A Grounding Pause For The August Seasonal Shift

August hits like a threshold: tomatoes still ripen, but the garden starts to thin, the trees hint at change, and something in us quietly turns with it. I’m Emily O’Neal, and I wanted to offer a gentle, grounded pause for anyone who feels that liminal season shift, whether you’re in the Pacific Northwest or listening from a completely different climate. This is a reflective, sensory, spiritual check-in meant to help you come back to your body and your inner life.

We start with a simple 5-senses grounding practice you can do anywhere: noticing what you see, what you can touch, how water feels as you drink it, and what happens when you actually taste your food. From there, we widen the lens to the mind, tracking repetitive thought loops, intense emotions, and the difference between naming a feeling and describing the sensation in your body. If you’ve been ungrounded, overwhelmed, or craving clarity, this kind of mindfulness can be a steady doorway back to yourself.

Then I read an original poem, “August,” and we explore its themes of surrender, devotion, and the sacred truth that some things must fall away to feed what comes next. I pull a card from the Blooming Wand Elemental Wisdom Oracle Deck, and the message is “Depth” and the invitation to explore the mysteries within your soul. 

We talk about intuitive development, journaling as a private practice you can tailor to feel safe, and why real spiritual insight rarely arrives on demand or on a scroll. We also make room for the bittersweet realities of summer, including wildfire smoke, climate change, and choosing mindful action without panic.

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August As A Liminal Season

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Welcome to Blooming Wand, your home for grounded spiritual content. I'm Emily O'Neill, Evidential Psychic Medium, Intuitive Healer and Mentor. And on today's episode, I want to do something a little bit different. I'm not doing a deep dive into any specific topic, but kind of just taking a second to reflect on the month of August and the shift in the season that we experience here, at least in the northern hemisphere, around this time, I always feel the shift in August more than I do other times of year. I feel like that February 1st time is also a time that I really feel a shift in the seasons. But August is the month of harvest. And if you look at the seasonal cycles, it's the halfway point between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox, at least that is October or August 1st, rather. And I think these points that are right in between a solstice and an equinox are really interesting, kind of liminal transitional times because we kind of see different things happening. Summer is ending, it's closing, but it's not gone. Autumn is coming, but it hasn't quite arrived. I know that in my yard the acorns are starting to drop from the oak tree, which is always a sign to me that autumn is on the way. And as I was driving through my neighborhood, I saw that the leaves were already starting to change on some of the trees. And I thought, oh wow. And this was weeks ago. I might have even been a little bit before August. And it's an interesting juxtaposition, right? Because in the garden, I'm still picking tomatoes. There's still some vegetables coming forward. There are things to literally harvest from the land. And also things are starting to kind of peter out. I the flowers are starting to not bloom anymore. The roses are slowly losing all of their blooms. There's a few left. I have my late summer bloomers like my sunflowers and hollyhawk and dahlia that are really going gangbusters right now, but other things are dying away. And I think it's just an interesting time to take a second to look around and check in with ourselves. And sometimes checking in with ourselves means checking in with what is around us and becoming observant. And I feel like I wanted to just offer something contemplative to my Blooming Wand community right now, an invitation, if you will, to wherever you are, because some of you are here in the United States and some of you are in other places around the world. We're in different time zones, we're in different climates. But wherever you are, to stop and take a second to have a seat, pull up a chair, whether you're inside or outside, but find a connection to the world around

A Simple Sensory Grounding Practice

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you. And in doing so, perhaps give yourself a little time to rest and check in with yourself. And so I want you to, if you can, find a place that you can be that's quiet. Save this for later if you can't do that right now. And look around you. What comes to you through your eyes, through your seeing self. Look around the room that you're in, look around wherever it is that you're at. And I want you to notice at least 10 things and take all the time that you need to do that. Write them down or just notice them and move on. And then I want you to notice what you can touch. Maybe you want to move and go touch something with your hands rather than just kind of touching it with your eyes. And then maybe grab a glass of water and feel that water roll down your throat and just ground into your sensing self. Maybe you want to take a bite of something delicious and just really take a second to taste it and to savor it. These are small things, but we all know the small things are not little things and the little things are not small things. But to take in what pleasure and joy and what sensory experience you can in this moment. If you're feeling extremely overwhelmed, this can help with that. If you're not feeling grounded, this can help with that. If you've been having a hard time, this can help with that. Maybe it's also worth noting that it might be helpful to take a second to check in with your thinking mind. What thoughts are running through your head? Are you running an old loop or a tape that just keeps going and going and going? Maybe you want to write it down so you can let it move through you and you can acknowledge, yeah, I'm running that tape. Maybe you've been consumed by intense emotion and it's been really hard for you to endure that feeling. We've all been there, and it's okay to have moments like that. And so just checking in with your body and acknowledging if you're feeling overwhelmed or not, even that is a simple step towards feeling more grounded, is acknowledging the experience that you're having right now. But

