Colette Baron-Reid on Nervous System Alignment, Synchronicity & the Real Art of Manifesting
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- 02:30 – Why Chasing the Wrong Dream Blocks the Right One
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Colette Baron-Reid (she/her) is a bestselling author, internationally recognized Oracle expert, spiritual intuitive, and personal transformation thought leader. She is the founder of The Oracle School Experience®, The Oracle Circle Membership, and the DreamQuest Platinum Mastermind.
With 19 best-selling Oracle Card decks and over two million sold worldwide, along with eight books, at 39 plus years clean and sober, Colette’s greatest joy is teaching people they can have a direct and personal dialogue with the Universe to help them create their most fulfilling lives.
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”The point of engaging in a manifestation process, believe it or not, is less about the end result that you get, and more about the proof that the universe is listening to you.” – Colette Baron-Reid
Transcript:
Colette: [00:00:00] We're
Amanda: So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
So
there, there's this astrologer named Tracy Cook, who
like
four or five years ago came to me and was like, I think I have something for your community. I've been doing these treasure maps for like 20 years, but the, the difference is that they're, they're astrologically timed with.
Oh,
Colette: I love that.
Amanda: Yes,
Colette: I know.
Amanda: I love
Colette: that.
Amanda: That's where this, the complimentary thing happens. Really?
For real?
Yes. Yes. Because she said we, what we, what she's been doing with her, like a small little group of friends, basically for 20 years is at air. Every Aries New Moon. They create treasure maps and it's essentially, I mean, it's a little bit different than what you talk about in your book, but kind of the same idea and, and so I'm reading your book going, oh my God.
She's talking about treasure maps and,
Colette: yeah. Well that's how I learned them was from Unity Church. They called them Treasure maps. Oh, 40 years ago.
Amanda: Wow.
Colette: 40. 'cause I'm gonna be 68 this year. I was 40 years ago where I learned all [00:01:00] this
Amanda: stuff. Are you seriously gonna be 68? Freaking
Colette: a Yeah. No work. I know it's the Mongolian and Serbian.
Amanda: No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you what it is. It people that are alive, happy, and passionate and creative and, and attuned to the cosmos. I'm telling you, there's something, there's a preservation in that there's a, there's a vitality and a beauty because, because cosmos means order and beauty. So when we are in connection with that, I, I honestly, my dad, he was watching the 2026 forecast and he's like.
So basically you need to be good looking to
be
on one of your panels, and I'm like, no dad. It has nothing to do with that. It literally is, I think just a result of a life lived.
Colette: I'm getting all kinds of ideas and stuff to do together, but Okay.
Yay.
Yay.
Amanda: Anyways, anyway, so when we're thinking about airing, this is in March because this year I'm wanting [00:02:00] to extend.
The treasure mapping time period to begin at the Equinox,
Colette: right? With
Amanda: clearing,
like clearing the space, clearing the.
Colette: Yeah. Okay.
Amanda: Okay, then, then creating compost boards. I don't know about if you know about compost boards.
Colette: do.
Amanda: Using the glue from that for our treasure maps, but like making it almost like a month long experience where we're preparing ourself first for the treasure
maps.
maps.
We're preparing our space. We're preparing ourselves. Then we go into the treasure mapping at the Aries New Moon, which is April 17th, I believe. So somewhere in there I'd love to feature, yeah, this,
Colette: I mean, I can also always come in,
Amanda: come back if you want, and come back.
Colette: Yeah, I can always come back. Yeah. And I
Amanda: thought about that too.
Colette: Yeah. I can always come back and do something with your people specifically.
Amanda: Yes,
Colette: because we we're, we're launching our teachers training for the Art of Manifesting in June. Oh. We [00:03:00] just launched it independently. Okay.
Amanda: okay.
Colette: with me and my partner. So we've, we had like so many people. We took 50. We had 150 people come.
Then Hay House is launching it, and then, but here's the deal, so yes. I love this idea. And so I do a vision board challenge every year on the epiphany on January 6th.
Amanda: Oh,
Colette: That's nice. Every year for Hay House. So we had like, I wish. I could have told them about your treasure map thing because I had 45,000 people there.
Right. So, yeah. Yeah. I get a lot of people at these things. So that's what I'm saying, like may we should partner at something maybe even next year. 'cause I get shit loads of people at these things. Oh my God. Colette, we make a longer one. We can make a longer one. Yeah. I
Amanda: mean, this is amazing. Okay. I love everything.
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Anyway. Okay.
Colette: okay.
Amanda: So basically, okay.
Colette: Okay,
Amanda: okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
So
So at some point in, in this time period, whatever, we'll do it, we'll feature this where we're talking about manifestation in general and like [00:04:00] telling some stories. I feel like stories really land it.
Colette: I have lots of stories.
Amanda: Great.
Okay.
Colette: And also of how it doesn't work.
Amanda: Thank you.
Colette: Yeah.
Amanda: Oh my God.
Colette: It's really important to talk about that. Yes.
Amanda: Really, really important.
Colette: Does not work how the university,
is.
okay,
Amanda: let's
literally
talk about
Colette: that now.
Amanda: Yes,
it is.
it's, but also, but also the other thing I wanted to bring into this conversation is the nervous system because
Colette: yeah, I teach vagal nervous system like that.
You have to manage a nervous system first. That's what we talk about in the book. Well, you've read the book so you know.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, so, I'm gonna tee it up. I may rerecord the introduction because. I don't always get it the way I want it, but I'll just try and then we'll go in. All right. So I love this.
It's, and it's the art of manifestation, not manifesting, right?
Colette: No. The art of manifesting.
Amanda: Oh good. Okay, good. Thank you. I'm glad
Colette: I got that right.
Amanda: Okay. Alright. Okay, we're recording. Okay,
well, hello my friends. I [00:05:00] am. Already buzzing before we even record this podcast, because we've been having the best conversation before the podcast.
I am here today with Colette Baron Reed. Our mutual friend Debra Silverman, texted me and Colette and said. You guys gotta connect.
So immediately
So immediately I have fallen in love with this woman. And today, well, so recently she wrote a book called The Art of Manifesting. You can yes. Hold it up. Yes. And you know, any of you in our community know that we every around the Aries New Moon, every year we do a community treasure mapping event.
So I'm reading. Colette's book and she's talking about treasure maps, and I'm like, what? Wow. So we're gonna talk about manifestation here today. We're gonna talk about what works and really importantly, what doesn't work. In addition to that, [00:06:00] we're gonna talk about the importance of the nervous system
throughout
throughout this entire.
