The Shadow Side of Manifestation: Lessons from the Eclipse Portal w/ Tracey Cook
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🎬 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:
- 00:00 – A Magical Ritual Begins: What Are Treasure Maps?
Discover the powerful visioning ritual that’s captivated a community and changed lives. - 07:25 – When Manifestation Doesn’t Go as Planned
What if your map didn’t “work”? A candid conversation about unmet expectations and deeper lessons. - 13:15 – The Art & Astrology of Creating Your Map
A step-by-step guide to crafting your treasure map aligned with cosmic timing. - 20:02 – Healing, Intention & a Wake-Up Call from the Body
Amanda shares her health journey—and how the map revealed hidden truths and healing pathways. - 28:10 – Missed the Window? Here's Your Plan B
Don’t panic! What to do if you missed the Aries New Moon mapping window. - 36:40 – Realignment Through Reflection & Ritual
How journaling and inner listening can help you tune into your true desires. - 44:20 – Activating the Map: Staying Present with Your Vision
How to work with your map throughout the year—and stay aligned with your goals. - 53:36 – Real-Life Map Miracles & Eclipse Lessons
Follow-up stories that reveal the magic (and shadow) of eclipse-season mapping. - 1:00:47 – Closing Inspiration: You’re Not Alone on This Journey
Encouragement, community wisdom, and a powerful invitation to begin again.
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Transcript:
00:00:00:03 – 00:00:26:16
Amanda
All right. So about four years ago, we started a ritual here at Astrology Hub. It was introduced to us by an astrologer named Tracy Cook, who I have here with me today. And what she introduced to us in our community is something called treasure mapping. This is something that we have now been doing. We're going on our fourth year, and it's essentially an astrologically timed vision board.
00:00:26:18 – 00:00:53:07
Amanda
But Treasure Maps just sounds so much more fun. And there are some nuances to it that make it a little bit different than your average vision board. Okay. It's become such a beloved ritual that not only for our community, but also in my own little family. So my girls and I, in January, we start our clearing the clutter phase, where we're preparing for the treasure mapping that's going to happen at the Aries New Moon.
00:00:53:11 – 00:01:13:12
Amanda
So we're clearing out different little corners in our house. We're doing little house projects. We're clearing out our closets. We're just we're making space for something very new. So this has become beloved not just with the Astrology Hub community, but for me personally with my little family, which is just such a gift and a blessing. So, Tracy, thank you for that.
00:01:13:14 – 00:01:41:02
Amanda
Now, the first three years we did it, the manifestations and the co-creation with the universe and the flow that it created was astounding. I mean, it was just like almost everything I would put on this treasure map would manifest into form. So this was amazing. All of this was true until last year. So we do the treasure maps like we've been doing.
00:01:41:04 – 00:02:04:21
Amanda
And I kid you not, my experience with the treasure map last year was nothing like the previous three years. And so throughout the year I would I would be leaving Tracy text messages and text audios like Tracy is are these things happening for you? I mean, how is your treasure map? What are you hearing? I would, I would actually also ask our community what's going on with you?
00:02:05:01 – 00:02:23:20
Amanda
Are is your treasure map working like it normally does? What's happening? So it's really trying to get the pulse and just to see, like maybe it's just me, you know, maybe for whatever reason is just me. But it seemed to be consistent that people were having wonky experiences with their treasure maps. So finally, this year, I'm approaching it as usual.
00:02:23:20 – 00:02:42:13
Amanda
The girls and I are clearing the clutter starting in January, but I'm kind of wondering, do I want to do a treasure map again? Because this last experience was so weird. And so I leave Tracy a message. I'm like, look, Tracy, things are weird. What do you think? I know there's another eclipse this year. There was an eclipse last year.
00:02:42:15 – 00:03:04:21
Amanda
There's another eclipse. What do you think? Why do you think things got off course? And she left me the best message. She left me a message that when I applied what she thought and what she her conclusions about it, it hit the nail on the head. So today we're going to be talking about all of this in detail.
00:03:05:02 – 00:03:22:23
Amanda
If you're new to treasure mapping and you're like, what the heck are they talking about? We are going to do a quick review. We also have done podcast episodes the last three years on Treasure Mapping. So we will also link to those. So if you want like a more detailed explanation of what these are, why you would ever want to do them, we'll make sure that you can go back and watch those.
00:03:23:01 – 00:03:55:00
Amanda
But we are going to touch on it briefly. We're going to review last year's astrology to really pick apart what might have been going on. We're going to review the results, and we're going to give examples from both Tracy's map and my map for evidence for Tracy's conclusion. And we'll tell you what that is. And then finally we're going to talk about this year's maps and how to take what we've learned and weave it into how we're creating maps this year.
00:03:55:02 – 00:04:10:19
Amanda
Sound good? All right, so Tracy, welcome back to the Astrology Hub podcast. I love that we get to connect every year. Like this is so fun for me personally. I know our community loves it too. People have been asking, are we doing treasure maps? What's happening? So thank you and welcome back.
