We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle - Astrology for (Former) Skeptics: Sonya Renee Taylor Takes Us Further

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

Please be sure to listen to Part 1 of our conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor: ⁠Astrology for Skeptics: Sonya Renee Taylor Reads Our Charts ⁠ In the second part of our soul-shifting conversation, Sonya Renee Taylor returns to read Amanda’s astrological chart and shed more truth and wisdom on why we are the way we are. We explore:  - Why Amanda struggles to trust comfort, rest, and security—and how she’s learning to surrender;  - Why we can’t wish peace for the world without wishing it for ourselves;  - How Glennon, Abby, and Amanda are redefining success—not as “hustle” but as ease, love, and enoughness, right here. For Part 1 of our conversation with Sonya, click here:  Astrology for Skeptics: Sonya Renee Taylor Reads Our Charts About Sonya:  Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author of seven books, transformational thought leader, world-renowned activist, artist, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology. She is podcast host, sought-after speaker and new world midwife. She is also an intuitive astrologer helping to decipher our unique soul work through the planets. Her work has reached millions of people by exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework. She continues to write, create, speak, teach, and transform lives globally.

Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. So I don't think in a very long time have we been in the middle of an episode where we decided right in the middle of it that it was two episodes because it was so full of magic that we could not pack it into one. Today, Pod Squad, first of all, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Did I say that? Yeah. Okay. And welcome again. Do you feel welcomed? I feel very welcomed. Yeah. Okay. Please make sure. Actually, you don't have to, but you should. should probably listen to Tuesday's episode that we did with the incredible Sonia Renee Taylor. In that one, she explained to us why astrology is important to her, why she trusts it, what it means in this particular moment in the world, and then she read the charts of me and Abby, which wosa. And it made Abby cry in Abby's chart and in writing's charts. So today, Pod Squad, we are going to take you into. to Amanda's chart, which I will say to me blew me away even more than either of ours. It just felt so wild. We're going to take you now to Sonia reading Amanda's chart. And then as soon as

Sonia left, we stayed to process our understanding of what just happened. So this episode will be a time with Sonia and Amanda and then the processing with the three of us about what just happened. And we hope that you enjoy it. One of the things that Sonia said that meant so much to me was that she said that every challenge that we're given there is a path out right there yeah there's a path of ease yeah out of it also in your chart yes yeah for every for every yeah struggle in your chart there is a gift of ease that is also in your chart and aligning those two is your path who that one that one that one I was a non-believer before this now I'm like me too I was a real me too I might be believing a little

bit. All right, let's see, Pod Squad. Let's see if this turns you into a believer as well. Sondya Renee Taylor. All right, Amanda. All right, my dear. Oh, you, friend, have a fantastic superpower chart full of fantastic things. But we will start with your son. And you, you, are also a son in aries just like your sister why because you all are here to help each other out if glennon has a first day of preschool son you have a eighth grade like beginning of eighth grade son okay maybe that's why you're a little bit bitchy you've mastered a little bit of that aries energy a bit more right a little bit more forcefulness a little bit more aggression

it's here for it and so once again that aries energy is beginner energy it is starting from scratch energy it is self initiation energy it says i'm here to do the thing i'm here to make a thing happen and it's energy it's vitality it is life force it's catalytic it likes to start a lot of things a lot of times and this is happening for you in the second house which is the house of our resources. So I don't know how many jobs you've had in your life, but it would indicate that maybe you've had a lot or that maybe you've begin again a lot, particularly around resource. It can also be like the place where you come up with the idea to begin the thing. This is how resource can happen. I can drive that. There is a lot of that energy. However, you have a whole lot of other energy.

we're going to talk about that counters that energy that can very much sort of like be in a tug of war with that energy and so we'll talk about it in a second but that airy sun once again initiating beginning something beginning to understand resource beginning to understand what you have and can make happen for your security uh is that what resource means part of the question of your chart part of the learning of your chart is what does resource mean that is part of what you are here to ask yourself what do I mean when I say resource because we're going to talk about your moon sign you have a Taurus moon and Taurus is again the first earth sign it is ruled by the planet Venus and it wants comfort

it wants beauty it wants ease and pleasure it wants safety and security it wants a slowness now that's counter to that aries sun that wants a fastness but the moon says inside I need that process to be slow so what can happen I imagine is that things may look like they happen quickly outside but you've been stewing in it for a long long long time before it comes into being because tourist energy is fixed energy it doesn't change easy It doesn't enjoy moving until it wants to move. It's a very comfortable ox, chilling wherever it is.