Conversation and why it matters, so I can't wait to dive in. For those of you who don't know Colette, she is a bestselling author. She is an internationally recognized Oracle expert.
She's
a spiritual, intuitive and personal transformation thought leader. She has 19 bestselling Oracle card decks and over 2 million sold worldwide.
She also loves astrology. So she has Deborah on her platform once a month. They talk about stars and cards, and so she understands the importance of astrological timing and being
in
tune with the astrology as we're doing these things in our life. And really the idea here is how do we co-create with the universe?
How do we bring our will and cosmic will into union to create better lives and ultimately a better world? And so we're gonna be talking about all [00:07:00] of that here today. Colette, welcome to the Astrology Hub Podcast. I'm so
delighted
to have you here.
Colette: I am so happy to be here. And it's true. We, we almost forgot we were doing a podcast.
We were like, oh my God, you're my best friend.
Amanda: Seriously,
Colette: we have so much to talk about.
Amanda: Yes, we do. Okay, so ~let's,~ let's start with, ~you know,~ this word manifestation and manifesting it. It's almost. It's almost like so overused at this point. Yeah, totally. That I feel like it's lost impact ~and,~ and there's a little bit of a like Mm.
To it for me. I don't know. Yeah. So let's talk about what you mean by it, and let's talk about why you feel it's so important that you wrote a book about it, et cetera.
Why Chasing the Wrong Dream Blocks the Right One (Understanding Your True Motive)
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Colette: Okay, so I wanna go back in time, and I've got lots of stories about this. So 40 years ago I got clean and sober, so I'm, ~I,~ I should put that out there first because it's in complete direct relationship to how I got into manifesting.
Amanda: Hmm.
Colette: ~Um,~ so I was an addict and an alcoholic and had a series of very violent [00:08:00] experiences that happened, and so I, ~you know,~ wasn't too keen on myself. Anyway, bottom line is I bottomed out, I was in the music business and around. ~You know,~ a lot of cocaine and that took the express train in and I was 27 when I got clean and sober and my life, I had a complete spiritual awakening and I started going to Unity Church.
Now, 40
years ago, there were books by Catherine Ponder, other and other like Neville Goddard, all the early new thought teachers. And they had a whole thing on treasure maps. This is 40 years ago. So they are also used today as vision boards. You have different names for them, treasure maps, ~you know,~ there's compost boards with stuff you wanna get rid of all, whatever it is.
But the point of it ~is,~ is that it was a visual representation of what you wanted to manifest in your life. Now, manifest means to bring from, bring something that is unseen and [00:09:00] unknown into the known and seen right? So from the immaterial into the material, from non-ordinary reality to ordinary reality.
But where I, ~so,~ so I can tell you that I have done 40, I'm sorry. I just, ~I,~ I went to the acupuncturist today, so I've got these things on my wrist, like it's for arthritis.
But anyway.
Amanda: they ki they ~kind of ~match your sweater.
Colette: They ~kind~
Amanda: of match.
Colette: Yeah. I was like,
oh,
look, they match. Okay. But anyway, so it's, it's, I have been on this fascinating.
I have.
fascinated
with this because I, I've going, what am I, what am I not getting? What am I not getting? Because, so I'm gonna just give you my synopsis with this because it's important that you understand why I wrote this book
and
why it's important, because it's become so ubiquitous in our culture.
And ubiquitous meaning you go on TikTok, TikTok, hashtag manifestation, like, oh look, I bought, I got a car. No, that's not what we wanna talk about. ~And. You know, ~yes, you can get things and yes, you can align. You can become the person that has an experience, right? ~But often. You know, and, and ~when the secret came out in, I think it was 20 [00:10:00] 2005, that was like the big thing that brought all these old teachings forward because everything was based on the new thought movement.
And it was, but it was a, I'll say to you that it was. Not
fully
ex explained because I don't think they fully understood it at the time either. It was ~kind of~ like kindergarten manifestation. See that bike? Get that bike, have that want the bike, see the bike, have the bike, get it, walk away with the bike, right?
Amanda: Yes,
Colette: it's the universe is not Uber Eats, the universe is a mirror. So the universe is a reflective mirror that is always engaging with us. And if, because ~at,~ at that time, quantum physics was still a relatively new conversation. Post materialist science was still leading the way. So we were seeing things as that thing over there is separate from me, right?
We, we, that's what was acceptable. Since then, ~um,~ people have signed many, many of the best thinkers, in the world have signed [00:11:00] this, the manifesto for post materialist science that brings consciousness into this work conversation. ~Mm-hmm. So. So you have the, like~ astrology's, a fixed system, right? It's also a mirror, right?
So think about that, right? The con the stars, how, where they stand in the sky, timing, things like that have a relationship to us. We're always in relationship to the stars. That, how it impacts us. But really it's a reflective, again, ~it's a,~ it's a mirror. Our choices are not reflected. And the stars. They are, here are your opportunities.
Here's your invitations. That's what I believe anyway, astrology is for, and it's so useful and so fantastic. And yours is the best astrology place in the planet
because
you make it very accessible to people who need to know how the heck this stuff works.
Amanda: Mm.
Colette: So
Amanda: thank you.
Colette: So I know that ~you know,~ for example, like my, I'm in a great faith.
I just got out of a progressed moon for two and a half years in Capricorn and I was all about my career and all of a sudden now I'm in Aquarius and I'm having the best time of my life [00:12:00] because I am a cancer and a emotional teabag. And with all these planets and Leo and I'm, I am loving, not giving a shit.
Okay.
Okay.
Amanda: So
Colette: good. Yes. So I under, ~so,~ so here's how this works with this. So we are here, like manifestation is a tool and it is a way in which we can communicate with the universe, but it requires us to do certain things. ~So we need to,~ our nervous systems need to be in alignment with a level of, and it doesn't necessarily mean calm, they, it needs to be.
Balanced, if you will. Right. ~Or~ or at least. So if you are in a high stress, ~and,~ and I'll be honest with you, I think we're being completely manipulated right now by, and I'm not a conspiracy person at all, but you just look at the news and no matter where you sit in the world, you're being manipulated into being afraid and making sure your nervous system is offline, right?
That you are no longer intuitive. ~You're, you're, what's, what's no.~
~no.~
What's come online now is your [00:13:00] instinct for survival. Yes. It's very different. You cannot manifest.
You
cannot manifest. When you are constantly seeking a potential threat, it, you will manifest more of that. And that is, that's because you don't manifest what you want.
You manifest what you are. So if what you are is a signal, right, and it, it's a series of signals. So imagine that we are always broadcasting what we are. And whatever it is that we are rehearsing at a high level, we are broadcasting that into the cosmos, into the sphere, or into the, ~you know,~ call it whatever you want, ~you know,~ I call it source.
