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
Capricorn Guidance, the Ripple Effect of Kindness, and the Wisdom of Fox
Can the full moon in Capricorn transform your love life and emotional stability? Join us as we uncover the cosmic influences at play. Taylor sets the stage by highlighting the profound astrological significance of the summer solstice coinciding with this powerful full moon, urging us to shed superficial layers and seek deeper, more authentic connections. Patti shares her whirlwind experiences with love, adding a personal touch that contrasts perfectly with the hilarious Capricorn meme we dissect. Anoki brings us a moment of levity by unveiling her new home and her plans to create her dream living space.
Safety and stability take center stage as we explore their foundational role in romantic relationships, particularly for women. We emphasize the importance of emotional and physical security, which often surpasses financial concerns. As we navigate the turbulent astrological waters, envision a summer that strips away the inessential, similar to a collective Dark Night of the Soul. The discovery of a four-leaf clover brings a touch of good luck and lightness to our discussion, while Anoki's home tour adds a cozy, personal element to the conversation.
In a heartwarming twist, we delve into the transformative power of giving and positive thinking. You'll hear a touching story about how one act of kindness can lead to unexpected rewards, illustrating the cyclical nature of goodwill. Reflecting on the evolving concept of value with age, we discuss non-physical ways to contribute meaningfully to others' lives. Inspired by Jamie Sams' "Medicine Cards," we wrap up by channeling the wisdom of the Fox, exploring how its traits of adaptability and keen observation can guide us through life's complexities and help us protect our loved ones. Tune in for a rich tapestry of stories, insights, and cosmic guidance that will leave you inspired and enlightened.
we are live and thank you for joining us. If you're joining us live. I'm patty, with patty talks too much, and I'm here with my dear friends anoki and uh, taylor and um. We were just, uh, taylor, we were just uh. Anoki and I were just talking about um, just, and I was just talking about about the week and how we all feel a little discombobulated this week. And is it the moon?
Speaker 3:Everybody's a little bit cranky, I noticed for this full moon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess Capricorn, a Capricorn moon would be a bit more stern, a bit more. It's not as lighthearted.
Speaker 4:Because I watched that one Capricorn meme and I sent it to you this week.
Speaker 2:I laughed so hard I played it over and, over and over.
Speaker 4:I watched the whole thing too, and it was like really long, I don't know if you made it to the end of it, patty, but it was. It was awesome. But because, of that one. Now, I think facebook thinks I'm like capricorn, because they're just because they're just sending you all these and I was laughing at first, but I was like this is. I don't want patty to think I'm picking on her it was.
Speaker 2:It was just a funny um taylor. It was just like this funny tiktok meme it said it's like capricorns in love.
Speaker 4:And it was this little boy and he had his swimmy floats on and they were at a little lake dock and he, uh, he's there with his mom and his brother right, and it says capricorns falling in love. And the little boy would run up to the edge and then stop and like freeze and he's like I can't, no, no, again they turn around and he go back. And then his brother came over and he's like it's alright, just close your eyes and just think of nothing, and jump in. And he closed his eyes and you think of nothing and he'd be like all right, here I go, here I go, and he'd go to jump, and then nothing and he couldn't. And then finally he gets, finally like I mean, it's like a minute and 30 seconds long, which is pretty long for like a little meme video.
Speaker 4:You know, all right, but but it was worth every second. Finally he gets over there and he goes to go and there's like three more. You know I can't I can't you know.
Speaker 4:And then, and then all of a sudden he goes to go and the look of sheer terror when those kids hit the water. All right, he hit the water and then he almost like, raised himself up out, like, like, like when you're, when you're used to water and you can jump in and out of the pool really quick, you know, or like you could fall in and maybe not get completely wet, you know, like, like. There's a point in your life in florida where you get to that. But this kid did that. He did the like and like, raised himself up out of the water with this like, sheer look of like what am I done?
Speaker 4:Get me out of this shit. I died.
Speaker 2:That's Capricorn falling in love, definitely. So I have to tell you, though that's not. That hasn't been my experience, so I don't mean to cut you off, taylor, but that hasn't been, not, that hasn't been my experience, so I don't mean to cut you off, killer, but that hasn't been, that hasn't been my experience falling in love. I I have a tendency to. Um I I have in the past anyway, um, I've fallen in love hard and fast yeah, and and and um what?
Speaker 4:that's what she said what did she say what did you say that's gay, we're gay, that's so gay, that's just so gay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just you know.
Speaker 4:And and usually with like you know, like my, my choices were questionable life is so uncomfortable, you know, and then when you find somebody and you can find that comfort, you don't want to leave that comfort so immediately you're just like yeah, you know to it and that's why that happens, you know I was very much into.