00:04:10:21 – 00:04:43:12
Tracy
Well, thank you Amanda, it's so good to be back. And it was really good to talk to you little bits throughout the year. And because, I was having my own strange moments with the treasure mapping and, I did as we started, certainly when we hit the third quarter, when we hit, the Capricorn New Moon, it was very clear to me that I needed to reach out to you and say, we're going to have to do a thing for everybody at Astrology Hub, because I'm pretty sure I have an idea what's happening to us.
00:04:43:14 – 00:04:55:00
Tracy
Okay, I was in my own personal life, I was experiencing and based on yours and with some other people as well, my little treasure mapping community. So I was like, yeah, we got it. We got to do a thing.
00:04:55:02 – 00:04:57:16
Amanda
Let's debrief. Yeah.
00:04:57:18 – 00:05:19:05
Tracy
So the treasure mapping was something that my one of my astrologers and teachers, Buzz Myers, talked about, with his students, of which I was one of them. I mean, I used to get his, monthly New Moon workshops, and in April of 1996, he said, hey, everybody on this Aries New moon, we're going to make treasure maps.
00:05:19:05 – 00:05:38:19
Tracy
And I'm like, what's that? And then he explained it in a way, and this is 1996. So this is so many years before people were running with vision boards. I mean, this is way back. And he basically laid it out. And as he described it, you get a poster board, you're going to get pictures, you're going to get magazines, you make a collage.
00:05:38:19 – 00:06:04:01
Tracy
And it's how we all understand vision boards now. But again, he's doing it in 96. So my two friends and I, my friend Margaret and Anne and Margaret was the one who introduced me to buzz. We all got together, we made our maps, and dang if we didn't have big time results. And I mean, I, I put a guy from a magazine, Ralph Lauren and and guy on a yacht.
00:06:04:05 – 00:06:25:02
Tracy
I wasn't dating anybody at the time. I also don't live by the ocean. I'm in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. I'm not. But I just like the way he looked. And within a month, I met, through work. I met a guy, and the guy is now my husband and his family had been members of a yacht club for, you know, 60 years.
00:06:25:02 – 00:06:45:18
Tracy
I'm like, how did I end up in yacht land? So that was a pretty big how do you do with treasure maps? I mean, big time results. So since that time, I have continued making treasure maps, and I used to just do it in person with people and we would talk about it and then, I then I went digital and then I'm in my community in various communities.
00:06:45:18 – 00:07:09:00
Tracy
I brought in more people and we would talk it down, just like you do with astrology. And people would say, what worked for them, what didn't work for them. And that's what we've been doing for almost 30 years. Right? So that's treasure mapping. And I know we've had great successes and along the way, so so what I started bumping into and we'll get into it when we go into my map.
00:07:09:00 – 00:07:43:16
Tracy
But I want to just kind of get people's brain. There is the eclipse, the eclipses we've had. So three years ago we had two new moons, two Aries new moons. I should say one is zero and one at 29, and the one at 29 was the eclipse one. And I certainly had results. I had I had results that year and then last year we had the Great American Eclipse, and that was a total.
00:07:43:18 – 00:08:03:00
Tracy
And I actually went to the eclipse zone. I made my map afterwards because astrologically there was a Saturn aspect that I said, you know, why don't I wait? And I think you guys had Astro Hubble delaying some stuff as well. And so I didn't make my map. I didn't start my map until the Thursday after the Monday eclipse.
00:08:03:00 – 00:08:26:00
Tracy
I think it was Monday. I said, you know what? I'm going to use the Saturn and the Mars to, as I recall, to help with my mapmaking. And so I made my map and what I have distilled down because I did ultimately get some results, for sure. But I had to go through darkness. I had to go through apparent loss.
00:08:26:00 – 00:08:59:09
Tracy
I had to go through the shadow to then get the results. And that's that is an eclipse. That is. So why I wasn't tracking this as efficiently as I should have is because the Aries eclipses are 19 years apart. So the last one we had this was in 2004. And five I, as I recall, and I had a toddler at the time and I was in my little group and we're all like doing this.
00:08:59:09 – 00:09:16:07
Tracy
And I think I had results. I mean, I think so what's it like in my face? And, maybe part of it is because I'm an American and I live in America and the Great American Eclipse that never had been there, maybe that had a little extra on us. For some of us, yes.
00:09:16:07 – 00:09:20:21
Amanda
Maybe one's international. Yeah. Anyone who was doing maps in other countries maybe.
00:09:20:23 – 00:09:22:05
Tracy
Didn't even have it is hard.
00:09:22:09 – 00:09:35:09
Amanda
I'd love to hear from you. Like if you're if you're saying, what are they talking about? My treasure map was great, and I saw the same kind of results I always do. Let us know where you are in the world, because it because I can definitely see that influencing.
00:09:35:11 – 00:10:00:18
Tracy
One person who I spoke to about her map hat felt really good about her map. She said it was very it took a long time. She had a lot of results. She was not. She lives in the United States, but she wasn't born here. It's kind of, I don't know. I'm just I'm thinking out loud because we don't get these examples in real time for until every 19 years.
00:10:00:19 – 00:10:08:13
Tracy
So I will be so old when the next one comes. Nobody's going to want to hear my results when I'm 89. I don't know what it.
00:10:08:17 – 00:10:09:20
Amanda
Well, great.