Some days I think it's, God, I don't care what the name is, but I know it works and it's talking to me all the time because it's always gonna show you through synchronicity. Never like Uber Eats. It doesn't, ~you don't,~ you don't put an order in and it shows up at your door. So there is this, there's something that occurs that you go, oh, well that's interesting and I'm gonna follow the crumbs.
Right? So it we're, and it's always about [00:14:00] our evolution, right? ~When we are,~ when we are putting something forward, when we're putting our, like we put our, our fish line into the sea to look for a fish, are we change by that action, right? Everything is about change, movement and evolution. And so. When we, ~when we~ set out on a manifestation journey as well, we have to take into account that we need to become the person who has the experience we say we want.
'cause often we fail because we're chasing something that we're not ready for, or that we're chasing something at all, or that we're attached to an outcome and the form of that outcome.
Amanda: Hmm.
Hmm.
Colette: So most people come to the conversation of manifestation, out of stress and fear, and they're looking for certainty and a way to control their outcomes.
Amanda: Hmm.
Colette: That's our, everybody talks that way. That's why you got that ick feeling.
because it
doesn't work and I, I did it myself, so I've done it all wrong. Just so y'all know. I've done everything wrong and everything Right. And [00:15:00] I've gotten really good results on both and I think so. Any a perfect example.
So I only wanted to be a recording artist, and Deborah will tell you that I've had two albums on the EMI music label, which is now Universal. And I mean, I chased that music career and I did so many bloody treasure maps and things on it. And I was chasing it, chasing it. And I wanted it, and I wanted it, and I chase it and ran away from me and every door slammed in my face.
And the thing that I did nothing for. Nothing at all was readings and doing the thing. That was my day job while I was hoping to get this thing off the ground, I used to tell people, oh, I don't really do this. I'm really a singer. Don't come back next year. The first six years, and I had clients in 29 countries after six years, and there was no internet.
Or cell phones. People had to give my phone number out on a little piece of paper in airports, in bathrooms, and in dinner parties. And people call like by the time the end of six, the first six years of my doing readings [00:16:00] tell, telling people I really wasn't this, I counted at least one person from 29 countries because.
They like somebody at a festival ~and, and,~ and heard about me from a guy in England, but this was in Australia. And then they told somebody in Tasmania who told somebody their friend in Dubai, and then somebody flew all the way from Ireland to meet me in person on the way somewhere else, ~like it's the cra.~
And I never gave out a business card, and all I could do was complain about how my career in music wasn't happening. But guess what? So here's the other thing. We need to know the motive behind the desire. Nobody tells you about that stuff. What I wanted the music career to do, 'cause music changed my life.
~You know,~ music gave me the kind of a sense of wholeness that ~I,~ I I never had before. I wanted to do the same thing for others that music did for me. And, but ~I, I wanted,~ I saw myself helping people with a microphone in my hand. I saw myself feeling that I had self-worth and dignity. [00:17:00] I saw myself, ~you know,~ knowing that I was making a difference in people's lives.
All of that was happening. My other career, I got exactly what I was asking for, but I kept saying, no, no, no, not this, that thing. No, no, that, that over there. So when I. No kidding. And I, but I didn't really see it at the time. This is all hindsight, ~but everything. So when I finally gave up music,~ but that's the other thing, part two.
You must give up what you want. You cannot clinging to it. Hold onto it, run after it. Attach yourself too much to it and you feel it. It will run away from you. It is because the universe recognize lack for lack, and it's gonna show you more reasons to have lack. You are always going to get a reflection of what you rehearse.
And if you are rehearsing, I don't have it, you're gonna not have it. When I didn't give a shit anymore. I hope I can say those things on these.
because I'm
gonna bleep me out. I'm not, my nick time is the mystical pirate, so I, I have a bit of a salty mouth. So good. Okay, so then [00:18:00] what happened, so was, was I, I.
Gave it up and I didn't care anymore. I'm like, oh my God, this is like, forget it, okay. I can't take it anymore. I was doing so well. I had clients booked up months and advances. I was flying to New York. I was going to, ~um,~ I, I had all these celebrities. I was, I was in W Magazine. I was like flying to England and all over the place.
Like I had an amazing life and I was grateful, really grateful. Anyway, so then, I had given up music, but I thought, geez, I would really love to do something with music. So ~me,~ me and my partner got together and I worked with this guy named Mars Lazar, who is a platinum selling new age artist, and we were the first people to drop a 42 track, or 20, I know it was 40 24 track, but it was like a fully, fully produced new age album.
~Right. So this was back in 19 90, 89, 90, I don't know. I can't remember. Anyway, so, so then, uh, no,~ it was at the late nineties ~and,~ and there had been other albums out there, but never fully produced like this. Like this guy just went to town. So the, he the, we launched it independently. ~Um,~ and, ~uh,~ the head of [00:19:00] Virgin Records had bought it and loved it, ~then told.~
And then one of my clients got the job as the business affairs guy. It was all synchronicity, come on in. ~We would love for, we are gonna, ~we would love to offer you a deal. So they released the record. Then they realized I could sing. So then they thought I was gonna do a chanting record. But this all happened like synchronicity one thing outta the time.
I didn't even want it anymore. I go to bed at nine o'clock now I'm sober all this time. Like I don't, what is this whole thing. So I ended up recording an album. With, ~uh, ~with Eric Ross, who did Tory Amos's first few records and, ~uh,~ the president of BMI loved it and they released it, but then they found out I was 40.
But ~the,~ the, why am I telling you this? So it's not just because they found out I was 40 and it was a big scandal because they only, they thought I was in my late twenties or my mid twenties. 'cause I look really young. But. It wasn't, it was so bad for me to be in that business. I felt they, ~I was,~ I was too old, ~too,~ too fat, ~too~ too thin, ~too,~ too this, too that the music didn't [00:20:00] fit.
Like the misogyny in the music business was crazy. And one night I was at the Canadian version of the Grammys, and ~uh,~ I remember sitting there beside. ~He,~ he was my champion that the president of the label was so kind to me and so good, and I sat there and there were people snorting coke in the bathroom and stuff, and I'm clean and sober and I ended up eating two dinners and looked at him and said, I have to go home now.
So.
I just kept eating and eating and I said, I, I can't go. I can't go to the thing. I just can't. I can't. And I realized I wasn't safe in that business.
Amanda: Oh.
Colette: not safe, and I, and eventually I, I left and, but the crazy, then Hay House found me out also, series of coincidences. So everything that I have ever put.
