Aline: Hello, gorgeous, and a warm welcome to Accepting. I'm Aline, your host, and in this episode, we're not under the tree of love. I've listened to my body again. I'm not quite at the point where I can sit on the ground with my leg out. It still needs to be elevated, So my body is speaking to me. ⁓ And in episode, we're going to be really feeling into accepting the settling after the eclipse season. We've all been through so much that eclipse season for the beginning of 2026 has been quite a ride so far with the fire horse year. So get yourself settled, comfortable above all. and we're going to be continuing the theme of love over fear and how that's really going to be helping us this year choosing love over fear. So grab yourself a cup of tea, get yourself cozy, and let's dive Hello, gorgeous, and a warm welcome to Accepting. I'm Aline your host, and in this episode, I'm going to be feeling into what's been happening with me for the past week, any messages that are coming through for us, ⁓ and how we're accepting the settle after the eclipse. It's not just okay, eclipse finished. Mercury's gone direct, let's crack on. It's really important that we allow that settle into our bodies. We allow our nervous system to settle down after we've had many of us a rather tumultuous time with the eclipse season. So it's really interesting because I thought thought there we go. I thought I was going to be recording on the eclipse under the tree of love, and my body had other ideas. My ankle is still healing. I mentioned in last week's episode that I woke up be two weeks tomorrow. I woke up and I couldn't move my ankle. I couldn't put pressure on my ankle. I still don't know what's happened to it. ⁓ it's been very, very gently healing, and I've been listening to my body. And even today, I was like, right, okay, I'm gonna get up, I'll be under the tree of love for the sunrise, and we'll record then. And my body just said, Nope. So full disclosure, I am lying on my back. with my legs up in the air after I thought, right, I'm gonna have a release bath. So let's do some releasing and then we can do the episode. The bath was too hot. I started feeling a bit nauseous. So out I came. So it's so important that we listen to our body. And as much as I felt it was really important to purge and just release anything else, my body was like, hang on a minute. You've done an uncrossing candle which was for three days. We went and we buried the snakeskins on the equinox, so we can move forward. We in we need time to allow the settle. And this is what this episode is all about. It's about allowing the settle. And I realized that even in my convalescing, even in my allowing support with my ankle, my nervous system was in a state of well, hang on a minute, we haven't done this, we haven't done that, we haven't done this, we haven't done that. So there wasn't a match there. This morning anyway, and on Equinox as well. That was a really, really strong day day energetically. And at 9 33, I believe it was Spanish time, we went Mercury Direct. As we know, with Mercury Direct, there's usually a shadow of a couple of weeks afterwards. So we've had the eclipse season with Mercury in retrograde, and there has been a lot going on for all of us energetically. So we're really being invited just to take a breath, take our sacred pause. And yes, I have been under the tree of love a couple of times, not on the ground. I've been ⁓ with cushions, so I'm completely supporting and comforting my body as it's healing. And it's really interesting. It's like, well, if you've been doing that for the past couple of weeks, I've I've actually only been under the tree a few times, then How do you think you're going to be able to sit on the ground with your ankle out and record comfortably? And that's a little, ⁓ yeah. Because I had the whole vision, it's really important that you see the tree of love, that we've got the birds singing, etc., etc., etc. And I went into perfectionism again. I went into, well, it has to be, has to be perfect, has to be out in nature, and nature's not perfect. Nature just is. So that was really interesting to feel into that first. That my go-to before I listened to my nervous system and listen to my body was well, I have to be outside because everybody's going to be expecting. So I'm using ⁓ quotation marks. ⁓ everybody's going to be expecting that I'll be outside because that's what I said, and I'm always true to my word. Yes, I'm true to my word. I also As much as we can be true to our word, and we never promise because we've been releasing so much so many ancestral promises, as much as we can be true to our word, it's also to be true to ourselves first. So if there's something in your life, and you said yes, I'll be available, I'll be able to do that, and your body is not able to be in that space for you to be present for that, it is perfectly okay to find another way around it. You know, you can still be present if your body feels that in a different way. So it's really important. And again, it's it's putting ourselves first, you know, it's putting ourselves first. So we fill our cups up before we help everybody else. On ⁓ the day of equinox, I had the uncrossing candle still going, and it was it was beautiful actually, because I was told once the uncrossing candle is finished. You bury the snakes. You bury the snake skins before Equinox. Because over over the years I've collected various snakeskins because I love them. I think they're wonderful. And I had this really clear message. We've left the wood snake now. You've shed your