Now, you have some complications around. This is one happening in the third house, which is the House of Communication. The other piece about Ares that's really important is Ares is also the energy of anger. It is here to channel our frustration and our anger. But if you have placements that are not prone to feeling angry, not prone to letting yourself be fully, self-expressed, then it can be difficult to access what Aries is trying to get you to feel, which might be righteous rage, right? And so that tourist moon can be afraid to disrupt its comfort. Now, what's happening for you is you have Chiron sitting two degrees away from your moon.

Chiron is our wounded healer. Chiron in mythology was born to a more. mortal mother and a father who was a god, abandoned by both, sent to live with the centaurs, who are the Sagittarius's, wounded in a game with the centaurs, because Sagittarius has played too much, and wounded in a way that would have been fatal, if not for the fact that Kaidram was half God. So he couldn't die. But because he was half human, he could feel pain. And so he had to learn to live with this insufferable, this extreme debilitating pain for the entirety of his existence. But what Chiron did was learn how to work with this wound in such a way that he became an incredible healer, a healer of the ages, developed so many saves and tinctures and balms

that went on to heal many other people through the efforts of learning to work with his own wound. And so Chiron represents where this tenderness exists in us, but when we learn to work with it, it becomes a profound gift for others. It becomes the way in which we offer help to others. And so Chiron represents where we feel insecurity and uncertainty and instability in our lives. And so this Chiron is sitting next to your moon that wants nothing but comfort, There wants nothing but soothing. There wants nothing but sweetness. And then the part of you that says, I don't believe it.

I can't trust it. No, it's not safe. I don't believe it. It's actually the part of you that even slows down that process even more because it doesn't trust it. So when change does come, when something wants to start new, when something is coming up that is intense and deep and about you comes up, there is a part of you that says, I am not sure I trust that. I don't trust my own inner safety and security. I don't trust that I can be fully self-expressed.

There's a story of disconnection, right? If I do that, then I will lose this. Right? Mm-hmm. And so part of what you're here to do is to learn how to move to a higher octave of your own personal understanding, and that's coming through your rising sign, which is in Pisces. Pisces is one of those duality placements. Remember Jim and I? The Twins. Pisces is the two fish. It's the last water sign of the cycle, and it is

where things return to the void. It is where we see. surrender back to collective consciousness. The way that I describe it is it is the ocean and the drop of water and the drop of water in the ocean. You can't extract them, right? They are one thing. But they are two forms. And this is what is so important about this duality placement of Pisces, these two fish. One fish is collective consciousness. It is the you that is connected to everything, which means it's the you that absorbs into everything. It's the you that is connected to every other person's emotional field, every other energetic field. And you have so much energy in this place, in your chart. You have got five placements happening in this chart in Pisces, all just

hanging out. And so your ability to merge with everything is a very strong ability. You can merge with all of life. And when I see a rising sign next to, in your case, a South Node, right? And South Node, remember, is that energy that is leaving? It's the energy we're over relying on. It says one of these fish has done a lot and one of these fish is undermoved. One of these fish needs to swim. All this energy to me says your collective consciousness fish is great.

It has taken its journey. You are, you know how to be with the other. You know how to merge with the other. You know how to escape into the other. That is a key, oh, I'm sorry. That is a key word. That's a key word for Pisces and it's more human energies is escape into the other. Let me not be seen.

Let me hide behind. Let me be, let me dissolve in the background. and put the other energy forward. However, the other fish is the individual. When both fish make their full journey, they land at Pisces opposite sign, Virgo. And remember what Virgo is? A whole human, a whole sovereign human.

