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This is Delicious Dignity, where we cultivate a self so potent, so clear, so vital, so truthful that our life is all the more luscious for it. Let's call ourselves into being, shall we? Hello, lovelies. I am really excited to share this mid-year energy update for you. I wasn't planning on doing this. I thought the yearly updates were enough, but for some reason, this time around, I decided to do a mid-year update. So this is gonna piggyback off what I said at the beginning of 2026 about the year and the energy of 2026, and it's gonna piggyback off of that, but you don't necessarily need to listen to that episode to get the benefits of this one. But it's a good thing to listen to just to get the full context after you listen to this episode. Now, when I share these intuitive guidances, if you will, I want you to see it as a read on the energy of the person who is listening to this episode. It doesn't concern every single person all over the world because not every single person all over the world is listening to this episode. I've specifically restricted the audience to whoever's listening to this, mostly because I think it gives a clearer and more accurate reading for the person who is listening, and it doesn't dilute the message too much. And it's about really just reading the energy, it's not about predictions. Okay, I feel like as a culture, we need to get past the idea that intuition and psychic work and psychic skill is about predicting the future. This is more of an energy reading with a lot of reflections and contemplations and suggestions for how to approach whatever it is you're doing in your life. It's almost like an energetic orientation for the next six months of this year. The expectation is that you leave just profoundly inspired and deeply grounded. That's always the goal of this. If there's an intention behind this, it is how to return to your soul in a more with more dignity. What was different about this energy reading is that I got a very clear image. And we're gonna work off this image as a metaphor for all of the different pieces and contemplations and suggestions for how to approach your life through this metaphor. And the metaphor is asking the egg to walk the tightrope. And just in that one metaphor, there's just so much going on. We have the symbol of the tightrope, we have the symbol of the egg, we have the symbol of walking, the symbol of why we're even doing all of this. And so all of those things are what we're gonna delve into because intuition is all about symbolic meaning and understanding of what's happening. So I think this is a really rich metaphor for what we can dive into today. And again, the time frame that we're talking about is the next six months, starting from the day you listen to this episode, or rather, starting from the day you listen to this episode to the end of the year of 2026. That's what it's restricted to. Obviously, the energies that we talk about are going to be relevant for different points in your life. You might find this episode and decide that a lot of the themes are they mean something to you, and maybe you're listening to it in 2028. And that's obviously well and good, but definitely for the rest of 2026, this is the energy that applies. So I always like to ask, where are we coming from as a collective for those of us listening to this episode? And we're really coming from a place of love, actually, and a place of partnership, and we're coming from devotion. And really, when we come from that place, we would think that there is a lot of good things that come when you come from love and devotion and all of these sort of healing qualities of life. But then something shifted in that energy where we are now asking the egg to walk the tight rope. So let's look at the symbol of the egg. The egg is your potential, your dreams, your abundance. It is also your fertility, your fecundity, the part of you that is creative, also the part of you that is contained. It's also a symbol for your integrity in that way. And even though the egg is contained, the thing is the egg is a temporary state. It is meant to gestate and become new life or eaten, depending. But it needs more time to gestate before it's ready. So there's also this symbol of you birthing something. The main symbol here is the fact that this is something that is not yet ready. It is very contained, it is full of life, but it's not ready yet. And then there is this tight rope. Now, a tight rope is it's something that is just for joy, nothing else. It's not really a way of life, it's not a standard, it's something you just do for fun. It's not meant to be used as a primary means of communication or of transportation, unless very, very emergency reasons necessary, right? It's just meant to be fun. And so now when we put these two things together, there's it's it's like this egg is being asked to walk the tightrope, and it's something about the way you're approaching things is forced, is lacking in fun. It's become your whole world that you're just so focused on pushing it and making it work when it actually does not need to be this hard. So when we talk about walking or making the egg walk the tightrope, the egg doesn't have legs, and it's being asked to balance on this tightrope, and you are making it balance on this tightrope, and it requires a lot of effort, a lot of force. Something about this is extremely inefficient. So the question to you here is this the most efficient way to approach whatever it is you're approaching? And it comes from a fundamental lack of understanding of something's nature. An egg does not have legs. It is not in its nature to walk, and definitely not a nature to walk along a tightrope. But there's this part of you that just wants to get to the other side so badly that you're willing to make things really, really difficult for yourself in order to get there. It goes beyond something that's being