Patti Talks Too Much
Hi. I'm Patti and it's been said - many times - that I talk too much. I'm a teacher, author, nature lover and for ten years I owned a coffeehouse cafe where my faith in the goodness of humans was restored every day. This podcast highlights the awesomeness of humanity - er...outside the warmongers, globalists, tyrants and politicians in general. You know, the rest of us weird, quirky and sometimes hilarious humans.
We'll talk woo, probe mysteries and leave you thinking about something more interesting or entertaining or uplifting than your grocery list, or boss or that oil change your car needs.
I talk too much because I can't help my Gemini moon and Leo Rising nature. I do a podcast because it's cheaper, funnier and more productive than therapy.
Patti Talks Too Much
The Power of Prayer, Nature's wisdom, and Using Zebra Medicine to Face Chaos
Ever wonder how the words we use to greet the day can shape our entire morning? Taylor challenges us to rethink the common phrase "good morning" and its impact, while Anoki warms our hearts with memories of his mother’s cheerful greetings. As we explore expressions like "grand rising" and Taylor gears up for a thrilling nature adventure, we unpack some memories of childhood fears. From roller coasters to Mack trucks, you'll find comfort in knowing you're not alone if you've ever wondered where an early and unexplained fear may have come from.
Experience the incredible power of prayer and manifestation as we recount Charlene’s intuitive prayer for Patti. Discover how a series of synchronicities led Patti to a dream job just when she needed it most, despite communication mishaps. We delve into the magical way things sometimes align, reaffirming our belief in divine timing and the importance of staying open to opportunities that come our way.
Lastly, we journey through the spiritual and natural world, tackling concepts like the "dark night of the soul" and the wisdom of trees. Explore the significance of figures like Mary Magdalene, the power of names like ISIS, and the profound impact on the natural cycles of our lives when our former thirteen month calendar was altered. Embrace "zebra medicine" this June, celebrating your uniqueness and creativity amidst the chaos. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that intertwines personal stories, spiritual insights, and a deep love for nature.
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Speaker 2:Good morning if you're watching this on Morning blessings.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, morning.
Speaker 2:I hate the word morning.
Speaker 1:Rumble X, facebook or YouTube.
Speaker 1:Thanks for joining us I'm patty with patty talks too much, and I'm here with my dear friends, uh, enoki and taylor and of course you can tell we've already gotten into it um, because taylor and I have all kinds of ideas about what enoki could do and, okay, he is like, yeah, I don't think so. So, but we're gonna just. We're just so, if you're joining us live. Thank you so much for joining us and we're just gonna throw you in to the mix. We were already talking about Taylor we're on the road today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, okay okay. Taylor, you don't like the word morning.
Speaker 3:You don't like the word morning so okay.
Speaker 2:So patty back me up on this. Why do we say good morning? What are we mourning the moment that we open our eyes?
Speaker 3:like. What are we?
Speaker 2:morning. Yeah, why are we mourning the second that we wake up now?
Speaker 3:is it so different? Doesn't want another, yes, yes, but it's just it's it, but it's the wording right, I don't know. It's one of my favorite, because every morning, when I was a kid, my mom would come into my room and she would be like enoki, good morning. I love it, my mom too, and she would wake me up and it would be like that. It was like the most. So I hear the word morning and even it's like morning, you know I'm like good morning in my head, you know, but I thought like it was spelled different.
Speaker 3:You know, I don't know words that are spelled different.
Speaker 1:I I feel like you know, the thing that that taylor says is like okay, so it's spelled different, right, but it sounds exactly the same. So it registers with our internal being and external being and with the universe and so forth as the same word, and so basically, what it does is um, what? What um taylor posits is that, and many people do is that it sends a mixed message to the beginning of our day one of them is is the death of something and the other one is the birth of something exactly it's inverted.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's inverted. Yeah, yeah, that's why some people say grand rising.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people right, because the new day is rising, but morning sounds depressing you getting your caffeine girl? Well, I had to. We were missing a med. So on the way out leaving town, I've got to stop at the pharmacy. I've got to get phoenix's medicines, and so I'm just doing all of the things.
Speaker 1:So we're. We're running around getting caffeine. We're running around with you this morning, we are.
Speaker 2:There's this theme park that is nature-based. It has these coasters that are sit-in coasters that are just you're just on a railway, and an individual coaster.
Speaker 1:Ooh I like that.