When The Seasons Shift, So Do We

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what I want to offer is that when the seasons shift, so do we. Some of us feel the falling away that might come with the approach of autumn. Some of us might be feeling more in that harvesting, like I feel like I'm really gathering things towards myself. I know for me, that harvesting in the garden makes me really reflect on this time last year what I was doing. And the interesting thing is I feel drawn to August because it's actually the month that Blooming Wand was born. It was when the LLC was formed, the company was formed, and I feel like that makes me reflect on this time a lot and to wish Blooming Wand a happy birthday and to feel into the container that is Blooming Wand and where she was six years ago, because it's the six-year anniversary, to now, and it's such a different place. I'm different, Blooming Wand is different. And when I take a step back from this time last year, I'm realizing that I was publishing my Oracle deck. I was working towards that. It was published, I think, last August or October, and it's been out in the world for only one year. I made it myself with Chantelle Davis Gray, who's an amazing designer. She helped me put all those cards together, and it was a really amazing experience. And so I've had the opportunity to see the deck go into the world over the last year. I've been able to work with it myself, and I have to say, I love it more now than I did then. I had hoped it would be a good friend to me and to those who worked with it, and it has become a really good friend to me. And so I always feel this incredible sense of kind of bittersweet feelings of sadness, but also gratitude and love when August arrives. I myself am not much of a summer person. When it's hot here in the Pacific Northwest, I get sleepy. I call myself the cat in the sunspot. I just like to chill out. I am not a go, go, go person in the summertime. I feel like my cycle of power is more fall and winter. I wonder if other people can relate to that. But it's interesting because I feel myself getting a little bit more energized as August falls away. And I just think that that's kind of interesting. So, one of the things I wanted to do in our time together with this episode is I wanted to read a poem. August has always been so special to me. And last year I was going to the grocery store, and all of a sudden, these words around the month of August started to come to me. I had to pull my phone out and dictate them into this app that I use to dictate my ideas into. And I came home after that and really sat with the poem. And I've been working with it for the last year. And I thought, wow, I this came to me last August. I have refined the poem over the year. It's been different things. It was a poem that came to me pretty intact, but I did have to massage the words and the idea until they felt right. And they feel pretty much in the right spot right now. And part of me knowing if they're in the right spot is sort of sharing it with you, reading it aloud to you. And then after I read the poem, I want to pull a card just to help us set an intention for this time of transition, maybe an idea or concept that we can work with if it feels right to you, as we enter into this liminal space that's between the summer solstice and between the autumn equinox, where we get to be in this mix of the death of summer and the coming of autumn and what that means for you. So take a second and think about what you were doing last year in August of 2025? And what's happening in August of 2026? What's shifted? What stayed the same? How are you feeling? Can you remember last year at this time? And obviously, there's no rush around your process for that. This episode is just a yummy invitation. It's like your quiet corner of the internet, if you will, where you can check in with yourself.

