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Hello, friends. Welcome back. Welcome back. My goodness. It’s been 2 years since our last Soul Cast episode, and in that two years I have been gone off to college to finish my.
Academic degree and now I’m back and we have the Wisdom Tree podcast.
So I learned a lot over the last couple of years going back to school and just, you know, being my age and being a college and.
I graduated in May at age 54, and that’s kind.
Of a big deal.
And I think more than.
More than graduating with a degree, I stepped.
Across the threshold.
Into a new age in my life, an age of the wise woman.
We kind of.
Have the maiden mother Crone set up for women. I don’t even think that there is a comparable.
Markers for men. They’re just men, right, boy and old man? Maybe, but Maiden, mother, Crone and I kind of like.
The word wise woman better than Cron. It’s just a little bit softer for me. So Wisdom Tree is where I’m going to come now and do my weekly service and talk about spirituality.
And I’m still a minister, so I’m still going to serve in that capacity. So if we haven’t met, I am, Jeannie, doctor Jeannie Matthews Pinckney. I have a doctorate in metaphysical, humanistic science. It’s a reverend doctorate. It’s a ministerial doctorate.
I’m also a historian, and so sometimes in these podcasts I’m going to, I’m going to go down.
That that road of history veer off the path a little bit of spirituality and talk a little bit history, because that’s what I love.
But mostly I’m here to give a weekly spiritual message, especially to my Gen. X cohort and to everyone longing for a deeper connection to nature, to feminine energy and to their higher self right.
Today, we’re going to talk about some spiritual stuff. I’m going to touch base with my shaman studies. I I consider really my spiritual path of shamanic path. I.
Study nature and try to take lessons that nature teaches us. Also tapping into our consciousness.
A lot of people.
Call that higher power God. Some people call it the ancestors. Some people call it creator source. I call it the realm of consciousness.
And I believe that’s aligned with the shamanic path.
So for the last couple of months on my Facebook and on in my groups have talked about how we can relate our lives to seasons of the year.
Our spiritual growth related to growth throughout the year.
In the physical world.
Like for this summer, I put up a program for self-care.
Because summer season’s kind of wild right summer is fire. It’s heat. It’s passion, it’s getting sunburned and getting dehydrated and having too much of a good thing. Right, that’s summer.
Partying, dancing. Falling in love.
Spiritually and physically, right.
So in September, I said, you know, we need, we need some self-care around here. So I created a workbook and shared it for.
Free and I got some really good feedback on it and I thought, you know.
Just taking a look at the seasons and putting out a workbook that that’s going to be a good thing, it’s going to be a good way for me to serve people. So now it’s October and it’s fall and I have put out.
Free workbook for lessons we can take from the fall.
And the analogy I use, of course for fall is the harvest, and I relate the harvest to our own personal spiritual growth, right.
So what is the harvest? It’s the time of year that farmers are getting out in the fields and getting the last.
Of the crops.
Of course, we used to be an Agricultural Society and almost every family, unless you lived in a city, every family had a had a garden every.
Family had crops planted because if not, they didn’t last through the winter.
We’ve done our harvest in our little backyard garden. We had so many tomatoes this year. It was great and I’m getting ready to roast the last of my tomatoes and they finally turned red in my windowsill and I’m going to make some.
Tomato soup. And so that’s what fall is about. You get the last of the vegetables picked. You get them to market.
You can them you freeze things. You put things in the root cellar. We used to put them in the root cellar.
I I get today we there’s farming 12 months a year around the world and we go to the supermarket. We don’t really think about those things, but.
Hopefully everybody can understand the analogy here, right? I know Gen. XI, know you guys understand. I know you guys understand what farming is right and the season of harvesting props.
To bring shamanism in it, you know, shamans have been called different things across the world that some.
Some refer that to them as medicine men.
Druids, priests, priestesses.
Oracles Yogi.
You know, was was a shaman in his own way.
And there were lots of Buddhists, so.
But these were people.
Who had some?
Major jobs in their tribes and the groups that they hung out with and and for most shaman, one of the jobs was to predict the seasons and.
Predict the weather so that they would know when to plant the gardens.
When and what vegetables were going to grow that?
Year before the agricultural revolution, the shaman would say which direction the herd was going to go in, or where they might find.
The field of barley, or the the field of maize that.
That they could get naturally so.
That was one of the shaman’s jobs, you know. Another job was to speak to the ancestors, into the spirit realm and to.
Tell the rest of the tribe what God wants them to do, right? What are the what are the ancestors say? What does? What does God expect of us?