controlling. It's it's forceful behavior. You know that book Power versus Force? I don't know if you guys know this book, but it's a beautiful book. It's by David Hawkins. I had to look that up real quick. And it's the difference between when learning how much effort is too much effort and how much effort is just natural and necessary. And there's a lot of force here. There's not a lot of power. But if you just offered it some time and you just offered it some grace and you just let it rest, it will grow legs and walk the tightrope just like you want it to. And you don't have to work so hard. You don't have to force it. There's something about seeing the nature of something, seeing the true nature of something and accommodating that nature as opposed to forcing it to do something it physically cannot do. It's like when you ask a fish to climb a tree. I mean, sure, you can make a lot of effort trying to make the fish climb a tree, but the fish doesn't have legs, it doesn't have a tail, it cannot climb a tree by itself. So the question also here is: how is it that you're using force in your life right now? Where are you being the most forceful and why? Because there's a fear there. And we'll talk about the fear in a minute. And the other question that is posed to you is what is the standard by which you judge something? What are you judging something by? For example, let's just take these two metaphors and let me just come up with a small invented example. Let's say that the egg represents your dreams. You know, this is something that is in dream, it's in potential, and you are forcing it. Let's say your dream is to open a coffee shop, and you are currently in the stage of just learning about coffee. And this is a dream that you just started off with. And now you're trying to figure out the rent, the legalese, the leases that are needed for this place, the equipment that you need, and all the finances that need to come together. And you only just started thinking about opening a coffee shop. And it feels really forceful because you're forcing it. Every day you're just forcing it to give you results, walk this tightrope, but it's not giving you results, or it's requiring so much more of you to give the results that you need it to give. When in fact, it just needs time to come together before it can walk this tightrope. Another example could be you trying to chew pasta, but the pasta is not cooked. So you're you're having to use a lot of force to chew the pasta when all you needed to do was just cook it, let it sit in the boiling water for a while, and then you can eat the pasta just fine. But if the standard with which you judge is, let's say in the instance of the coffee shop, the standard is I need to get things going now. Time is of the essence. Now, now, now, now. If that is your standard, if your standard is fast, then you will always be behind. In the case of the pasta, if your standard is must have it now, then you're gonna have to eat raw pasta. If your standard by which you judge is how much time something is taking, then you will always feel like you have to force it. So let's go into why we make the egg walk the tight rope. It's this whole relationship to time, is one of the reasons why you feel like you're either running out of time or something is taking too much time by your standards. You feel like you must keep up with some external standard that you have set. You must keep up with this. Maybe it's a woman that you want to look like. So instead of doing it the natural way, you feel pressured to put Botox and plastic surgery and this and that to get to the other side. It's a lot of force to make your body and your face or whatever look a certain way in order for you to look like the person that you want to look like. So there's this sense of must keep up. That was just, by the way, another example. I'm not saying that's what you're doing. I'm just giving you different examples. There's a lot of willpower that is required to do this, and willpower is expensive because it causes really high cortisol in your body. And it's this insistence on must get to the other side. It's coming from this real scarcity mindset. There's not enough of something. It's coming from poverty consciousness. So there's a part of you that's really focused on what you don't have and that you are extremely poor in some area in life, whether in money or in relationships or something. And that poverty consciousness is what's running the show. And lastly, it's coming from an achievement or a hustle mindset. But what's required here is a nurturance mindset. Somebody needs to sit on the egg to hatch it. If it must walk the tightrope. And if you give it even more time, it might not need to walk a tightrope. You could just watch it grow a little bit bigger and then ride it to the other side. It can fly to the other side. So there's something about this tightrope being your standard, that all of a sudden your standards for life have become really narrow, really limited, and not so fun anymore. What was supposed to be fun is no longer fun anymore because you've made it a way of transportation as opposed to a way of fun. Really, the suggestion for you right now is you can really rely on rest, on peace. You can still rely on the allies around you. You can give it time. There is absolutely no reason to push through. You can accept that you can control a lot of things in life, but do you really want to? Do you really want to? Do you really want to be that controlling and that pushing and that striving? So think about what makes you the most uncomfortable about this image of an egg walking a tightrope. Think about the first feeling you had when you felt this. Was it fear? Was it confusion? Was it excitement? And why is it that you felt that feeling? And usually that's a good sign of where you are in this mythic image, so to speak. Let's say that when you heard this metaphor, you got excited. What specifically excited