What Is Going On, Anyway?
By Ann Hedly
What Is Going On, Anyway?Jun 16, 2023
Wittle Baybee Steps.
Full Pink Moon. April 23, 2024. How many times do we need to hear, just let it go? It's not so easy though, is it? This full moon we've passed a signpost. The land we've entered has a new ruling party and we don't quite know how to conduct ourselves here. It takes a lot of bravery to know something is right on the inside and then follow through with that knowing on the outside. This is a time for teeny tiny steps in the direction of our inner authority taking charge. I don't foresee this being simple or easy. What I can see is that it will be rewarding and offer some moments of liberation.
Starting Over, Babies.
April 8, 2024. It's a new moon and a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, and conjunct the wounded healer Chiron. This is a stupendous time for transformation. Whatever your deepest, truest calling is: Listen.
I'll share my take on the chakras (one more time - this one's for me) and how they relate to the 3rd, 4th and 5th dimensions. Maybe, prolly. It's just theory.
Take your time to love this moment now. To be kind to your self and to enjoy a moment of restart. Everything is rebooted. Let's hope it works.
Have It All. Fry It Up In A Pan.
Full Worm Moon, March 25, 2024. Say you could have it all, would you even want it? The limitations of being human are such that we can imagine a lot more than is possible to do. I imagine I'll read all the books, though it's technically impossible. I imagine a second career, more certifications, maybe another degree, world travel, but is it realistic? What happens if I lay out my dreams and take a long considered look at them? What stays, what goes? The last moon we got washed through, and some things fell away whether we liked it or not. This time, we have an opportunity to know even more about ourselves by looking at our desires, dreams, and wishes. I'll read you a short story I wrote to access some personal father wound healing.
I reference Rev. Carlton Pearson (though I think I call him a pastor, oops!) and this podcast: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/304/heretics
Also this Netflix about his story which I did watch after the podcast and quite enjoyed.
I don't mention this in the show, but here is a sweet blog post about writing out a personal and professional dreamlist - which I recommend! Modern Mrs Darcy
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Until next time, Be well!
Someone Shouts for Joy
December 10, 2024. The New Worm Moon. Probably something will wash away before we begin fresh with this moon. Sometimes our letting go will happen and all we can do is stand back and watch the torrent. Of course, I don't know how this will play out, but hopefully we can recover from whatever left our grasp this time and have a moment with a washed surface to express our creativity.
I'll read "Humpbacks" by Mary Oliver.
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The Awe of Small Things
February 24th, 2024. It's a Full Moon and as usual, I'm feeling full and looking for why it's an overfull feeling before remembering that's just how Full moons feel. I share an animal communication about fullness. The small things matter in these two weeks. Pay attention and let yourself be guided by inner wisdom and appreciation for this moment now. Again and again, bit by bit to bring us to the next moment of right action. Now is a time for learning to flow with obstacles and to back off when necessary to fill up and find others with whom to gather forces. We aren't here to do our doing alone. We need each other and some of the folks you need, you haven't even found yet. Our hexagram gives us Obstacles and Censorship.... and yes, we feel it!
Excerpts from "Yoga the Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness" by Erich Schiffmann
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Your Heart Knows What You Want
February 9, 2024. It's a New Moon and a fresh slate. Time to check in with your heart. Valentine's Day is coming up and your heart wants you to check in, deep within, with the heart's authority before you love anyone else. Your heart wants a chance to direct your life. The promise is that you won't regret this most important shift of leadership. The hope is that this is the kind of revolution that is necessary for our world.
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The Meaning of Life: Act Now! Free for a Limited Time!
Full Wolf Moon in Leo, January 25, 2024. A few days later than planned, the podcast is ready. It's completely worth the wait though, I assure you. Somehow, without forewarning. The Meaning of Life has been revealed. It may astound you. It may be the relief you've been searching for and the answer you seek. I talk about the surrender to this full moon, my migraine visitation and the wisdom shared by listening to pain. What does the oracle have as advice for us? Gather your people, find collaborators, partners, supporters. Revolution is in the air.
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Note: this episode is marked "explicit" because I say "shitty".
Getting Friendly with Darkness
New Wolf Moon in Capricorn, January 11, 2024. Welcome to Season 2! This new moon time has me wanting to develop a friendlier relationship with the Dark. As I feel the prompts of a New Year and all the cheerful resolutions to be made, it seems important to balance it all out with the truth of my experience. I need the dark and the light to figure out my center place and to know how to ask for help that gives me what I need to stay there. Thank you for joining me here for another season of What Is Going On, Anyway? The I-Ching gives us 3.5-24 Sprouting to Returning. And both hexagrams are excellent for contemplating ideas around starting a new year with flexibility and hope.
Polishing the Shit
December 26, 2023. Full Cold Moon in Cancer. It's the last full moon of 2023 and a good time for reflection and appreciation. Intuitively, this next year holds something a little different for us all. Join me to hold space for gratitude, understand where we've been and prepare to push open little pockets of space to hold joy that is sprouting in 2024.
Ceasefire and Hope
New Cold Moon, December 12, 2023. This New Moon time is giving me a sense of the need for imaginal space to consider new ways of understanding the power of everyday acts. What if I changed my everyday habits and connected with others who also seek change by starting small? This is the last new moon of 2023. I've seen my way through a whole year of new moons with this podcast. The I Ching gives us Radical Change and Sprouting. Both are hopeful and necessitate a big round of courage and fortitude to find out what stays and what goes as we forge into the future together.