Speaker 2:You know, love is magical and and all and and all of that, like I believe that. But I was kind of a magical thinker anyway, like it was just kind of my head in the clouds a lot. I don't know that is not capricorn at all.
Speaker 4:I don't think yeah, yeah, yeah, you know always writing like writing the story in my head right and and sometimes reading is the most amazing thing, and then sometimes it it's it's sabotaged, it sure is sometimes delulu is the solulu, so I just wanted to.
Speaker 3:I just want to spit this out about this full moon, because it's really intense and capricorn belongs with love in a sense, but it's more of a truthful love. It's more of a show me your dirties and we'll go from there type love. Yeah, so the summer solstice falls on a Capricorn full moon, at the first node squaring Neptune. It's the node of fate. Okay, essentially, what's done in the dark is brought to the light.
Speaker 3:The next three full moons are going to be ruled by Saturn, which means that this summer is all about are you guys ready for this? Purging the artificial and the instability in our lives. Um, and ghetto terms. You ain't got a pocket watch because people will always tell on themselves right, full moon. And capricorn says raise your prices so you align with the people that truly value you. Energy is currency. Be mindful of who you want to spend it on. Full moon and Capricorn also landed on Friday, which was Venus day, which says true romance, and this is what I meant when I said what I said. And Patty, tell me if this feels Capricorn, ask to you. Okay, full moon, and in Capricorn it's true romance, but it's romance that comes from security and stability.
Speaker 3:Does that sit well with you?
Speaker 2:Security and stability.
Speaker 3:Romance Romance.
Speaker 2:You being able to feel romance in a sense that is sturdy and stable. I I honestly, I think that I would. I would sum it up in um, in the word trust. Um, if you meet someone and you deeply feel like this is, I think trust is so central, um, that if you meet someone and I guess I'm just speaking for myself but like, if you meet someone, it's like this is someone and this is not how I operated when I was younger, um, but you know, hindsight is 2020. But like, if you know you meet somebody who you feel that you can trust fully, you know, with your emotions, with all of them, what did you call it? Your dirty, your dirty things, your your, your dirty laundry, your, your, you know your shadows, all of that stuff. You feel like this is somebody that I can trust. With all of that, then I think that there's a sense of being able to open up your heart widely and make yourself available for wild romance.
Speaker 3:Let it go, let it, you know just be totally yourself and others yeah, yeah, take that risk jump off that pier, as anoki was saying that jump jump jump off, jump off the pier I would jump.
Speaker 4:I think that feeling safe is really relevant to. It's like super relevant to you know being able to love. You know, because love is a comfort thing, you know you're, you're supposed to feel comfortable and if you feel safe, you feel comfortable if you don't feel comfortable now.
Speaker 2:I think that this is true generally for women. You know, whether, no, you, no matter what sexuality you are, but, like I think, women do need to feel safe within their relationships, emotionally, physically. We need to kind of feel that kind of security and a lot of times that does include well, I need, I need a partner who's financially secure. I need a partner who is. You know all of that that that might include. Well, I need, I need a partner who's financially secure. I need a partner who is.
Speaker 2:You know all of that, that that might include that, but, but but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it just is like look, we can, we can live in the woods, you know, in a tree. I know that I trust this person with my heart, with my emotions, with, with, with, with everything, with my, my total being that I will live anywhere with them, and it doesn't matter if they have money or they don't. Now, not everybody's like that. I tend to be like that because we can get through it together exactly exactly because, because true riches are found not in things, no Right.
Speaker 2:I think what you were saying, taylor, about this summer and the dynamics of this summer, that is part of it is really sloughing off and sloughing away the things that are artificial and and you know, and a lot of you know, I've been hearing that this summer is going to be kind of rough, I mean, you know, particularly for america, because there are a lot of dynamics that are just lining up to be kind of like a holy shit summer and yeah, but I think that my son 17,.
Speaker 3:The idea of a draft is absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's not so right and but you know and and what for but? But like, I also think, like you know, we've been talking about Dark Night of the Soul, near death experience, all of that, and sometimes you come out on the other end and you have, you know, you've kind of burned away all the things that don't really matter and and I think that this might be a summer for our collective, you know, to go through something like that where we literally chip away everything that really is not that.
Speaker 4:I wonder if this is going to be. I wonder if it's going to be like Mercury in retrograde for me, like, how like you know, the world kind of seems to fall apart around me during Mercury in retrograde. You're cool, I'm feeling pretty good, because you know what happened to me. I don't know if I told you guys, but look what I found last week A four leaf. Oh, I look what I found last week A four-leaf clover.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm so glad you saved it. I got to see it and it's a proper clover Hello. What are you going to do with it?
