Welcome to Moonbeaming, a podcast about creativity, magic, tarot, lunar living, and more.

I'm your host, Sarah Faith Gautestiner, and I am so happy you are here today.

Hello babes, hello magic makers, hello artists, hello cuties, hello angels, welcome, welcome back to another episode of the podcast.

I'm going to start off by sharing a little bit about what's happening with the moon.

We've got a new moon, I believe it's on February 11th, how you celebrate it when you celebrate it is completely up to you.

And I haven't been thinking so much about the topic of identity, probably because I'm in a transformation situation with my identity.

And also because I really want to just touch upon for a minute how themes of the year can pop up for folks.

Last year was an emperor year, I have a couple of episodes about that.

And one of the themes of the emperor is about identity, like who are we, who do we want to be, how do we translate that with our actions, with our words,

with our values, with how we show up in our lives, how we allow ourselves to show up, right.

So a lot of folks are coming to me in my tarot practice as clients, and they're really in this identity transformation.

They're really grappling with and transforming aspects of self, aspects of self that were maybe coping mechanisms, aspects of self that are ready to come out now and be expressed, maybe that were dormant that are now being ready to be birthed or attended to.

And so there's a lot of identity stuff happening in the air and identity transformation.

And so if you're listening and that's you, you are not alone.

There are a lot of folks making changes about who they are and how they show up.

And consequently, I created a tarot spread about that for my newsletter babes.

So if you're on the list and you want to do some more work, some more questioning, some more excavation, then there is a tarot spread for you.

Also, I remember a quote from one of my earlier emperor episodes and forgive me, I'm not quite sure which one it is, but I think it might be the episode about the emperor that I recorded in 2020.

But there's this idea of like you can decide who you are, you can decide who you want to be, even though you might not have evidence of that your desire, your idea is the evidence that you can then take steps around to illuminate to express and so on and so forth.

Now, why am I talking about this? Well, number one, again, it just seems to be in the air. I've been seeing a lot of clients and this has been coming up.

And also a theme that came forward for the month of February lining up. So let's like, let's like take a couple steps back.

I had a message about February, number one, being this weird month, like it's going to feel weird. Take that as it were, I'm a weirdo. So personally, I love weird feeling things.

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