Both fish have to go. The fish that understands its role in the collective, It understands and feels everyone. It is merged with source and the fish who understands that it came here to be an individual, to have its own separate, distinct journey from everyone else. It understands that we can be both individual

and belong to everything and that the illusion is that those are two separate things. And so you are here to take that higher, that ascendant version of Pisces, that rising sign says the other fish is time to swim. The fish that knows what it wants, that trusts that it can feel good in itself, the trust that it can be moved by its own comfort and desires,

and then move from that place, take action from its internal, source of enoughness. Taurus is a great sign about enoughness. It's the bounty and abundance of life. But the bounty and abundance of life is both inside of our relationship with the collective and also inside of us. Both fish have to go.

And your individual fish is needing to take its journey. And that's your sun and your moon and your rising. Wow. Why are you saying well? That last bit feels like I get it when you were like the collective and the power and you can feel things and your purposes to fold in and be one amoeba body that goes. I'm like, yes, that's correct. This is the way. I love it. I love it. Nailing it.

It's funny when you say. Because I'm like, my immediate instinct is like, I can't wait to, like, sit and think about that for a long time and marinate on it. And that's my little ram that's like, we'll just sit here for six years and think about that. We'll just sit. This is comfortable. Ponder. We're going to ponder right here comfortably. But then what's so interesting is that when you're talking about the moon of the tourist and ease and comfort and whatever, I'm like, I don't know what those things are.

Right, because your Chiron says that's not true. Chiron says, it's not possible. Your moon is like, I deeply desire it, and Chiron's like, can't have it. And the work is to be like, what is the story I'm telling myself that makes me believe I can't? That's the resource. Remember I said, your chart is asking, what is the resource? Holy shit. What do I mean when I say resource?

Resource is the belief that comfort and ease is available to you, that actually you can have. have it. But you would have to decide that you want it. And sometimes what you want will be different than what the amoeba body wants. And sometimes you got to choose you because you too are the resource. Your will, your desire is also the resource. It is also the essential aspect of the whole. I was just in therapy last week. We were doing a bunch of parts work. We were trying to figure out like this connection between this thing that keeps happening like what like little kid me and like what the message is. And the message of the story was we, meaning me little and me big, we don't get that. We don't get to have that. Which was this idea of comfort and security

and surrender. And that was the line. We don't get that. Yeah. That's not for us. So what's interesting in your chart, you have what is called a stelium. And estelium is when we have three or more placements or planets in the same sign or house. And so, like I said, you have five happening here. And this is happening in the first house. It's your sense of self, your sense of identity, right? Very overcompensated in this area of the other. The other side of this, right, is Virgo.

This is your whole journey. So your north note, where your soul is going inside of this. is this story of your whole sovereign self, right? That's where you're going. Is sovereignty, Seventh House, in relationship? Sovereign in relationship. That's where your soul is going. That feels difficult because you have this Saturn.

Remember, Saturn is our restrictions, restrictions, constrictions, boundaries. I don't get to have that until you figure out the work it's asking you to do. And Saturn says, retrograde. If you see there's a little R there, that means that when Saturn was in this placement when you were born, it was in retrograde, retrograde, meaning that there is something that you are being asked to look back at, something you are being asked to review, reflect, reorient

to, reinterpret, all of those rewords, reinterpret your work. Saturn is work. Vergo is sovereignty. reinterpret your work through a different lens and the third house where this kairon and your moon are is governed by Gemini you know what Gemini is the storyteller Gemini comes up with all the ideas with all the stories you get to reinterpret you need to tell a different story reinterpret the story of what you get to have reinterpret the story of your work such that it includes your pleasure your peace your ease your joy now why is this difficult for you because you have the same thing Abby has which is a little one degree Venus in the first house hello preschool class you are the cutest I love that y'all are such a preschool class

that you started a whole podcast for your class so then I can do this together. It's the cutest thing in the world. It's Adorbs, where each of you get to practice learning how to do these new things that you are very here and very new to do, brand new lessons,

that you all get to support each other in. And now that all three of you have very clear language about what it is you're supporting each other in. First of all, you've been doing it already because we're living our charts. whether we consciously are living them or not, the energy is always moving us toward our evolution.