Speaker 2:It has these tree lines where you're 60, I guess, yeah, yeah, it's called, or Anakeesha I so excited are you?
Speaker 1:are you going?
Speaker 2:to be ziplining today. If I get the opportunity to go ziplining, you had better believe I'm going to be ziplining for the record. That's awesome.
Speaker 3:I will be dragging the kids with me I do the mountain coaster, so you have the little breaks, you can slow yourself down or even like stop in most of the mountain coasters. I would do that and I would do zip lines. I don't do roller coasters at all. I think it's one of my three main fears of my entire life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't do roller coasters either, anoki. No, thank you. I mean, why pay for a near-death experience?
Speaker 3:I never really understood that the first time I was on a roller coaster I was like eight years old. It was ridiculous. Bay mountain was one of the first roller coasters that I ever saw in person. I went to go up to the line like my whole family. Like there was like eight that were getting in the line and like eight that were staying off, you know, and I was going to go with the ones to get in the line. But I got up there and I and I'm like turned around and like I didn't even know anything about the ride. Then you know, like like I was like no, and so then I stayed with the people that weren't riding the roller coaster it's like my grandma and like you know, two other people that just didn't want to wait in the line. Maybe in a past life I was on a train that like lost its brakes or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, it's possible.
Speaker 3:It was a fear before I knew what fear was.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, I had those, um, those fears at a very, very young age and fears that like startled my mother. Her understanding is that I had a fear of large trucks, you know, like those big mac. You know those big mac trucks. And the reason why she said that is because I was very, very young I was probably two years old and I was holding her hand and we were walking in, we were going to go into a grocery store and one of those big trucks kind of pulled into the parking lot and was going into the back to make a delivery and I started screaming and I laid on the pavement and started screaming and she didn't. First of all, she didn't understand what I was afraid of and she connected it to the truck.
Speaker 1:But I, honestly, after I thought about it years later, I think it was the vibration of the truck, that there was something about the vibration of the earth. And I also, when I was very, very young, I was deathly afraid of thunder that vibrated the house and I was afraid of fireworks. That also I couldn't. I never, you know, and it took me a long time to actually be comfortable with fireworks. I, you know, and it took me a long time to actually be comfortable with fireworks. So there was something about explosions and vibrations and the vibration of the earth that brought up something, and I was just a small child. So what was that about? And I've always thought, well, that must have been some trauma that I brought over from, you know, from another lifetime experience you know that I just I don't know, know what it was, but it had something to do with loud noises and the earth moving.
Speaker 1:It could have been like an earthquake, it could have been a volcano, you know what I mean it could have been. It could have been a war situation, you know, it could have been any of those things. But, um, you know listen. So I wanted to share a story this morning that has to do with I. I hear your rooster out there. How cool is that.
Speaker 3:He's not close. Hopefully Tanya will be able to join us when she is.
Speaker 1:I got the impression that the signal wasn't very strong, like she got pixelated.
Speaker 3:It says she's still a participant.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, because it's like a little it might. The signal might not be so good, but anyway, I wanted to share a story that has to do with the events of this week and, as you guys know, there were things last week even the last time we talked back in back on on Saturday that I was kind of nervous about because the school year was ending and I didn't have a job yet, about because the school year was ending and I didn't have a job yet. So I wanted to just kind of share a story with you that has to do with the power of prayer and synchronicities, and you guys might be able to add some other perspective to it. So when so it goes?
Speaker 1:The story begins a long time ago actually, but when I moved to Georgia I had family here and, of course, enoki, I have you here, and Taylor's just a few hours away. So it was lovely to kind of be so much closer to the people that I know and love. So I moved to North Georgia and when I arrived there was a card on the counter of my cousin I was staying with my cousin and the card was from my Aunt Charlene Now Aunt Charlene I had not seen since I was a child and it was like this lovely card welcoming me to Georgia and talking about how wonderful it was for me to be in Georgia and how much she was looking forward to seeing me and spending time with me. And I thought and I was just a little, because I can be kind of prickly right I'm like I haven't seen this woman since I was a child. This, this seems a little gushy, like she seemed like you know, like well she's, she's gushing over me, but I haven't seen her in decades and decades. What's this about?
