Into the Unknown (Vlog)
Happy whenever it is for you, my friends! This morning I decided to go live and vlog rather than sitting down to write. I’ve got to get over to Park House this morning and finish up some paint work before our realtor comes through tomorrow!
But this is far from the last you’ll be seeing of me. I’ll be live again (more likely in the afternoon) for the Monday Morning Vibe Check, then I’ll be back for the rest of the week with Ultimate Blog Challenge posts. :)
Watch or read on to hear the latest!
INTO THE UNKNOWN - VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Note: Transcript may not be 100% accurate to audio.
It is a bright and early Sunday morning as I sit down to record this, and I just wanted to get on today and do a vlog because I have a lot that I am going to be doing for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately with the Ultimate Blog Challenge, you know, I started strong, and I was pre-writing, and I was getting a runway ahead of me. And then with everything going on with preparing the park house to sell, I just have not been able to keep up with it.
And I love the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I try to do it at least once a year. I think it’s really fun. But on that note, we are coming to the end of it since today is the 26th. The challenge ends at the end of October. And so you will see less content from me moving forward. You know, writing a long-form piece a day is not a sustainable pace for most of us, obviously.
In November, I’m planning to really focus on my novel.
So yeah, I just wanted to talk today about where I’m at.
I titled this Into the Unknown because that’s where I feel like I’m at, is just sort of being in this liminal space. You know, it’s Samhain season. We’re literally going right into Samhain next week. And you know, this time every year I look back. I look back on my trajectory. I look back on where I’ve come from, what’s died, what’s being reborn, all of it. So I’m kind of coming up to the cusp of that.
I invite you, if you feel the call of this season, to really play with that and see what is kind of coming up and being reborn or dying off in your own life.
And it’s just a feel in the air, so to speak. I’ve felt this difference in the presence of guides and ancestors in these past few weeks. I know that I am amping up for something that I can’t even begin to be able to describe. And I think a lot of us feel like we are in a similar creative space where there is this unknown quality.
Everything is so uncertain. The world feels like it’s changing just on fundamental levels. Like we as species are going through a transformation, and that we are looking to how we have been and wondering how we can be instead.
And it’s really exciting to know that we can change and I can feel the change in the waves of the collective. And I’m just holding this vision that through us, through each one of us doing our own inner work, through each of us honoring who we are and who we came here to be, that we will continue to be the trend, the flow, the wave that waves out into the collective and brings with it more self-love and compassion. So things, again, feel very uncertain and unknown.
And in my own life, they just feel really like topsy-turvy because so much isn’t in transition. But with it is this possibility that I haven’t felt before, and it really excites me. So I invite you to hold that possibility in yourself too, that we could be going into something greater than what’s here, something that is more nourishing and more soul-reviving, enlivening than maybe what you’re doing in your day-to-day.
I really feel like that’s here for us, and as we transition into Samhain and the Witch’s New Year. May it be a new beginning for many of us.
The Between the Veils Event
So the other thing I wanted to talk about today is just feeling into this Between the Veils eight days event that I have coming up. Because friends, when I tell you that the universe provides, I mean it. And sincerely, through amping up for this event, the universe has provided for me over and over and over again in terms of lessons, materials, real life learnings, collaborative opportunities. It’s been a lot.
And just in case you don’t know anything about this upcoming event, my dear friend Dr. Melissa Bird and I are going live eight, so it’s eight day total. We’re going live six days out of those eight days. Two of the other days are a stillness day and a ritual day. And we are going to be going live on my YouTube channel at 10 a.m. Eastern, Monday through Friday, and then the following Monday. And we are going to be channeling, downloading, talking about, activating all of these topics that just, you know, with this liminal transitional space we’re in, get me so excited because I see the opportunity for so many of us to pivot, myself included, and I’ll get into that.
But we’re going to be talking about things like decolonizing your ritual practice, working with the witch wound, the golden thread, liberation in your spirituality. We’ll be telling some of our stories. And we’ll be pulling cards. I’m sure I’m going to be leading guided experiences. We’re going to be dropping into the body. We’re going to be doing all these things. I’m so excited for it.
When the Universe Provides
Because what’s incredible is that when I make a choice, and I would argue that this is most practitioners doing work in the world, when we make a choice to offer something, when we make a choice to teach something, when we make a choice to show up in the world and talk about something, the universe provides. And it comes in with the lessons, the synchronicities.
I’m watching just a ton of birds fly. Holly, this must be because you’re watching my live stream right now. A bunch of birds just flew up and landed on the power poles right outside here.
I’m just so excited because life pushes us the lessons we need. And we’re amping up to talk about how the patriarchy and colonization and imperialism and just the attitudes of empire in general have forced our hand when it comes to spirituality. And have really shrunk us into boxes and given us one-size-fits-all methodology and belief systems. And I’m just not here for it.
In my cosmic perspective, it doesn’t make sense to me that there would be only one path. At the end of the day, that can be reinterpreted a billion different ways, right? God could be the universe. It could be matter. It could be spirit. It could be this. It could be that.
What does it mean to you?
That’s the biggest question we’re asking you to really sit with in this experience is what does your spirituality mean to you? Because when it’s force-fed, when it’s one size fits all, when it’s here’s how you worship, here’s how you have relationship to God, here’s what you do, that doesn’t honor how diverse we are as a species.