Speaker 4:That's my phone case I carry it with me everywhere I go. That's awesome and I was sitting there and I was just sitting cross-legged on the ground and I looked down and I'm like that's a weird-looking oh my God. It's a four-leaf clover, oh my God. And then I got the building out here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I know we've been, you know, and so we talked about this last week because, and okie wasn't able to be with us last week because, um, she was having her, um, her home kit delivered and it was also her son's birthday, which taylor and I had a lot of fun with that. That was like the perfect thing, um. So this week now, anoki, we want to hear all about your, um, your house adventure. Just be somewhere where the signal is good, because when you stand in certain places, it's like it goes in and out and your voice becomes a robot you're good though you're good, you're good for the moment, but yeah, so are we going to get a tour?
Speaker 4:oh, yeah, well, um so. So coming off the back drive, this is going to be a little yard like sitting patio space you know. And then out of the back door we've got the mountain here, which is really nice, and a nice long drive up. You know, know nothing really that way. Then you come inside this is gonna be master studio office over here. This room is like 10 by 16, yeah, and then like seating area in the living room and then hold on. I have to line this out real quick it looks.
Speaker 2:It looks so big it is really big.
Speaker 4:So this is from the front door. Over here for the front door. I don, this is for the front door I'm going to have a big deck out here, nice big deck that's overlooking everything out here, and then you come in. There's the back door, there's the little seating living area space.
Speaker 4:And then I'll have the kitchen right in here and I'm gonna have a little island bar that comes down and kind of curves right you know, walking into a hard corner, you know, um, and it'll be like a little u-shaped kitchen there, and then night is school room room will be this room and it is 11 by 8, I believe. Wow, and then this will be the bathroom. Leave, wow, and this will be the bathroom.
Speaker 4:This is gonna be a long way out before it's all done, you know. But the ceilings are pretty nice, they're not. Uh, it's not a lofted building or anything like that. Um, so it's, it's just a regular pitch utility roof. But I kind of like that because there's less angles, less things to go wrong. And we went and looked at a couple of them and Nidus said he didn't want to be up there.
Speaker 3:He didn't want to go up into the loft, our attic, because it's an A-frame at the top part of the house. I have a, if you look up top here, enoki, so that's a room. But, then the roof also pitches the other way. And in that area, behind Peyton's room, I could literally build a ladder up and a loft out in the attic Like there's room.
Speaker 3:There's all this empty space in this house Like there are closets without like, where everything pitches all the way to the floor, where I could make like little cubby rooms for each kid and a loft area up top top. But I just don't know if we'll be here long enough to do all of that. There's a really bad shooting last night, a block away oh my gosh tell you the fbi in the corner and it was.
Speaker 3:It was crazy. And it was crazy. Oh, I got home at three o'clock and it was still going on um three o'clock this morning. So they had like forensics, they're doing trajectories on the bullets and and it looks like a shooting happened on the porch and pat just looked at me and was like I don't know how much longer we're gonna be able to do this and I was like man, we lived in the south side. What's wrong like isn't this giving you like home vibes? No, not so much. You know, we just don't like. We're the military, we out here on carts I live there yeah yeah, I think that's really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's really unfortunate. And this is one of those things you know, like going into the summer, um you know like people are talking about it's like a lot of people are concerned um that they're. You know, if there are shortages. You know, um, if, if we have the situations like that where there are food shortages and stuff, are people going to be? You know, people kind of kind of lose their shit, people be robbing each other. You know home invasions and things like that give me your food dude.
Speaker 3:They put the movie purge out. Like people are already reactive to certain sounds.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean yeah, it's like and I think, like some of those shows like are um, what they call predictive programming. It's almost like setting us up to kind of expect, setting the scene and, for you know, setting it up for us to expect things like that. But I actually think it could go many different ways. Like a crisis like that, like food shortages don't have to to end up and food riots. It could be an opportunity for people to really come together. Now. The three of us lived in Florida and we know what that looks like during a hurricane, when everybody's lost their electricity, like in.
Speaker 3:Florida. You don't have a choice. We discussed this a couple weeks ago In Florida. You know that. You have to make it, you have to survive. It is a fight. It is more of a struggle to get resources, period, no matter if it's fucking medical or if it's gas after a hurricane. These are things that we have been acclimated to learning in south florida especially but we don't have riots over it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right in time, like when?
Speaker 4:everybody's gotta get together. Everybody really comes together. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Now, would you say, though what makes a difference is a sense of community, like if you have a sense of community, if you have a sense of your neighbors and things like that already, if that already exists, then when crisis happens, then people come together even more. Hey, did you check on miss smith down the street?
Speaker 2:you know the old lady down the street or whatever it's like, let's bring someone, because they're yeah, because they're in a wheelchair or like whatever. It is like I I always and I don't know. I mean there might be some people who say, patty, you're just being naive, but like I honestly lean towards that when there are crises like this that you know, people like to talk negatively about human nature. But I actually think human nature is about let's, let's figure out how we can. Um work cooperatively get through it together get through it together.