On those treasure maps all happened, including the thing that wasn't good for me, but it happened at a time where I could recognize it and then use it as a teaching tool for others to talk about the difference of the two things.
Amanda: Oh,
Ooh.
okay. Wow. It's so powerful to hear your [00:21:00] story and I know, ~you know,~ so many people in our community have been doing this process, so I'm sure you've had similar experiences.
I remember a certain treasure map that I did not last year, but the year before. And I got the things on this map, and it was ~kind of ~a disaster. Like ~I had,~ I had to redo everything. I spent a ton of money, but like, it wasn't right. None of it ever felt right. Like it was just, it was, and so it was such a, it.
Kind of sh soul shaky experience for me though, that I didn't even do one last year because I was like, whoa, something's off. Like I need to recalibrate before I do this again, because it's not that this process isn't. Legitimate and how, I mean, we're manifesting by your definition. We're manifesting always all the time.
I mean, literally,
Colette: ~and, and, and,~ and especially if you are organized in a group. Like, I love that ~you,~ you guys do this in a group, right? ~But,~ but I I wanna just say something quickly about what you said about yourself.
Amanda: Yes,
Colette: I, I have [00:22:00] seen the detours that have to come. Yes. In order to teach us what is really for us and that we get what we put on the board to teach us to grow.
That's part of our, so I really think you can't look at it like it was a disaster, although we can. So it was painful, but I learned about myself and it scared me. And now it's like, what are my motives behind wanting this? And then, yes.
Amanda: Yes,
Colette: But you are not the same person today that you were two years ago when you did that.
Amanda: totally.
Colette: Exactly. So ~you,~ you now have you
Amanda: Exactly. And it's, and ~it,~ it is a process so that this is, and I think Deborah says this a lot ~and,~ and I remember the first time she said it, I was like, Ooh, I don't know if I like that, but I think it's probably true. She said that. We're here to, our soul has a plan.
Like we, we are here to have experiences. That doesn't always mean they're gonna feel good. ~Like~
Colette: ~Nope.~
Amanda: ~the~
~thing.~ I think when we think of creating a treasure map or any of these things. ~And,~ and this goes to your control point. Like there's a part of us wanting to control ~and,~ [00:23:00] and avoid feeling anything uncomfortable.
It's like, well, that's not life. And that's not necessarily good for the soul's path and journey. So
Colette: like I believe if you're inspired to do, when you were inspired to do your treasure map
Amanda: Yeah.
Colette: You were inspired, which meant your soul wanted you to go through that. Yes. Right. ~So,~ so it's like, and now you're ready for.
Something better. Because I really believe, like one of the things that we do differently ~and,~ and I started doing differently a few years ago, was when I started challenging the statement of this or something better now manifests for me in divine appropriate timing. Oh. And I'm
Amanda: like,
Colette: because that's what I learned at Unity Church 40 years ago, doing the first treasure map.
You always put that on there. You always put a border because you wanted the universe to give you what was inside the border. And I went. But nobody ever talks about the synchronicities about how it comes. Oftentimes we say it didn't work because it it, we got a reasonable facsimile, but not what we said we wanted.
Mm.
Amanda: Mm.
Colette: I now I started putting the zone of synchronicity, [00:24:00] which is a very important part now, and maybe you guys will take it on. I'll show you guys how to do it, whatever, but to add that on the map so that you are encouraging the form that is. Right. For you to come and you and I say surprise me because it's like, okay, then I'm constantly fascinated by, wow, this is interesting.
I wonder what, where this is going to lead me, as opposed to, well, I didn't get exactly what I wanted. It was a disaster, so I'm not doing it again. Right. That's a very different approach. Plus, when you,
when
you, before you do a map, or you'll call it treasure map and or I'll say vision board. Or in this case, manifestation drawings, which is what I teach in the art of manifesting, which are just basically doodling your destiny.
It's like if you know how to draw a wavy line in a bad circle, you can do this work. 'cause it's, you don't need to be an artist to do it, but you need to be able to bring your motor motor cortex into it so it becomes real in the body. You [00:25:00] prepare yourself before you step into the vision board or the treasure map experience by getting your nervous system into alignment.
And we do that by by immersing ourselves in gratitude. So in the book I talk about this and it's about becoming stupefied in gratitude first, before your pen touches the paper. Right. You get, you sit there and you bring a sense memory. Have you had a kid, Amanda?
Amanda: Yes, I have two.
Colette: You have two kids.
Amanda: Okay.
My daughters are 17 and 14
Colette: now. Okay, so do you remember, do you remember the first time you looked into your daughter's eyes and smelled her little head?
Right.
Okay. Right. And that feeling of awe.
Amanda: yes.
Colette: Amazing. I can't believe this has happened to me. And gratitude that you're, you're right. That feeling. Yeah.
Some people get that from looking into nature. They see that, they see a natural sight. Or some people have told me that when they left home for the first time and they got their first apartment, [00:26:00] they were like, wow. Right. For me, it's when I rescue a dog. Right? Oh, so I, I, oh my God, I can smell their little breath and their look into their eyes and whatever, and I go back to that.
So if we go back to that memory. And you rehearse the memory.
Your
nervous system doesn't know that it's not happening and you're, that it's not really happening. You're bringing the memory and you're rehearsing it for five solid minutes. You just draw circles, la, la, la, la, la. And you just say, thank you, thank you, thank you.
And then you start thinking of other things to be grateful for. But they're not really things. They're experiences, the A, the awe and gratitude. And you're high as a kite after five minutes. And you're, ~and~ and why do we do this? Because you want the reticular activating system of your brain. This is a neuroscience piece to kick out all the fear people at the party.
You wanna give it a brand new guest list, right? Say only let. Great things to be grateful for, things to be in awe of, be, you know, curiosity, surprise, things like that. We wanna let that in. So the reticular [00:27:00] activating system of the brain is gonna take your eyeballs and it's gonna light up the runway. In cahoots with the conscious universe, which is always reflecting back to us what we have rehearsed, and it's going to give you more reasons to feel grateful.
Then you put down, oh, this is what I wanna put on my, but I'm gonna be so grateful and I'm gonna be so grateful in advance of receiving this or experiencing this. That's the other thing. It's less about acquiring things than about what the experience of the acquisition is meant to be for you, or you want it to be.
Amanda: I mean, Colette, when I left New York City. Now, how many years ago is it? It's like 15 years ago. All I knew is that I wanted to be passionate about my work.
I
wanted it to be in service to people. I wanted it to use my gift and get my like natural talents and abilities, and I wanted it to sustain my life.
I
can look
Colette: at you now,
Amanda: no [00:28:00] idea what that meant. Right. Zero,
zero concept.