you about it? Was it this magical thinking that has often led you to make decisions that have been, in the long run, bad for you or not quite what you wanted them to be, right? Let's say that you are excited by the thought of making an egg walk a tightrope. There's something about that is not realistic. Something about that is self-denying and self-abandoning of who you are and what you're comfortable doing and how much effort it requires. Now, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of things that require a lot of effort in life. But is making an egg walk a tightrope the place where you want to put all that effort? Or is it somewhere else? Maybe you put your effort into nurturing the egg and your dreams or your abundance or your fertility or your creativity rather than asking it to prove something to you. Maybe you just give something more time. Maybe giving something time is your biggest act of love, self-love or love for something else or someone else. The egg could even be a relationship that is being birthed into the world right now with you and your person. Are you asking it to do things before it is ready? Are you asking for a commitment and it's only been two weeks that you've been dating? Do you see what I mean? Like this can apply in so many different areas. And the overall theme is just so much effort, so much expectation of something that is just not ready yet. But it will be. Oh, it will be. You just have to lay it down a while. And laying it down a while does not mean not doing something or not taking action. Laying it down a while means adopting a nurturance mindset as opposed to a hustle one. The other question you can ask for contemplation and to deepen your understanding of this mythic image is to understand what is it that you're wanting so bad that's at the end of this tight rope? What are you expecting on the other side? Is it fame? Is it success of some kind? Is it love? Is it peace? Like what are you wanting? That thing that you're wanting at the other side is what you give the egg that you're currently working with. So if you're wanting fame as an example at the other side, and you're willing to like push through to get to there, then maybe when you're nurturing your egg, you give it a lot of visibility. You give it a lot of seeingness. So maybe let's say that you want to have an influencer account because you want to be famous. Okay, let's just say that's a silly example, but that's what we're working with. Okay. And you're not ready yet to start making videos or whatever, you just need to think some more about it, or you need to just give it time. You just start talking to trusted friends and ask them to see you in your creativity for now. You tell them about your dreams and you make your egg, the thing that you are gestating, be seen by people, just not by everyone. And you too see it. You give it the fame that you think you'll get on the other side, you give it to it now. And that is an example of applying what it is you think you'll get on the other side to the thing you want, to the thing that's currently gestating now. It's like that episode that we just went through, which is episode 43, the art of being visible, slowly, gently, peacefully, healing the visibility wound. You know, maybe in this influencer example, you're asking yourself to be visible before you're really ready. And I'm not saying that you have to be a hundred percent ready to do anything. That is not what we're saying. We are, however, asking for you to recognize the nature of something, to see it for what it is, and to allow it to gestate. And while it's gestating, maybe you can work on your visibility in this example. Maybe you feel like if you get to the other side quicker, that's when you'll finally get love of some kind. Give that love to your egg right now, in whatever way you see fit. An episode that really works for that is episode 44. Do you feel like you have to earn love? Anytime I mention an episode, by the way, from the podcast, you can just search for it in the player of the podcast player of your choice and find that episode. So, does that make sense? Don't ask the egg to walk a tightrope. And if you're going to ask the egg to walk a tightrope, at least make it at least put it in a cart. Put it in a cart and roll it along a nice wide bridge. But again, that would involve you finding a cart, building a nicer bridge, just so that you can make the egg go to the other side. You see? It's like that joke, why did the chicken cross the road to get to the other side? Maybe this is also a really good time to contemplate about your specific relationship with the concept of time. How do you understand or deal with time? Are you always trying to do 10 million things in five minutes? Are you trying to push before you're ready to go? Do you pack a lot of things in just a short amount of time? Or do you just sort of do nothing with a large amount of time? What is your relationship with time? Do you feel time passing? Do you not feel time passing? And I really think that contemplating your relationship with time and how you act within this relationship with time will also give you a really good idea of what you need to do for the next six months. And again, this is not about being patient. This is not about any of those things. This is not a virtue of some kind. We're not prescribing a virtue to any of this. You don't have to be a certain person within this metaphor. All you have to do is understand the nature of the thing that you are working with. Really see it for what it is and not for what you want it to be. And then see how much it's costing you to make it be something it is not. Okay, my lovelies. I hope you enjoyed that mythic image and I hope that it was fun for you to contemplate and sink your teeth into. So until next time, may your dignity be so obvious to you. May it be so obvious to you that it is over and above any expectation of performance. Much love to you. Bye.