And so this is why you've been moving in the ways you've been moving. This is why you said we can do hard things, because you're like, this is very hard. These are very hard new lessons. We're all doing these hard things, but we can do them, you know? And each of you has these beautiful placements of togetherness, right? You each have these Pisces placements, And you have this work of the collective that is inside of you, and you each have these individual

new lessons that you are here to initiate and live into, and you're here to be each other's teammates, right? To really support one another in the journey. Wow. Everything that you've said is exactly what each of us is spinning around. Amanda, can you talk a little bit about how you're feeling right now and what you got from that or what's happening inside of that? you it's wild how like on the nose it's wild the idea of resource the idea of do you exist separate from the collective should you even exist separate from the collective like is that a beautiful thing or is that an escape route the idea of thinking that I don't get to have certain things like just certain things aren't for me like I can see

that they're great and I can appreciate them and I can even like in my wildest little thoughts imagine them but just knowing like looking inside a window of a store that you just can't go in there and get it all of that stuff feels really right it feels like impossible to get but at the same time knowing that it's like a self-imposed prison at the same time yeah but not knowing how to do that. And the sovereignty and in relationship really resonates with me so much. I'm trying to think in my head, is that about marriage? Is that about you and me, Glennon?

Because I don't know how to exist without feeling like, well, what is it about Glennon? Or is it my kids? Or is it all of it? The key thing that I want to sort of hone in on is that part of that, those placements in duality is that they keep in our minds returning us to the story of either or that it's this or it's that right so we keep going back to like is it this is it that and what all of it is asking us to do is say that it is the whole right the idea that your individual journey is somehow separate from the journey of the collective is the story that your soul is asking you to rewrite there is no separation This thing that you want for the world, you cannot say, I want food and nourishment and peace and comfort for the people of Gaza, and then say, but I don't get it.

Because you are them, and they are you. There is no separation. And so if it is unavailable to you, you become part of the constricted energy, then, makes it unavailable to them. And so part of this work that we are doing and transforming the world is saying, can I be the energetic embodiment of that which I desire to see come into being for all beings? If it comes into being for all beings but me, then it didn't come into being. And so you, each thing that you want for the other, you must want for you. It is an essential part of the work. And I know that all you all got these good Virgo placement work things. So see it as part of the divine work is that you are the energetic imprint. You are the one of the many cells that must come into its full light for a thing to be born, right?

And if you have decided that your cell can't have the thing, then you have one less possibility in life for that thing to be birth. The other thing I wanted to say, right, I know it felt big and intense, and I just gave you three planets in your charts. And you saw how many planets are in your charts. So there's a full story there. There is no energy of challenge in our charts where there is not a pathway towards its ease. We are not here to suffer. We are here to come in alignment.

And so in a full reading, which usually my readings are like 90 minutes, you get all of that. I need a 90 minute session. And I'm just saying. How do people do that? I mean, asking for a friend. But if someone's listening and they want to go to your Instagram page, go to your website. I would say that people can email me, Sonia Renee, at Sonia Renee Taylor and say, I'm interested in a reading. And then I will get back to them with the link where they can book directly.

Can you say one more time the thing you said about the suffering being the difference between what was that? Do you remember? So here is our souls. And here is our personalities, and the space in between is called suffering. And the goal of our evolutionary journey on this planet, both inside of ourselves and in the collective, is to reduce suffering. And the way we do that is by becoming in alignment with our souls. So if one is trying to reduce suffering, if one is constantly believing that their soul's

mission is to reduce suffering, and so one is going out every day and, trying to reduce suffering before they make sure that they're not in alignment. It's perhaps a little, you're probably not, well, we know you're not reducing suffering because you haven't reduced yours. I think this is the place where I love how astrology takes me back to the work of radical self-love, that we cannot build externally, that which we have not built internally, that that which we desire to see in the world, we must first be the template of. we must be and we are not building separately we are building you know concurrently we are building alongside each other but every tool i develop in me and becomes the master tool for what i use out in the

world okay well i'm going to go take a nap because it's nap time and then i'm going to get a finger paint yes these are the exact activities for the remainder of the day perfect Sonia Renee Taylor, I freaking love you. I love you all so much. I love you all so much for this time in this offering. It's always a joy to get to be with you all. It's always a joy to get to be with your community. And yeah, thank you for having,

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All right, we just had that experience with Sonia, and I just really wanted the three of us to get back together with our sweet pod squad. And I would like to just talk about what is coming up as specifically as possible in relation to what's going on in our lives. Let's ground it in real life. And everyone just share what they heard Sonia saying to them. about their real lives. One of the things that I was really taken aback by, well, many.