But that's the first time that I can remember allowing, I call 'em qualities like universal qualities to truly guide my path. Yeah.
And,
~you know, and,~ and so eventually, ~you know,~ six years later, whatever, I have the opportunity to start Astrology Hub, which was talk about synchronicity.
It's, I have it in my book.
like.
The craziest story where people are probably like, there's no way that's true. But it is.
Colette: It
Amanda: is true. And so I love this really focusing on experiences. The other thing is, I wanna go back to your story if we can, right? Because I want, I wanna kind of like understand it because you loved singing, right?
You must have loved singing and I
Colette: still sing.
Amanda: Okay.
Colette: I still sing. Um, I'm actually going to LA at the end of February to work with the brothers corn on an EP called My Dark Church. So I still do it as a hobby. Okay, so you love singing. I sung that as I've sung as a backup singer on some heavy metal
Amanda: Awesome.
Colette: I hope
Dutch, a Dutch band with an Indian singer.
Oh, yeah. I still sing. I still [00:29:00] do. I record because I love it, but I do it for love. I don't do it for the. Business of it anymore. I don't need. So
Colette Baron-Reid – speaker View: you,
Colette: to.
Amanda: you had
an attachment to
thinking
that because you loved singing, that it meant that that was gonna be your career. Yes. And that it meant that you had to be in the music industry, because that's
Colette: what, well, there was a singer songwriter in the music industry.
I had a band I was singing in advance. I mean, that is the that is what I thought.
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Amanda: That's what
Colette: you thought. I gotta tell you this wild story, this manifest. 'cause this will bring it all together.
Speaker: Hello my friends. If you are loving this episode and you wanna join us in actually doing some of these things in order to manifest the vision that you are here. To bring forward, I would love to invite you to our free Aries Equinox challenge event. This is happening over a period of about five weeks, and we will begin with a lot of the things we're talking about here with Colette.
Clearing things, uh, composting things, learning how [00:30:00] to regulate our nervous system, and also igniting the life force within our bodies. So that when we sit down to do our treasure maps, our vision boards, we are pulling forth the most clear and aligned vision possible. I would love for you to join us for this. All you have to do is go to astrology hub.com/ Aries equinox. When you do that, you're gonna get a welcome video. You're also gonna get the first challenge in the series, and now back to the episode.
Colette: Okay, so, so in Toronto, and Katie would know this, there's a place called Massey Hall, and that is the place that every cool music artist has ever been on.
It's the best acoustics in the city. It's the most amazing place. And they did another version of it, Massey Hall, Roy Thompson Hall. It was the version of it, and it was like, like the best. Oh my God. The sound was like, it is my, was my dream. So I would visualize my, and I would draw, I would do a little [00:31:00] doodle around it too.
Visualize myself on with a microphone, with my music playing, but me in front of thousands of people. So here's what happened.
So
I let it go because that was an old dream. So I thought, right, so I'm with Hay House now. They signed me in 2005. I didn't even know what Hay House was, or I didn't even wanna write a book.
I didn't even, like, why am I here? I don't know why. I was just kind of like, okay, so, but I wanted to do Oracle guards. But anyhow, so here's what happened. So they book. A Canadian version of something called I Can Do It Conference. They used to have these big conferences, multi-speaker conferences. So it was my turn to talk.
I got up there. I was 3,500 people in the audience. I had my microphone in my hand
and,
and Hay House would always play my album, when I would come on stage or before I came on stage. So my Magdalene's Garden was my album and they would play it. So I was listening to my music. There I am. With my thing in my hand, I'm looking out in the audience, I start doing readings and whatever, and I realize, [00:32:00] holy shit, I'm in Roy Thompson Hall, which is Massey Hall, and I'm in front of thousands of people.
My
music is playing and I have a mark in my hand, and I'm talking to a dead person though, which was never part of the plan. You know what I'm saying?
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: Okay. Or pulling Oracle like what the f? Right. So, but it happened. Exactly. Exactly. So. We just don't know what the universe wants to use us for. So part of my thing is use me.
Use me. ~But here's what I think. I think it is universe. Here's what I think it is. Here's, I'm, I'm, I'm really, so, oh, here's another. Fabulous. So, oh, this is a recent one. Okay.~ So the book comes out such a beautiful cover. It looks so nice against turquoise. Okay.
Amanda: Yes it does. Great. Complimentary colors. Yes.
Colette: So, I have never thought of a New York Times bestseller ever.
Like
I, because I, because I'm too niche. I never thought, it's not that important to me. I'm not that kind of author. I don't really care. But this is the first time I'm looking at this book and so many people, once they get it, are writing in, they're doing their drawings. We have like the teacher training now with it, and I'm like.
Wow, this is like really I was, it came, it was number one
in
for about a couple [00:33:00] weeks, and I was up there with like Julia Cameron and Big Magic, and I'm looking at, oh my, I'm going, maybe one day I could have a New York Times bestseller. Would that be not cool? So I decided to put a drawing and put New York Times in the drawing.
Okay. So I call my head of my brand at Hales. This is only no, this is back October. Okay. I'm just telling you back mid-October. Right after two weeks later I said, you know what? I think it would be really cool, wouldn't it? I think we could, but I'm gonna let the universe decide, but I'm gonna put it down there.
No attachment. Boom. So she laughed. I laugh 'cause we know, I've always seen this book as like organic and needing to people to do the book and really understand it
before
it becomes a thing I expected it to be. So I didn't expect anything. Two hours later, you won't believe this. Two hours later my publicist writes me.
Hi, the New York Times would like to invite you to come and teach at their Healthy Times program, your book, the Art of Manifesting at the New York Times. And I'm like, are you kidding me? [00:34:00] So I, so this isn't a, so of course that's the first thing I did when I flew there. I met them and I told them all about it.
I, and I said, oh my God, I manifested you. I wanted a bestseller, but I, I got you instead. Which is great because at least I got the New York Times that was so freaky.
Amanda: Mm.
Colette: Because the point of getting the New York Times bestseller was that I would reach more people, and so there's maybe 15 people will be there, but I got exactly, and the universe went like that.
At me, right? Mm. Because it gave me the form that was right for me.
Amanda: Mm.
Colette: And matched me where it was important so I could share this story. Mm-hmm. I know that's the only reason it happened was so I could tell it like, the universe is gonna give you your exact match that you're ready for right now, or the thing that may need to take you on a detour.
~You might want. ~And he said to me, he goes, well, how do you know you won't get a New York Times bestseller at some point? And I was like, well, I guess I don't. But it was like. So when we say surprise me ~on the treasure,~ on the treasure map, like, surprise me, ~surpri, tell, ~show me the form That's right for me.
