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Darlene's avatar

Today’s offering was greatly appreciated and poignant. Yesterday I was so exhausted from working on people’s bodies (massage) and mind trash, I simply sat numb for hours on the sofa. I ended up scrolling for hours. By 7 pm, I was a hot mess, with tears in my eyes. I was scared and exhausted from all that’s happened and ahead.

As I went to bed I read some in Thich Nhat Hanh’s, “Being Peace.” Calmed down, I snuggled in and drifted away thinking, “Tomorrow’s Wizard Wrap Up and Week Ahead. I’ll be ok. I’ll get my mojo going again, go for a hike, and start more of my seeds for the garden.

Whew!! You set me on course every Sunday. It’s not an easy path ahead, yet with you as astrological newscaster and heart therapist, I’m back on track. Courage, open heart and onward we go…♥️ Wiz, you are a treasure.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Be kind to yourself during this time, Darlene. Those of us who are wired to help must remember in the coming months that we cannot help others if we do not help ourselves (I have written that on a post-it note beside my computer screen!). The work you do is so important, and caring for your own vessel right now is more important than ever. I’m so glad these words bring you comfort - it is a blessing to me to know they are received in that way. xx

Darlene's avatar

I’m doing practices I’ve done every day for twenty years to stay healthy and grounded. Some days seem like even this isn’t enough but there’s always bumps! I appreciate your writing and have connected with some people through you that fill my world with joy and camaraderie. Actually, in the red area I live, some days it appears only you and these people give me a sense of belonging and confidence that it’s all going to work out. You are like a map I’m following, when everyone around me is lost in the chaos of the collapse or completely oblivious. Onward together, we will make a better world.

Darlene's avatar

It’s comforting you know a map of celestial phases to help us navigate through these times. Through your work I’ve connected with people of like minds and spiritual practices. Some days you and these folks are all I have to feel part of the bigger picture that’s unfolding. It’s a very red area I live in so my patients and most of the community are either oblivious or support what is happening just because their 401K is still strong. Between my daily practices I’ve done for 20 years and your writing and readers, I mostly am positive about the current state of events. I do enjoy my work and teaching, yet some days I let things bother me too much. Thanks Wiz. You light a brighter path for many.

Darlene's avatar

I thought my first post disappeared so I rewrote it. Now you have two versions of my reply:-)

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Well, I enjoyed them all! I’m pleased this space has helped you find community, given that the one immediately surrounding you is not one you can easily align with. I think that will change over time, through the disruption that is coming, but for now it is wonderful for so many of us to have all found each other spread across the globe, or riding the same frequency and tuning to the same signal. What a blessing and an honor.

Tara Scarborough's avatar

I hear you on the bodywork practice! I work 2 days a week as an RN, and do massage/MFR one day at week and a few evenings.

People are needing a safe place so much and they are bringing more and more of their emotional residue along. It’s a lot.

And I’m finding at a time when you would think people would be watching their wallets, I am far busier than I want to be with my practice and people are wanting to come more often!

So I struggle with protecting my body and energy and 62 and holding space for all those in need.

I hope you have the very best restful Sunday!

Darlene's avatar

Tara, I’m pleased to hear from you. I’m busier than ever as well and working mostly full time at 75!! I also teach Tai Chi Chih where most students are patients of mine. At least I have this to calm us and ground us. I also have 50 plus Amish people who come regularly. They know how to live simply and enjoy their work and family so this grounds me too. They always bring me food to share and they warm my heart and stomach!

As Wiz says, people doing the work we’re doing are going to be needed and supported during this transition. I’ve always told people my plan is to live to 120, so just maybe, I’ll get to witness the new world 🤷‍♀️

Stay in touch and I’m going to do my best to not read on Substack except what is uplifting, best I’m able 🥰.

Enjoy your Sunday as well 💫🦜

Wizard Withwords's avatar

May it just be said, I love that you two have connected. This warms this wizard's heart. Appreciate you both!