There was just so many things she was saying that I'm like currently dealing with in my life right the second. I've worked really hard in my life and have been driven towards, we've been talking a lot about like relevance and how in my deepest need for self-worthiness, I thought that getting outside relevance and also outside praise, whether it's from the world or like the people closest to me, is the thing that would stabilize me in my life, is the thing that would bring me meaning or path, purpose, love at the end of it. And I've been so wired to believe that if I'm doing something on a grand scale, that can be measured by metrics of goals or

downloads and social media followers, you name it. Any kind of metric that is suited part of my personality for a long time. And I think I am coming to the end of it suiting me at the root of it all. It's the question in trying to answer the definition of like what is enough. We were talking with our son last night and I just was like, in my last breath, I want the people in my life to know that I love them. And it's shocking to me that it was more about what other people thought the way that I felt about them in this conversation it's like what were other people's experiences of me more than what was my experience of them I don't know what that really means I think I'm having like some sort of paradigm shift around what enough is around the way that

I organize my life what I value like the value that I've put on this externalized self and how I measure that and what is important to me like Like what is really important to me and why? Maybe part of my soul or self needed to have the strength and the ability to always be like, no, no, like you have done good. You don't need to keep doing so much. You're thinking about re-evaluating the metrics through which you make decisions and find your worthiness. And maybe it's not a bunch of outer accolades or numbers or metrics.

Maybe it's something else. You said something to me yesterday that I can't stop thinking about. And I'm curious more about it right now. Like, what is my resistance to what you say around? Can this be enough? Like, without thinking about needing to acquire anything else, can we live in the fullness and the enoughness of the now and the what we have? And there's something in my body that is like, what? I know. It's so upsetting to you. Because I've oriented my whole life around dreaming bigger things of thinking. that there's something bigger, better out there that I can be participating in or try. And it is a really good avoidance tactic to not love myself if I'm always searching out there for something else. It's this really great avoidance thing.

So, yeah, all of this was really meaningful. All of this is really, really important for this particular moment in my life. Abby, when you're talking about inability to even comprehend the idea, that you would just be able to be satisfied with whatever is how does that relate to what sonya was saying about your work being mothering yourself like what is that relationship about the mothering piece with the not even being able to comprehend this is good enough i think that the need to mother myself has always been there. And I have externalized all of the need to soothe myself, whether it be Glennon or booze or sports or whatever. The next plan,

the next dream. Yeah, the next dopamine hit. I think that that is all tied up with the enoughness component of what I'm like really thinking a lot about right now in my personal life and that maybe the enoughness is in me and maybe I just need to focus on myself and the mothering of my own spirit and to learn like once and for all it feels like this might and could be like the final frontier or something for me that if I just really did buy into this idea of loving myself through the mothering of myself because I love my people so much in a lot of ways because of the mothering that like that taking care of instinct one of the direct correlations and and I'll reference the conversation we were having yesterday was

Abby was talking about something she might like to do in her life with her time that was not directly tied to building or money or success or something she was circling around this idea like, could I do that thing, even if it doesn't have the quote-unquote value, we usually make decisions around work? And so that led to me saying, I think so. I think we could change all the metrics that we use to decide how we spend our energy and time and love. Could we, if we're going to change that metric, could we circle around the idea that we don't need to want anything more though. Maybe in order to say enough to hustle to building to all that mentality, that might be tied to looking at what we have right now and looking at our life and looking at

each other and saying, can this be enough? Do we have to make up another, yet another goalposts to move? I feel suspicious and this is something that we spin around a lot of the word dream. I don't understand what that means. Like we have a kind of a push and pull. where Abby's a dreamer and that sometimes means something else. It means something other than what is going on right now. To me, that's just how I experience it. Like, I will be happy when. Yes, like there's another dream.

