Saturn Returns with Caggie - *Moments* Why we are afraid of our own success with Kirsty Gallagher

Episode Date: December 11, 2022

This week we’re thrilled to have the return of best-selling author and sun and moon mentor, Kirsty Gallagher. In this ‘moment’, you’ll hear a sneak peek of the conversation that touches on how we aren’t afraid of failure, but actually afraid of our success.  The full episode goes live tomorrow and explores the themes of how the solar system reflects and shows up in our lives; recapturing feminine energies and the cycles of the moon; and how to practice death and rebirth.  --- Follow or subscribe to "Saturn Returns" for future episodes, where we explore the transformative impact of Saturn's return with inspiring guests and thought-provoking discussions. Follow Caggie Dunlop on Instagram to stay updated on her personal journey and you can find Saturn Returns on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.  Order the Saturn Returns Book. Join our community newsletter here.  Find all things Saturn Returns, offerings and more here.

hello everyone i hope you're having a lovely weekend i just wanted to share with you a little moment from tomorrow's episode of saturn returns because i am joined and reunited by one of my favorite people and that is kirsty gallagher kirsty is the founder of luna living and a moon mentor and a very successful author and she's also one of my best friends. For those of you who have followed the show for a long time you'll remember that Kirsty has been on twice before already. She also joined me for my live shows back in January and so I'm very excited to have her on again tomorrow. So the form is like celebrate yourself like the moon is celebrate what you did do celebrate

what went well celebrate how amazing you are and then equally the full moon will show you will illuminate for you where you didn't follow through on going after your dreams so where that little voice crept in that went oh that invited that event oh no people might not talk to you if you go there or they might not like you or that person that didn't call you back once they probably hate you or we go into all those stories we sabotage ourselves and get in our way the full moon will show you where you got in your own way how by being able to see where by being able to reflect on that sign came and I doubted my intuition because I didn't trust my intuition was going to be right or that opportunity landed in the inbox and I let the

email sit there for about a week and then two weeks and then three weeks because we're afraid of our success not failure because I talk about that though because I think that that is something that I think both you and I often share and speak about and it's something that you know we're always talking about fear of failure and that's something that people can understand it's fairly easy to comprehend but people don't speak that often about fear of success we're definitely more and I'll definitely speak for me definitely more afraid of success than failure because because the success then means that like the moon i need to let myself be seen and shine so if i reply to this fictional email if we stay on this thread this fictional email that's coming that's invited me to perhaps go and speak at this big event

for x amount of people which means i'm going to then get seen or in front of all these different people that then might give me an opportunity that will lead me into this the fear then is if i go and do this i'm going to be seen i'm then going to be given more opportunity to be seen and as you shine your light more for me i guess then that comes with also the more you're seen the more you're judged the more you're seen, the more you're judged, the more you're criticized. The more responsibility you have. The more responsibility you then have to people who are listening to you to be this version of you. So for me, the failure is probably no one ever really sees, no one even knows about. But when you start to succeed, and it also means growing into a version of you that can hold space for that and that's

again something we need to again that kind of death and rebirth you've got to let that part of you that you've outgrown die away that skin to be shed and we also though need to allow ourselves to be in a void because what we what we'll do is we'll say well i'll let that die away as long as you immediately get the new thing totally and everyone everyone's guilty of that and i talk about that a lot at the moment and i call it like amazon prime you want to amazon prime my life i want to amazon prime my spiritual journey i want to amazon prime moon work if i do one moon ceremony it doesn't work that's it doesn't work we want to amazon prime everything we want next day delivering our growth and growth doesn't happen like that you don't plant a seed and it grows the next day and you wouldn't expect nature to do that you'd expect it to go through a period of

germination and you'd actually when we look at nature there's nothing to me more beautiful than watching that first little shoot come through the earth and then it gets bigger and bigger in the float that's beautiful with ourselves i don't want to just be a shoe i'm pathetic look at what small little tiny shoe i am i should be a big flower like that over there again we really berate ourselves and we want that immediate growth but it's the journey of being in that void that is the preparation for being able to hold that version of yourself when you get to where you're going don't forget to follow the show and the episode will be out tomorrow at 7am and i hope it brings you some guidance and makes you feel grounded in the week to come