And another.
Job of a shaman was to heal sickness in the tribe. Whether that was mental illness.
Or whether that was.
Physical illness, herbal remedies.
You know.
The OR what?
What we would have called a doctor.
Probably back then.
So how shamans learn to do these things besides trial and error was?
They sat and they watched nature, and they meditated in nature.
And they partook of sacred herbal plants and and had visions and.
But a lot of times they just watch what the animals did. They watched how nature progressed through the seasons. If you follow Alberto Vildo.
He talks about the Peruvian medicine wheel, where the South direction is the serpent and the West direction is the Jaguar and the north direction is the Hummingbird and E direction is the Condor or the eagle, and these animals are medicine.
You know the the indigenous people.
Of North America have a medicine wheel.
It’s medicine, but it’s medicine for the soul.
And it’s medicine that says how to live right how to live in balance and how to live well.
I like to look at nature and see what lessons I can take from nature, like the shaman.
So this is fall and.
The lesson of the fall is the harvest, and the harvest is something that has happened in all cultures. All cultures has had agriculture and they know when the growing season is over. So this analogy of having the harvest.
Is, you know, what did we grow over the year as crops?
And for us, what goals did we grow over the year and how did we manifest? How did our crops grow? How did we do with our goals?
So if we go all the way back to January of this year, you’ll remember you had.
New Year’s resolutions.
You may have even done my workbook on designing your life.
UM.
You plan some goals like this is the year I’m going to lose weight.
This is the year.
I’m going to find love.
This is the year.
I’m going to buy a house.
Yeah, I’m really sorry if that was your goal this year. Housing prices are so high.
But if you said it, I applaud you.
This is the year I’m going to change jobs. I’m going to do a job.
I really love or this is the year I’m going to get a promotion and a big raise.
And for a lot of.
Families. This is the year we’re going to.
Disney World, right? Well.
I know a trip to Disney World is is on par with buying a new car, so it’s a big goal. All of these are big goals this year and some of you guys might have.
Set some big goals.
And so here we are in.
The fall and it’s.
Time for us to look at our harvest.
Did we manifest our goals?
The seeds we planted in the garden. Our goals.
How did they do? How did we tend them over the spring and over the summer did?
We nourish them.
What did we harvest and our harvest depends.
On a few things.
First of all.
What seeds did we plant?
Did you know specifically what seeds you were planting? What what your goals were? Did you have a specific idea? And then how well did you tend to those seeds and those plants, did you?
Water them every day.
Or did you only think about them every once?
In a while.
I mean that’s that’s going to affect your harvest.
So the fall is a good time to take.
Take stock.
How did we do? How well did you manifest? Did you buy the house?
Did you get the promotion?
Did you find a new job?
What steps did you take?0
Did you put yourself out there to find a new relationship?
Did you take your kids on that trip, right?
It’s these are huge goals and you can’t just set the goal and then not do anything. You have to. You have to take steps to reach them.
Right.
So how was your harvest?
Another thing that we need to think about is.
What do farmers do after the crops?
They’ve they’ve picked all the crops they’ve.7
Stored everything they’ve taken everything to market. Now what do they do?
Well, they’ve got to clear the.
Field they’ve got to clean up.
They got to do maintenance on their machinery, oil things, cover things, put things in the barn, put them away because you don’t want the winter rainy, snowy elements, the.
To if you live in a climate like I do anyway, you you don’t want your expensive machinery to rust, so you clear things up, right?
You see what needs to be replaced, what needs to be fixed? What don’t you need anymore, you know.
I’m not a farmer, so I I don’t know exactly what goes on, but I can imagine you like anything you’ve got to clean it up and get ready for winter.
And there’s another example in nature that we see we see are the trees, you know the the colors of the leaves is one of the biggest images that we have for fall.
And then what happens? They fall off the tree and they’re absorbed into the earth to become soil to feed new life in years to come.
We call this releasing.
The trees release.
The leaves. They let them go, right. And so we can do that in our lives spiritually.
And how we do this? How we clean up the field and how we release the leaves?
Is we declutter.
We declutter our lives. We release that which no longer serves us, and we clean up our mess. Right. We can declutter our living space. I mean, everybody has a junk drawer. OK, but most of us have a junk closet or even a junk room. And I’m raising both of my hands there.
And why is this good for us spiritually? Well, clutter can make us anxious.
Clutter is distracting.
Clutter can put us in a really bad mood.
Clutter can weigh us down the things we won’t release. Weigh us down. They’re heavy.