Mean [00:35:00] it, because you'll still be amazed. I'm in awe. I'm not disappointed, right? ~It's like,~ I'm like, wow,
I've love that. And ~you know,~ even at my, my birthday in January, I,
I blew out the candles this year and I said, surprise me.
me.
Like that was it. It was like I, because I think that ~re re~ requires a level of trust and also having the experience enough times of like, oh, actually the universe's plans for me are normally better than what I think.
~You know, what I'm,~ what I'm imagining, or I'm thinking ~it's,~ it's normally better when I don't try to control all those outcomes. And that's what I think ~with that,~ with that map. I did that one year. If I look at that map. It feels like a lot of controlling outcomes. It feels like a lot of, like my ideas of what I thought were right.
~You know,~ and again, ~I,~ I completely understand that all of that was necessary for me to experience, even if it's just to have this conversation with you right now, Colette, where I can ask the question, wait, [00:36:00] how come it doesn't always work out? Like, or how come it doesn't always work the way we were hoping, ~you know?~
How Trust and Intention Shape Personal Reality
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Colette: Well, and it's good that it doesn't, and that's the thing that everybody needs to stop thinking they failed because the point of engaging in a manifestation process, believe it or not, is less about the end, the result that you get, and more about the proof that the universe is listening to you.
And
right now.
We've given our agency away to algorithms, to everything, to the fact that we're being manipulated by media. We're not, we're being told what to think ~and when, when we're, we're, I, I went to the states and I mean,~ in Canada, like on our social media, we don't see a lot of American news and stuff. ~It,~ it's not allowed, but I did the states all the time, so I, and I'm.
I love America and I love Americans. Right. So, and but I couldn't believe how two different narratives were being fed to the population completely different than the other. So there's two entire populations Yes. That are not seeing the same thing the other people are seeing.
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: One like that is by, that's.
On purpose
Amanda: a
Colette: hundred percent. So [00:37:00] if you want your agency back, don't you wanna listen to the what the universe has in mind, not what you see online.
It's
like, wait a sec, that thing's listening to me. So I actually do have an A agency. I can choose my reality. I can live in both end. I can understand that I'm powerless to change any of that stuff, but I'm not powerless over.
My, the creative aspect of my personal life and my small universe,
I, I
know that I can have a playful, amazing. A hopeful relationship with life. And that's what I want people to get out of this book. The Art of Manifesting is that you should have hope. You should know the universe is listening and always responding even when you think it's not.
It's, it is because as I said, it responds to the energy that we broadcast. That's on, that's on repeat, not the in between stuff. And again, if we keep, if we focus on.
[00:38:00] Truth,
trust,
and
surprise me, we will be surprised, but we will also have more trust because it's like, wow, that answered the thing that I really wanted.
I wanted that the right way for me.
Amanda: Yeah. And Colette, ~don't, you, ~don't you feel too that there is oftentimes, especially if it's,~ especially if it's a. A pretty lofty takes~
Colette: ~time.~
Amanda: ~That, that~
a
lofty ideal or, or experience that you wanna have, that there is a cuing process and Oh, yeah. It's like the messy middle where like, yes, you are gonna experience that, but Oh,
Colette: sorry.
sorry.
This is
Amanda: This is so cute for podcast listeners, she just brought the cutest little dog up into her lap. Oh my God. Are you serious? Okay. Jane's
Colette: been sleeping and snoring, so
Amanda: Oh, how cute. I had to cut her
Colette: up just
Amanda: so she,
Colette: okay.
Amanda: so the cooling process where, where that's the frequencies or the energetic entanglements.
That we are carrying with us, that are blocking the thing that's
Colette: called, that is a name in my book. It's called [00:39:00] Chemicalization. I did not make up that term. I learned it
Amanda: Oh.
Colette: from Catherine Ponder, the Unity Church minister who wrote this book in the sixties, I'm pretty sure.
And she talked about the process and it's when the.
Poop hits the fan.
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: you,
When you, as soon as you start in, you have to become the person that has the thing you say you want.
Amanda: yes,
Colette: For the highest good. If you're saying the highest good, you're also gonna get things faster, by the way too, because ~you're,~ you're tapping into the connectivity of the field.
Yes. Instead of Mimi ii, it's what's benefit to us all, and then it happens. And then what would benefit to us all is you might be forced to take a look at some character flaws or some stuff, some resentments you still have, or the fact that.
that.
~You know,~ you might have a lot of fear and you're not ready to experience X, Y, or Z.
Or they might take things away from you to make a space because you're holding onto it, right? So yeah, that stuff. Is irritating and it's very scary sometimes, but it is so essential. I would not be here today if I didn't have all the really difficult ~si~ situations [00:40:00] that arose up for me in the past 40 years.
I've been sober all this time, but it hasn't been wine. I mean, I was gonna say wine and roses has not been wine.
Right.
How about chocolates and roses? Yes because I've had to learn and grow and change and become the person. That could actually hold space and live the life I say I want.
Amanda: S
Yes. Same. ~And,~ and if you, if your desire is to be of service and to really
help.
that can't be coming from the frequencies ~of,~ of lack and fear and not enough and all those things that we can be running behind the scenes, it's not like those things a hundred percent go away.
But if they're running the show right. It just,
Colette: and they were. I think they were running the show for a lot of us, ~you know,~ during the pandemic. I think that, ~you know,~ in the whole, ~you know,~ race and identity and ~you know, I,~ I was so worried about saying the wrong thing and hurting somebody and
Amanda: Right.
Colette: I, I am such a mama Bear Cancerian.
And I'm like, oh my God. And then I was not able to speak [00:41:00] clearly because I was second guessing myself. So I went through a period where I had to go to a lot of therapy and training and things like that to really understand what was happening. And I wasn't the only one. Right, right. I think, ~you know.~ We have to grow and sometimes it's really uncomfortable, but at the same time, I think ~it's,~ it's really important that we are as authentic as we can be as we go.
And you're right, it's not gonna be e even keeled or ~it's,~ it's not always. Hunky Dory.
Amanda: Oh my gosh, yes. Well, my book coming out in, whenever it comes out also has the, I mean, my messy middle,
Colette: messy middle
Amanda: is like made for tv. Reality show stuff. I mean, it was really bad for a long time, but like you, it's like I'm so grateful I went through that.
~That was, ~that was a very essential. Chemicalization or alchemical process or choline.
Colette: And it It's alchemical.
