Goes Without Saying - on the cards (2023 goals & lessons): podmas #13

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

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Acast helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com Ho ho ho, welcome back to Podmas. Oh my goodness, tell me what's behind the door please. Today, as this is the 13th episode, open up your 13th door, it goes... It's creaky today because it's a scary, spooky day. A nightmare before Christmas. Yeah, we're doing a tarot reading today, which is going to be fun. It's going to be really fun. I'm actually really excited for that.

Because, as well, we had a lot of... Delulu people no we had a lot of like good response i think from when we did it during podtober yeah people being like wow what you were saying about the cards resonated so i think we're all just you know we're taking it with a pinch of salt yeah it's just this is um entertainment purposes only yeah We are not doctors nor professionals. No. Please seek professional help and advice. Yeah.

And I would say if anyone doing a tarot reading claimed to be a doctor, I would say, run. Doctor of the cards. Doctor of fate, for example. We are priestesses after all. Oh, exactly. We can't help it, guys. It's in our blood. Oh, it really is.

It's in your blood. It's in your blood. She knows more about you than you do. We can't help it, guys. It's in our blood. Oh, it really is. It's in your blood. It's in your blood. She knows more about you than you do. I didn't know. I'd do the whole thing, honestly. Right. So should we just get right into it? Is there a question for the cards?

I would love that. We've got my card today because we've mixed it up. I just can't be bothered to get up and get mine again. Yeah, for sure. Which will actually be quite nice I feel like it makes me feel even more like you're reading me

do you know what I mean? oh nice mine are the quite traditional ride away designed ones quite spooky terrifying looking cards they are but they're so they're so divine they

are they're the classic ones you've seen before i'm sure if you've seen the tarot yeah if you google tarot card they're coming up you think of a tarot card it's that stereotypical barbie exactly yeah where should we begin i don't know i would like to know almost like oh what do i need to be aware of that's holding me back? Okay. Are we all happy with that as a question for the community? Yeah, everyone's happy with this. That's what I'm looking for right now. And am I pulling one card, do you think?

I think pull two and we'll do a little left and right situation, right? Okay. Yeah, so everyone now choose either left or right. Who are you? Who are you? Are you left or are you right? Okay, we've got a card that's jumping out we'll go for the jumper that's gonna be left left you've been chosen and we've got a right

right i now speak directly to you okay so what's holding you back guys let's find out for the left side yeah what do we need to keep in mind to move forward? Oh, no. It's a scary looking card. Oh, God. Wowza. She's bound up in... She's tied up. What is this? It says the eight of swords.

Swords. And it's a girl, very tied up, blindfolded, in fact, with swords going into the ground. It's not a great vibe it's giving. That's a portrait of me. So any left-siders? Let's find out what that means. i actually don't really know the meaning of that i'm sorry to hear that you guys on the left-hand side are not feeling so good lately you feel bound up apparently yeah oh okay so i think we can all relate instantly it's saying negative saying limiting beliefs which is exactly what our tarot reader said to us i think this was yeah oh you do have limiting beliefs yeah who doesn't it's negative thought

self-imposed restriction imprisonment and victim mentality i think it's almost like you are holding yourself back it's like you have tied yourself up you've put the blindfold on it's like you you know what's going on but you're going la la la la you're plugging your ears and you're um turning a blind eye to the issue i'm almost thinking like look stop speaking to this guy sort of thing oh god like i almost think look like come the new year i don't want to hear that this guy's still texting you okay i think if you have something in your mind now that when we say you're holding yourself back in that way or like you you're doing something that you know you shouldn't be doing everyone has one little thing it's like yeah it's probably that yeah it's probably that oh god you've

been caught red-handed honestly we're a bit santa we see you when you're sleeping and the cards never lie these are objectively true scientific truth one thing you should know about the cards is that they never ever ever lie they're 100 accurate 100 accurate honestly science backed by science so should we do the right right hand siders yeah let's do the right hand side oh a bit of a different energy we've got got a king of swords. Oh, wow. Look at you guys. You rule the roost. Swords, though. Oh, my God.

Both swords. Yeah. Chopping us up and serving us raw. Oh, here we go. Go on. Mental clarity, intellectual power, authority, truth. So that's interesting that that is holding you back. I almost think you're not

considering yourself to be an authority in your own life like you're kind of you're in your nobody's coming harry era if i needed to remind you it's like oh you're waiting for someone to come hold your hand scoop you up wipe the dust off you let you know that it's okay but they're not coming this is on you you're the king of your own life yeah you're the king of your own destiny you are you are the king of your own destiny guys we're in such a weird mood today before we go any further and just be like we're giving a weird we've been weird all day no we definitely are we also just had a really long conversation about the future of ai ai and kind of ai pornography which maybe

we should just talk a little bit about that because it is fascinating i would love to get into it should we save it for a proper convo yeah let's save it we were just saying like there's some interesting stuff going on in the ai space for women really i hope so yeah always hoping good things are for women but i'm just always um disappointed yeah yeah so intriguing what are you feeling about those cards sorry yeah back to the cards yeah yeah so left is eight of swords misery guts and then right is king of swords what's your intuition interesting because swords is all about like the kind of like it's fighting battling strength all of the stuff you're supposed to I'm thinking almost like are you guys slogging to the end of

