Let the moon be your compass, sink your rituals, your reflections, your intentions to her phases.

Because whether or not we bleed, we are cyclical

beings and the moon reminds us of that. So the moon above and the cycle within, they're always in

conversation. And when we listen and we find a deeper harmony, a sense that we're not separate

from nature at all, we realize we are nature, we are lunar beings,

living and breathing under her light. If the moon and our bodies are always in conversation,

always dancing together, then the archetypes are the personalities of that conversation.

And archetypes are ancient patterns of energy woven into our

collective consciousness and just like the seasons of the cycle these archetypes show up again and again

in our lives. Hello, hello, magical friends, yo-me, my name is Raquel, and welcome to Your Own Magic,

a podcast for the creative and the curious soul and happy witchy Wednesday. I'm excited for this topic

since I talked about women's cycles on Monday and how we could explore them as sacred seasons

within us along with portals and the thresholds and the rituals that keep us aligned with our bodies.

I figured for Witchy Wednesday today, we're going to look up at the sky.

Because just as our bodies move through cycles, so does Mama Moon.

But first, I had to pull a card for us.

I believe I had every intention on doing that for every Witchie Wednesday,

and I forgot about it last Woodie Wednesday.

And so I didn't forget.

I made sure to pull it beforehand and laid it right here.

I'm using the Wild Woman Oracle deck by Cheyenne Zarate.

And the card that appeared as I was shuffling around and this one popped out

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