Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator. And I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit, mystical advice for living your very best life.

Babs, welcome to the podcast. What would you like a reading about?

Thank you. I'm so excited. My question is,

am I using grief as an excuse? Recently, a very old and trusted friend told me that I'm not doing enough, that I am a leftist version of thoughts and prayers. My kiddo died three years ago and I'm still struggling to get out

of bed most days. I love my community and I thought I was showing up as best as I can,

but this conversation has left me wondering if my grief has become an excuse not to do more.

Okay. There's so much of the question. And, you know, of course, I read the question, but hearing

you say it is like, there's just so much in this question. So before we get into like the deeper

part of the question, I have a couple questions about this friend. So is this like, this is like

a dear friend. This is a person you trust. Yes.

And when they refer to the thoughts and prayers comment, are they basically saying you're not engaged in activism?

You're not engaged in the world in like a critical way.

You're doing spiritual work that doesn't land.

Is that what?

Because that's how I interpret that, but I don't know if that's what they meant.

A little bit.

It's a combination of maybe not enough activism and just also I'm at this like crossroads of like intellectually understanding that I want to kind of move more plant-based vegan, and they've been vegan for quite a while.

And them getting a little bit, like, impatient with that journey, too, I think, is a big contributing factor, but it's also like the activism and just showing up in the world in the

moment.

So specifically, the veganism piece, have you said to them, I want to be a vegan?

I intend to be a vegan.

And they are mad, it sounds, and critical that you've expressed clarity about wanting to go in that direction, but you haven't done it.

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