the year I hear you I feel you do you know what I mean like it's almost it's a fight to get there into the new year yeah but I feel like there's things that need to be shook off of you before you make it into January I see that I see that surely for everyone everyone has some things right now which is like right it's january but then it also just oh look don't even worry about it it's christmas yeah it's christmas just kick back and relax yeah you can shake these things off in january okay you can leave the christmas lights up till january yeah you can just enjoy your christmas guys okay yeah that's time for sorting things out it's not time for battling what do you think like if you were to ask the cards and and you don't necessarily have to actually um shuffle and take a card for it but

what do you think deep down i think this is how we like to use the cards is almost like pushing you to consider the answer that you maybe don't want to give yourself sort of thing. Yeah. I would love to know if you were to ask the cards, what do you think you need to let go of what's holding you back at this point in your life? What do you think it would tell you? Oh, interesting. That's an interesting way of doing it.

Yeah. It's almost like, what do you think? Because I often think about like, okay, if my future self or like the best version of me came down to me and ascended from the gods what would she say she'd be shaking her head and she would tell me x y and z she'd be like wing listen up you know you need to blah blah blah x y and z a b and c what do you think what was the question like what if i was to ask them what like what's holding you back or like is there something that you need to shift let me actually think about that because i feel like as well sorry just to can't stop

interrupting you can't even give an answer i don't have an answer yet well i think we always like it's quite often in our lives we'll use almost like um like gaming terminology we'll be like in order to reach the next level we have to complete the mission and unlock the next playground yeah it's like we talk about like almost like as if we're in a game together and we are these two characters trying to like complete all these missions and move forward and progress really makes it a little bit more doable makes it kind of nice to think like okay maybe i've got a few lives in my back pocket i've got like a healthy potion or something i want the antidote bless you sorry um no never um so i almost feel like in terms of like the final missions to wrap up 2023 level and move into the level of 2024 what would

the cards tell you what would your future self tell you what is that in the back of your mind that you're like okay i need to i i don't want to bring that with me into the new year wendy's small frosty is the ultimate summer refreshment and not because it's cool and creamy and made with fresh Canadian dairy. It's also refreshingly cheap. Just 99 cents until July 14th. It's a treat for you and your wallet. ACAST powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend.

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and monetize their podcasts everywhere. ACAST.com. I don't actually know at the moment because I keep having these sort of waves at the moment coming over me of like oh I'm actually feel like I'm in quite a good place which I don't have so I feel like I'm gonna sneeze again you know your nose starts itchy itchy itching yeah um yeah no i don't particularly have like anything coming to mind because like yeah so basically the other night i and i had one of the feelings with you as well so the other night i was lying in bed and i could hear my family kind of chatting away downstairs and everything was quite peaceful and stuff and i just kind of thought to myself i had like yeah almost a wave of like i'm actually in a good

place like i'm actually happy like there's nothing really i would want to change in my life right now and then the other day in the cinema with you before salt burn came on it was i was like god this is actually perfect like nothing i would change nothing yeah and then i had it again and again and i don't know whether it's because part of the therapy that I'm having is about getting in touch with like my actual emotions and not pushing everything away that I can actually recognize happiness when it comes to me but I also think I'm in a space at the moment where I just think I'm not wanting to change anything I don't have anything that I'm like I want to add that in or i want to

get rid of that it's like i actually feel that like i just want to enjoy the bit that i'm in right now yeah so i don't feel like nice i don't feel like i need i'm trying to get to the next level right now i actually feel like i'm just trying to enjoy the level that i've just reached i've just kind of climbed up the ladder in the game i'm there just got here yeah i've just reached a new checkpoint oh yeah i'm in the checkpoint it's like all right i'm just kind of climbed up the ladder in the game i'm there just got here yeah i've just reached a new checkpoint oh yeah i'm in the checkpoint it's like all right i'm just gonna go explore oh look there's a little tuck shop over there there's a lovely little character i've got to meet over there that's fun he's giving me some keys i wonder what they unlock like i love that yeah my backpack's stocked full of kind of grenades i've got it all she's ready to go

i've got a star in my back that i'm gonna use at some point i'm all right i'm all good good what about you what do you think they would tell you i think something i'm thinking about i actually wanted to say to you that in um it wasn't uh i don't know when it was a few episodes ago and i've mentioned it this is the second time that i'm mentioning it now but it's something so nice that you said to me that i almost just want to say it every day just make everyone know you should you should say if it makes you feel that good you should say if it makes you feel that good if it makes you feel that i feel like it makes you feel that fucking valuable thing to find a phrase or something that makes you feel good i

feel like i'm always searching for like i just it was really sweet in another episode the other day it was the one that's called like friendship rivalry and secrets and law and stuff which sounds like it's gonna be horrifically horrible yeah it was actually really sweet yeah um you so sweetly were like saying that um i had such a nice warming presence and that it was like soothing to you when yeah when i walked in the other day which is so nice so much so that i played it for my boyfriend was it last night or the other night i was like listen to this listen to how cute this is and he was just kind of like sat there like a dog like nodding like okay what do you want from me he was like yeah like that's nice babe yeah but i was like it's just so nice and