Let’s just take an example. How do you feel when you go into that junk drawer, that junk closet and?
Let’s say you’re trying to find your spare set of keys to give to the neighbor, so you could take that trip with your.
Or you need to find your checkbook, right?
And the drawer is just cluttered. It’s just it’s a big kitchen drawer and it’s just full of stuff and you can’t find what you need. And it it starts your trip.
Out really bad.
Right, you’re already in a bad mood before you even get to.
Disney World with.0
The chaotic parking and the chaotic people and the chaotic lines, right, you’re it’s, you know, you’re already in a bad mood, so.
The clutter just ruins our day sometimes.
Clutter messes with our emotions. It messes with our psyche. It messes with our vibe, and especially if you know someone with depression or anxiety. If you are someone with depression or anxiety, you guys know this.
You know, hoarding and chaos. It just adds to your depression and and to your anxiety.
So fall.
It’s the weather’s still warm enough to get outside.
So fall is a good time to.
Declutter your environment.
Your space because you could take things outside and sort them.
You can clean your rooms, you can open the windows and let fresh air in.0
It’s not too hot. It’s not too cold. It’s just right.
So it follows the perfect time to declutter your space, right?
UM.
And it’s really good to do it in the fall because winter is just around the corner and in winter, what do we do? We’re inside all the time.
We can’t escape the mess to the back porch. We can’t escape the mess to the front porch, right? We we have. We got to.
Get it clean before winter.
What else can we declutter in our lives?
How many of you guys have relationships that wear?
On you.
You have people in your life that they’re not friends. Maybe they’re coworkers. Maybe they’re associates.
Maybe they’re friends of a friend, or they’re a distant relative that comes around a lot.
But they just suck the life out of it.
They’re just.
They just take and take and take and take and take your energy. They don’t give anything back. They they don’t listen to you. They’re not there for you.
But they just they just.
Pile all their stuff on you.
I’m not talking about friends because a friend.
You know it’s a give and take thing, right? And and if if you’ve got a friend that is.
Taking more than they’re giving well, there needs to be a discussion there with your friend and there needs to be some boundary sitting there with your friend and some decluttering there with your friend.
But for people who aren’t friends, it’s just someone that’s around a lot. You got to think about that. You got to think about decluttering that relationship from your life.
Decluttering means setting boundaries. It could be it could mean we’re not hanging out with this person as much as you know, we’re not going to set ourselves up and get in situations where.
This person’s around.
We’re not going to include this person because you you have to to clutter your relationships, just like the clutter in your house. Cluttered relationships create stress and weight.
And you gotta you gotta clean that up. What else can we declutter?
We can declare our thoughts right?
Fall is a great time to think about what we’ve been thinking about, OK?
Especially when you’re looking at what you’ve manifested.
And you look at what goals you set and then you look at the results that you’ve gotten.
If you want to know what you’re thinking.
Look at your results, OK? Because if you set a goal to lose weight and you didn’t lose weight, your results are that you didn’t lose weight.
Something in your thoughts has been going. I don’t deserve to lose weight. I don’t know how to lose weight. I’m not good enough to lose weight. I can’t lose weight.
So fall is a really good time when you’re taking stock of what you have manifested when you’re taking stock of your results.
Fall is a really good time to go. Oh, yeah, I got some thoughts that need to be decluttered.
Right.
You’re going to.
Want to do this with kindness to yourself? Right? This decluttering? Especially declutter, decluttering your thoughts.
Catch yourself thinking negatively and.
And listen, I don’t no spiritual bypassing here. There’s no, no fake positivity.
I I want you to hear your thought and consider it and feel the feelings that come with that thought.
But then, you know, deal with it, you know.
Deal with.
The negative thought and say well, that may have been true before, but it’s.
Not true now.
My mentor has a great tool. When you say something negative, you qualify it. You know, rewrite it and say up until now.
I haven’t lost weight.
OK, instead of man, I haven’t lost any weight. You say. Up until now, I haven’t lost any weight. Sounds better, doesn’t it? Sounds a little softer.
Yeah, it’s it’s easier on our subconscious. It’s easier on our soul because the brain listens to what you say. You’re subconscious. Here’s what you say and how you say it.
So if you’re not where you want to be.
Then you say. Up until now, I haven’t been where I need to be.
OK, it helps.
Gives a little bit more hope.0
That you can still progress. It’s more and more expansive way to think.
OK. So we’re going to declutter our space. We’re going to declutter our relationships, and we’re going to declutter our thoughts, right?
All right. And one more thing we have.
To do in the fall.