Speaker 3:It reminds me of a story, um, that always touched me, and it was this family had always asked for things. You know, knock on the door, can I? You have some bread? You have some milk? Can you spare this? What have you? And the mom, uh, one day looked at the son and said I want you to go next door and I want you to ask for a cup of sugar. And the son said, mom, but we have sugar. And she's like, I know we do, but I want the neighbors to know that we need things. You know, like, yeah, it's nice to be able to give too, right, and if the neighbors are always needing from us, I want them to think and feel like they're not a burden.
Speaker 3:So go ask them for a cup of sugar and I thought that that was the most beautiful like here, if one snowflake falls, every fucking gallon of milk and loaf of bread has gone off the shelves. Yeah, but but in East Tennessee you can ask anybody for a cup of sugar or some meal and they'll give it to you without hesitation.
Speaker 2:I think that there is something to giving people the opportunity to be giving. Remember how we tell. We see this in relationships, you know, like if you're always the giver, the giver, the giver, the giver, those of us who have a hard time asking for help or asking for things and what we do is we deprive people in our lives who care about us the opportunity to give to us, because there's something that feels so good when you do that. And so I think about that story and think about how I don't know if they included this part of the story, but how that family must have felt.
Speaker 4:I feel like that. A lot, a lot of people helped me and I would love to help them in any way that I could help them.
Speaker 2:We naturally want to reciprocate.
Speaker 3:Anoki, is it harder for you to receive because you are such a giver?
Speaker 4:I have this conversation with people all the time well, no, that's what I'm saying, like, like I'm a giver but a lot of people have given things to me. I can't give them the same things back. I wish, you know, I wish that I could give them anything, just to give them something back or help them when they need help. You know, when you can, you know, get through something together with people, you feel good at the end of the day. If it's just you getting stuff you know from someone, then you feel bad.
Speaker 3:It's really hard for me to accept and not reciprocate yeah yeah, I'm big.
Speaker 4:Did you feel bad after a little?
Speaker 3:bit. Yeah okay, but I had to learn that it's not always about that equal reciprocity. When it comes to you accepting other people's gifts, that's their blessing, and if you don't accept it, or you accept it with guilt in your heart, you're blocking that blessing. I was having a conversation with my coworker last night.
Speaker 3:Just the word. I can never. And I said stop, we're manifesting with our mouth and we are not going to negative talk. I said that tip will come back to you, I promise you.
Speaker 3:As I am giving her this advice, this guy walks through the door and I realized he's from a table that I had days ago. I mean, like on Monday, I waited on this man and his family and they didn't have enough money and he was a server and he said I'll be back and their daughter made a huge mess at the table. I do not care. I looked at them and I said please enjoy your meal guilt-free and let me clean up this baby's mess. Y'all just enjoy your meal together.
Speaker 3:You guys don't get to go out a lot. Enjoy yourselves, et cetera, and don't worry about the tip. Like I've been there, I know what it's like to be young with a kid. Like, please, y'all just go enjoy your night, don't even worry about it. Please don't come back and give me a tip. That man walked in as I was telling my coworker trust it, trust the universe. The money will always come to you, the gifts, the blessings, they'll always come back to you. You have to trust it Right? This man walked in the door and said I'm here to tip you from the other night and handed me a 20 spot and was like thank you, have a good night and walk back out the door. And Simone's jaw was just yeah. And I looked at the guy and I said, I put my arm around him.
Speaker 3:I said you see, simone, you see, look I told you and I looked at the guy and I said I put my arm around him. I said you see, simone, you see, look. I told you and he's like, yeah, I'm real big on those blessings coming back and I said, yes, that's exactly the level.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know he probably just got paid, you know. So Monday he didn't have a whole lot of money. He was a server they have lost their card.
Speaker 3:No-transcript. You got to accept that blessing yeah and so that's now. Is he struggling? Did he need that 20 dollars? I'm sure he did, but he has the same belief system I do and he knows that money is going to come back to him because he's not blessed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was thinking in our conversation, as as you guys were talking, that it really comes down to. I mean, well, one aspect that I kept thinking about as we were talking about all this is value and how we value ourselves and what is value and what do. What a value do I have to give? And you know, this is something that, as I get older, I think about because, like um Inoki's Inoki's building out her house and there's all of these things going on, but the things that I used to be able to do for people, I'm not physically able to do anymore, and so so I often think, I often think, then, what is what is a value? Do I have to give? Like I really do, I think I want to give things that are of value to others.