From the Beyond Lemuria deck.
The Card Pull
So I love this message. There’s a little dragonfly, some dolphins. You’ve got these beautiful chakra gems.
This alignment is the gift that we’re inviting you to step into. You don’t even need to do the experience. You could tune in right here right now and claim this alignment for yourself and claim the knowingness of what we’re going to be channeling and talking about, and I bet you you’ll see a difference because what happens in the quantum, what happens in the field has a ripple effect.
But if you like to learn, you like to be a fellow Hermione Granger like me, you like to take notes, you like to listen, you like to have that outside material to play with and bounce off of yourself, I think you’re going to get a lot out of this eight-day magical miniseries. So I hope you’ll join us over there.
Moving Into November
Otherwise, you know, I’m continuing to create. I’m continuing to show up. But as we move into November, I just want to talk a little bit about where I’m orienting next and what I’m needing for myself. Because like I said, we’re going into the unknown.
I’m actually going to pull my little, this is my moon journal, my tarot journal. It’s my all-purpose moon journal. It’s got the moon phases in it and whatnot. It’s very cool.
My card reading for the year had me in October really struggling, and honestly, I’ve been there. I have really been struggling. I’ve been having a lot of self-doubt. I’ve been having a lot of vocal stuff come up. The message alongside this was to connect with the earth and to engage in community. I’ve been doing that. I’ve been leaning on my supports more. I went out and hosted an in-person event. I’ve got all these group opportunities coming up. I’m trying to do what’s mine to do, but I’m looking towards November.
My theme is the refusal to learn versus mastery over thoughts. And if I can unleash my spirit and express my gifts, then I’m on the right path of dancing and the sacred rhythms of life. And I’m sharing this because part of the message in that too is that I need to refine my plans before the year’s end. And here we are coming up to the year’s end, my friends. We’re rolling up to the end of 2025. And just what a wild year it’s been.
Taking a Sabbatical
And so as I’m in this chapter of navigating my unknown and some of my self-doubt, I’m looking forward. I’m looking what’s here now, but I’m also looking forward to the need to plan and to unleash my spirit.
I was talking to a friend the other day as I’ve been leaning on more supports. And I was sending a voice memo and the words that came out of my mouth were, I need a sabbatical. And so in November, I am still planning to show up here on Substack, on YouTube. But that’s about it. Possibly my newsletter. Probably my newsletter. But I’m not really planning to show up on Facebook. I’m probably not going to plan to show up too much on LinkedIn. I just need like a full social media kind of detox for a little bit. And that was what my spirit was saying re-sabbatical. I’m still going to see clients. I’m still going to have access to me open. I’m just not planning and I’m not doing what we did with the UBC again. The UBC, the Ultimate Blog Challenge is like a once a year, maybe twice a year thing, but you will not be seeing daily content from me here, more like weekly as we move into November. And then we’ll see what next year brings.
But even in the midst of the unknown, I am attempting to rally and keep my trust and faith alive.
Today, I’m going to go over and finish two painting projects at the Park House. And then I’m taking a week off from that. And as a recovering people pleaser and codependent, as somebody who has always overgiven, this is big movement stuff for me. If you’ve been following along in the blog, I did this six-part series earlier in the month talking about my chronic illness, my dad’s estate, my inheritance, this house that we’re now selling. It’s just been a blast, a jam-packed chapter of self-discovery and really like dropping into where am I going next.
Walking the Spiral Path
All of these lessons that I’ve learned myself and offered to others are deepening in me now. I’m called back to the spiral to walk the path again and see how far I’ve come as I move forward and upward and out and into my own future. And I know you are doing the same, my beloved friend.
You are just attempting to find the patterns so that you can get out of them and or climb upward in your own trajectory. And that takes tenderness, it takes self-care, it takes deep compassion, and a lot of empowerment. Because if we feel powerless, we just feel stuck. And so that’s where really finding our power, that’s what I’m resourcing, is really refinding my power.
As I’ve felt myself slump a little bit, I have really been dropping in, doing more meditation, more energetic activation to just allow myself to be rejuvenated. And that’s what I’m planning for tonight as well before we kick off this series is to take the evening after I wrap up my paint projects and just really nourish and take care of myself.
So I hope you are going to nourish and take care of yourself, too.
Looking Ahead
Tomorrow’s going to be a busy day. We’ll be kicking off the eight days. I will be doing my Monday morning vibe check because I love doing that over here on Substack. But it will probably be later in the day than it usually is because I will be live at 10 a.m., which is literally like 15 minutes from now. So I don’t think I’m going to do two lives back to back this early in the morning. So I will see you for the Monday Morning Vibe Check.
If you’re not already subscribed on YouTube, feel free to go subscribe over there. That way you can get access to things as they come out over there. And otherwise, I hope you’ll consider joining us for the eight days. And if not, it’s totally okay. It’ll be there for you in the future if you ever decide you need it. And otherwise, it’s there for the people who do. No hard feelings. I just want to make sure you know you have these incredible opportunities to drop in with us and have some fun and some serious soul work. We can do both.
So whatever you are going through in your life right now that feels unknown, uncertain, I just want you to know that you are not alone. I see you. I believe in you. I am cheering you on. I love you so much.
Until tomorrow, I’m Safrianna. Bye for now.