Speaker 1:yeah so then I got to spend time with her. Um, she came to the house, she visited, because she lives in macon, so she lives a few hours away, so, but she came and she visited and she told me a story and, um, she said, when we had visited your home when you were just small and she and my uncle had been sitting at having dinner with my family, and something disturbing happened, where my father, who was generally he was a pretty troubled man and he was, his behavior was erratic and you never really knew what was going to happen, uh, with my father. We lived on pins and needles with him, um, because he could be violent at times. Anyway, he was in some kind of state and he sent me to my room without dinner. We were all at the dinner table, we had just sat down and for some reason he sent me to my room without dinner.
Speaker 1:And she describes it as I just sat there and I was like, but what did I say? What did I do? And he was just go to your room, go to your room, right, and she was going to speak up at that time, but she didn't. She was going to speak up at that time, but she didn't. Um, and she says since that time she's felt like she failed me. Oh, that she failed me. It is emotional. I was crying and she was telling me, and validation?
Speaker 2:you didn't know you needed taylor I didn't even remember this story.
Speaker 1:So she's standing there telling me this story and I I'm kind of crying a little bit because I have no idea that this even happened and I had no idea that for all these decades. She felt like she had failed, so she thought of me coming to Georgia as an opportunity to make it up. All right, fast forward, fast forward to just a week or so ago, when I get a call from her and she said I've been thinking about you, you keep coming into my mind, and whenever that happens and of course she's very devout, so she says, whenever the Lord brings someone into my mind, I feel like I need to reach out. There's a reason.
Speaker 2:There's a reason why so I want to touch on something when you're done with this.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely, I hope you do so. I called her after a few days, because at first I didn't even know that she had called me and I listened to the message, and so I called her and she said listen, you've been on my mind you keep coming into my mind and I feel like there's something that I want that I need to pray for. There's something that I need to pray for Now. Backstory my cousins, you know, have said I don't know what it is about Charlene, but she seems to have a direct line.
Speaker 2:She's got the touch and I was like really All right line.
Speaker 1:She's got the touch and I was like, really all right. So she said so, and she had also told me that in my old age, patty, I've asked what's my purpose, what do I need to do? And all I get from from you know, from the creator, is just pray for people. That's your purpose, is just pray. And so she takes that seriously, right?
Speaker 1:So anyway, she's calling me, saying I, I feel like there's something I need to pray for for you, for and I and I didn't mention the arthritis, but I mentioned the job. I said, well, you know, it's the end of the school year and I haven't really heard from anyone, and I've applied to all these jobs, but I haven't heard anything. And so I'm getting a little nervous because I really want to know where I'm going to be in August. And she said good, I'm glad you've told me, because now I know exactly what to pray for. And so I thanked her and it was lovely, and we hung up and you got the job that was on Saturday, so this was you got hired on the spot.
Speaker 1:This was on Saturday, so it was after our podcast. Right, it was after our podcast, and so that was later in the day. I called her and we had this conversation on Tuesday and Monday was a holiday, so there was no work on Monday, so Tuesday I go in. I'm sitting in a meeting and one of my colleagues came up to me and said listen, gainesville High is looking for two English teachers. So I'm going to tell them that you're looking. And I said, well, yeah, I applied to Gainesville High. So when she let them know my name, the woman said we've been trying to reach her, we can't. We haven't been able to reach her. We've been trying to reach her, we can't, we haven't been able to reach her. We've been trying to reach her for two months it turns out.
Speaker 1:Remember, I changed my number, I changed my oh my god, the service and I had updated I had updated all my numbers, but apparently when a school gets an application they must print it out and they're still working on the old number. They never go back to the computer to see if it's updated. So all this time these people were okay.
Speaker 1:So anyway there's a flurry of calls because I'm like so there's a flurry of calls. They end up calling me on the right number. Two people end up calling me from the school and they're like well, we really want to talk to you. And I said, well, okay, you know, I mean today's the last day of school, so I'm flexible. I'm flexible after today. They called me back in the afternoon. They said how about Friday at 10? I said I'm there, it's perfect, of course.
Speaker 2:And so I went.
Speaker 1:Now, in the meantime, my principal.
Speaker 2:She fixed her conundrum in her prayers.
Speaker 1:My principal is calling me into the office. Wait, no, it gets better. My principal is calling me into the office and he said, you know, says I know, we've only had a halftime job to offer you and I know that that's not enough. I know you want full time, but we're working on it and we think we might have a full time job for you. So please don't make any commitments to someone else until until we can figure this out. And so I said, oh, okay, and I agreed because out of respect for him and respect for the team and respect for the people that I've worked with, because they've all been so lovely, and so I go into this interview on Friday and it's lovely. I'm there with three people and they've got a whole list of questions and everything.