00:10:09:22 – 00:10:40:15
Tracy
But what I'll be. I haven't even done the math. But I'll be. I'll be along the I'll be longer in the tooth anyway. So when I looked at everything from that lens, I understood my map much more. I also understood Saturn. Saturn, as we all know, delays doesn't deny. And you know, Saturn really just wants to get to the real nuts and bolts of what what what we want.
00:10:40:17 – 00:10:49:20
Tracy
And sometimes we think what we want is this. But underneath we really want this. Saturn will always go down here.
00:10:49:22 – 00:10:55:14
Amanda
And Tracy was I can't just refresh our memory with Saturn prominent lips.
00:10:55:16 – 00:11:28:17
Tracy
Well, I remember like I said, I remember. So Saturn was, Saturn and Mars were conjunct in 2018 to April 8th, 2024. Okay. And and they were conjunct in Pisces. Oh, it's always a little murky. Yeah, but Mars is Aries ruling planet. So there is. You got to you got to look at Mars. Okay, so one thing I'd love to do a breakout is I'd like to screen share something that I have with you, in case you didn't see, this is the eclipse pattern that went across America.
00:11:28:17 – 00:11:47:06
Tracy
And this was in 2024 April 8th. And now let me pull up my map. I may, take it away for a little bit because this is a lot to go over with you. But I did go to the eclipse. I went to Texas, so we were game on for the eclipse. We were very excited. We had family there and we went.
00:11:47:06 – 00:12:07:13
Tracy
We had a great time and I waited until I got home, before making my map. There was a Saturn Mars aspect and I thought I would take that and kind of grind down the the new moon and information from the Aries eclipse and everything, and just use it for making my map. And so you'll see, my map is structured around the feng shui, bagua.
00:12:07:17 – 00:12:36:23
Tracy
And I put little circles or colors associated with the bongos on the map. And you can see there's like a pink circle, and there's a yellow circle and there's a green circle. And in the lower left you'll see the blue bagua. And that's the knowledge section. And I have the affirmation I am learning every day. I also have the woman in the center, and she's in a yoga pose, and she's stretched wide open and she's reaching above her and it felt welcoming with a willingness to experience.
00:12:36:23 – 00:13:01:23
Tracy
That's how I saw it. And I saw a trust or a faith by her outreached outstretched arm underneath. I have the affirmation my body, brain and psyche flexes with ease and off her leg you'll see the words small, great things. Okay, going in further on the center left, you will see the green circle, which is the family Bagua.
00:13:02:00 – 00:13:21:22
Tracy
And I put a photo of my husband, my son and me, and I wanted to also include my husband's mother and my mother, and that felt important to me this year. Along with that, I put a photo of our cat, and I used a photo of her with my son. So she is part of the family and for some curious reason I was drawn to the image.
00:13:21:22 – 00:13:50:17
Tracy
It says take it easy. And it's not an expression that I used, but I was drawn to it. And I have the affirmation our family is safe, healthy, and joyful in 1999, when we got married, my husband and I honeymooned in Italy. 2024 was our 25th anniversary, and in April when I made this map, I had zero idea what our finances or life would look like and if a trip could even be obtained.
00:13:50:19 – 00:14:17:18
Tracy
But in the green area, I put a photo of a long table in a beautiful Italian garden with the words The Rome Edition. This is just above the cat photo. And to really make my point, on the right side of the map, I have Tuscan fields and an Italian villa in a gray travel bag. While. So as I said, by the time we get to the cancer new Moon in July, we will start to see action from our map.
00:14:17:20 – 00:14:46:11
Tracy
This year was no exception. A lot had happened, just maybe not exactly as I envision. My son graduated from college grade, but three weeks before graduation, his banking account was hacked and a savings account was drained. The lost money stressed my son and frankly, my husband and me as well. Because of my son's final schedule, my husband's work obligations, and and my ability to handle stress better than both, I ended up being the one to lead the conversations with the bank.
00:14:46:13 – 00:15:08:14
Tracy
Unfortunately, the bank said it would not return the funds. It was a lifetime of savings for my son, and I have to say, I left my body during the process. At this stage in my life, I've had these moments where I have to disengage from whatever is happening in order to get to a solution, like the yoga gal who is trusting something above her and the affirmation that I wrote I.
00:15:08:16 – 00:15:29:11
Tracy
I had to flex my brain and psyche. It took a month and a lot of three way phone calls between my son, the bank, Apple Pay, and other companies. But in the end, in the end, his money was returned to the account. The affirmation I'm learning every day was in effect for me. And I joke that I age during that month, but.
00:15:29:13 – 00:15:51:08
Tracy
But as also on my map, I you'll see. I see aging as a positive thing. I stayed centered and even with the hope was low, I took it bit by bit with the hope that it would be okay. Part of what made this experience so hard for my son was that he had planned an end of the college vacation to Europe trip.
00:15:51:10 – 00:16:13:21
Tracy
The trip now was in jeopardy with the loss of money, but once it was returned, the trip was back on. He was able to continue his planned vacation to Spain for celebrating the end of college. And all was good. Now I have to say, my son was in a 12th house perfection year and during his trip he called us to tell us his computer and camera were stolen.
