boundaries is key. Are you asking in the spirit of true curiosity, or are you making a commentary with your question? We will consider what needs composting to make way for sustained and nourishing growth.

Grace, Beauty and Community await us this full moon time.

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"The Art of Asking The Right Questions" by Kevin Dickinson

Video: Development of the Nervous System/Embryology by Dr. Matt Barton, PhD.

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