The Poem “August” And Yearly Reflection

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So let's dive into this poem, which I've just titled August. August is waltzing to her death. A once youthful gown of summer green crumbles and fades to the brown bone of the crone, and the landscape turns to sleep and dreams. Yawning, too tired to mourn or worry, her body blends with the dying fields as she offers it to the seeds, the roots, the soil. Devotion and devouring converge. August must become the dust, the womb that feeds the grain, the fruit, the flower, the flesh of the gods must rot for the flesh of the gods to be born again. And in the cradle of darkness, as light slowly returns, August is spun into April. The hands of the sun extend to the earth, calling forth browns, now green to skip and scatter across the land, awakened, renewed, and alive. And one of the things I like about this idea of August is that she carries the hope of spring. That when August dies, her body blends into the earth and she offers it to the seeds and to the soil for nutrients. And that in the cradle of her darkness, the death of her body, the body of all that was blooming, now decaying, that within that is the hope of a spring or a new beginning. So if you look at the wheel of the year, August 1st opposite is February 1st, which is the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. And I think that's interesting because in August we have that strange mix of the flowers are dying and then spilling their seeds into the earth, but we still have fruit left to harvest, but we can still see the leaves changing on the trees, and we can kind of see some of the critters out in nature starting to stockpile, if you will. That February 1st, its counterpart, has the same interesting juxtaposition because in that weird transitional between winter and springtime, which is February 1st, you see snow on the ground, but a crocus blooming. So there are things that are in contrast to each other coexisting. And I think that that's really interesting. I wonder if there are things in contrast within you that are also coexisting, parts of yourself that are very different, that somehow dance together to create something miraculous that's maybe hopeful, a renewal, an inner spring. I feel like I want to read the poem again for some reason, so I'm gonna do that and then I'll pull a card. So let me read it one more time and maybe feel into what August represents for you. Does August represent a part of you? Do you have seeds that are falling away into the earth that you have no idea what they'll become? Do they hold the promise of spring for you? I don't know. August is waltzing to her death. A once youthful gown of summer green crumbles and fades to the brown bone of the crone, and the landscape turns to sleep and dreams. Yawning, too tired to mourn or worry, her body blends with the dying fields as she's offering it to the seeds, the roots, the soil. Devotion and devouring converge. August must become the dust, the womb that feeds the grain, the fruit, the flower, the flesh of the gods must rot for the flesh of the gods to be born again. And in the cradle of darkness, as light slowly returns, August is spun into April. The hands of the sun extend to the earth, calling forth browns now green to skip and scatter across the land, awakened, renewed, and alive.

Surrendering To Endings Without Resistance

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I know that when I read that I feel something. I feel that August does not resist her death, that's why I wrote this poem, that she allows her gown of summer green to crumble and fade to the brown bone of the crone, and she allows the landscape of herself to fall into sleep and dreams. I do feel that August will yawn, and in that yawning and stretching, her body blends with the dying fields as she offers that body to the seeds and the roots and the soil. We have to sometimes give ourselves over to the death of things in our life. Maybe it's literal death, maybe it's figurative or metaphorical death, but sometimes we just have to give ourselves over to things and say this is happening and it's gonna happen, just like the seasonal shifts. And that can come with a lot of complicated emotions. Not all of us do it as gracefully as what I'm describing is in this poem. I know I don't. I also like this idea of devotion and devouring converging. So there is something devotional in the way that nature falls into one season after another. And there is