There's another whatever. The way that I see things is I am suspicious of that because I have around me every single thing that I have ever even considered dreaming of in terms of like relationship and life. And so the idea that maybe this isn't even enough, and there has to be something else scares me. Then do we just make up shit. We continue to trade life, energy, and time and whatever for these horizon things. And we're going to get there.

And wherever you go there you are, so then is it going to be another thing? You can't get enough of what you never really need. So if you never needed it to begin with, is it just, it's going to be one dream and then another dream and then another dream. Is it a dream or is it a distraction? And I love that part of Abby too, though. So it's like there's not a right or wrong or good and bad. When I have my dreams of life, I think that what I'm really saying is I want more peace because I have a certain dream for our future. And what I'm saying is like it's not about the thing or the place or whatever. It's about the feeling. And so that really hit me yesterday that like,

oh yeah if i can't actually feel the feeling now then i have to reorient my life in order to feel the feeling before i do any kind of acquiring of material thing the material thing is not going to give me the feeling exactly it's like how we cut out the middleman whatever the thing is what does it represent that we could give ourselves now yeah that is not tied to trading more bullshit. It's like cutting out the path that we're telling ourselves we have to do to get that thing when actually what does it symbolize? It symbolizes can we just find a way to do it now, but that requires enoughness. And somehow this is all tied to everything going on in the world. It's just it's like capitalism. The lie of what I've been told about what retirement is.

And like what does that mean? Especially because I went through it 10 years ago after soccer. Like it's just everything is like very confusing. And I guess this is what I'm trying to say is I don't know how to have peace without having had a goal to achieve it. Right? Like I've always set myself up with these metrics or these goals and I'm very stubborn and I will go for years in order to get the thing. Yeah, that was your tool for that. So of course, if that's the tool that has always brought you the thing, you always go back to the tool that worked. And so this is different. You know, I'm thinking, as you guys are talking, I'm thinking of the Audrey. Lord, quote, look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look a lot like the future you are dreaming. That makes sense,

right? Because there's never a future that arrives unless it is a present that you are constructing to arrive there. That's right. I've been trying to think about that lately with little micro decisions. Even last night, it was very contrary to my muscle memory when you wrote last night. And there was someone we were trying to get a meeting with. And it was like 7.30. Our time, you were like, she said she could jump on now. You know, I was in the middle of doing math with Bobby. A hundred other times out of a hundred times. I would have been like, okay, we got to regroup. I'm leaving this. I'm going to go jump on that call. And I had to physically restrain myself to write to you because of that quote. Because I was like, I don't want to live forever jumping off.

of things that I am doing to have meetings that I have constructed to believe there are emergencies because they're not. So I had to be like, can't do it now. Let's see if she can do it tomorrow. That was because of that quote. Because I'm like, if I don't start now, it never arrives. That's right. Good job. I recognize that in the moment. I felt like it was a mini version of the Ben Affleck thing where he's like in Goodwill Hunting where he's like, I hope one day I'm going to come here and you're not going to be in this house. That's how I felt in that moment. I was like, oh, interesting different step in the dance. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of what are you personally in your own life taking from what Sonia just said? First of all, just wild. Whether you

believe astrology or not, that was a really wild fucking experience to have someone who doesn't know what has been going on very closely, intimately in conversations to call out word for word what you need to work on. And it also feels, I think, very liberatory in a way because it's like we think we're all these like enigmas and who could ever figure us out. And just like this complicated mess. She's like, not really at all. I can tell you right now by looking at a piece of paper and that feels actually very cozy and nice there were several things that she said but there feels a sadness and a relief about what she was saying about the moon about what is supposed to be my moon what is my moon is joy and comfort and beauty and ease

and then this kairon that keeps me believing that I could never have access to it so that rings true really closely in my life it's kind of like feels as tormenting as it sounds to be looking in the window and never be able to go in because you don't think you get to what's so weird and this might make no sense at all but how obsessed I am with thrifting things and I was thinking about a coat that I wore to Liz Gilbert's event that happened on Sunday. And I was just thinking about that coat. I got it at a thrift store. It was this like silk gold coat.