00:16:13:23 – 00:16:36:02
Tracy
Between that and the bank thing, I think you're all feeling the 12th house. Perfection. Of course. The shadow of the eclipse. Anyway, we advised him to figure a way to not let it get him down and make the most of his trip. At the last moment, he decided he wanted to add a couple days and go to Rome, which was not on the itinerary.
00:16:36:04 – 00:16:57:21
Tracy
While he was there, he stopped at a cat cafe and sent a photo. We spoke to him when he was in Rome. I applauded him for rallying. I found myself saying, take it easy. It was then I went bingo and looked at my map. Rome edition cat on a laugh and take it easy. It was all there. Not anything I planned.
00:16:57:21 – 00:17:19:12
Tracy
But again, I had trusted the process when I made my map. Now I got to be honest, this is way more conversation about my son than I like to have when talking about my map. I have my map. My son and my husband have their maps, my goals, my dreams, my vision, my map. I have Aries Rising. Believe me, it is my map.
00:17:19:14 – 00:17:39:14
Tracy
But I signed up to be a mother and as a parent, even of an adult child, you want to know that your kid will have the skills to navigate their inner space and any hurdles. This year was apparently part of my goals, and even though his 12th house perfection year was not on my radar when I made my map, I think my higher sense must have known.
00:17:39:16 – 00:17:59:16
Tracy
So I will make hideous calls to bangs and a call from a stress child on a trip over a lost camera and a computer. And I have a long conversation with Apple. I will do all that to know that he learned important lessons. And last week his debit card was compromised and he handled the bank like a pro.
00:17:59:18 – 00:18:24:21
Tracy
It gave me confidence that my affirmation my family is safe, healthy and joyful got steeped in reality this year. And I have said this before and I'll say it again my maps are clear. Cognizant they know something even if I don't. My guide, my map guides me and it's as if my map says, don't worry, I know where we are headed.
00:18:24:21 – 00:18:29:24
Tracy
And I got your back. So that is my map story.
00:18:30:01 – 00:19:01:12
Amanda
I love how clear you are on the necessity for us to do these maps. Thank you for walking through your map in such beautiful detail, and I'd love to use a few examples from my map to actually illustrate that as well. Just to kind of double down on what you just shared. And I'm going to hone in on one particular facet of the map, which at the time I created the map, I didn't even really know why I was putting these particular images on.
00:19:01:14 – 00:19:48:14
Amanda
And I have to say, it was predominant that I had this these visuals of this one woman who on my map is Jennifer Lopez. Now, I'm not some like Jennifer Lopez Lopez groupie. I don't even listen to her music like nothing like that. So why did I have Jennifer Lopez on my map? Okay, the reason why is because I had her, like, standing really strong and clear, and what she represented for me was a certain presence, a certain confidence, a certain vitality, a certain passion, an aliveness that, you know, there was her on stage, but like several pictures on my map.
00:19:48:14 – 00:20:08:08
Amanda
And I will show this on screen, for you to see the actual visuals I had on my map. And it was also that she was dancing and that she was fit, but, like, not just like, not just fit and like muscular, but like moving, you know, and you could feel that in these visuals that she was moving and she was dancing and she was.
00:20:08:10 – 00:20:31:23
Amanda
And so I that is something that I and I'm looking at her in her 50s, you know, going okay. Yes. Like I want to I want to experience that. I want to feel that alive and fit and mobile and dancing and moving when, you know, when I'm in my 50s. So I put her on my map predominantly. This was when we do this in April.
00:20:32:00 – 00:20:33:03
Tracy
Yeah. April.
00:20:33:05 – 00:20:54:10
Amanda
Okay. So June comes and my daughters are out of school and they're like, mommy, we want to go to the gym with you. We want to go. We want to workout. We want to train. Like, yes, awesome. So we create this whole like fitness plan for the whole summer. We're going to this going to be the summer where we get fit and we, you know, we we would do it together.
00:20:54:10 – 00:21:12:19
Amanda
And this is so fun. And I'm so excited about this. And I have been going to the gym pretty regularly. But we make a plan where we're going to go like six days a week. You know, we're going to like go all in. So we do one week of this plan and on Saturday. So we start on Monday.
00:21:12:19 – 00:21:38:16
Amanda
On Saturday I'm at the gym, I'm doing it, I'm in it. I'm, you know, probably pushing weight too hard and I throw out my back. So now and this is a bad one I mean I've done this before, but this is a bad one where I cannot walk, I cannot move. I am literally like bedridden for several weeks.
00:21:38:18 – 00:22:05:01
Amanda
So not only am I not getting fit and vital and alive and dancing, I'm literally not moving. And so this story carries through the entire summer. Like, right, the girls are going to the gym. I'm not. I'm not doing anything. And I'm terrified. Tracy. I'm terrified to over to do anything and aggravate this thing again. And so like, you know, I'm feeling it down my right leg.
00:22:05:02 – 00:22:30:16
Amanda
It's just this like constant, you know, blah blah, blah. So me and my love end up going to Mexico for some health things for him. And while we're there, we decide to look into my back. So I get an MRI. I have bulging discs at L4 and L5 and there's like touching the spinal cord, which explains the pain down the leg and blah, blah, blah.