something about a devouring that occurs when we shift from one time of year to the next. And I feel like August lends her body to, in devotion to something bigger than herself, the world, the earth, perhaps time, and she allows that body to be devoured. The trees, leaves fall away, the plants die back, seeds become part of the soil, they become blended in with the soil. Sometimes we don't even know how the seeds got into certain places. I've had things crop up in the yard that were quite miraculous. I'm like, where did that come from? It came from some kind of perhaps devotion and devouring. And I like this idea that August, or maybe we could think of August as part of who we are, a part of us, this month that is so interesting, has to become the dust, has to become the womb that feeds the grain, the fruit, and the flower. It's what she does. And I think of August as a god, a goddess, something eternal and powerful, and how even something so eternal and powerful allows its flesh to rot and die away. And that was what this idea of the flesh of the gods must rot for the flesh of the gods to be born again. There's something really sacred about that. And I like to think of this in terms of nature, seasonal cycles, but also in terms of the personal, because there are some things within us that come to completion and that are ready to go. And when we let them go, maybe they become this fruitful soil that will feed something new within us. And these can be subtle things, it doesn't always have to be something that's earth shattering. It can be. And I like this idea that in the cradle of darkness, as light slowly returns, that August is spun up to April, that time when we see the awakening of spring. There's something interesting in that transformation. And I like to also think that the sun does have these hands that do penetrate the earth and that do wriggle around and extend into that darkness and into that soil. And with that sun's warmth, that it calls forth those dead brown things, the things that have fallen away and died, that are now maybe completely disintegrated, and turns it into something green and something promising and something beautiful, and that over time winter becomes something else too, right? Those greens skip and scatter across the land, awakening it, awakening it rather, renewing it and bringing forward new life. I mean, these are simple ideas, these are not new ideas. I'm not talking about anything that a thousand other poets and artists haven't spoken about. But I really do feel like in working with words or poetry or your creative self, which is something that's very close to my heart. I love to connect with my creative self, we can explore things in a deeper way. And some of you might say, Well, I'm not an artist and I'm not a creative. I think we all come to that in our own different ways. And you are an artist and you are creative in your own unique way. And I think we all have the capacity to take a couple notes about things that are coming up with ourselves. And you know that one of my biggest favorite things to recommend is journaling. And I used to hate journaling. And I used to think to myself, that's the dumbest thing. I'm not gonna lie. But I've come to really love and appreciate it. Even if I'm writing something down, like I don't want to write anything today, I'm just like not in the mood. I start with that and then I find, oh, once the pen gets moving on the paper, then some things start coming up. And you know what? You can write something and then stick it in the shredder. You don't have to keep it forever or burn it in a fire. I had one person that I was working with say, I don't want anybody to ever see anything that I've ever written. When I go back and look at what I've written, I'm sometimes mortified at what I see. I'm like, fair enough. Don't keep it then. Nobody said you had to. We can find our way into our own practices and do what we need to do to make ourselves feel comfortable within them and safe. I know there's journal entries. I don't want people looking at it. I think I might be. A crazy person. And in fact, I've even told people if I were to die suddenly and you see all of my journals, just put them in the fire and burn them. If I have anything I want anybody to read, I've shared it. I've written about it through my poetry and through my art. It's probably been on the podcast or on my blog, but other than that, people don't need to see it. So I think we all kind of can have those feelings come up.