Is we have to take an accounting of the harvest.
It’s sort of like taking stock, but.
This is a.
Little bit deeper on that, you know a farmer’s going to go. OK, this is how much money we made.
This is how many vegetables we sold. This is how many cans of vegetables that we Jarred.
And this accounting helps us prepare for winter.
This accounting says.
I have these reserves.
For when a winter storm comes.
And spiritually speaking, a winter storm is any.
Conflict any?
Bad times in our life that happen.
We want to.
Make sure that we have resources in us to get over those times so.
You know, I I right like the farm analogy, of course.
We can go to the store, right? We don’t need to stock up for the winter.
Unless there’s.
Unless there’s COVID and then we have to go buy all the toilet paper. But you get it. It’s.
An analogy so.
This is sort of another step of taking stock, OK, we had this success.
And this is what we stored for winter.
It’s an accounting.
Count the cans of goods. Count the money, count the number of potatoes that you have right.
And this is important.
Because they’re going to be areas where you go.
We don’t have enough.
I I don’t have enough potatoes for the winter, I don’t have enough canned carrots for the winter, right?
And and as far as our own goals go, I didn’t lose enough weight.0
To get me through a rough time when I feel bad about myself.
I didn’t.
Create that relationship that I wanted to get me through those rough times. When I feel lonely now, I don’t have the relationship.
For me personally.
I had set goals to go to the beach. I had set goals to go camping, but I had also set goals to be of service this.
And those are three goals that I didn’t meet. I I met a lot of my goals, like graduating and like finishing the Dream Builder Coaching certification program. Those were big goals that I met. I I met the goal of going to see Stevie Nicks in concert. That was a huge goal. But there were three.
That I didn’t meet.
OK.
It’s important that we we account for those, because then this winter, when we are thinking what do I want to plan for next year, what are my New Year’s resolutions going to be, you’re going to look at that list for things that you didn’t achieve.
And you’re going to say.
I’m going to spend some time on those, OK?
Here’s what I want you to know, because we’re talking spiritual and we’re not talking about a physical farm.
That has to be harvested right now.
You know, we still have two months, two almost 2 1/2 months, I guess left in this year. So if you’re sitting here in the fall and you’re taking, you’re taking an accounting.
Then you can actually say to yourself.
I still have two months to finish this goal.
If you didn’t buy the house.
What step can you take towards that goal in the next two?
Are you prequalified? You know, do you have a real estate agent?
You know those things if you?
Haven’t found a relationship. There’s. There’s a lot of socializing that’s coming up right. There’s a lot of parties, a lot of celebrations in the fall and and in in the holiday season. You know, when can you put yourself out there? Can you socialize more? Right. There’s still time for you to reach your goal.
That’s the best part of about this being a spiritual exercise and not actually planting a garden, right?
So taking accounting.
When I took my accounting this week when I was thinking about this podcast and I said, oh wow, those are three areas.
I didn’t achieve this year. Well, I’m not. I’m not going to go to the beach in the next two months and I’m not going to go camping. It’s.
Already too cold for me? I’m.
Too old, but I can’t be of service.
I still have time to be of service and this is coming into a good season to do that, so you’re going to hear from me some things about how I’m going to be of service to my community, OK?
But that’s a lesson had I not?
Learn the lesson from the harvest to take stock.
To declutter and to account for my crop.
I wouldn’t have noticed. Oh, wow. You know, I really didn’t do that like I.
Had planned.
OK.
So that’s the message.
That I wanted to bring this week is just to pay attention to the season.
Now, like I said earlier, I did create a workbook and if you’d like to get that workbook, it’s free.
To help you with the lessons of fall, you can go to my website itsjeanniematthews.com Gen. i.e., MAT hews.com and right on the home page there’s a link that that you can get used to get.
The workbook.
So that’s going to be one of the things I do now like in the winter, I have a big plan for the winter, right for planning, planning our garden for next year, right, designing our life. I used to do an annual design, Your life workbook this year.
It’s it’s going to be on fire. You guys are going to love it. I can’t wait to tell you all about it, but.
For the fall.
Take stock of of how your crops grew.
Declutter, right?
And takes take an accounting, so you know where.
You didn’t grow so well right that way. Over the winter, you’ll know where to focus your time.
Yeah, really, really excited about what? What we’ve got coming up. I want to thank you guys for tuning in again really great to be back, really great to be sharing some spiritual wisdom with you guys. Please follow and where we’ll do more of this, OK.
All right, you guys.
Have a great, great week and I’ll talk to.
You again later.
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