also like and i know i said it in the episode but i was really thinking you really easily could have not said that like you really easily could have not said that to me do you know what i mean like almost we think things about people all the time and like the choice of actually deciding to share it with that person it was just really um so generous of you to do that well thanks i mean you've just given me a very nice thing as well yeah but as i should but i just think it was just really sweet of you and i think i just really really appreciated it you just look so cute right now you look really like nervous no i know i think that's really nice yeah it was just it really um put a smile on my face it made me feel like oh that's really good so anyway what i would be thinking about going into the new year and like

the next levels and the future and everything is kind of off the back of the conversation that we were having in that episode and just something we talk about all the time of like knowing that we're a team knowing that we have each other's backs like we've been to weird events like we've heard crazy stories like we the the tide is high yeah do you know what i mean like it's high and i'm holding and we're holding the fuck on like i feel like it's just like if we keep doing this it's gonna get more and more challenging yeah and we need to get rid of those limiting beliefs girls we need to get rid of oh you have them shit that's holding yeah oh pardon me no oh no rid of those limiting beliefs, girls. We need to get rid of all the shit that's holding... Oh, you have them?

Oh, pardon me? Oh, no. Oh, no, you've got limiting beliefs. Oh, you do? Such a confusing conversation. If you don't know what we're talking about, yeah. But yeah, I think that's something that I want to be really aware of, is making sure that we're always at the forefront of every decision,

feeling good together in this weird shared space, shared life, that sort of thing. I love going to the cinema with you too oh boy do i yeah that was such best place to be the best place to be yeah i genuinely think every single time i'm in that moment of like in the cinema the film is about to start your drink is full your snacks are full maybe a bit gone but you know they're there yeah and you're you've just been for a wee that you're comfortable comfortable comfortable and it's like this is the best place to be on earth it really you couldn't take me out of here kicking

and screaming honestly you couldn't pay me no no um should we do one more card just to round off maybe like what's coming for sephie and. Let's just have a little selfish moment. What do we need to look forward to next year? Yeah, that's nice. Ooh. Yeah. What do we need to look forward to is nice. Yeah, let's just tune into that for a sec.

ASMR of the cards. Do you want to pick it? Yeah, I think it's that one there um that one put your hand on it yes is it the exact first one i went for that's mental oh god no it's a bad one tower tower death i like that i think that's good death death death it's literally a card that is called death with a picture of a skeleton riding a horse okay i like that though death we're gonna we're gonna be reborn in some way i'm happy about that i'm happy about dying that's just the i love that we were so passionate about picking that one as well yeah we were both like oh my god we both oh my god yes okay so that's quite horrendous should we tie it up with something nice about the death card yeah so the death card does actually obviously doesn't actually mean

death it means like kind of new beginning some letting go of something and bringing something new in even though it is also funny that it's called death and that's what we're looking forward to should we read the um i'm gonna read the bitty tarot yeah go us let's this is a message for all of you guys yeah okay so oh god what's it saying okay after a period of pause and reflection with the hanged man the death card symbolizes the end of a major phase or aspect of your life that you realize is no longer serving you opening up the possibility of something far more valuable and essential you must close one door to open another you need to put the past behind you and part ways ready to embrace new opportunities and possibilities it may be difficult to let go

of the past but you'll soon see its importance and the promise of renewal and transformation if you resist these necessary endings you may experience pain both emotionally and physically but if you exercise your imagination and visualize a new possibility you allow more constructive patterns to emerge it's a time of significant transformation change and transition you need to transform yourself and clear away the old to bring in the new any change should be welcomed as a positive cleansing transformational force in your life the death and clearing away of limiting factors can open the door to a broader more satisfying experience of life well that obviously doesn't sound too shabby no

it doesn't it looks like well you know we're on the rise oh wow big year coming up wow okay so that does sound good i think i think also what i have found from this year is that in terms of us change happens pretty quickly as well like even though it's slow slow slow slow slow we do this speaking into a microphone when it's slow slow slow slow slow we do this speaking into a microphone where it's built on like hours of conversation which doesn't necessarily feel fast paced it also when things change they go and it's like suddenly i feel like we're in a different space and i'm like wait when did that even happen sort of thing the blink of an eye i feel like um at the moment we talk about things that would be these events that definitely

wasn't happening three months ago definitely not and now that already feels like a kind of normal aspect of our lives so fucking fun yeah congratulations congratulations on the podcast cheers to that cheers to that everybody coffee i haven't got anything so i'm actually doing an imaginary cup air cheers delicious yummy yummy okay well um congratulations on the year that you've had guys um yeah happy for you or sorry that happened happy for you and i hope that card um whatever you picked kind of made some sense for you i hope so i'm sure it would we were fucking vague so how could that not relate so yeah you'll be able to find some crumbs in that there'll be something in there. Yeah, gobble gobble that up.

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