Honouring Fear as Your Mentor: Thoughts from the Edge - Manda Scott
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey people, welcome to Accidental Gods. to the podcast, and the place where I simply talk to a microphone, where we do still believe that another world is possible, and that if all eight billion of us, or at least a reasonable critical mass of that number, could all get together and unite behind a vision, or a set of values, or a concept, or a belief, or an embodied beingness, of what it would feel like to not be sitting in a bus that is being driven towards the edge of a cliff, then there is still time to create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. So today, this is not a podcast. I am recording pretty much at the moment where Saturn conjuncts Neptune at zero degrees of Aries.
And I'm well aware that many of you listening to the Accidental Gods podcast and to me are not necessarily into astrology. And probably about this time last year, I was barely interested in astrology. I have been going to see a psychic astrologer since my 30th birthday, which was a very long time ago. And at that point, she said, remember, you're a writer who is making a living being a vet, not a vet who has writing as your hobby. And within a decade, I was writing full-time and had started the Boudicca Dreaming series.
How does astrology influence our understanding of fear?
So I listen to people who give me good advice and advice that feels like it settles into my being. And about a year ago, someone that I trust said, you need to be watching what's happening. And today, 20th of February, at around 3 o'clock UK time, Saturn conjuncts Neptune at zero degrees of Aries, which is the start of the zodiac. And apparently, this has not happened since 4,631 years before the start of the Common Era. Almost every astrologer I know considers this to be a total reset. And there's a lot of other stuff happening around it, which we are definitely not going to go into. However, I don't know about you, but the world feels to me as if it is balancing on a knife edge. Somebody a long time in my attempt at dressage riding past, and yes, I do know now that that's not something I particularly should have been doing or definitely want to do now, however...
They said, riding a dressage horse is like sitting on an unexploded keg of dynamite balanced on a knife edge. And this is true.
What insights were gained from the online gathering on fear?
My trainer once put me on her extremely advanced horse and it was very much like that. which is one of the many reasons why I really don't buy into the idea that the woman we know of as Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc, was a peasant girl who happened to be able to ride into battle. It just doesn't work. However, leaving that completely aside, I feel that we're on the powder keg, balanced on a knife edge moment, whatever is behind it. And that having the resources internally to navigate this moment is really important. And just over a week ago, I taught the online gathering called Honouring Fear as Your Mentor and was really impressed with the courage and the willingness to be vulnerable and to take risks of the people who turned up.
It was the first time that I had taught this particular gathering and I came away from it with ideas that I ought to do a follow-up. And in thinking about that, I've decided to make this, which is the follow-up, stretch wider so that those of you who did not come to the gathering will still have benefit. Those of you who did come can go deeper.
How can we navigate our internal resources to handle fear?
Because this seems to me one of the single most useful things that anybody could learn as we sit on the unexploded powder keg balanced on a knife edge. We are pretty much universally in our culture afraid of being afraid, and we need not to be. We need, I believe, to reach a place where energy flows through us, where our feelings flow through unimpeded, where we can feel grief or fear or rage or despair or joy or awe or love or any particular feeling and let it move through its cyclical pattern and let something else come in its place. And instead, we have a tendency to get locked in old patterns. And some of these patterns are not even ours. If you read the book Releasing Our Burdens by Richard Schwartz and Thomas Hubel, which I mentioned in my roundup of books at the end of last year, I'll put a link in the show notes,
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–1:45
2
How does astrology influence our understanding of fear?
1:45–2:55
3
What insights were gained from the online gathering on fear?
2:55–4:09
4
How can we navigate our internal resources to handle fear?
4:09–5:33
5
What role does inherited trauma play in our fears?
5:33–6:28
6
How can we practice grounding and breathing techniques?
6:28–7:12
7
What are effective strategies for dealing with small fears?
7:12–8:22
8
How can we transform fear into a mentor for personal growth?
8:22–40:22
Speakers
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