And I was thinking, when did I get that? Okay, that's when I was traveling by myself, I was trying to, and I calculated it. It was 26 years ago that I got that coat. And then I was like, huh, is that the first time I've worn that coat? And I was like, yeah. That's the first time I've worn that coat. okay and here's the thing it was just an observation it wasn't like but i think that coat is so fucking beautiful that i just wanted to have it it never occurred to me that it was weird that

for 26 years and seven moves i have moved that coat from place to place having never worn it because just because it's beautiful and i love it And I was thinking, that's really funny about me. And then to hear this today, maybe I just love beautiful things. And maybe ease is something that I could have. If just I told a different story. If just I changed my idea of resource. Because when she said your son is in the house of resource, I thought, oh, resource is money.

I thought, that's weird that my son is in the house of money. money. Then when she was saying, no, your job is to figure out what resource is. And it was like, oh, wait, that's really interesting. What does that mean? Your job is to figure out what resource means or what did that mean to you? Like your job is to figure out from where your energy comes or what does that mean to you? To me, when I think about what resources, of course my instinct was money. But when you think about what actually resources, we have four sets of resources in our lives that I can think about right now. We have money and material resources. We have health. We have time and we have relationship. This goes to Abby conversation.

If you think resources money, then you're going to spend your time, your health, and your relationships making it. If you think your resources health, you're going to spend your time, your money, and your relationships building your health. deciding what resources seems to be a super and fucking important thing because then you decide what is the most important resources. And maybe that changes over time. Maybe sometime in certain periods of your life, it's like I actually am going to spend my health and my time building my material resources. If you decide that one resource is one resource for your whole life, what could be the definition of stupidity more than that? That's right. There is a certain

point where you have to balance your resources and say what do I actually value more and what resources do I have that I can use to build the one that I value more. I think that's what she's asking me to do, which is to say, what are your resources? What do you value and what do you have a story of scarcity around that is not allowing you to make a more wise decision? Or just be in connection. with the other things that you do value because sometimes we prioritize let's say it's the resource of money and material things a lot of us myself included prioritize this a lot of our life and so what it does is it deprioritizes all of these other things yeah and not only de-prioritizes you spend you use them you deplete those resources by definition it's not just devaluing You deplete your health, you exhaust your time, and you tax your relationships to build your wealth. Maybe you don't. Maybe there's a perfect plane in which you don't have to do that, but you're going to have to get honest with yourself about the costs of some resources to build others.

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our life are tied to the macro. Like I think that we are looking at and seeing on the news and in the world what the extreme of this looks like and does. What the extreme of only valuing the resource of power and money. Fuck the rest. Fuck relationships. fuck taking care of each other, fuck the planet, fuck everything looks like in the extreme. And I think that awake, alive, conscious people are then realizing, oh, wait a minute, how am I doing that? If I don't want that in the world, I can only control this little life. So how do I reorder everything in my life so I am not recreating that bullshit?

So I am living in a different way than what I'm seeing and criticizing. It's like man in the mirror shit. It's also the Audrey Lord thing. You know, take a close look at the life you are constructing. It should look a lot like the life you are dreaming. Like take a close look at the world that you are constructing. It should look a lot like the world you're dreaming for everyone. Like that makes sense.

I don't know if she said anything as directly as she. She said, you need to reevaluate your work. Wow. That was something. That was like when Santa's like, I'm going to give you a yellow and black polka dotted trade. You can't fuck around with that. Like, you better get a yellow polka dot a trade. Like that wasn't like something you love.

I was like, shit. What does that mean to you in this moment? What are you thinking? You know, when she said that about rethinking work, What came was just a flood of recognition of what I have always believed about the moonship. Like, I don't get to do something and do it as work that doesn't feel hard, that doesn't exhaust me. That doesn't require doing what is good for everyone. That binary that she was talking about. If it's work, it's got to look like this.