Speaker 1:And at first I was a little nervous but it was okay. We had a lovely conversation right. And they said, okay, this is going to be a quick turnaround. We've got a couple of other people we need to interview, but we'll definitely, we'll call you, we'll contact you on Monday. And I said, well, no worries, because my principal had asked me not to make a commitment. And I told him why and I said, and I kind of agreed out of respect for him, you, because they've been loved, so lovely to work, work with and um, and then they were like, wow, that really says a lot about you, you know. I said, you know, I just felt like, and it's true, you know, these were very good people to work for. They just didn't have the position and so, at any rate, I left to.
Speaker 1:I go to the gym. Two hours later I'm home. I get a call and they said well, we've decided that we want to offer you the job. And I said well, I'm going to be honest with you. I know that my principal is really scrambling to find something for me, but what I heard in my interview this morning sounds like it might be a better fit for me than what they might offer me at my current school. So I would love to be part of your team because the interview was awesome and I think your school is awesome and I would love to be part when you first came to Georgia.
Speaker 1:I know, I know you were like Gainesville High, gainesville high she was. Yeah, I've been, I've been thinking about you the whole time and don't give me wow first one to mention gainesville, high to me, way back this sounds like abundance.
Speaker 3:Alchemy meets fate yeah, man yeah wow so I can't believe that they had the wrong number and she didn't call like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they kept calling that makes so much sense because Patty's like I'm not getting any responses. And then Abundance happens and everything Happens at once.
Speaker 1:That's hysterical and so I still have to call my Aunt charlene. I was going to call her today and I was going to tell her the story and thank her for her, for her prayers, because this is, like you know, okay. So I don't know how much of this has to do with my aunt charlene's gift of prayer, and I shared this story with my and she was so, she was so moved and, of course, my mom's been praying too, and I do believe in the power of prayer. I'm not really good at prayer. I do prayer, but I'm not somebody who's as good. Watch your words.
Speaker 2:Because, all right, you pray without words. That's true, we pray in different ways, and so not everybody prays like a sermon. Yeah Right, not everybody has the power of prayer through tongue, but my heart speaks to the Most High, yeah.
Speaker 1:I would agree with you too. I think that's what I do, and sometimes you know.
Speaker 2:Your walks, those feet. We've talked about this. Walking meditations for people who can't sit still and can't seem to meditate. Walking meditations through the earth. Pat's pointing at himself that's me. I can't meditate. But when you can walk in nature, walk a trail, just walk straight ahead. You're watching, walk straight ahead, you're watching your feet, you're watching the trees. That is a clearing right. You're earthing, you're grounding, you're connected and you're meditating.
Speaker 1:That's a meditation, that's a prayer it is. It's when you're full of gratitude. It's called dirt church. Damn it, yeah. Dirt church I mean also, you know, when you're able to kind of do that and have your heart full of gratitude for all the blessings in your life that's abundance, alchemy, yeah, yeah, it's alchemical.
Speaker 2:It's alchemical the way that gratitude can change everything happening. I stopped so last night at work, right, simone, she, my, my, my sweet mama, simone, god, I love this woman Y'all. I told her we're going to bring on the podcast. It's going to be the most exciting podcast we ever had.
Speaker 2:I hope we do, yeah. So anyways, last night Simone loses a hundred dollars, $70, check and cash Cash is I lost the money, I'm never going to find it. I grabbed her by both shoulders. I said, simone, stop it right now, because what I reached up, because what we're not going to do is we're not going to speak that into existence, we're going to go find your money. Somebody go get me gloves. And I dug through that trash can and, right as she was like I, I give up I found that money. I found that money wadded up in that trash can and we just both were elated. But I said, you see, that's a perfect lesson and what we speak comes to fruition. But what it wanted I wanted to touch on, as you talked about the power of prayer was I have watched this podcast about the Katy Perry effect and I don't know if you all are familiar with this, but essentially what happens is people get in really spiritual and really into spirituality, right, and then they're and something gets so, they get so intensely shaken that they immediately go to Christianity and the need to be saved by Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:They're like these reborn Christians and I'm seeing it a lot in these new age spiritualists, spiritualists, and there's woman was saying that like those are dark nights of the soul, like when you're deep, when you're really deep in your path, it's like it gets so scary that you don't want to give yourself that power and so we want to give it away.