skins. Let's do something symbolic with it. And so what happened was I kept the feeling into well, I was told to bury the snake skins before Equinox and were in the Equinox. And then And then I remembered that everything will happen exactly as it's supposed to happen. And what transpired was the candle just went on and on and on and on. And then I was tell preparing, because it was coming up to sunset on the equinox. Start preparing to go outside. So really gently with ankle supports, all that with the ankle supported, all that kind of thing, make sure you're warm. It was a very windy day. And as I prepared to get ready to go to to watch the sunset, I looked at the flame and it was just starting to dim. And as the sun set, the flame went. And it was really, really beautiful. It was just trusting that moment that at exactly the right moment the candle was going to finish the uncrossing. And it finished on the equinox. And the equinox is when we have equal day and equal night. So it's a balance. It's about balancing. And it's so significant as well because the sunset, sunrise, and 12 o'clock They're the most powerful ⁓ moments of the sun. And for that to exactly as the sun sets, for me was absolutely magical. I didn't it just felt so right. I didn't need any further explanation. And I'd written something a couple of days before when I was dressing and preparing the Uncrossing candle. And ⁓ a spell, if you like, just very, very simple ⁓ rhyming couplets as always. That's how that's how journaling comes out. There's rhyming couplets. And it was it was burying the the snakeskins, and what actually happened was like, okay, well, I need to bury them in the west. ⁓ And then so I need to find somewhere the garden with the soil, ⁓ okay, so now I need to find a All of this was going on, you know, for the preparation. And then I just had the really, really, and then I thought, well, hang on a minute, then they're gonna be in the garden. The snakeskins are gonna be in the garden because I can't walk very far at the moment. And then what happened was I remembered there's a a a tree just at the end of the garden, to the left outside the garden, in the west, and it's where I've I've said thank you very much to beautiful sentient beings when they've passed in my arms. Or they've come to me to pass, or they've been given to me as gifts by my cat guides. ⁓ and I always honour them, ⁓ whatever sentient beings they may be, and it's a tree in the west. So I was told snakes in the west, where you lay all of the sentient beings to rest and thank them. Thank them for their lives. This is what you're doing. You're thanking you're you're thanking the snakeskins for being there. You're thanking your old selves. You're thanking your experiences. And then you're walking away and you're moving on. Yeah, so the so the tree in the West I was told to go to it's so significant because it's the tree in the west, it's where I've been, I've taken various sentient beings, whether that's insects, birds, mice, rats, and I lay them all to rest and thank them for their lives and set them free. And it was so significant to do the same for me. So As the sun had set, we were in dusk, so Hecate time as well, which is that's why it was magical for me. It was Hecate's time, it was Equinox. And I just got everything ready. I had everything ready already. And we went out. Mr. G came with me. He was so excited. We went carefully down to the end of the garden and we went out the left. I had the the snake skins wrapped up already because I worked with one of the spirits who said to me, Yes, it's time for you to bury these. And it's one of the the spirits who actually comes ⁓ sometimes comes in in snake form, is very connected to snakes. So although we're in the year of the fire horse, it was very, very relevant for the equinox for me to bury those snakeskins. Because what we can do is we can heal and heal and heal and heal, and then something comes up and something comes up. So it's allowing the healing to finish. It's allowing that actually I also had the anniversary of my accident on the eighteenth of March. And it was the anniversary of six months since my beautiful girl Cleo passed. So on the Wednesday there was the the anniversary. So my body was still in healing mode. My body was still in allowing things to come up that had been pushed down by my nervous system because I was in constant go, go, go mode. And then my ankle allowing me to actually feel what was really going on because I couldn't run around like a blue bottom fly. And then it was a quiet day on on the Wednesday. And then on the Thursday with a new moon, I thought, okay, well perhaps I'll record here. And I was like, no, no, no, you're not recording here. It wasn't until the Friday, the twentieth, with the equinox, and it was no, you're still not recording. This is still for you. To feel into the settle. And I wasn't even at that settle point yet because I was still in, well am I supposed to be recording? When am I supposed to be burying this? When it questions, questions, questions. Mercury in retrograde for me. Mercury's very strong in my system. so it was so beautiful. Everything completely synced. It was all gorgeous synchronicity. ⁓ uncrossing candle finished as the sunset, just as the sun was setting. I already knew instinctively to have everything ready. I was reminded of the beautiful tree in the west, where I said thank you to beautiful sentient beings who've come to pass with me. And ⁓ That was where I was guided to take the snake skins. It's it's time to say thank you and to