00:22:30:18 – 00:22:56:12
Amanda
So while we're there, we get several treatments that are meant to be very long term treatments that work very slowly, but that over time should help to heal the, issue in my back. So. And but there's no moving you can't move for I think it was like six weeks after that. So now we're like into October, October, November.
00:22:56:12 – 00:23:21:16
Amanda
And I'm still not even moving. You know, I'm like, I'm not feeling so far from this vision that I put on this board. It's it's laughable. These are probably when I'm leaving you some text messages going, Tracy. What? That you know. So anyways, it wasn't until about a month ago that I started to feel better. My back felt strong enough and healthy enough to go back to dance.
00:23:21:18 – 00:23:56:10
Amanda
So I have been going back to my hula that I love. On Tuesday nights I it was literally I had to take that long of a break. And also my love painstakingly chose a personal trainer for me who is helping me really create a foundational movement that foundational fitness, mobility. We focus a lot on mobility. He always talks about brushing your teeth and flossing your joints and really just like, just really, just focusing.
00:23:56:10 – 00:24:20:20
Amanda
Not so much just on strength, but also on actual, like flexibility in the belly move and just do regular movements, which, you know, I was I was very focused on the strength thing and not so much on the rest of it, because what I realize is that some of the shadow that came out when, when my daughters and I were all excited about getting fit, is this idea that I need to dominate my body.
00:24:20:22 – 00:24:25:23
Amanda
I need to, like, dominated into submission through like, all this hard.
00:24:26:00 – 00:24:28:12
Tracy
Like work. Yeah, right.
00:24:28:14 – 00:24:52:11
Amanda
And that was another shadow element that I believe needed to be brought to my awareness. So that my approach this time is so different, is so gentle, is so loving. Like sometimes I'm like, am I even doing anything? You know? But it really is like just starting from those basics. And I have this beautiful, lovely Capricorn sun, moon and cancer Pisces Rising trainer.
00:24:52:13 – 00:24:53:20
Tracy
Oh so sensitive.
00:24:53:22 – 00:25:12:15
Amanda
He's so sensitive and so tuned in and really helping me stay in my intuitive knowing. I call it quits when it's too much, you know, all that. And so I'm literally in this, like whole functional fitness. And I told him, I said, I want to be able to dance until the day I graduate, which I don't say death.
00:25:12:15 – 00:25:31:17
Amanda
I say graduate, say I want to be able to dance. So how do we set this up now? And so now I'm back around to like this, this thing that was so. I mean, not only did I have Jennifer Lopez on my map, but I also had hula dancers. I had several visuals of hula dancers. And here I am.
00:25:31:17 – 00:25:35:05
Amanda
Not even I can't go hula. I can't do any of this stuff.
00:25:35:07 – 00:25:35:16
Tracy
Right.
00:25:35:19 – 00:26:03:14
Amanda
So because what it does is those things feed my soul on such a deep level, it's not just about dancing, it's not just about fitness. It's about like what it does for me on a deep soul level. And so I see that all this whole storyline that unfolded for me and became like this dominating storyline in my life, was because I needed to see these aspects of me that, you know, were still not aligned.
00:26:03:16 – 00:26:10:00
Amanda
And that's my story. Tracy. I mean, there's a lot more stories on the mat, but I really wanted to highlight that.
00:26:10:03 – 00:26:17:14
Tracy
Certainly. Question how far down is the, L4 and the L5? Is that what you said?
00:26:17:16 – 00:26:18:15
Amanda
Sacral.
00:26:18:17 – 00:26:19:24
Tracy
The vertebrae.
00:26:20:01 – 00:26:22:00
Amanda
Very is very low.
00:26:22:00 – 00:26:42:21
Tracy
Sacral chakra. Okay. So I, I'm not doing therapy, but I just want to talk it out loud for a second. Is that that's support. Do you think that you had to. Your dude is really showing a lot of support. He really took the time to find the right trainer for you, and your trainer is giving you a lot of support.
00:26:42:23 – 00:26:52:16
Tracy
Do you think on some level, your your psyche needed to know that you have support? Yeah, I'm not saying it is deliberate. You know what I'm saying?
00:26:52:16 – 00:27:06:01
Amanda
It's oh for sure, Tracy, this is a constant theme for me is like, and it's not true, but feeling like I have to do everything myself. And if I don't do it, it won't get done or it won't. No.
00:27:06:03 – 00:27:11:00
Tracy
There is that. There is an eclipse in areas like I've never heard one.
00:27:11:01 – 00:27:31:18
Amanda
Yes. Yes, exactly. You know this feeling that like it's if it's going to get done, it's got to be me and I got to do it and I got to do it, you know for sure. And that is definitely that, that like opening up to be receptive to others supporting me. And feeling worthy of being supported and all these things and seeing the support that already is all around me.
00:27:31:20 – 00:27:55:21
Amanda
I mean, all these things for sure, all of it. And so I would I want to invite all of you to do it. Those of you who did treasure maps last year, think about it through this lens. If your treasure map did not come to fruition, then perhaps were there shadow elements that you did work through that you needed to work through?
00:27:55:21 – 00:28:14:17
Amanda
Can you see now, with the hindsight that you needed to work through those things in order to set yourself up to actually have the things that are on your map, but in a way that is sustainable over time. So yes, and I love to hear like this is to me, because these things, the astrology is never the same year to year, right?