Finding Your Shiny
New Blue Moon, August 16, 2023. Your personal shininess is calling. Can you make space and organize your life so that your gifts can breathe? Join me this time as we consider the end of summer and how to let this two week cycle of new moon to full moon give us the space we need to consider ourselves. Also this new moon time has been confrontational in a toddlerish way, unexpected, and geez a little sticky.
Tending the Hearth and Fire
Full Beaver Moon in Gemini, November 27th, 2023. Have you been tending your inner fire lately? This podcast is here to remind you that not only do you need the warmth and coziness of a fire to keep you happy this winter, your spirit needs its flame tended as well. Of course not everyone has a woodstove or fireplace to tend, but we can all celebrate the season of darkness with lights, candles, and flame of some sort or another. Let's welcome Hestia and find our feet on the ground once again. Creativity awaits!
Storytelling for a New World
New Beaver Moon in Scorpio. November 13, 2023. What does storytelling have to do with desire? This time on the podcast I consider how rethinking storytelling is one way that I am forming the world I want to live in. This new moon isn't giving us relief from the current intensity of the world. Political strife is omnipresent, and a humanitarian crisis is on my mind. Join me for a moment of storytelling magic that brings me back to my childhood.
Peering into the Darkness
Responding by Grounding
October 14, 2023. This is the New Moon in Libra and Annular Solar Eclipse. This time on the podcast I take time to focus on the recent war declared by Israel on Hamas. It deeply affects me and I'm sharing how I'm coping with the daily fear that arises from having family in this region.
The I Ching gives us notice that once again, the place we are in is steeped in the unknown and we must attend to what being that vulnerable means. How do we stay with that uncertainty? How do we lend our strength? I also pull a Wild Unknown card for a little extra support.
Urgency and Bullies
Playing Hooky with Ann
Giving Up On Dreams
Full Blue (Super!) Moon. August 30-31, 2023. What do you do when you're afraid you might give up on your dreams? Do you push onward, refocus, or do you give up and change course? This time on the podcast I consider this question and ask advice from the Oracle. This time, we're considering a full blue moon, which is also a supermoon so it appears just slightly bigger in the sky to our eye. And it's a blue moon, which means it's the second full moon of August and the last blue moon until the year 2037. This full moon is having me ask the question, What is going on when you're afraid you might give up on something you thought you wanted?
Full Sturgeon Moon, August 1, 2023
But for real this time, What is going on, anyway? Why do things seem like they could be easy, but then they are just hard? And also summer is weird. It's either too hot and sweaty or too rainy and it's all just bothersome isn't it? This full super moon is bringing up issues of head versus heart. We must learn the flexibility to move easily from both perspectives. The I Ching offers us "Great Exceeding" and that is just like my garden right now. What is overloaded? What have you outgrown? What must you do? This leads us to facing that which is our obstacle, or the thing that blocks us. Our question to consider is "what work can you do when nothing is working?' We can look at this personally and collectively. Isn't it the strangest thing that congressional hearings brought up alien testimony and yet the public response is very mild, muted almost as if everyone is thinking "so what". What if the wildest truth is unearthed in you and your head receives a 'so what'? Our hearts are longing for some relief from the insanity of modernity, yet we still have to carry on, get the meals made and pay our bills to live. Welcome to midsummer, folks.
New Sturgeon Moon, July 17th 2023
So yes, these two weeks may be challenging, but it's not meant to wreck us. If we can listen carefully to our heart's desires and practice courage we might come away from this time with a new resolve towards inserting our understanding into creating a just world.
Take a walk me, or a drive or just push play and I'll talk to you while you do busywork. Thanks for joining me this time on the podcast. As you listen, you may notice some volume changes please adjust your sound as needed. I’m just a baby podcaster and haven’t figured out how to solve my sound input problem after I’ve already recorded! I’ll do better in future: maybe, probably, I hope!
Full Buck Moon, July 3, 2023
Welcome to this Full Buck Moon. Do you know how to ask a good question? Let's consider what goes into this process. Yes, discernment is necessary and also having healthy personal boundaries is key. Are you asking in the spirit of true curiosity, or are you making a commentary with your question? We will consider what needs composting to make way for sustained and nourishing growth.
Grace, Beauty and Community await us this full moon time.
Link to send me a voice message!
"The Art of Asking The Right Questions" by Kevin Dickinson
Video: Development of the Nervous System/Embryology by Dr. Matt Barton, PhD.
New Buck Moon, June 18th, 2023
Full Strawberry Moon, June 3, 2023
Welcome to a delightful full moon time. Finally the frost is gone and we've got some room in the soil to stretch out and take up space. What happens when we are rooted? We feel safe and supported and a spark of desire is given the oxygen it needs to burn. That is the creative spark and the beginning of art. What-is-Art is a very big question and I only begin to attend to that in this episode. Chakras, Art, and our Hexagram for these 2 weeks await.
In this episode I use: Total I Ching by Stephen Karcher,
The I Ching Workbook by R.L. Wing,
I Ching: Walking Your Path, Creating Your Future by Hilary Barrett,
and The I Ching or Book of Changes by Wilhelm/Baynes.
I reference Rob Brezny's website: https://freewillastrology.com/
the work of Dr. Robert Svoboda: https://drsvoboda.com/
and the Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad
New Strawberry Moon, May 19, 2023
I will reference
This Podcast, Weird Studies with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel
This book, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
And my class on YouTube: Inner Authority and Practicing Freedom