Speaker 2:Like that's too much power in me. I'm scared of this power, or or this dark night of the soul. Whatever brought this on, it was too much, it was too intense, and so they turn around and give it to jesus christ or or what have you. But what it's, what what it really is, is this dark night of the soul, and this is this fear of, of self-power. So when I hear and I'm no offense to your aunt of your, your cousin or what have you, um, but it sounds like she's a very powerful woman, she's a little powerhouse I feel like it's her wishing, with like, with like, all of her heart, something good, yeah, yeah she's powerful, everything here and she can give all the glory to god.
Speaker 1:But like she's powerful, yeah, yeah, I, and I think she's you know, she's so heart-centered, she's always been so heart centered. I mean for her to have remembered that and to have felt like she had failed me as a child I was eight years old, that and so that was something that she so welcomed that I would be close to her, um, at this point in my life so that she could somehow make up for that. So, yeah, I think that that speaks volumes about her and I would agree with you, I think that praying in including the power of um, of jesus, I'm also a big fan of, you know, the mary's, you know mary and mary magdalene, like I think those were also powerful, powerful women, and absolutely I will.
Speaker 2:I will speak to them as well, and even you know the old I mean Patty. You and I have talked about this. There's a reason why you know the government, the powers that be name. You know terrorist cells, things like ISIS.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right right, these names are evoked in a way that has this negative connotation, but these are powerful, powerful names being spoken.
Speaker 1:It's interesting because like what kind of power? I don't know, because I still I'm still in my own little personal journey about who these old gods were.
Speaker 2:Doesn't God say in the Bible that you will worship no other gods? Is that not a line in the correct or wrong audience?
Speaker 1:That's something that was.
Speaker 2:There's an admittance to their being more than one Right, right or different levels of god team was a whole.
Speaker 1:They were a whole group. Some of them, you know, landed in different parts of of the world and did what they did in different parts of the world, but they were very, very powerful advanced beings, and um and yahweh was was one of them, and so he claimed. You know, so he was. You know, he was considered a jealous god, and now I think that the creator of the universe is not a jealous creator. There's nothing to be jealous of. So how?
Speaker 2:can you be a jealous god in a world and a universe that is infinite? You created, you created. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, doesn't resonate with me, right? And you know I've had that problem since I was very young I think that every room, every single religion is a way to god. I I mean, there are ways to God through, you know, not believing in God.
Speaker 1:We're all free to worship as we choose. That's, you know, that should be a right. That's and it should be. It's apparently a right in our country. It's not necessarily a right in all countries, but, um, we should be free to um worship as as we choose, and so, but yeah, I'm, look, you know I'm a and I've said this for forever I'm a. I'm a big fan of jesus. I think he was one of the most powerful healers and teachers that walked the earth, and kind of a multi-dimensional being who could tap into some very, very strong powers. Now, interestingly enough, when God definitely speaks right, but the creator.
Speaker 1:he was not a fan, a fan of Yahweh, and it was the Pharisees who wanted to put him to death because he was like, yeah, I'm not. You know, he wasn't. When he said my father in heaven, he wasn't talking about Yahweh, and I think that that's one of the most controversial things that we're going to have to face in the coming years and decades is that wait a minute, we need to extricate the New Testament from the Old Testament. They should never have been put together. You know, jesus was not about Yahweh, he was about the creation of the universe.
Speaker 2:How do you edit a Bible Like? That's wild to me.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's been so edited and changed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and as I always talk about the amnesia of humanity, well, of course, our books are being burned every so many, you know hundred years.
Speaker 1:It's kind of almost like a reset every history is being erased and you know what I this reminds me of something else that I wanted to touch on because it keeps coming up. I don't know if you guys have been seeing this as well, but the whole idea of a 13 month year I don't know if you guys have been seeing these, but like they keep coming up because they keep finding books from the 1700s and Bibles from the 1700s that establish a 13 month year 28 days to go along with the moon cycles.
Speaker 2:They did that to fuck us up, I swear. Women are already on a 13 month calendar.
Speaker 1:We are and think about how much it's thrown that off. So it was, and one day to rest and that was Easter. So one day out of the year it would be a day that wasn't part of the actual calendar. It was the one day to rest and that was Easter. So April is the first month of the year. March would be the last month of the year and if you think about it like September, Sep.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 1:Like, if you look at it, sep that's seven, oct that's eight, no, that's nine, dece that's 10. So January is supposed to be the 11th month. So, January is supposed to be the 11th month, february is the 12th month, march is the 13th month, and then April, and it makes sense. It's spring, it's new beginnings, it's when life is reborn.