Rose's avatar

Yes indeed. Every Friday/Saturday I feel the anticipation. The scrolling has been too much for me too. I'm on day 3 without scrolling. My goal is 3 solid weeks perhaps longer. Blessings and love to you.

Darlene's avatar

It’s time I stopped the screen time for a block like you. Wiz gives more than enough information to stay informed. It’s almost spring weather here so outside I go!!!

Denise Sanderson's avatar

I keep meaning to ask this question: What is happening in Africa and South America? It seems to me, that these continents have been ravaged more so by the rest of the world. Is there a new world order for them or will they continue to be used and abused by the New Consciousness?

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Thank-you for asking this Denise - I had intended to write a little more particularly about Cuba this week, but space did not allow, so I’m going to focus more there next week. Interestingly, the African and South American charts did not light up in the same way the Western world did for the dates I focussed on for this week’s wrap up. I’ll explore what that means next….stay tuned!

Denise Sanderson's avatar

Thank you for your timely response; I appreciate how busy you must be putting together these complicated and informative articles. Looking forward to what you have to say.

Heretic Heart's avatar

Now I know why I am here, in this physical place that I call home. A year and a bit ago we made a rash decision to leave our city home and move to a rented farmhouse in the country. We have garden space, trees for maple syrup, fruit trees, berry bushes and two ponds for our use. We also rely on our car to get essentials. I lost my job two months ago and I am beginning something new - which keeps me at home physically.

My sister and I have been dreaming of this time - knowing that at some point we would need to shift the way we live. She began that process years ago, and although I am the eldest in the family and she the youngest, she’s led the way. I’m not ready for what is to come - I have a lot to do. But now I fully understand the intuition that led me to this land, these trees, and this unconventional life.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

The farmhouse sounds divine! Perfect for what comes next! I’m so glad you remember why you came. xx

Amanda Saint's avatar

All of this is very interesting and I’ve no doubt that we’re watching the old world ending. But what about the natural resources needed to make all the solar panels we’ll need?

Wizard Withwords's avatar

That’s such a good question and I’ve been investigating this. From what I’ve found, solar panels are mostly glass and aluminium, the main ingredient being silicon, which comes from quartz, one of the most abundant minerals on earth. The real cost isn't scarcity, it's processing - purifying silicon currently requires enormous heat, and most of it is done in China using coal-fired energy. That's the wound worth watching.

The lifecycle math is still strongly in solar's favour. A panel pays back its full manufacturing carbon cost within 1–4 years, then runs clean for 25–30 years. Over a lifetime, solar emits roughly 15–25 times less CO2 per unit of energy than coal.

The harder problem is what happens at end of life - recycling infrastructure is lagging badly behind installation rates. But even the worst-case solar waste projections through 2050 are dwarfed 300–800 times over by the waste produced by fossil fuels in the same period.

We're not trading one clean system for a dirty one. We're trading a catastrophically dirty system for a messy-but-manageable one….provided we actually invest in doing it properly, which is, as always, the question.

Amanda Saint's avatar

Yes, there’s no doubt on a carbon emission level, solar is better. But the impact of mining for the materials for solar is significant (I was an environmental journalist for many years and wrote all about the new inventions that were going to save the planet). It just feels like we need to do better than still extracting from the earth just in a different way!

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Well, then you definitely know more than I do on the topic. And you're right. Swapping one extraction economy for another isn't liberation, it's just a cleaner cage. But I don't think solar is the final destination. I think it's a bridge....the best answer available inside the old paradigm while the genuinely new one is still being born. What I suspect is coming - and the planetary map of the next hundred years speaks to this directly - is something more like tuning than taking. Energy sources that work with what the earth is already doing. Resonance rather than extraction. Frequencies and fields that have always been there, waiting for us to develop the relationship and the instruments to receive them. The astrology suggests that Neptune moves into Taurus in 2038 and stays for thirteen years, it will dissolve and rewrite our entire relationship with physical matter - minerals, crystals and the body of the earth itself. The last time Neptune transited Taurus, Edison and Tesla were born and electricity emerged from nowhere into civilisation.....a force that had always existed became suddenly receivable. We may be heading toward something equally unrecognisable from where we stand now. So yes, we need to do better than different extraction, and I think we will....and the stars seem to agree! xx