00:28:14:22 – 00:28:33:13
Amanda
And we know we are in an entirely new time that we are exploring astrologically the fabric of time itself, the it's changing. It's changing a lot. And so I think it's more important now than ever for us to be sharing our stories.
00:28:33:15 – 00:28:34:06
Tracy
Yes.
00:28:34:08 – 00:28:59:17
Amanda
Because we're all navigating it together and at the same time, and we're all new, especially with the Age of Aquarius. And, you know, one of the things we talked about at the Navigating Change panel is how, because it's we moved into such an air time, you know, the element of air that manifestations are quicker, things are lighter, things are coming into form like faster.
00:28:59:19 – 00:29:18:19
Amanda
And so we talked about the importance of being extraordinarily mindful about the way that we're saying things about the way, you know, our, our frequency, our and I think our thinking. And so, like when you're talking about being really, really careful with those affirmations.
00:29:18:23 – 00:29:44:10
Tracy
I okay, so one thing I'd like love to do to break out to the affirmations is I'd like to screen share something that I have with you. Affirmations are sentences that begin with I. And it's really important that affirmations be in the present tense. They shouldn't be in the future and they shouldn't be in the past. So you don't write, I will be strong.
00:29:44:12 – 00:30:10:10
Tracy
You say I am strong, you don't write. I will be healthy, I am healthy, I will get a you don't write. I will get a career. I love you right. I love my career. I am happy and grateful that I have a career I love. Now this can be hard for people because they're not quite ready. They could be in this really crappy job and they hate everybody they're working with.
00:30:10:10 – 00:30:36:15
Tracy
So the suddenly say, I love my career. Not everybody has that skill. So therefore you can maybe give yourself a little bit of a wiggle and say, I am happy and grateful. I have a career that I love that sometimes can be helpful. And in general, I think we have to get our language down because we have Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus is going to be in Gemini in about eight seconds.
00:30:36:15 – 00:31:03:20
Tracy
It's coming up on us. We're going to be doing this air for a long time. Air is thoughts. Air is language. Air is words. So we need to get our words right. And I did see in talking with some mappers that people were some times leaning a little hard into their fear. And so some maps had I am worthy which I get.
00:31:03:21 – 00:31:22:13
Tracy
Maybe there was reasons for why they were not feeling worthy, but then they spent all year, so like the universe kept challenging them. Do you really think you're worthy? And they had all these hurdles? So anyway, I do think that language is really important in terms of your affirmations and your maps.
00:31:22:15 – 00:31:48:02
Amanda
It's 100% true. Like now more than ever, we need to be very mindful of the language that we're using and even the visuals we're putting out there. I think to like I look at some of the visuals on my map and I was like, I don't know, like, where was that coming from? What did that. Yes. Like like you're saying like, is that actually what I want and and and and if I thought I want it, where was that coming from.
00:31:48:04 – 00:31:48:21
Amanda
You know.
00:31:48:23 – 00:31:53:12
Tracy
Right. What what's under what's really the satisfying thing I want.
00:31:53:16 – 00:31:54:11
Amanda
Yes.
00:31:54:13 – 00:31:55:06
Tracy
Right.
00:31:55:08 – 00:32:01:21
Amanda
What's really the saddest. What is it about that thing that I think I want, like, let's get beneath.
00:32:01:23 – 00:32:02:02
Tracy
The.
00:32:02:07 – 00:32:03:16
Amanda
Surface level of it.
00:32:03:18 – 00:32:04:02
Tracy
Right.
00:32:04:05 – 00:32:25:20
Amanda
Yes. Okay. So what I would say if you're interested in joining in this yearly ritual with us, we're going to again, we're going to link to previous treasure maps so you can get the nuts and bolts. Like if you're like, I don't I want to know how to do this. We're going to link to the episodes we've done to give you the nuts and bolts so that you can do this on your own.
00:32:25:20 – 00:32:43:12
Amanda
And you can you can even have a treasure mapping party, like at your house and invite your friends. And it's really a fun thing to do. Right? Okay. The other option is you can join us in the inner circle and do it together. We are. We always do. Our Aries New Moon ceremony is our treasure mapping workshop, so we do it together.
00:32:43:15 – 00:33:03:18
Amanda
We put music on. If people have questions, we're answering questions. If people have comments or want to share stories or whatever, we just open it up to the community for that. And we are in our promotional period for the inner circle right now, where you can lock in 50% off your membership for life. So this is available to you now through the end of the month through March 31st.
00:33:03:21 – 00:33:24:09
Amanda
So if you want to jump in and do this, now is the time you learn from a different astrologer every month. You get mastery classes, you get new info, moon forecast, you get all kinds of amazing things for only $37 a month. Right now, normally 74. Or you can do an annual or a lifetime option. Okay, with that said, let's talk about the timing.
00:33:24:09 – 00:33:31:02
Amanda
Tracy, when do you think it is ideal to be doing our treasure maps this year?
00:33:31:04 – 00:34:01:00
Tracy
Okay, so I'm going to take control of the screen again. So the Aries New Moon is on March 29th, at 3:58 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, and it's 900, it's nine Aries with zero zero degrees, zero zero. Minutes. The waxing period ends on April 12th at 5:22 p.m., and that is the period right before the full moon is perfect.