Speaker 2:All of that is so aligned. What is the name of the calendar that we run on, Patty?
Speaker 1:Is it called?
Speaker 2:the.
Speaker 1:Gregorian, it's called the gregorian calendar, yeah gregorian calendar, so I I actually think that, as we move forward and there's more disclosure and more awakening um, because I do I I know that we had a really hard conversation last week about you know how hopeless things on earth seem, but I, I remain hopeful that we will kind of be able to walk through some dark times and then think about how small of a light it takes, yeah, to brighten a dark room.
Speaker 2:so the other night, anoki, I thought of you because what was the theme this week? The the theme this week was like, what was was a candle. We lost you and you had to go, but it was the flame. That was the card we pulled and I wish you could have heard it because it was speaking to you and you have always been such a bright, bright light in our circle.
Speaker 2:I mean, just being in your presence is such an energetic it's almost like a high to be with Enoki, like to get on Enoki's level. Think about seeing a firefly for the first time in spring, after it's been cold, and it's like that little tiny light gives such joy. But that's what we are when we're out here, loving and living in love and living through our heart space and loving Mother Earth, we're those little fireflies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I think that it doesn't mean that we don't have our dark times or our times when we feel despair Absolutely not I mean, look at the world, and so you can be that little firefly.
Speaker 2:But even fireflies have their moments, hey enoki yeah, maybe one day we could do when we do the quality time, we could run your property. If there's like plants that you have on the land that are medicinal, we could discuss them. Let me see which you got growing. You have sassafras there. Does sassafras grow down there?
Speaker 3:They're not that far south.
Speaker 2:It's a tree. It's a tree and it's a really interesting tree, yonoki, because there are four different kinds of leaves. One's like a mitten like this, a mitten like this and then one of them is like a whole and then one of them is like a whole hand, one of them is like the spot. Sorry, I can't get my hands in the right direction.
Speaker 3:I've got tulip poplar which is like in the rainbow. You go with this family.
Speaker 2:Man that tree gives me fairy. Tulip poplars are one of my favorite trees.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know that a tulip tree was a real tree until I moved here, but I was born.
Speaker 2:Aren't they gorgeous?
Speaker 3:Tulip tree lanes. They're beautiful. Yeah, I've got tons of them here, and then I've got a couple pines up on the hill, but when I picked it out, I was looking for something that didn't have a a couple pines up on the hill, but when I picked it out, I was looking for something that didn't have a lot of pines, are you?
Speaker 2:familiar with tree spirits, like what the birch signifies and, like you know, like the willow signifies specific things I heard some of them.
Speaker 3:I know that all trees have a meaning or whatever um yeah, but but no. I don't know them all. I don't know which ones mean what.
Speaker 2:Have you done any research on that? Because you know magnolias are the oldest tree. Like that was the first ever flower that existed on planet Earth. Like with dinosaurs, yeah, it was the first flower. And Chinese culture the magnet. The Magnolia symbol symbolizes purity and nobility. Here it symbolizes luck and stability and folk medicine. They are used to treat anxiety, depression, fever and headaches. It is a female energy and is often given to honor a strong woman.
Speaker 1:It's also I think in Japan the magnolia flower is part of the ceremony because it represents eternal connection, eternal love. Inoki was talking about being called by the tree in her yard, that ancient magnolia tree, and it reminded me of how much I felt called by the mango tree that was by my cafe, you know and how that was part of my decision you know, I was speaking to uh, one of my dishwashers the other day.
Speaker 2:He said you know, you know I had to go drive to my tree and Say a prayer and I thought how strange. But my cousin has been seeing the same little like ficus tree, like it's not, it's just this little guy, you know, in this church parking lot and it's the same as all the other trees. But she just chose this one tree, right, and for years she's been. She'll just go drive to the tree. I'm gonna go drive to my tree. I gotta go.
Speaker 2:You know, that's our prayer maybe the tree, maybe the tree chose her right, but she hadn't been for a long time and you know she's left so many offerings there. She went, you know, since it was spring, and it was just absolutely huge compared to the other ones that had grown immensely in comparison to the trees around it, and I was just like look at that I think that in the coming years we're going to find out so much about the sentience of plants.
Speaker 3:You can walk up to a tree and stand under it and say hello, tree, I love you.