bury them and to move on. So that was gorgeous. And the words that I I was given, I spoke those as I had my little trowel and I I made my hole and then I buried them and thanked them very much and walked away. And I went to the medicine wheel and I went in each direction saying these words. And as I was saying these words, other words came up. And in the east it was very much ancestor related. And it was in terms of we felt your anger, now we feel your gifts. Now we move forward with joy, with hope and love, as it is below, so it is above. as ever, whenever I'm working on something for me, I always send it out for others. So ⁓ those of you who are listening, you would have felt it anyway. ⁓ So that was so beautiful. It such a lesson, another class in really, really listening and allowing my to settle. What had also happened ⁓ earlier on in the day was I'd woken up early, I'd made a cake, and I had made lunch because we had ⁓ it was Mother's Day and my ankle wasn't great, so I couldn't do Mother's Day lunch. So I made Mother's Day lunch on Friday as well. I'd made it by half past nine, ten o'clock in the morning, and so that allowed me my body to rest and to prepare for For the releasing. So the candle was still doing her magic. She was still uncrossing and releasing for me. and then I gave the first piece of the cake the Faye as an offering before anybody had any, before anybody had eaten anything in the house. And then later just being in that moment, being under the tree with the Fey and the Elementals, and I felt the ancestors and the wind as well. It was really, really, really beautiful. And it was a real moment because it's actually it was ten years on Wednesday since I had the accident that completely changed my life. And it was a real moving on, stepping on, moving forward. So that is where I find myself at the moment. And it is, it's that balance. And my ankle will be fully recovered very soon, I'm sure. It's allowing the healing. It's allowing the balance. And it feels so important for all of us that yes, we've been through whatever you've been through in the eclipse season, it may be relationships ended, it may be a job ended. it may be you lost loved ones. It may be it maybe you finally let a part of yourself that's not been working for you. You finally let that a part of you go. What came up for me earlier actually, after I had my release bath this morning, ⁓ was I started feeling into old relationships and I haven't done that in a very long time, and I started feeling into How I was showing up then, and how everything, when I look back, everything that I did, underneath it all was people pleasing. So even when I was in my party hedonistic days, if you like, underneath all of that was trying to fit in, trying to be the life of the party, trying to make people happy. Underneath everything was validation. Underneath all of that was. hoping that people would accept me was showing how I thought people would feel more comfortable with me showing up, saying things that I thought people would feel more comfortable with the things that I said. And that's really, really interesting that that has come up. It's I know it's my body is settling and it's just reminding me How far I've actually come. Because there's no judgment. If people want to drink alcohol, that's absolutely fine. It was never something that I was that interested in. And it turned into a way of life. I started going off alcohol in twenty nineteen and I decided to do a year no beer in twenty twenty and I've had elements of alcohol, I don't know, a thimbleful of something or a sip of something here and there, and I'm just not interested in it anymore. Really, really not interested in it. My system just does not want that. So it's natural for us to When we have anniversaries like you know, like I did, it was ten years on Wednesday since I had my accident. I said, Well, what have I done since then? And when I compare, so it was just before it was the year of my 40th birthday when I had my accident. So yeah, good at maths. It's going to be my 50th this year. And my intention been is showing up for me to work with. Which is why my ankle went, which is why I've my body is saying, like, we we really, really need to calm down again. And it's really time for you to live on your own terms, properly on your own terms. So if this is resonating with anybody and it's feeling a bit like, ⁓ I don't know, well, what about them? How are they going to react? I would invite you, my lovely, just to feel into Can you? Live the way you've been living. Running around for everybody else, thinking of everybody else before yourself, becoming ill, still working through that. Sometimes feeling really upset and not knowing why, not feeling happy at work, not feeling happy in a relationship, if you're really, really honest with yourself, can you ⁓ continue like that? And these are questions that I ask myself throughout the years. what it is, what what's ⁓ Coming through for me to say is it's so important. Choosing love over fear. Is an absolute strength, it's not a weakness. As as Kristos mentioned ⁓ a couple of weeks ago, it's not a weakness. Love is not a weakness. It's so important that we look after ourselves before we can look after others. And also it's feeling into well, does that align with actually who I am? With all of the inner work that we've been doing. And if you're new to inner work, that's absolutely wonderful. What you'll start noticing is things will start changing because your vibration is raising and you're aligning to what actually works for