Speaker 2:But I used to be being a Capricorn, I used to be I do. This is what I do, I'm going to, I'm going to make this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to construct this, I'm going to clean this, I'm going to and it was often so manual. It was like, yeah, manual, like all these things that I could do manually, but I I honestly like it's been such a lesson and I am trying to live in to this lesson of having like two kinds of arthritis in my hand which now keep me from doing like if I was in a position to do so many of the things that I used to do for people, I wouldn't be able to, so okay, and I are sitting in our head thinking about all the ways you help people that aren't physical and that have helped us that aren't physical.
Speaker 4:Well, exactly exactly what you're saying, like like I. My help was always very manual help. And like recently, I've felt like you know I I had gained a lot of weight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was looking at me in Easter and I was looking at me.
Speaker 4:In eastern I was looking at me you know now and it's like crazy difference, you know. But I want to be there and be helpful and be active with people and be the person I've always been, but physically I felt incapable of doing that, you know, and I was soly. And now that I'm getting better and stuff, you know, like, like I'm hoping that I'll be able to do things. You know, because, yeah, I make things and I do things for people and I I help, you know, in that way. You know that, like I I don't want to not be able to do that for the world, because part of that is like my light and joy of being, yeah, and yeah, in the world, both of you just existing is already a blessing, because I'm also a physical helper.
Speaker 3:Right, what can I help you? I do need help moving, like, oh you, you need me to put an apron on and come in the kitchen. Yeah, yeah, you're a doer. Yes, yes, you are right. Right, you need to work on your van. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna give you give me the same way yeah, whatever, same way I learned at saint jude, all of these other ways that I could help and the ways that people helped me were out of the box ways and creative and thoughtful ways. That's also super touching.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So, like I could I just think about like non-physical I could walk into Patty's cafe. It makes me want to cry. I could walk to Patty's Cafe and know that there would be a perfect cup of coffee, just how I take it, and Inoki would be on the back porch bench with Zoe and I could go sit with a heavy, sad soul and Inoki and I could sing songs while she played guitar and we could eat mangoes together and laugh. Those people that fill you up right, those are the givers. That is where I feel the most touched by giving. You guys didn't even realize you were doing it no, I mean a lot.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, we've talked about this but those days touched my soul and saved me from a very dark place just real unconditional, like love, like we, just like set out back and and exchange thoughts and our hearts.
Speaker 4:It was just all around beautiful. It was beautiful.
Speaker 3:Everything. Yes, there was a lot of physical, but there was so much giving Patti, that you did during that time period that you don't even fucking know about. Same with teaching you give so much to the world that is non-physical yeah and you don't always see the results of it. But the lives that you have touched same with the nokie, the lives that you have touched through your music, through through just being you. It would absolutely shock you to know the way that you've touched people's lives. They were like passerbyers in your life.
Speaker 3:But you changed their entire life by giving them a moment of your time it got.
Speaker 4:It's very true. People come up to you and they're like you, you know you just said something. Yeah, made me think of everything different.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think that's something that the three of us have in common.
Speaker 3:For sure. I got a Facebook message from somebody from high school. From somebody from high school she said I just want you to know that the advice that you gave me not only changed my life but it stuck with me forever and I will never forget what you did for me and how you helped me. And you forget about those people. I mean I forgot about her, but like I mean not that I forgot about her, but like it was really jaw dropping and awe inspiring to receive that message and think, wow, I impacted that person that much that it changed their life.
Speaker 4:What a blessing for me to even just being a genuine you know, genuine human, a conduit of, you know, a light in a dark spot.
Speaker 2:Here's a thought that I have about that. You know, you say a light in a dark spot, a no key, and the thing is it's like you can look at your life, you can look at your earlier life and, taylor, you can look at your earlier life, your life, you can look at your earlier life and, taylor, you can look at your earlier life and I can look at my earlier life and you know, it's just kind of the dark spot we were.
Speaker 2:I mean we were. We were in many ways um kind of broken when we were young and had to come into.
Speaker 2:I just saw this movie and the movie itself is kind of corny, but the title of the movie. The only reason why I watched the movie was because of the title and I thought, oh my god, that's, that's beautiful, I want to watch this movie, and it was. It was an okay movie. It was kind of a tear jerker, whatever. But the movie was called uh, more, more beautiful for having been broken and I thought I, I like that title, so I'm gonna watch that movie. So, um, the movie almost lived up to the title, but not quite.
Speaker 2:Um, but I've been around people who never really had bad things happen to them, they, they, they had like a good childhood and nice relationships, like you know, like nothing ever and and I I don't want to be critical, but it's like there's a certain kind of um absence of depth when you haven't yourself been broken, when my brother took me to the place that she grew up in this coastal Michigan town, I cried.
