So that thing that you're so afraid of happening sometimes needs to happen for you to realize that you are not that thing.

You are not that job. You are not that relationship. You are not that home. You are not anything outside of you.

Hi, it's Sahara Rose and welcome back to the highest self podcast. A place where you discuss what makes you your soul's highest involvement.

If it's your first time listening, welcome. This is a place where I love taking spirituality and making it modern, fun, grounded, relatable because the truth is we're fucking humans on this planet.

We are here to enjoy our time. We don't have to take this shit so seriously. And that doesn't mean that we spiritually bypass. That doesn't mean we don't feel our feelings, but rather we go deep into them and find the gems that turn us into the phoenixes rising from the ashes that we're here to be. And that is what today's episode is all about.

So if you are new to me, you may not have heard this news, but late last year I got a divorce. And it was by far the hardest experience of my entire life.

And I've been doing this podcast for seven plus years. I've written three books. My book Discover Your Dharma, which was all about what was my dark night of the soul until then, which was my parents disowning me for stepping into my purpose going through health challenges, my body shutting down my early 20s.

She was pretty gnarly in my early 20s. And I thought that that was going to be my dark night of the soul. And I got it out of the way I'm good. Now I can write my books. I can speak on stages. I can have this podcast. Like I got the hardest part of my life done with, right?

What I've learned is that these initiations come in spirals. They come in waves. They come in layers. And they're not out against you. It's not to get you. It's not to take you off of the path, but rather to bring you further into it. So in today's episode, I'm going to share with you how to rise like the phoenix coming from the ashes.

Whatever your initiation is right now, there are constant death and rebirth cycles throughout our lives. It's not just a one time thing because the thing is the death allows space for the new version of you to come through.

Because we cannot have spring without winter. We cannot remain in perpetual bloom. And sometimes you might think that you are blossoming, but there is a whole new vibrant shade of color that you do not have access to because you are stuck on the color that you have been comfortable at.

You know, you may have been pale pink for a really long time and you're really comfortable at pale pink. You're good at pale pink. People know you for pale pink. But sometimes that pale pink needs to die for you to become magenta for you to become fuchsia for you to become full spectrum iridescent rainbow.

Whatever that next version of you is, but if you hold onto the pale pink and you identify as the pill pink when the pill pink is gone, you won't know that there is something so much more vibrant waiting for you on the other side. Should you choose it?

That's the thing. Should you choose it?

Because not everyone takes their lives greatest obstacles and turns them into gold. Some people stick with that story forever and they say, why did this shit happen to me?

Why am I a victim of my circumstances? Why am I stuck here? And they remain in this perpetual loop? And they identify as the trauma rather than using it as the very nectar that it's here to be here to catapultize and usher you into this new way of being, but you got to walk the path.

You got to go into the fire for this to happen. So I'll be sharing with you more of how I did this and really what it means to be this phoenix rising from the ashes.

So we've all heard that term before. So I did some research of where does this really come from? Who is the original phoenix? Like where is she at? And I learned that this concept of a phoenix, this beautiful red and orange fiery bird that emerges from the ashes has been a huge success.

And the magic is from the ashes has ancient history in Egyptian Persian, which I'm Persian Jewish Greek Roman and many other forms of mythology.

So there's something about I believe these phoenixes actually existed on this earth plane back then because you know, just like mermaids, we talk about mermaids in many different cultures, we talk about faith, fairies, gnomes, elves, I believe these actually were beings that now are living in other dimensions, but that's just me.

But there are many stories about this phoenix. So the story of the phoenix is that the phoenix is this beautiful red vibrant fiery bird that you know illuminates the sky many even mistake it as the sun because it's so bright and it has a very, very long lifespan.

They're around 500 or so years. And when it's time for the phoenix to die, the phoenix actually creates a nest for itself, and this nest is made out of sage, mur, and cinnamon. And then it actually self combusts within that nest and turns itself into ashes from which a new phoenix is born.

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