you. Naturally, things are going to start changing, and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing because you are being true to yourself. And when you really feel into, well, how often through my life, and this is going a little bit deep, how often through my life have I been really, really true to myself? Or how often have I jumped in and said yes when somebody just asked me, my immediate answer is yes. This is where my healthy boundary checklist comes in, by the way, which is free. And it's in the Link Tree link. So it's really feeling into, okay, so where I am in my life, and there's no blame. We're not blaming anybody else because people react to how we are and people get used to a certain way of us being. So we're not playing the blame game and we're not Playing the blame game with ourselves either. It's about forgiving ourselves because we have lived our life in such a way that has been in survival because we've learned that from whatever age, that for other people to feel happy, for us to feel okay, for us to feel comfortable and accepted and to fit in, this is what works. So now we're at a point where actually, well, what works for me? Because if I'm jumping in and saying yes, A before I'm even asked, or B if I'm asked and I just say it in a split split second. Am I helping myself? And actually am I helping that other person? And is that person actually fully capable of living their life themselves and having their own experiences? And when we start asking ourselves those questions, so this is love over fear, it's honesty, it's getting really, really honest with ourselves. Am I actually helping this situation? If it is an emergency and people are asking for our help, of course we're going to be there. That goes without saying. I'm talking about the knee jerk, the jumping in, that it's so instilled into your body that your body naturally jerks forward when you get the answers, you see the solution and you jump in before somebody's asked you. Or somebody's so used to you just being there and your body's used to being there and jumping in. It's breaking that loop, it's breaking that cycle. And it's with self-love and compassion. And it's interesting we've gone this way. So what my body did was stopped me. ⁓ Because I was doing a lot of running around. ⁓ And what it's allowed me to do is to complete finish cycle. Because What can also happen is so we have I call them the four F's, so there's fight, flight, freeze and fawn. And when we're cave people, it's great to have the limbic brains because if there's any danger, then we're alerted to it and we can make a decision. Fight, flight, freeze. So fight is ⁓ you know the adrenal comes up and we fight, flight, run away, freeze, play dead, hide. hide and play dead. And then Fawn came into play not that long ago, which which which is people pleasing. So the four F's are Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. ⁓ And empaths, as sensitives. If we're not being true to ourselves and we're in survival mode, it's very likely one of these is going to happen. Because in survival mode, we're going to choose one of these to go into. And all our body and our brain is trying to do is to keep us safe. So that is where we start feeling into well, how do I feel safe? One of the beautiful way to feel safe is just place your hand on your heart and Close your eyes and say, I am safe. I've got this. Another way that helps me feel really safe is being outside. Being outside in nature, being under the tree, just breathing naturally. And something else that came up today in terms of this is we're surrounded by triggers. Social media, we're surrounded by triggers. And the algorithms, have you got this? Have you Got that. How's your face looking? How's your bank account looking? Whatever algorithms are coming up. And then even if it's all about abundance, ⁓ well, to have abundance you have to send this link to yourself and and you have to make sure you send this to however many people for it to come true. That's all survival mode. That's all triggering. So this is coming up for a reason as well. So it's really important in this day and age, yes, technology is amazing because that's how we can all communicate. It's using it in a way that works for you, my gorgeous. Because it can be very, very addictive. it can get us so drawn in that we're not really seeing what's on the outside world. ⁓ And what I decided to do, had six weeks off social media at the beginning of the year. And it ⁓ felt so good because I started a part of the community again, the actual community. And I've decided that for me, with social media, there's going to be absolutely weekly episodes. That goes without saying. All I'm going to be doing is answering any questions with the when the podcast goes out. So with social media for me, is there's going to be weekly episodes. I still have there's the Facebook page, there's the Instagram page, and it will just be letting people know that it's there and maybe sharing some clips from the episode. And that feels so right for me because it's not about performing, it's about authenticity, it's about Presence is about showing up. The reason I am sharing weekly episodes is because I would like to give hope. I would like to help. It feels so right for me to do this. What doesn't feel right for me is to be posting every single day, to be putting out stories for this, this, this, and this. And there was at one moment where things would happen in my life. And I my instant thought was, ⁓ I need to tell everybody about this. I've got away from that now, which