Amanda Saint's avatar

I love that idea. And that the stars say it’s coming! Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe? The researchers believe that ancient site may have worked like tuning forks.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I am obsessed with Gobekli Tepe, and I absolutely believe in the coming years we will discover a lot more about how our ancient ancestors powered their world in the time before we remember. We have forgotten so much - now is the time of remembering.

Amanda Saint's avatar

I believe so too. Everything is changing and I can feel it. Gobekli Tepe is fascinating indeed. I’m a bit obsessed with it too!

Julianne's avatar

Thank you, Wizard - a beautiful vision ahead of Earth-centered life, as was always intended. “Human”, after all, is from humus = earth, soil. We will learn from this time and we will evolve to respect and revere Mother Earth. The Indigenous peoples have always known what is true and real.

Jay's avatar

I find I am relying on your weekly wrap up to steady me for the week ahead. It’s always a reminder to breathe, to feel my heart, to be open. I live at about 49° north, and winter is slow to leave, spring is slow to come. But even so, I go outside, look closely at the trees and shrubs, touch the branches and see the beginning of buds! It makes me happy to see that the fact that it’s slow doesn’t mean it’s not happening. And I relate that to the changes coming about in the world. Planning a larger garden this year and planning to give some of what we grow to neighbors and friends.

Thank you for the support that your words provide. 💜

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I’m so glad these words bring you comfort, Jay. Yes, I too am expanding my garden by the day - I find it incredibly meditative having my hands in the soil. xx

Maryooch's avatar

Jay, I tried my hand at vegetable gardening last season (I've been a flower gardener for years). Wasn't too successful, actually, to the point where I decided the heck with it - I'll stick with flowers. But ... there is something inside telling me to give it another try. It seems a crime to have the land to do it, and to not do it. The growing season is so short where I live, so it's rough. But we'll get there! Peace to you.

Jay's avatar
Mar 23Edited

The growing season is very short here, too. Last frost u s u a l l y last of May. First frost in fall u s u a l l y early October. Both times can be earlier or later but those are fairly safe. This year I found corn that gets to maturity in 75 days and that works for me. Starting plants early is extremely helpful. Last year ( our first year) we had lots of tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, zucchini and raspberries. Don’t give up!

Maryooch's avatar

Same growing season! 🙂

I won't. You, either.

Dianne's avatar

Believe it or not I sit here smiling. I have a feeling that fills my heart, a knowing all will be well. I am in alignment with joy and satisfaction as I feel and deeply know the future we are headed to. To be honest words fail as I try and express myself. I was born in 1947, I am overwhelmed as it feels like all the pieces are falling together for me and my generation. We have been, and continue to be part of this universal evolvement and expansion. We came for this. Our children, grand children, and great grands will soon take over as we transition fully back to our nonphysical energy flow.. as for me I’m feeling a deep appreciation and satisfaction. I feel good✨🌟💫

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I love how you are processing all of this Dianne. You’ve seen the long arc of the modern world’s journey with your own eyes, and now here you see the wound of the modern world - inflicted around the time you were born - finally rising for healing. What a time, and what a beautiful way you are framing the hand-over to your descendants. I’m glad you’re here. xx

Maryooch's avatar

Thank you so much for this wrap-up. And every wrap-up, actually. I'd like to say more, something eloquent and touching, but all I can manage today is "thank you". ♥️

Wizard Withwords's avatar

You’re so very welcome. Thank-you for reading. xx

Rose's avatar
Mar 23Edited

Thank you Wizard.

I do hope the USA will finally accept green diverse energy through the crisis. However, I wouldn't be surprised if forced more off shore drilling in the name of national emergency.

Meanwhile, tend to our gardens and communities.