Speaker 4:I cried because it looked like every family focus on the family film I'd ever seen in my life. You know everything that I had seen, you know, shooken into me. You know that I just could never obtain it was so beautiful to know that, that, and don't get me wrong, she did have, you know, really hard childhood because she lost her mom young you know, childhood because she lost her mom.
Speaker 4:Young, you know, but up until that point. Like I mean, there's a memorial plaque on the football field for her mom. It was such a small beautiful town, as broken and as scorned as I always was, you know, like I wanted a life that was like a focus on the family yeah, I don't, I don't know if you guys know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:I do know what you're talking.
Speaker 4:I was homeschooled and I watched the buttercream gang and loved it. I read all the boxcar children. You know that was like a drama, you know.
Speaker 2:I mean but I didn't have that life yeah, I think that that three of us, in our own way, experienced like this basic longing for this um, it's perfect, loving family without trauma, you know, without pain, you know just, you know where we felt like we completely belonged.
Speaker 3:So I tried to, for, coming from a traumatized home and a broken home, raise children who were not traumatized.
Speaker 3:However, life happens and they were put in a position where they saw things I wish they didn't see and they understood death my older sons at eight and 10 years old in a way that they watched their peers die and some things you can't protect people from. Yeah, so you can make the little family and and you can have every opportunity to give them a soft life, but we're here for lessons and the universe. Without trauma, we have nothing right. I mean like trauma it really builds character is what I mean. It's what I mean when I say that and everybody has it there's no perfect parent and life isn't perfect, so things happen. But the unity of it all really gives you this opportunity to make that a lesson too.
Speaker 4:I want to focus on the beautiful things in life and not focus on, you know, everything that I don't. I don't have. I want to be thankful for the great experiences I get to have, because there's so many great experiences.
Speaker 2:You know the whole thing about how we're drawn to the bad or whatever. As an English teacher, I've really struggled in the classroom with this whole focus on dystopian novels like the post-apocalyptic novels and everything that we have our kids reading. You know all these years and everything and you know I've thought about that a lot and I enjoy the novels myself, but still it's kind of like wow, that's a focus on just this. You know, when you look at the movies and everything in our culture, I like your new story and how your new story.
Speaker 4:You know that you're. They're all in chaos and and, and I guess those characters Go out here, you know. Yeah. Smell in the air and smell in the back.
Speaker 2:That that's my. That's my new. I'm in love. My, that's my new project actually is to have to write love stories, and to write love stories in a book that will actually that story will be the anchor story, but it's after the moon fell away, because the moon is actually as much as we might be enamored, and we talked about the moon, the Capricorn moon and all this, and with the full moon or whatever, it may be completely artificial and it might be part of, or the nexus for, this system, or you know that that we live under that we call the matrix on earth, and so, rather than writing post apocalyptic stories, I want to write stories about finding love, love stories that take place in a world that is finally free from all of the things that have enslaved us and so like humans, who are free again and who can tap into who we really are and what our nature really is.
Speaker 2:That's why the sun is so important in this world and not the moon, like the moon could fall away and that was okay, but then there are other things that fall away, and so that people meet each other and fall in love under circumstances that are that are that seem impossible, but perhaps there's a story about how fairies bring two people together, or there's a story about you know all like this world that we, you know know, can, can imagine free if it's free from all of the things that have constrained us. And so those are the stories that I want to imagine, and I want all of the stories in this collection to be love stories, but love stories in a world that is post post matrix and so it begins with so it begins with the moon falling away, because maybe the moon is part of it, but at any rate, that's.
Speaker 2:That's kind of my, my new writing. I'm liking the direction, you like the direction I'm going. I like the direction you're going I love it.
Speaker 2:I, I kind of want to write about these wonderful, uh, imaginative life uh stories that take that are about people coming together in natural but amazing ways or like impossible ways, but are now possible because we are more free to be the full humans that we were always meant to be. So, at any rate, that's kind of. Those are my, those are my thoughts, but I just wanted to yeah, I like it, oh, I so appreciate that you guys. What's the inspiration, what is the instruction of the inspiration for us moving forward into the next week or weeks ahead, as we move into what will probably be a very hot summer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in many ways the world is getting hot. Yeah, in many ways the world is getting hot. Um. So today I pulled um. This is this is who I found and who jumped out to me today. Um, patty and I and I'm sure nokia too we, um, this is one of our favorite authors. I think I speak for both of us when I say that um, if you all have never heard of Jamie Sands, you should highly consider reading one of her books. So we're reading from this deck today, patty, this is actually your book from the shop Beautiful. So we'll be reading Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams. These cards are super, super in-depth and a story usually goes along with them as far as the application goes. So it'll be a whole lesson here in these. So I'm going to go ahead and choose a card coming out of solstice and this Capricorn full moon and what messages the universe has to allow. We pulled the fox.
Speaker 2:The little fox.