is why the weekly episodes of anything that comes up, comes up great. If it doesn't, it's not for that week. It might be for another week. And that is so true in terms of what I said earlier. I was, okay, I have to be under the tree. You need to see the tree. You need to hear the birds. If you would like to listen to this and be completely relaxed with nature sounds, put nature sounds on. Listen to this outside. You know, there there's so many ways you can do this. I'm still surrounded by nature. I worked with the elements this morning. I have all the elements in my body. ⁓ And what I've found recently is since Cleo passed last all of these episodes are are dedicated to our beautiful guides that guide us from the Rainbow Bridge. I've also been very much healing, and I hope this is helping anybody who's listening. Because rather than this being a how-to, I really feel me feeling into what's happening for me and receiving messages and insights for us. I really hope that's helping. And this is how I've been told to show up. is just sharing what's happening in the moment, sharing what's happening with me. And very much because we're all connec connected to the collective. So it's really important that we're not feeling into the fear of what's going on in the world. We're taking a step back. And however that works for you, whether that's listening to beautiful music, being in nature or both, for me, it's always being in nature. That always calms me completely down. And also before I go out into any situations in public, that I've done my grounding techniques, I've done my morning practices, and I'm ready and prepared. It's about preparation. So feel into that with yourself if somebody says, Have you got five minutes? Or can you just do this for me? Or are you available on this time? Before jumping into that yes, remember the sacred yes for yourself. And sometimes a sacred yes for you is a no to somebody else. And it's not answering immediately. If it's an emergency, we already know we'll be there. When we don't answer immediately, we're taking ourselves out of an emergency situation that's not an emergency situation, and we're listening to our nervous systems. We're really, really listening to our nervous systems, and we're calming our nervous systems. We're in the parasympathetic state, we're not in the sympathetic state, which takes us into limbic brain, fight, flight, freeze, fawn. So it's really important when we're taking those measured decisions for anything, we're feeling it. We're not thinking it. Does this feel right for me? And if we don't have the answers at that moment, sleep on it. Thanks for your message. I'll get back to you tomorrow. Just to let you know, I'm not gonna be online for X amount of days. I'll get back to you So at least you're communicating, you're communicating with your boundaries. And that, my gorgeous, is love over fear. Absolutely a hundred percent, a million percent. Because everything around us, ⁓ media, news, TV, is very much showing us survival mode. There's so many shows of survival. There's so many shows of detectives and murder mysteries and which is all survival mode. So I'd really invite you to feel into well, what am I, and I've been doing this as well, what am I surrounding myself with? Not just what am I taking into my body. I'm vegan, gluten free, don't drink alcohol. And then on the other side of it, well what am I actually taking into my body? So what am I watching? What what are my eyes seeing? What are my ears hearing? I would invite you to, if you're in a situation where your nervous system is in a heightened state, just start feeling into well, what actually works for me? What am I surrounding myself with? What situations am I putting myself in? And again, it's not a blame game, it's just noticing, it's observing. And you don't have to change everything all at once. It's just observing. And when we're in a space of observing, That is when we can start really seeing and feeling the truth of the matter. When we're taking a step back and observing and listening and feeling rather than jumping in and agreeing, that is when we have the truth of the matter. So I'm gonna leave you with that, my gorgeous. That felt really, really strong to come through. So do reach out to me. There's a new website now which just makes it so much easier. You can subscribe on there and then you'll be emailed as and when the episode comes out. that's what I've been doing all this year, is just simplifying things and making it easier. What has made it easier for me is moving the podcast It hasn't changed any of the links in terms of where you can find them on all of the platforms. It just means it's easier. And ⁓ What that allows me to do is to show up authentically, because I've simplified it. And this is what I'm doing with each of the episodes. I'm simplifying them in terms of what's coming up for me, what messages are coming through, and how does that feel as a collective. And as I said, we're not changing anything we're just observing. So The first part of choosing love over fear is observing, well, what is my truth? What is what feels right for me in my life. That's the first place to start feeling love over fear. And before we create those healthy boundaries, it's just noticing where in our lives we may have created boundaries. No blame, just noticing, just observation. So ⁓ you the most beautiful of weeks and we may be back under the tree of love. We may not. ⁓ See my ankle says. ⁓ in the meanwhile, sending you so much love here to your self-acceptance, you've got this. Ho.