Amanda: Yes,
Colette: it's alchemical. Because it's chemicalization. Yes. And And when you say culling, you mean You say culling. It's [00:42:00] C-U-L-L-I-N-G. Yes. Right? Yeah. When you call something as you, you get rid of what you don't want or need, but sometimes.
That's our comfort zone.
Amanda: Totally. It's a
Colette: security thing, right? We don't wanna let it go. Like, wait a second. I like being this victim self.
Amanda: Right. And I imagine in my future a certain way, so you're telling me that it's not gonna be that way. ~That~ that's hard. ~But the~ But the desire to have the experiences are so in soulful alignment that the universe knows better than we do at at,
Colette: yeah.
Amanda: Most times. So, okay. Colette, this is so much fun like, and it's so perfect. So Tracy Cook is the astrologer who brought,
Colette Baron-Reid – speaker View: I'm
Colette: a treasure excited. I'm so excited to watch that. I'm gonna come and see this or sign up for it. I don't know how, I didn't know you guys did this. Well we're, because I come in
Amanda: on, well, we're gonna do it on a bigger scale this year because the Equinox is happening and then the ~new~ Aries New Moon doesn't happen for like three, almost four weeks later, which is unique.
Colette: Is it, when is it the 17th [00:43:00] of April?
Amanda: I, around that time? Yes. It could be exactly the 17th, ~but,~ but so the Equinox is the 22nd of March. Yeah, I think and then we have the, it is the, it's,
Yes,
And then we have the, that first Aries New Moon. And, and for me, I was like, well, maybe we do our treasure maps at the Equinox.
It's like, no, that doesn't feel right because the moon. So the equinox is based on the movement of the sun. Right?
Colette: Right.
Amanda: And then the lunar cycle is based on the movement of the moon. And the moon is
Colette: new. Moon is when you do it.
Amanda: Yeah, because it's a manifesta like the moon itself is, is how we manifest into this third dimensional reality.
So to not have it aligned with the moon just doesn't feel right. So anyway, so we have this big period of time that we can use to
Colette: To clear
Amanda: Yes. And all these things you're talking about with the nervous system. And I had some ideas as you were speaking. I was like, oh, I got some ideas for how we can come into more alignment with the nervous system because that what you brought up earlier about an intentional.
Dysregulation. I completely agree. And I [00:44:00] don't know if it's because they want to deregulate dysregulate the nervous system. Oh, yeah. But maybe because when we're dysregulated, we're, we
Colette: is
Amanda: buy more things. We buy things on impulse. We think that we need all these things. We, we live in fear, so we're easily controlled, like all these things.
Yeah. So I, I, I think especially with the astrology of right now, and. Especially with the amount of change, and especially with moving from water and earth to primarily air and fire elements, the nervous system is actually one of the biggest keys for us.
Colette: Right. To, so my the way we do it is a very simple drawing practice.
I mean, yes.
I mean,
I can always, I'm happy to come and do it for you guys, but it's just a very, you actually don't have to think your way through it or do anything fancy.
Amanda: Right.
Colette: It's literally taking a pen or a pencil to a piece of paper and moving your arm.
Amanda: Wow.
Colette: ~And,~ and that brings ~and,~ and rehearsing a state of being like.
like,
Very simple. It's so simple [00:45:00] and you get there so quickly and you start releasing oxytocin serotonin, dopamine, I mean, we have all the science behind it, all the research. It actually works. Very simple. Doodling, ~you know,~ gets that en engaged. And then because ~you are,~ you are a map, a treasure map is an artistic project.
Right, right. I'm assuming you guys still do the old school collaging, is that right?
Amanda: Yes, yes.
Colette: Yeah. So I mean, ~people ~
Amanda: ~have different,~ people have different approaches, but in general. Yeah.
Colette: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I love that. I love that. I still do that too. I do both and I do, I do my, I do the drawing stuff and I do that.
And I love it. I've done it for 40 years, right? So my husband and I do one every year together. So it's like. ~You know, having,~ recognizing that you're doing something ~with your,~ with your arm and you're engaging the motor, motor cortex to where you're starting to embody, oh, this is true. Because I can see it.
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: Right. And I'm doing it. And I'm making it real. ~So,~
~and~
~anyway, so there's, I mean,~ I'm sure you have different practices, but ~that is,~ this is really. What we tested for a couple years and we're like, and actually I got the book deal because I, I taught, ~um, ~a [00:46:00] lot of the executives at Hay House how to do it,
Amanda: Oh,
Colette: like, whoa, you need to write a book about this.
And I'm like, okay. Yeah. So I got my, it
Amanda: feels like a missing link, honestly. Like I can tell you it feels like a missing link to what we have been doing. I always bring the community into gratitude. But
Colette: yeah,
Amanda: the physical, like somatic, that,
Colette: It's a,
Amanda: has been missing. Like how do we, and you know, what you said about the nervous system and, and that it's simple.
That is what I'm realizing about the nervous system in general. The things that help us regulate are not rocket science. They're not cerebral, simplest
Colette: the simplest,
Amanda: or Yes, no. Yes.
Colette: I can't remember
any of
the protocols that even I've created or my tapping thing. I mean, I can't remember any of it.
it.
When I'm in a stress response, I'm like.
like.
I'm very, very, my nothing's working
I
need something so simple.
Amanda: Mm-hmm.
Why This Free Community Experience Matters and the One Book You Should Read First
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Colette: And I need to go there. When I went to Portugal I was with some, my friend who brought their little kids, and another friend had brought her older daughter in her twenties who suffered from [00:47:00] some anxiety. And so I said, why don't you try sitting, just sit with me for a bit?
And she was having a full-blown attack. I said, well, let's just take a pen and let's go round and round. And she kept doing it, ~kept doing it,~ and I came back to her after like half an hour. She was still doing it. She goes, I can't remember what I'm anxious about. I went, yeah, right. You just draw round and round.
You know why? Because that very simple circle and that very simple thing you're doing. Because you have ~a, a, a, a,~ a memory, an ancestral memory that round things are safe round things make life round, things are your friend. They go forever. The circle never ends. The circle is. The thing, and you just go round and round.
And this is a shape that is embedded in our memories. Little babies, they will grab the ball before they're gonna grab the stick, right? They're going to want the thing that's round because they already know they're, we are programmed to see spherical ~or,~ or circular objects as safe. [00:48:00] They're movement. They represent something that's gonna move.
They're gonna take you out of something, move you towards something. It's the simplest fricking thing ever.
Amanda: Cells.
Colette: Yeah. Cells, stars stuff. Looks like. Exactly. ~Um,~ I wish I could show you something. Actually, I can show you this. This is one of them, actually, I'll show you this one. I was doodling this today. So, Ooh.
so
So these are the circles and they end up looking like cells. 'cause we put things called gratitude bubbles in them. So this is one of the ways that we teach. This was the intention is the center. The portal is here. These are called frequency lines.
