To hear the full update about new podcast pacing for free episodes & such, you'll want to listen from the start. :) To just hear about the Reprint Campaign, skip to 10:29~ Scroll to the bottom for the unedited transcript. Mentioned in the episode:Join & share the Embodied Ecosystems Reprint Campaign waitlist to receive updates, reminders & more info on what to expect (and how to get early bird gifts) when it opens on Monday, Nov. 9th!~ Find your patreon-exclusive discounts (for paying patrons only) you can apply to this campaign via the welcome note on your membership page. Transcript:Hi loves, welcome to the Eco-Spiritual Systems podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Amber, the eco-spiritual artist, creator, designer, facilitator of many things, including Cycles Journal and Embodied Ecosystems, all at cyclicalroots.com. I am starting off just in an organic way without my standard intro, and if you've been following the podcast or you're part of my Patreon or Substack, which I haven't been super active on Substack, but I still will occasionally cross-post there, just because I'm trying to... simplify my life and my systems of business and communications. So Patreon's been my main hub and my email list. But anyways, you may or may not have noticed that I have not shared a free podcast episode in a while. The podcast does also hold the bonus or deeper practice episodes that are part of Remembership on my Patreon, which is extensions of weekly practice to align with the seasons and cycles. And I was doing also with that weekly free podcast episodes reading to you from the Embiid Ecosystems Tarot and Oracle Deck Guidebook. And that has unexpectedly yet, not surprisingly, paused. And I'm not sure if or when I will continue that. For now, all I know is that I had put too much on my plate, and I kind of felt that way when I started, but the excitement overshadowed the capacity question, which happens a lot for me since I am as much Jupiter-ruled as I am lunar-ruled in the nature of my... cosmic makeup and my earthly makeup and um that's something i'm learning how to balance still so just being transparent there and thanks for understanding and any patience around that if you were wondering where i went with those my intent with this podcast was not to like make it a paywall thing at all it's just that those practice episodes I wanted to make it possible for them to live on a podcast feed, and so those are part of our membership. But the intent was also to just have this podcast be an open, free thing as well. So I'm here to say that after sitting with this and pausing... with the intention to let you all know about the pause, but then that didn't happen because without going into detail, you know, just also this layer of needing to feel ready to come on the mic and record and talk to you all. And so I'm practicing being more fluid here, and I think the pacing will also need to be more fluid and periodic. um which is also reflective of the shifts happening with cycles journal you know it becoming fluid and undated so here's to that and here's to the areas where i am showing up consistently as promised in remembership and the places where there is um yeah there is a schedule and uh committed efforts to show up with the cycles and patterns um in Patreon. There's also the Rude Reminders Monthly, but anyways, I wanted to come here and just reflect a little, and right now I'm just feeling out how this podcast wants to exist and what the themes are still the same through lines in all my work around the patterns and cycles of our lives, our bodies, the ecosystems we live within and are, and that of the Earth and cosmos, the inner and outer, and where they meet and bridge between how we can embrace this interconnection and non-separation. So, yeah, just doing a little reflecting here today as I'm sitting outside in 70 degree weather in early November, which is wild, and... Definitely not normal, yet not completely unsurprising because of liberal warming and climate change. But I've learned that climate change is a phrase that... was invented to sort of quell fears and sort of like desensitize people to the degrees of extremity of global warming so I'm just going to use both terms because I'm not here to fearmonger but I also am here to be real about it as we know and so yeah it's like I'll accept this weather and yet hold in my heart that this is concerning and so being with the both end of that and everything right now it's november 4th and midterm elections were yesterday in the u.s the so-called us and um Despite the complex relationship with electoral politics and how it is both so important and at the same time not enough, our efforts don't end there, I am feeling some hope and excitement about how results turned out in the state i live in maine albinaki land and also across the states so yeah there's a lot in the air right now and i think it's very interesting how it's aligning today with um jupiter sextiling venus today a very um benefic and expansive transit of our values being amplified and um aligned with what's happening in our world and that's just a very literal translation of it and we're seeing that in that form which you know of course affects the world. The U.S. is obviously not the center of the world, and yet, unfortunately, politics here affect so much in the world. So just holding space for that, and also what this means for each of us in our communities and individually, this Jupiter-Venus support in connecting to what really matters and how we are living that through so what does this mean beyond the polls and the results and so on how do we hold ourselves and others accountable without a control logic but with a care with care and consideration to all the nuance and complexity and capacity limitations but at the same time like holding those values in our hearts like we can hold the grief the disappointment the uncertainty and also our standards of like what we know we deserve and what is possible and so yeah holding space for that there's also a mercury cazimi mercury can jump the sun today so i think that is also very interesting and aligned for all that's happening and yeah just the the communicative connective nature of it all um being amplified in the sunlight even when the days are getting shorter and darker, there's still so much to sit with, so much being illuminated, even in the dark times, and how we are learning to be with the darkness as an ally as well, not necessarily the harmful things happening, but the lessons in there, yes, and also the necessity of the dark, and the descent into the deep season, the underground season, and it being Scorpio, time right now what that all means connecting to ancestry and legacy history and lineage this feels very related to everything so yeah I'm just sitting with all that and I think with all this very outward and elated Jupiter and solar energy and it's very much showing in the outward conscious realm and collective it's like of these peaks and highs they're so important and can we embody and absorb them and let them sink into our systems our physiological and psychological systems and ecosystems so that we can carry them forward at a pace that doesn't burn us out that doesn't rely only on the peaks that still honors the dips and the the lows and i'm asking this myself too in showing up um can i also show up on the mic when i don't feel i'm at an elated moment of everything being feeling well in the moment so yeah that's a question and Knowing that I do that in many places, such as the newsletter, the Moonletters, Patreon, and Remembership, so I can honor that and also consider if I do want to have the space, how can I honor that in a similar way? And also allow there to be pauses and gaps. I just want to... be informative about that instead of it being a surprise since I had previously said there was a specific cadence. So happy to share about that today and also wanted to let you know if you haven't already seen or noticed because I've mostly been sharing about this on my email list. I try to, like, that's the main place I share about the offerings and happenings in the business. And, you know, I share here and there on Patreon, too, which is also a membership. But I try to, you know, reserve the community space there for mostly... connective things and not that my promotions are a problem because the matters of small micro business and being an independent self-published artist are that I need to share and that I'm unlearning that I'm bothersome when I'm promoting when I need to promote something or share What's new and what I'm creating and what is available to purchase, but I just don't want that That's not the only thing and that's not the dominant thing in patreon just because I want to be balanced there and it's also not the only or dominant thing in my my moon letters and email list, but it's an important part of the whole that sustains my life and this work being possible. So anyways, all that to say, I am really excited to share about the Embodied Ecosystems reprint campaign because if you haven't heard, it is sold out and I can't believe it because It was printed. So the last crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter was, I think I started in like October 2024. And so it was produced and printed by spring 2024. I think it made it here by like April or May 2025. And so... Yeah, so it's only been like a year and a half about that the deck was in print and now it's sold out and I'm both honored and it's bittersweet because I know that the deck wants to reach many more people and there's so much medicine and support in that creation and the whole of it. You know, it's the card deck, but it's also a full 300 page full color guidebook with deep reflections and messages and resources and um invitations and prompts so anyways it wants to live on it wants to be in print again and so in order to print a second edition or printing i'm mostly calling it a seco
