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

I'm your host, Sarah Faith Goddestiner, and I'm so honored and excited to be here with you

today. Happy eight eight. It is eight eight. Welcome to the week of eight eights mini

sode. Always a very cool moment when that all lines up. The moon is waxing. Mercury is

in Virgo and it is time to get to work. No, not that kind of work. No one wants to work right

now because hello, it's summer. We're at our limits in the northern hemisphere. It's a time of play

and a time of flirting and being with the sun. If we're lucky or if we're not as lucky,

it's a time of wildfires, drought, violence, ego. It's both and August is always this month,

at least in the northern hemisphere of feeling like this time of extremes, a time that can sober us,

sometimes a time that can be about maturity. And I'm talking about a different kind of work.

I'm referencing a spiritual kind of work and that is what happens when we decide to change patterns

and expand and grow. Many of us have spent quite a long time, a long period of time,

constricted, constricted physically, of course, also constricted energetically and dream-wise and

vision-wise. We've felt like we're holding our breath. We've had to adapt in ways that maybe have

even contorted us over the last few years. Myself included, hi, hello, I'm always going to

place myself in the trenches. I'm not high up on a hill like some oracle. In fact, I would gently

encourage maybe not taking advice from anyone who calls themselves a title or a label that can

notes an oracle high on a hill or authority or hierarchy right now. Just, you know, a little

lesson learned from experience. So any who back to this opportunity we have now, we have an

opportunity this week to widen and to examine what our dreams can be. If our dreams have tightened

or gotten smaller or even gone away, if our capabilities have constricted, gotten smaller,

maybe our self-regard, maybe that has constricted, we can look at all the different parts of our

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