Hello, hello my loves. Welcome back to the Balanced Wand podcast. Soul on fire. I'm your host Jordan Younger.

And today we have a solo episode for you. It's been a little bit since I've done a solo episode.

They're my favorite way to connect with you guys. It's so fun. It's like we're just hanging out in the same room together.

And the purpose of today's solo episode is to celebrate my 30th birthday and to talk to you guys about basically things that I've learned in my 20s,

things that I am planning on leaving behind in my 20s, thought processes, things that no longer serve me.

The spiritual awakening that I experienced in my 20s that makes me very excited to turn 30 and enter into a new decade.

And to celebrate and commemorate all my fellow Libras and my fellow 1990 babies, because I know so many of you who listen to this podcast were born the same year as me,

which is really cool, which means that we are entering into our 30th year together. And also time is an illusion and age is just a number.

So if you're listening and you're in your 50s, 60s, I hope that you can still relate to everything I'm saying and I know and believe that you can,

because we are all on this journey of life together. We all learn things at a different time. We all experience things at a different time.

And then all the young people who listen to this podcast who are in their 20s or entering into their 20s, I'm always asked for advice that I would give to people who are in their early 20s and advice that I would give to my younger self.

So this is the perfect time to talk about that as I enter into my 30s and I have tried to be so reflective about this time.

Usually on my birthday, I celebrate, I have fun, I do the whole thing, but I don't always enter with intention and reflection.

And that was really my goal this year was to enter this new decade, this new age of mine with so much reflection about things that have taken place over the last several years.

And all the involvement and growth that has taken place and like I was saying, the things that I don't want to carry with me that are no longer serving me and in order to know what those things are, we of course have to get clear on what they are.

So I've spent a lot of time this year meditating on this, writing intentions for my 30th year, for my 30th birthday, and really acting on them and really, really doing that hard work, that deep shadow work,

that many of us avoid, that I have avoided many times in my life, so that I can really, truly enter into this new decade, this fresh slate with a new outlook and with an exciting new fresh take on what it means to be Jordan.

I always say that Jordan before my spiritual awakening, you could call it BSA Jordan before spiritual awakening or JBSA was a different person and I really do feel like I've aged 100 lifetimes in my 20s and I'm emerging from my Saturn return, which is an astrological phase that happens when people are kind of between the ages of 27 to 29 or 27 to 30.

And depending on your whole chart, it will have different karmic lessons and different outcomes. And for me, my Saturn return was completely, completely about my health, which is why I had such a health breakdown and crisis in my 20s.

And it was also about work and it was about work because my Saturn is in Capricorn. And if your Saturn is in Capricorn, then when you have your Saturn return, you will have a lot of ambition.

It's very much associated with business. So a lot of people who have their Saturn return in Capricorn need to deal with what they want to do with business. Maybe they'll create a brand, maybe they'll go back to school, maybe you'll know get promoted.

And for me, it was just all different ways that I have changed and evolved and grown my brand over the last few years, especially.

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