Speaker 2:Touch me if you hear me.
Speaker 3:And the tree will actually start to come over towards you. I've seen that. I've done it Because when I saw it I was like what. I went out and loved on some trees. I had to do some clearing for the shed cabin that we're getting and I just apologized for every tree, and I've been like hugging all the trees around it. You know.
Speaker 1:You just reminded me of this woman that I've been co-teaching with. She and her husband had built a house and they had gotten this property and they had to clear trees. And she felt so bad about clearing the trees on this property that she said we're going to use every one of these trees in our house.
Speaker 1:It's going to be part of our house. So all of her floors, all of the baseboards, the door, everything was made that's made from wood in that house is made from those trees that had to come down on the property and she said it was just so beautiful, but it was a way for her to honor the their sacrifice. Yeah, so I thought wow, that was really beautiful I mean even using them for firewood.
Speaker 2:Enoki, you're still that's. You know, that's what we're doing?
Speaker 3:we're gonna use them for the firewood, you know, but um, but what's it called? Um? When I started taking them out, I noticed that they're tulip poplars, and tulip poplars have big, stretchy, long branches, and all of these trees were growing so close together that they weren't able to develop any branches. They were all just straight up in a pole, you know, with no lower limbs, no thicker limbs, and they were suffocating each other, you know, and they needed that tending to to clear them up to make room for, for for their branches and their space.
Speaker 3:You know, and so I felt, like you know, as sad as it is to clear the ones from a certain spot by thinning them all a little bit, because it's so, so thick. By thinning them all a little bit, they're actually giving room for yes, for the sunlight them to grow yeah, and, and, and, and. In doing that I found like three beautiful little baby oats and like four gorgeous little maples that were also growing just yeah, they were growing.
Speaker 2:You know um and all your little medicinals that are going to pop up, now that the sun is touching the earth, in those places around the where you, where you put the house your, your story reminds me of, you know, my walks in the woods, right?
Speaker 1:so I walk through on this nature path and sometimes I've been a little distressed because I've noticed that these trees have fallen down and they seem like perfectly good trees but they fell and for whatever reason the wind or the rains or whatever but they fell. And what happens is and it was so obvious, as spring came and everything started, all the trees started filling out. I noticed that there were these big openings now where the sun was coming in, and now these trees that, uh, were probably overshadowed by this tree that was just enormous and taking up so much sunlight now has freed up all of this, this space and the sunlight for these other trees to grow. And I thought, well, you know, maybe you know, trees sometimes sacrifice themselves for the whole community you know elders making room for the yearlings.
Speaker 1:You know the elders making room for the, for the yearlings, and I wouldn't be surprised by that.
Speaker 1:I think that makes um perfect sense. But um, just to add to that, um, just, you just reminded me that when I go into the woods there's a log that I like to sit on and I just kind of sit and, you know, meditate and take in the forest, for, you know, for a while before I return home, and right next to me on the log is a little baby oak, and so it's really only two or three feet tall. And you know, and I talk to it when I'm sitting there and I compliment it on its new growth, I'm like, oh, you have some new leaves this week, how beautiful. And so we have this little friendship, me and this little Oak next to this place that I sit in the forest and I'm always complimenting. You know how much it's grown since the last time I've seen it, and it's I see it every week, but you know it's springtime and they're, and there's been rain and there's been sunshine, so you know the little trees are growing pretty quickly.
Speaker 2:You should continue your relationship with that baby oak. Yeah, I will Build that bond, build that friendship up. Yeah, I think so. This has brought me to think about, uh, a book that pat and I both absolutely adored. Um highly recommend the read of the book called the hidden life of trees. It was about an ex-forester, essentially um and germany potty I'm pretty sure that's where, that's the area either way.
Speaker 2:He was in one of the oldest forests in europe and at one point he went to go cut down the tree and he realized that this tree oh, it makes me emotional yeah, this tree was being held up by this community, inoki, and all of a sudden it was like his eyes opened and he could see this, this interaction between every tree in the forest and the mother tree, and how they were all interconnected and feeding each other. And then he understood the mycelium under the ground and the worldwide web of of you know the mushrooms, and the, the worldwide web of of you know the mushrooms. And anyways, the book discusses a lot about how trees communicate and how they communicate with each other, and it's absolutely fascinating read. Um, that's a beautiful book changed this man's life. So he turned. He went from a forester to, uh, arborist. Essentially, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a beautiful book. It's called the Hidden Life of Trees. I forget the gentleman's name. It's a beautiful book, so we highly recommend it. We're going to pull a card today. Yeah, in next week, enoki, if you want, if you have any weather, to any weather report for us. We can start that next week, just so people know. At the very beginning we were joking about how Enoki is very attuned to what's happening with the weather all around the world. And it's not just so much. Oh, it's raining here, it's flooding there. So much, oh, it's raining here, it's flooding there.