00:34:01:02 – 00:34:24:10
Tracy
So. Oh, I so what my overall feeling is this era that we're now in this astrological era that we are in, you know, we have these areas periodically in any human, if they live to be 80 or 90 years old, you're going to have a few areas that are stronger astrologically than others. And we are definitely in one now.
00:34:24:12 – 00:34:44:17
Tracy
And I've been liking it to the Olympics because I live in a city that has the Olympics. It has had them. I've been I've witnessed them and now we're getting ready for another one. When the Olympics is coming to your city, everybody's talking about the Olympics and everything. And then when the events actually happen, you're deciding how you're going to drive to someone's there, drive to an appointment.
00:34:44:17 – 00:35:07:09
Tracy
You got to figure out, oh, they're going to have the thing and it's going to be crowd. You have to navigate the Olympics, this astrological period we're in with all of these planets that are going into the zero Aries and zero Gemini. And we already got Pluto in Aquarius. We're in our Olympic period right now. Now it just it's not going to that everything doesn't end after this period is over.
00:35:07:11 – 00:35:34:07
Tracy
Just like after the L.A. Olympics in 28. Everybody's going to be looking at Brisbane and in 32, the same with whatever this area is. But I really want people to really go in because Aries is our vitality. Aries tells the world, I'm here. I deserve to be here. It's at this you find the time that makes the most sense for you in this window.
00:35:34:09 – 00:35:55:21
Tracy
That's what's because you'll be in the right headspace. You'll just. Because we got it, we leave our body. I at least I do. I leave my body. So I mean, I'm here, I'm conscious and I'm telling my husband, where's the glue bottle? I mean, I'm doing that, but I am someplace else. Why did I put a Rome edition on my map?
00:35:55:21 – 00:36:24:18
Tracy
Why did I put take it easy? I don't know, but it came out to be important to me later. So there's going to be things that we're going to put on our map that I believe will be important to us later, especially in this era that we're in. So we make our maps during the waxing moon, the day after the new moon is Mercury will reach, leave zero degrees Aries and go into Pisces.
00:36:24:20 – 00:36:43:23
Tracy
Some people may want to say I'm making it on the new moon before it goes into Pisces. I want all that Aries energy. Okay, you can do that. I don't know when I'm going to make my moon mind my map, but we will. Most likely be making it while Mercury is retrograde and Venus is retrograde. Yeah, it's okay.
00:36:43:23 – 00:37:03:03
Tracy
It's not the end of the world because we're learning so much. I said to a group of people, this treasure map party, this Aries New moon, you know, who's hosting this Mercury and Venus because they are back and forth. They are ambassadors to zero Aries because three times.
00:37:03:05 – 00:37:21:10
Amanda
Oh, I like that. They're out. There are ambassadors to zero Aries, which for those of you who aren't tracking as much in February of 2026, zero Degrees of Aries is going to be where there's a massive party between Saturn F2.
00:37:21:15 – 00:37:46:11
Tracy
Neptune in Aries. At zero, we're going to have Saturn in zero Aries. Then in June we're going to have Uranus in zero. Gemini, and then and then we'll have Jupiter in Cancer in July. We're doing a lot. So I and like I said earlier, I believe that lot that we're doing our psyche and our higher conscious already knows, and they're going to be working with us to have a terrific map.
00:37:46:14 – 00:37:48:06
Tracy
That'll all make sense.
00:37:48:08 – 00:38:03:07
Amanda
Okay. So essentially we have it between March 29th and April 12th is the window to actually create our maps this year, because Tracy's always advocating to do it sometime between the new moon and the full moon for the Aries lunar cycle.
00:38:03:07 – 00:38:08:07
Tracy
So but once the full moon starts and you haven't made your map, you're not supposed to make a map this year. And that's fine.
00:38:08:11 – 00:38:29:08
Amanda
Okay? And people ask that every year. Like, what if I miss the window? It's like, you know what? Do the window get it done in the window? And I was I think of it as the cosmic curriculum. And I was like a school geek. I loved school. So for me, curriculum fun and the fact that the cosmos gives us like deadlines and timelines, it actually helps us do the things that we want to do.
00:38:29:13 – 00:38:48:10
Amanda
So just think of this as like because it can it can take a lot of energy. I mean, it actually is a process, I think. And actually this year I got to say, like, I don't actually know what's going to be on my map, whereas usually several months before I'm already at least collecting ideas, if not taking screenshots of things that I know I want to put on it.
00:38:48:15 – 00:39:19:14
Amanda
But this year I don't know yet. But I think that you know, it is an investment of time and energy to do this process, which is another reason why I think it works, because we actually like, put ourselves into it. But as the years have gone, Tracy, I'm opening up more and more to just being really guided to, especially this year, like because I kind of tried to micromanage, manage it a little bit last year.
00:39:19:16 – 00:39:31:23
Amanda
This year I'm thinking like I'm just going to be very open and receptive and just take the cues, know that I'm going to do it, but just take the cues in terms of what is going to go on that map and what isn't.