Pulling An Oracle Card For Intention

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But on that note, we will pull a card to set an intention as we shift with the seasons. Maybe I'll pull more than one. I am going to use the Blooming Wand Elemental Wisdom Oracle deck. It was a small batch deck that I printed with eco-friendly paper and ink. Obviously, as a nature lover, if I'm creating something, I'm trying to do that in alignment with my values. And I only made a small batch of them. So there's still some left, but once they're gone, that'll be that. I don't know that I will make any more of them. So let's kind of see what we could do. I like this idea of pulling a card because it makes me feel like I'm being able to engage in this practice and this ritual of pulling a card to set an intention. It's not something that's happening to me, like I'm making the choice to set this intention and to work with it. This is not for prediction, future, or fortune telling, or for any kind of community reading. It really is like I'm gonna set an intention. If it resonates with you, play along. If it doesn't, you don't have to. Depth.

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There's something on there. I'm gonna scratch that off before I show it to you.

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Okay, so we got a water card, which is depth, and it's explore the mysteries within your soul. That kind of gives me a giggle because that's kind of what I was talking about with this August and this weird, interesting thing, where just like when we're between the solstice and the equinox, and we're in this August time, and we know that this happens at different points throughout the year, but we hold that duality of kind of like what August does of summer and fall kind of merging. One is not clearly defined, you know, right? They kind of blend together. And we have that inside of us too. And I think that connects to exploring the mysteries within our soul, is we're not one thing, we contain multitudes, right? Like that's what the poets say. So let's take a look at what I wrote in my booklet about depth. I do like to use the booklet because it the deck is intended for intuitive development. So for depth, the intuitive development statement is imagine diving deep into an ocean within yourself. What treasures or insights do you find in your inner depths? And that's really interesting because diving deep in an ocean, into an ocean within yourself, you can even use that visualization as you consider this of that you maybe you are a body of water. And if your awareness were to dive into it, what might you feel or sense? Would you feel nothing? Would you feel a sensation in your body? Would a thought emerge? Whatever emerges as you play with this idea, let it come and explore it from a place of neutral and non-judgment as best as you can. Our reflection is what deeper aspects of yourself are calling for exploration and understanding? This is really interesting because the deeper aspects of ourself that are calling for exploration and understanding can do so in really intense ways through intense emotion or having intense reactions to things. And we think we know what that's about, but if we take a step back, we could realize that maybe we need to cultivate don't know mind, and there's something else going on there. It can also come in really, really subtle ways. I know for me, I've been having intense emotions lately, but I've also been having this subtler thing kind of pulling and tugging at me, and that's what I'm going to be exploring. And it does feel like a tug within my feeling, sensing self, within my body. It's like you're feeling some intense things right now because there's a lot going on in your life. This is what this part is kind of saying to me, but it's not all about that stuff. There's something else that wants my attention. And my senses that it is connected to my need to be more creative. That's what I'm starting to notice and the ways that maybe I want to go about doing that. Here's the affirmation. I dive deep into my soul and discover treasures of wisdom and truth. Yeah. And the affirmation is intended to be something you can stick on a mirror or kind of write out, and it invites us into this idea that you hold so much depth. There's so much there for you to explore. You're wonderful, you're unique, there's only one you. You're the only one that can really go to these places. You can have a guide, a healer, and a helper a hundred percent. But the reality is you're the one that you've been waiting for. And that recognition you seek and the yearning that maybe you feel is a yearning for you to be with you. And maybe you don't know how to do that yet, but just be open to this idea that you can dive into your soul and discover treasures of wisdom and truth. I always like to put an evidence check in. It's something I've added into the booklet because people are like, well, how do I know if I'm doing that? I'm like, I get it. So here's your evidence check. Notice what emerges when you spend time in quiet reflection. Your depths hold wisdom that surface thinking cannot access. So this idea that what emerges when you're in quiet time, this doesn't mean an hour-long meditation. You can do that for sure. But if you just sit and allow yourself to have a quiet moment alone, no technology, maybe just lighting a candle and gazing at the flame and falling into stillness. And in that stillness, recognize maybe your mind is going crazy. Fair enough happens to me all the time. But know that to enter into the depths of ourself, surface thinking can't get us there. And so if you're trying to think your way into your depths, just know that probably won't work. I used to think my way through everything up until maybe 10 years ago. And I'm a middle-aged woman, so we're talking like in my 30s. I had to get help with that. I had to have somebody guide me into like, what are you feeling? Because I would be able to describe everything that was going on, but not the feeling, not where it was in my body. And when I say describe the feeling, some people think they have to name the feeling. That's not what I'm talking about. Name it if you want to, but describe it. Where does it live in your body? You could say something like, I have the sensation in my tummy. It feels gurgly, it feels empty, it feels like a cavern, it's almost like an ache I can't describe, and it's not the need for food to eat, like it's not because I'm hungry, it's something else. And then we say, Mm, I'm curious about that. So you kind of describe it rather than name it. Naming can be helpful too, but I have found that if we want to get out of the thinking mind, learning to describe the sensations is helpful. And here's a last insight I'll leave with you around the depth card. The most profound spiritual insights come from going within, not externalizing, not looking outside yourself. And this card takes you to deeper levels of understanding that transform how you see everything. And this inner exploration is a gradual process that unfolds in its own timing. And I feel like I mentioned that a lot in different things that I talk about in this idea that in the internet age, where you can kind of look anything up on Google AI or wherever, whatever tool you use and find things out, or you can go and scroll through social media and people are giving you bits and bobs of information and insights about XYZ, that is not in and of itself a spiritual practice, that taking some time to sit with the I don't know, do I even really need to know everything right now, and not get that instant hit of information, not get that instant gratification, because the intuitive self, the feeling and sensing self, which I think is what depth is all about, isn't always going to give us instant answers. And I think that when we're uncomfortable or we're in the unknown or we're in this sort of liminal, interesting space, like what August offers, it can be a struggle because we're not here and we're not exactly there. And honestly, we spend most of our lives between this and that. We don't, you know, we hit milestones in our life, but we spend most of our time in between things and in kind of unknown and in the day-to-day. And I think that's kind of natural. Maybe that's the way, maybe that's the way, maybe that's the way, is to lean more into that, especially in these uncertain and tumultuous times. I think we want to fix things and we want to fix it now, and there's a strong sense of urgency. Fair enough, there is a lot going on, but change and good medicine, I think happens diligently over time. I