Speaker 1:But um, just relating to weather, like it's a form of consciousness um, in in our world, and and so just a different perspective on weather altogether and how much it's changing and how dramatically, um, in many ways that it's changing. And so, um, we thought how cool would it be for a nokia to do a little weather report from her perspective as part of our podcast we understand collective consciousness is definitely a thing, right, because look at the power of prayer, right.
Speaker 2:But it brings me to that belief system about the snowflakes that we talked about a few weeks ago, yeah, where we don't believe that our weather is a reflection of the consciousness on our planet as a whole. Well, whatever, enoki wants to do.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it would be interesting so I look forward to that. No pressure um. Can you tell us what deck you're pulling from today?
Speaker 2:okay, we're gonna pull from the animal spirit guidebook today. Okay, I'm, I'm going deep, deep, deep into the mountains. I don't know if I told you all this, but I saw a bear for the first time I think I did. But where we're going in the mountains, I have a feeling that we're going to see a lot of wildlife. So I figured we'd pull from the animal spirit deck today.
Speaker 1:Good, good, good. What is it? Hold it.
Speaker 2:I know what is it. Hold it. I know I'm trying to figure out the camera, wow, I don't think I've ever pulled that card from this deck.
Speaker 1:Wow, so let's. Let's hear it. I don't know anything about zebra medicine I don't either.
Speaker 2:Um, that's cool, it's I would. Uniqueness, connectedness, yeah, and also uniqueness, because they're like fingerprints, right, no two zebras' stripes are the same.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So zebra, okay, zebra, let's hear it. Zebra is eccentric, creative and visionary. Zebras are the most precious of gems. They are young at heart, well cultured and have an undying curiosity about life. I think zebras are sagittarians. Being in the company of a zebra personality not only is a delight, but also they open our minds. Not only is a delight, but also they open our minds. Be prepared, their potent magic is contagious and you may soon find yourself in a faraway land, expanding your worldview.
Speaker 1:I think we might have just lost taylor. Hey, taylor, if you can hear me, we just lost your audio and you're frozen on the screen. Oh yeah, looks like we lost it. But basically what Taylor was talking about was zebra. Medicine is all about being absolutely unique, even eccentric and creative, and there's something that is absolutely delightful about being such curious creatures and I think that that's inspirational. Because I think that, and perhaps inspirational as we move forward into June, because I think June is going to be a month full of all kinds of disclosure, all kinds of oh my goodness, really, that's true.
Speaker 1:And you know, maybe all kinds of information that it's a little challenging to wrap our minds around. But if we can go deeper and, you know, be more open to our own inner curiosity about our world and about our reality, then we can handle all of the newness that might be coming toward us. Especially in the month of June I think it's the Gemini month there's all kinds of things happening with our government and with institutions and with organizations and all kinds of exposure and disclosure and you know it might be kind of chaotic this month but there might be a lot of gobsmacking things that come our direction. So maybe zebra medicine can help us ease through that and keep our minds open to all kinds of new ideas and new perspectives and things maybe we just hadn't thought of before about how our reality is put together. So I encourage people, encourage people to consider zebra medicine as we move forward into the month of June and embrace your creativity and your uniqueness and even your eccentricity. To embrace that it's okay Be a little weird or allow yourself to consider very weird things. So go deep in your curiosity and your uniqueness, be open to that. I think that our world is needing us to be that as we move forward, to be that as we move forward.
Speaker 1:So, on behalf of Anoki and Taylor and myself, thank you so much for joining us in our wild ride of a live stream this morning. We do this every Saturday morning. We get together three friends who met years ago in a quirky little cafe in South Florida and we stay connected through these kinds of conversations every week, sharing our perspective on what's going on in our lives, what's going on in the world and how to navigate it all with open hearts and open spirits. And that's pretty much what we do every week. So if you found any value in our conversation this week, we are grateful for that, but join us again next week when we do this all again, and we hope that you all have a beautiful week, take care.