Speaker 3:And so we shall read him. And the fox. I always love thinking about what I believe the medicine to be prior to and for me? For me, a fox is like they have this ability to hide in plain sight and be super observant in a room full of people and just kind of like slide through the ethers and not be seen, but but taking it all in the full spectrum of a situation. So this is what Jamie Sams has to say about Fox. Fox, where are you Under the ferns, becoming the forest so that I can learn? Are you watching, invisible to me, trying to teach me to become a tree? So Wiley Fox has many allies in the woodlands, including the foliage, which offers protection and much medicine. Fox signifies camouflage. The flora is Fox's ally.
Speaker 3:The ability to meld into one's surroundings and be unnoticed is a powerful gift when observing the activities of others. Another natural gift of fox is to adapt. Like a chameleon, they change colors to adapt to winter. Its rich white coat allows fox to blend into the snow and the leaves no longer linger. Fox medicine involves adaptability, cunning, observation, integration and swiftness of thought and action. These traits also include quick decisiveness and sure-footedness in the physical world. So fox's ability to be unseen allows them to be the protector in a family unit. When danger arises, fox is Johnny on the spot. Nanhi Waya, great Spirit in the Choctaw Tongue, honors Fox with the duty of keeping the family together and safe. This is accomplished through Fox's ability to observe the undetected without making others self-conscious. Fox is always concerned with the safety of family members and is an excellent talisman for those traveling.
Speaker 3:If Fox has chosen to share its medicine today, it is a sign that we are to become like the wind, which is unseen the wind just started blowing so hard which is unseen, yet able to weave into and through any location or situation. You would be wise to observe the acts of others and their words at this time. Use your cunning nature in a positive way. Keep silent about who and what and why you are observing. In learning the art of camouflage, you need to test your abilities in order to pull this off. One test is to help you deciding to be invisible. You might try to visualize your body as part of the surroundings full of color and the location that you are. See yourself in your mind's eye, moving with stealth and grace, unheeded by others. If you do it right, it works. You can leave a party unnoticed or become an unobstructed piece of furniture. If you choose watching the developing drama of the subjects you are studying While learning from thoughts, you might also gain confidence in your ability to know instantly what will happen next. After observing for a while, you will become aware of certain predictabilities in any given situation and might be able to make your move.
Speaker 3:Fox Medicine teaches the art of oneness through understanding of camouflage. Fox medicine teaches the art of oneness through understanding of camouflage. This applies on all levels, from rocks to God. With fox medicine, you're being asked to see all types of uses for your oneness. Much like clowns at the rodeo, fox can keep the raging bull from stampeding a friend or family member. Fox can use silly tactics as a brilliant camouflage move.
Speaker 4:No one could guess the sly power behind such an ingenious maneuver. I think the fox sounds like a Capricorn, because he's quiet and watching your surroundings like not that you would ever. You know, sit on the stump in the forest quietly waiting for deer to come, waiting to melt into nature that's about what I'm going to do in a few minutes not that you like watching and observing the world around you quietly, young, european too. A few.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's that's true. That's true. I was thinking like such a central um idea in what you were reading taylor has to do with being an observer. Yeah, kind of sitting back, and it's you know, and it isn't-.
Speaker 2:Non-reactive, non- reactive, it's not emotional. It's being this observer and kind of blending in and observing everything so that you can better protect the people in your lives, you can better predict what might be happening next. If things are going to be pretty chaotic and unpredictable, how much will we need that Fox medicine to become better observers? You know where you're sitting back and you're not really calling attention to yourself, you're kind of blending in with the background and and you're sitting back and it and it isn't emotional, it's not reactive, so that we can make better choices, you know. So you know how you were saying Enoki, you know, like sitting in the midst of chaos, being able to do that we might find ourselves. You know, this might be a very chaotic summer. There might just be, um, increasingly more, more things that are kind of playing at us, and so that whole observer position I think is is really valuable yeah, those are my thoughts.
Speaker 2:Those are my thoughts on it. What do you think, taylor?
Speaker 3:um, well, I immediately could apply it to my personal life. Immediately, I thought, well, it's a really good lesson. I am a reactive and emotive person. However, there is still. I do believe Fox is one of my nine totems. If I was going to include um totem, I definitely, uh, consider myself to be close to fox.
Speaker 3:I definitely have the ability to vibe with that, with that that lesson so I think that, um, it's interesting to look at fox and in the family dynamic way, because they are very much the same. You know. Think about like and between wolf and raccoon you've got fox and family is still so very important during certain seasons.
Speaker 4:The fox is very family oriented they den up yeah, but for a good portion of the year foxes in solitude yeah, there's, they're solitary wandering it's to establish its territories and and parts and they're kind of the best of both worlds you know when it comes to that and like like all the way around, like a fox is really agile, very fast very fast blends.