Amanda: Oh.
Colette: these are gratitude. Circles and these are the little bubbles.
And by the time you're like com, you're, you don't even remember who you were when just before you started it. You won't remember. What you're anxious about at all. Like you'll be like, oh, I'm in this zone of woo. This is so, and it does so beautiful. Does and the, and the mind or the brain also clocks that it's cellular.
'cause it looks like a cell. Yes. And it looks like, it looks like neurons. Yes. That's the [00:49:00] other thing. So it's going well. That's interesting. It's all brain science too. It's weird.
We
so interesting human beings. We are these freaky mechanical beings, but run by the soul That right. That's.
That
it's like
the
soul knows, and this is what it, this is all about connecting to the soul.
Amanda: ~This just popped outta my ear. Joe, please edit this out.~
~I. Oh~
~God. Okay.~
~Colette. Okay. ~Colette, would you do this kind of a drawing thing like right before you make your treasure map? Or
Colette: Oh, well, yeah. I mean, here's the thing. You, I would, if you're gonna make your treasure map, the it, ~what,~ what I would suggest is to have 'cause you can do it this way, like the drawing way. Yes.
I would do a drawing first to get yourself engaged in this space. Right, right. So this could be like the template before.
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: and so
you can do it on a small piece of paper. And here's, see here is the zone of synchronicity. Right. This here. Is where Spirit does its work, right? Or the universe does its work.
It's I, oh, here, [00:50:00] another one. Wait a minute. Now here's this one, right? This is a bigger one. So these are like, oh, I, this is what I want. This is what I think I want in here, but I'm gonna, there's my border. All of this stuff is, all the surprising synchronicities are gonna bring this to me in the way it's supposed to.
Wow. So when you do the treasure map, you make space, you make a border ~where you,~ where you can put sayings or you could like surprise me or, ~you know,~ you can put spiritual symbols or whatever so ~that you,~ that you include, ~you include ~the potential of something being different. On the page and that it will come to you in the perfect form for you.
So you don't get hung up on, oh, I got those three things, but the other two didn't happen, but they did. Right? And you're like, but they just were slightly different form. So it's always it. It's really fascinating how this works.
Amanda: Okay. This is so good, everybody.
everybody
who's planning on doing this whole experience with us this year, it's free, by the way.
It's community event. We just, we bring everybody [00:51:00] together, we do this, and we are gonna have several different events leading up to the actual treasure map. So it's gonna be really fun. But I would say required reading would be Collette's book. That'd be
Colette: amazing.
Amanda: Really? Yes.
Colette: Because you won't make, ~you'll, ~you'll understand what your motives are.
So this is the Orange book. And you, if you wanna learn more about, like, take a free class before. You can get it for free on my website, Colette baron read.com/book, and then you can download a, a really fun free workshop that we did. You can have for free and all kinds of doodads that can help you get this right, 'cause it, this book will teach you how to literally see the miracles and you do like, it's wild how quickly the universe responds and how unique each person's experience will be.
How
Amanda: How
fun. I just love it this, I love these things. ~You know,~ a lot of our community would say that they have that sense of awe and wonder when they look up at the sky. Yeah. Right. The stars, ~you know, and,~ and ~when we, ~when we learn about our chart and [00:52:00] it's like, oh my gosh, there's an intelligence, ~there's a,~ there's a purpose, there's a plan, and you can see it in the chart, and you can look back at your life and realize it's been alive the whole entire time.
Whether or not you were aware of it.
of it.
So this just offers us this opportunity to really bring our conscious awareness into alignment with that plan, with the
Colette: plan,
Amanda: with that map, ~you know?~ And I love what you're doing. I really feel like you have brought in some essential keys into this process. And if you are listening right now and thinking.
That would be really fun if Colette came and did some of these things with us.
Colette: I'll
Amanda: How come? Let me know in the comments.
Colette: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Only if you want me to, but you know what, I, I gotta tell you this, which is really cool. So you talked about, obviously this astrology hub, right? So,
Amanda: right.
Colette: I had I, every, everybody thought that my birth time said that I had a Virgo rising.
And every time I would get a reading, I'm like, my Virgo is broken. I have nothing Virgo in me. And then I had my chart rectified. And I, and I know this [00:53:00] was a hundred percent true also 'cause the, the time in the hospital was wrong. It was when my mother was wheeled in, not when I came out.
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: So that I was zero degrees Libra rising.
Amanda: Oh, exactly.
Colette: And zero Aries. Yeah. And everything made sense. My weight gain and lo like I, and having that moment when you see your astrology chart for the first time, and I'd been getting tons of readings at that point when it really made sense. Yeah. Like you realize, ah. The stars reflect me. Yes. So how about the universe reflecting what the stars gave me to do?
Amanda: Yes, exactly. I looked at you, I was like, oh, she's not. You're Libra Rising. It has to be. You're just, you have that Libra beauty and yes, it's Libra for sure.
Colette: Catty Cathy. Okay.
Amanda: Okay. So much fun. Thank you, Colette. I am so grateful that ~we are, ~that Debra introduced us and that we now get to play and share some of these things.
Because to me, one of the other big things missing in the manifesting conversation is
astrological
timing,
'cause
[00:54:00] It's like, oh my gosh, if we could do all these things and set our sails when the wind is, the wind can catch the sails. Like, yes, that actually makes it all come together so beautifully.
Colette: I'm actually teaching.
I teach on, in Mercury retrograde on purpose.
Amanda: Whoa.
Colette: People, because this is when you renew, ~you re you re~ you regroup. Yes. All this that you wanna put on that, like, I'm teaching the art of manifesting on March. I know the people aren't gonna hear this until then, but March the seventh, A Saturday because ~it's,~ it's a retrograde and I want them to rethink.
Amanda: Yes.
Colette: Relearn. Yes. Redo. Yes. ~And,~ and we time, I always time what I do according to astrology, right? So why shouldn't the masses learn this? But with you guys, I think you, you, I,
I,
I love this.
Closing
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Amanda: Thank you. All right, everybody, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for listening, for engaging, for being a part of our community.
Of course, as always, thank you for making astrology a part of your life. Colette, thank you for this opportunity [00:55:00] to learn, to learn from your story to get some of these keys in place for our really, this, to me this year feels like the most important year we have ever done this process. So to have some of these keys come in, talk about synchronicity, it's.
Perfect, and I'm so grateful. So can't wait to see you again soon. Everybody. Take care.
I.
Colette: Bye.