Depth, Somatic Awareness, And Patience

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know that in my personal self-care and spiritual practices, especially when I take the time to look back like I am in this month of August, I see the time and attention and energy that it took for me to be where I am today. And I offer a lot of gratitude to Past Emily for showing up for her practices that were doing good for her. I know I'm talking to third person, that's kind of weird, but I do kind of think of her as living in that past time. And I look at myself now and I think I'm reaping the reward of that. I'm feeling the harvesting, kind of leaning into this idea that August is a harvest time. And those benefits include self-awareness. I feel like I have more self-awareness. I feel like I have learned what I'm capable of in terms of I made an Oracle deck. I've always wanted to do that. I didn't think I could, but I did. I think of all the writing and research that I've done on behalf of this community and for myself. I have written a lot of poetry this year. And some of them still need some work and playing with, but I'm realizing that I want to write more poetry. And that part of what I've learned is that from showing up a lot and producing content for the Blooming Wong community, it's made me realize that I want to take some of that time and energy and put that to my own just personal creative practice. That it doesn't always have to go out towards others. It can just be for me. And it's from showing up consistently that I've come to this realization that's something that I'm harvesting. I wonder what you're harvesting in this moment. And we tend to associate this idea of harvesting in abundance with money. And I think that that's fair enough, as I like to say, but a lot of times it's something that has to do with our emotional self or our perspective on our life or life in general or relationships that we have with other people. And so we don't always know what our harvest is, and we won't know what we're harvesting within ourselves or what fruits we're gleaning from our efforts if we don't take the time to reflect. And I do feel like reflection and engaging in creative practices or your personal self-care and spiritual practice is a pretty radical act these days. I feel like it's harder and harder for people to make ends meet, to make a living, and I do want to acknowledge that. And quiet time can be 10 minutes of just breathing and being present with your body, and that's it. We start with where we're at, with what we have, with what we're capable of, and that's enough. So you don't have to make this reflection into a big thing, but you can. You can make it into even a ritualistic time. I know that this is kind of a time where I like to do certain things to offer gratitude for the efforts that I've made throughout the year. I know a lot of people probably do this around like January or maybe even around the Yule time at the end of December, but I've always found that this I do it this time of year. And so that's something else I want to offer to you is like, do you kind of have different times of year that mean something different to you than it does to the general population or the general public? I always say we all have our own unique rhythms in it, and just because we work with seasonal cycles doesn't mean like in spring I feel the same energy as what spring is like renewal and rejuvenation. A lot of times in spring, I I actually don't really feel that. I don't always want to wake up from winter and I have different feelings about spring. Spring is actually a time when I can get sad. And I've explored why that is, and I think it's because in part I know I kind of enter into my energetic season, I call it my cycle of power around fall and winter, where I just really enjoy reading and writing and being creative and the darkness. I love the darker days, and other people respond very differently to the darker days. So that's what I mean when it's like we find our own way into things and we can let it be what it is. And that's part of understanding our depth. So I hope that this was a nice, gentle and inspiring episode, not too long, not too short, to get you excited about exploring your depths, about exploring perhaps your relationship to what you have to harvest based off of your experience from last August to this August, in terms of a spiritual harvest, an emotional harvest, an intellectual harvest, all those things. And that it can be fun to notice how you feel about August, about moving into autumn.

Wildfire Smoke, Climate Reflection, Closing

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I also want to name the reason that I I feel something bittersweet about this time of year is because for those of us in the Pacific Northwest, and I know we're not the only ones, there are other parts of the world that have this, we get a lot of wildfire smoke, and you know, in the summer people want to be outside, being that cat in sunspot, maybe enjoying the heat and the warmth like I do. There's a lot of time this year we couldn't do that because of all the smoke that was in the air. And that brings something into this reflection too, that every year, in the summertime, at least here, we're dealing with wildfires. And I think about the nature, you know, the animals and the critters and the plants and the animals. I think about the firefighters dealing with that. I think about my role in society and within my community and how I contribute to things like climate change. Because I do. I'm not a saint. I'm I'm a living person in a complex world. And I also think about my relationship to safety. And I think about those who don't have access to the same safety that I do. And I don't have to fix all that. In fact, I can't. I cannot fix all that, but I explore it and I consider it, and I think it is in that sensation of I can observe something without moving right away to I need to address or fix it. I kind of be with it and notice it. And let the action arise more organically rather than a place of urgency and control, because I feel like we can go from discomfort to action really quickly. And sometimes that action isn't mindful action. We think you might think it is, and then we realize like maybe it wasn't. So lots to think about, right? There is no blog or anything that goes with this. So you'll have to listen and look at the transcript if you want to refer back to certain things. I kind of did this in an off-the-cuff way, inspired by the month of August, inspired by my Blooming One community, our Blooming One community. I'm so glad you're here. I also want to say that in honor of Blooming One's sixth birthday, thank you for those of you that have been with me throughout these years who have supported the work that we do together here. I have been able to do a lot of training and development and skill refinement because you guys have contributed financially by paying for services. I've tried to always give back, knowing that not everybody can afford to work with me one-on-one. That's through the podcast, that's through the blog, that's through the YouTube, and through the free tools in my shop. And I'm figuring things out still. I don't know what the next year will hold for me or Blooming Wand, and it'll be interesting to come back if I'm able to. You never know, this time next year to say, hey, remember last August when we were talking about this poem and all of this stuff? Let's see what happens. So thank you very much for being here. Thank you for supporting my work. You know what I'm gonna say. Take good care of yourselves, get those journals out, and I'll see you soon.