Speaker 3:Can I?
Speaker 2:can I? Can I interject as an English? An English teacher.
Speaker 4:Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:All right. So you know how I was talking about, like how I'm not like. You know, dystopian novels. You know I think they're kind of overplayed a lot, but you know we have them in our schools, that they're they're part of every English department in in high schools and so we've, we've read the Hunger Games and of course I've seen the Hunger Games and whatever you know, we, you know the Hunger Games are like this dystopian, post apocalyptic, whatever. Now, in the Hunger Games there is a character called Foxface and she is a character who's very much like a Fox. And in the hunger games, you know the this is horrible situation where all these young people are, they've got to kill, kill each other and see who lasts.
Speaker 4:And they're like I don't know there's, like you know there are.
Speaker 2:There are a lot of them. They're what are there? 13, 12, I think, 12. No, they're 24. And so they're, all you know, kind of fighting each other, killing each other and whatever.
Speaker 2:Fox face doesn't want to kill anyone. She doesn't. She doesn't want to kill. So she is not somebody who kills. But what she does is she is amazing at hiding, at observe, hiding in places where she can observe others getting getting food, you know, like where you know observing and finding out where she can get food.
Speaker 2:And she is one of the last. Of course she, she does end up dying, but she lasts all the way to the end. She lasts longer than some of the more aggressive, heavy, heavily weaponized you know people in, you know, you know competitors in the Hunger Games. She lasts almost to the very, very end and in the only reason why she dies is because, um, she has observed katniss, um and pita gathering berries. Pita has mistakenly gathered berries for them and because he he's kind of an idiot in the forest he's gathered poisonous berries and he's made this pile of berries and Katniss, of course, returns and says my God, those are poisonous.
Speaker 2:But Foxface has gotten to the bear, she's observed them, right, because she's one of the last people to survive, and so are they, and so she's observing them. And she sees the pile of berries and she goes and she steals some of the berries. The pile of berries, and she goes and she steals some of the berries and unfortunately, that's how Foxface dies, because she has mistakenly eaten poisonous berries. But this character of Foxface is so, and I find it really interesting, that she was one of the ones that lasted the longest without killing a single person. She did it because all through the power of observation and being, like you said, anoki, very fast and agile and stealthy you know, yeah, yeah, anyway, I had to throw, I had to throw that in.
Speaker 2:I had to throw in a little, a little hunger games.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah little, a little hunger games. I like that. Yeah, yeah, anything else, any final words? It made me think about um, as a child. Um, I had, I had an adult in my, in my life teach us how to be invisible. I'm sorry, the practice of that is absolutely fascinating, and more so when you see it actually work. It is amazing, amazing. The powers of invisibility is real, um, and it can help you in your everyday life, oh, yeah. So for me personally, it's not to be less emotive, but to be more aware of my emotions and, uh, be more observant in situations where usually I would be more vocal.
Speaker 2:So shut up and just watch, yeah, because if you're working on being invisible or camouflaged in a situation, then you really have to be silent, don't you? Yeah? Or neutral or camouflaged in a situation, then you really have to be silent, don't you, yeah?
Speaker 3:Or neutral. At least you know.
Speaker 2:You know, and I just want to say like one final thought of it you know, as we're moving into, you know, there was that whole situation in your neighborhood, taylor, and we see this in schools and everything you know. Something happens right. There's a fight going on, there's some chaos going on. There's there's a fight going on, there's some chaos going on, there's some loud noises and everybody rushes in, everybody rushes to to see the drama and what's going on, and they love it.
Speaker 2:And this fox is calling us, uh, calling upon us to to not rush in but to pull back from a distance and observe right, so that we can better protect ourselves and others, and so forth. And so I think, like if we are moving into a time where there might be things popping off right, all kinds of stuff popping up rather than moving closer to where things are popping off, fox asks us to pull back, to be quiet and observe right and be camouflaged so that we can make wiser choices in the chaos. And so I just wanted to kind of you know, because I experienced that as a teacher. You know that fight goes, a fight's happening and everybody's rushing towards the fight with their cameras on and everything. That's just kind of what our culture has come to.
Speaker 4:And yeah, an excitement instead of a worry or a caution. Yeah, so Fox.
Speaker 2:Fox is like no, the move is back, Move is be, be that, be that distant observer and you'll you'll make wiser choices. Let's see how it applies this week. I, I love it. And any final words, you guys, before we say goodbye Love you guys.
Speaker 4:Love you All right.
Speaker 2:Fox. Yes, yes, Love you guys. It was awesome. Have a great week everyone.
Speaker 4:Happy weekend and have a great week. Everyone happy weekend and have a good week and we'll see you guys next saturday. Love you, music.