That's a kind of alchemy too.

So I think we need to stop treating man-made as less spiritual.

Everything we create is an expression of the divine experimenting

through us, right? Our art, our technology, our voices. They're all part of the evolution.

They're all divine expressions through us. That's how I see Opelite. Opelite becomes this perfect

metaphor for our own modern spirituality.

It's still luminous. It's still divine. Even though we've been shaped by human experiences and our

mistakes and our reinventions, we're all a little bit manufactured by life a little bit, by our

society. We're molded by our culture, right? Or by heartbreak or even

healing. But that doesn't make us fake, it just makes us laird.

Hello, hello, magical friends, youngies. My name is Raquel and welcome to Your Own Magic, a podcast for the creative and the curious soul. And welcome back to Witchie Wednesday. This episode will definitely be talking about Burstom since it is Your Own Magic's birthday, October 16th.

Tomorrow, and her birthstone happens to be opal, which honestly couldn't be more fitting, along with pink turmaline.

But Opal and Opal light are the two we're going to really focus on later in the episode.

And Opal is the stone of imagination and emotional honesty and reflects

light in every color, just like this space has reflected the many shades of our stories, of

healing, of our humanness, of our magic.

And then pink termaline, which I won't be talking too much about, but I'll just mention that

it is the heart healer and holds

the vibration of compassion and gentle self-love, which I feel like is the energy that's always

lived underneath every conversation here, every podcast here. And so together they remind me

why this podcast was born in the first place, and they both hold the shimmer and the softness and the curiosity and the care.

So happy birthday yo-mies, happy birthday your own magic.

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