00:39:31:23 – 00:39:54:08
Tracy
And yeah, well, listen, what like I said to you earlier, we're re racking the pool table. I mean, every, every all the balls are going and we're just starting fresh with these outer planets already making these changes. And then Saturn will be in the mix as well. It's we can't micromanage this. We can't know where we're going to be.
00:39:54:10 – 00:40:05:01
Tracy
I think it's a great opportunity to kind of, to get fresh. And aren't we tired of being stale or is it just me? I know where.
00:40:05:03 – 00:40:09:03
Amanda
We we definitely don't want to be stale, but let's let's be fresh.
00:40:09:05 – 00:40:29:13
Tracy
And I do want to say one thing about time. I don't always talk about my own chart, because I don't want to get stuck on that. But I have Aries Rising and I have very early degree. I don't have zero, but I have two degrees, so I, I kind of when I, when the planets are doing their stuff, I really feel it because it's in the, it's in its home house in my chart.
00:40:29:13 – 00:40:56:18
Tracy
Right. So when the moon's in Virgo, it's in my sixth house when you know when. So everything is in their natural spot. And I started noticing something about a month ago that I have not, I haven't experienced in a long time. And it you tipped it off when you talked about time. What I am used to is I wake up in the morning and next thing you know, it's 5:00.
00:40:56:18 – 00:41:24:13
Tracy
I call. How does it become 5:00? What the heck happened? So that's been my life and probably a lot of people's lives for the last 20 years or so. I have lately had the opposite. I have that okay still, but I also have, gosh, it's only ten. And I just kind of feel like time is doing something weird.
00:41:24:15 – 00:41:36:02
Tracy
I it's maybe it's I feel like there's a little retrograde, there's a little forward, there's a little something. Time is time is messing with us a little bit.
00:41:36:04 – 00:42:04:18
Amanda
I have several different like spiritual teachers that I tune into. And one of them was saying that many of us are entering into a time of timelessness. Yes, where time is actually not well, we already know time isn't what it seems like. It is, by the way, that our brains filter it and that we're moving into a different, different fabric.
00:42:04:20 – 00:42:08:14
Amanda
And I use the word timelessness. And I was like, well.
00:42:08:16 – 00:42:23:18
Tracy
Okay, that resonates with me because I feel like I'm seeing that, I have my own, as I understand time. Yeah, I have for all these years I've been on the planet, but it just in the last month, it's starting to not feel like the way I know. Time.
00:42:23:23 – 00:42:24:24
Amanda
Yeah.
00:42:25:01 – 00:42:29:22
Tracy
Links. Links to what your, your guides are. People are telling you. Yeah.
00:42:29:24 – 00:42:52:00
Amanda
Amazing. Tracy, thank you so much for being here and doing this ritual with us. There's something so nice about the rhythm of it. That's how it come together. We get to have this fresh start. We get to, debrief on our experience from the year before we get to hear from the community. I hope you all will share.
00:42:52:02 – 00:42:59:15
Amanda
Your experiences and that it's like we get to begin again. We get to be you.
00:42:59:17 – 00:43:12:06
Tracy
And I'm excited. Now, you and I might want to go back to the community in the cancer cycle, because I anticipate there might be a lot of action between now and then, and we might want to. Yeah. To that. First impressions I.
00:43:12:06 – 00:43:25:23
Amanda
Love I love that, yeah. So basically, for those of you who are new to treasure mapping, we do the the new Moon treasure map. And then by the cancer new moon. The idea is that you're going to have some sprouts of.
00:43:25:23 – 00:43:32:02
Tracy
Some seeds, some things will have started to manifest, or sprouts or sprouts of the manifestation. Yes, exactly.
00:43:32:04 – 00:43:35:19
Amanda
Then by Libra, I think we're in the fall.
00:43:35:19 – 00:43:38:17
Tracy
We really have now we're seeing some stuff, right.
00:43:38:23 – 00:43:40:12
Amanda
And then by.
00:43:40:14 – 00:43:58:05
Tracy
Capricorn, that's our Twitter. We're really understanding and there might be some. And by the way, we can do a little tune ups in you know, like, you know, maybe I'll make a stack of another phone call to that person. They help me with that thing that I started back at camp, and, Aries, you know, we we make adjustments.
00:43:58:07 – 00:44:16:10
Amanda
Tracy, thank you so much for being here again with us. It's such a pleasure to have this rhythmic opportunity to revisit with you. And I look forward to checking in with you in cancer. We'll do another episode, we'll share where we're at, we'll get some more feedback from the community. And, just thank you for sharing this gift with us.
00:44:16:10 – 00:44:20:20
Amanda
It's it's such a fun thing to be doing together every single year. More than fine.
00:44:20:22 – 00:44:25:15
Tracy
Thank you for welcoming is I'm really. I'm. I'm buzz Myers should be proud.
00:44:25:17 – 00:44:49:09
Amanda
Yay! Buzz. Look. Look what happened in your legacy. I mean, that's the thing is, when we share these things, we don't even know what things will outlive us, right? So that's an amazing thing as well. Okay. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Thank you for being interested and making these doing these really practical things with your astrological wisdom in the astrological knowledge and working with the timing.
00:44:49:11 – 00:44:55:07
Amanda
I hope that you enjoy it as much as we do, and I can't wait to hear from you in the chat. All right, take care everybody. We'll see you on the next episode.