GhettoFairy's avatar

This is the piece that I look forward to every week ☺️

I saw all of this happening years ago, and also see the way it will be. Years ago I had so many ideas about how we could prepare in my community, but life didn't allow that. However those ideas are all still here in my head.

Thanks for your positive but realistic explanations of how things pan out.

I see so many avenues in my life due to this that could take me in certain directions; some are scary especially as a carer for two people.

But I have to trust the universe as so far it's always rung true. People come together when they need to.

Your writing gives me so much hope and an overview of the most important bits in the world news.

Thanks so much for all your work on these! 💜

Annie Le Marquand's avatar

Just what I did today long chilly sea swim first in a few weeks w friends not seen in awhile .. reading heartmaths Heart coherence book on train …and visiting a community garden and eating organic spinach locally produced !

Helped reset my Being …. Phew

Love the weekly wrap up and writing is so fluent and on point

Bravo wiz 🤗🩵🩵

Wizard Withwords's avatar

You’re doing life right, Annie! xx

Mary Lockhart's avatar

Enlightening! Gives me food for thought for my options, thank you!

Tara Scarborough's avatar

Thank you! I can ride with this.

A couple thoughts: (and I say thought with a chuckle as trying to move out of my mind so let’s say OBSERVATIONS!)

First, I have found I am not thinking as sharply or quickly lately. Not in a fog sort of way but for example, in multitasking in my nursing work, I’m not finding the words as quickly. Of course, I began to worry that I have the first symptoms of dementia or early onset Alzheimer’s, but I actually feel it is a sign to slow down. Focus on one thing at a time.

Secondly, I have for decades now talked to people and made posts about, and taught in my “yoga and hikes” that we do not exist separate from the this planet. That we are part of this ecosystem and our health and well being is intricately connected to the health and well being of the planet. That the Earth is NOT a resource to be used but a gift to protected.

So I will welcome, the dissolving of the age of oil—whatever the consequences to me personally.

(But please, please, please, universe, can I still get to my favorite mountain biking trails. That is where my solace and renewal lives. I know, I am ENTIRELY to attached to it.)

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I think the whole world is about to slow down, and it’s not such a bad thing. We need to take a second to breathe! Especially in your line of work - look after yourself, and be kind to yourself. Rest, recharge! So necessary in these times! xx

Marina's avatar

You didn’t mention Cuba. Is it a lesson or more of a punishment? I hope they have some solar and wind energy. Our government is just straight killing their people.

Kiley's avatar

I’d like to encourage you to not promote that AI bot, ask Arion. It’s powered by Open AI which is a very problematic company and is heavily involved in the “old world” order you write about. If you discover something similar that is by another company, I’d love to see it.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

Hi Kiley. I am part of the team that built Ask Arion and was heavily involved in its design. Ask Arion was built using both Anthropic and OpenAI in its backend, but given what's emerged about OpenAI in recent weeks, we’ve been working to migrate all back end operations exclusively to Anthropic. Ask Arion was created to make chart reading genuinely accessible to people who want to understand their own sky, and I intend to keep championing it. Thanks for raising this.

DawnH's avatar

I am happy to hear this. Thanks for migrating to Anthropic.

DawnH's avatar

JusticeAI just switched to Claude. Perhaps that is one to explore.

I have noticed askarion, as configured, keeps pushing me to monetize everything. That's not where I am in life.

Wizard Withwords's avatar

I haven’t tried JusticeAI, I’ll have to have a look! Arion is built in a way that allows all users 3 free asks each day, and to guide users to the feature in the app that will most fulsomely answer the question being asked. It’s not intended as a push to monetize - just to answer the question using the right tool. xx

DawnH's avatar

I will work on framing my questions differently on the asks and see what happens. Learning curve.

The justiceAIGPT app is a deconialization informed app. I use that for different areas of questions. I use AskArion for the astrology aspect.

Marina's avatar

Sometimes I skim the comments and skip or read the post. Now I am curious to read it.