And just being like, is there a world in which work has ease? Have I been part of creating a ethos of work that requires suffering because it's what I thought I required? That stuff was crazy what she was saying about the fish going and about that fish of individuality needs to go. You've always said that you have a hard time determining what you want. That has been a theme. You have a hard time. Your default is what is needed. what can I perceive that is needed from the collective?

And I'll do that. But being still, however people find what they want, what they would ever, that is not something that you are either trained in or familiar with. Is that fair? When she was talking about that, that rang totally true. When a situation comes up, it is very hard for me to identify what do I want or I prefer here. Like I see it as like an ecosystem whole of what is on balance best and what is required. It's not like, oh, I really want the pancakes, but everyone wants waffles. I'm like, the answer is X.

That's what the situation is calling for is X. And I don't really know my way through that. And so I think that is a lot of what she was saying. And it makes total sense now. It's not like a failure. It's like my other little fish, which is a very good fish. It's very helpful and very valuable has just been doing all the swimming. Because to me, resource is that other fish. To me, resource is not money, time, energy, health. Resource is that thing inside of you that for me is connected to divine, to God, to whatever, that is constantly saying this, this, this, not this, not this, this.

And fine, go around and fuck with the not this. I see you and then you'll break down soon. Then we'll come back to this. Resource is like a connection to something that is always guiding or pushing or insisting. And then those other things are how you disperse the resource. I just wonder about that because I don't actually believe that you don't have that. That you don't have the internal thing that will pop up and say this or not this. It just doesn't make any sense.

And I think that's what Sonia was saying too. I don't agree with that. I don't think that she was saying that. I think she was saying it is my work to find that. Just because it's super strong in you doesn't mean that it isn't true that it is super quiet and others. I think she's saying that like a lot of people have that strong as a natural thing. And a lot of people's journey is to find it.

And it is mine. And it's real. That is my journey to the integrated. essential where like both fishes come up on top and you're one person I think that's my journey I don't think that I'm denying it and just to advocate for those of us who don't no I wasn't what I was saying that what I was saying was I don't think it's true that you don't have it I think everybody has both everybody has an easier time with one than the other we're all completely divine and we're all completely human and maybe some of us just our comfort zones are in different

spots. Yeah, I think maybe it's like a capacity and a practice. I think it could be that those things aren't currently active for some of us because we haven't exercised them. But I agree with you that like that is that practice and the work on it, what you're saying with the work is what would probably reveal and make it accessible. Yeah, I just wondered if there was something there. Sometimes for me, when I need to hear more loudly from something, I have to take other things away, it's easier for me to turn towards. If being surrounded by collective needs might make it harder for you to practice hearing from the individual resource. Sometimes if you want to hear something, you have to really harshly quiet other things. The whole coat thing is so fascinating to me,

because that, to me, is just the most beautiful metaphor. You can identify the coat. You know where the thrift store is. You can see the most beautiful coat. You can buy the most beautiful coat. You can have the most beautiful coat. And you can put it in your closet and think you never deserve to put it on. There is no occasion with which to put it on is what I was kind of hearing Sonia say,

both of you back and forth, which is like, I'm looking in the window. I just can't have that stuff. I see the rest and the ease and the pleasure in my closet. I just don't put it on. Yeah, it's so interesting. I totally see it that way. And then I also see it a completely other way. I was like, that's just fucking delightful about me.

That, like, I have had no shame about not wearing the coat. I have no like, oh, my God, I can't believe in hauling that around for 25 years. I'm like, every time put it in my closet, I'm like, oh, God, I love that coat. Gives me joy. Just I want the coat just because I love the coat. Oh, that's amazing. Okay. You know how like some people go on vacation and it feels like they went on vacation in order

to post pictures of their vacation? Like if you told them they couldn't post pictures of their vacation, they would have just been like, fuck the vacation. I don't even want to go there. Like it feels like the opposite with me in the coat. Oh my God. That's so funny. I just value this.

It was, we're talking about like I probably spent $16 on it. Like, but the, it just has inherent value of beauty. Well, that was incredible. and obviously hit us really hard. I do feel like we just have a lot of processing and thinking through what just happened to us. Agreed. Pod Squad, thank you for hanging in there with us

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