The Year of the Wood Snake, a chat with The Skeptical Shaman

Episode 7 of Stars, Spells and Final Farewells is here! I had the pleasure of spending time with my friend Rachel White, the Skeptical Shaman of TOTEM Readings discussing the volatile year of the Wood Dragon and her thoughts on the coming Wood Snake year. The Wood Dragon year was one of intense vertical growth, and we are all feeling the change fatigue that goes along with the many revolutions we’ve been through personally and collectively. My biggest take away from our chat is Rachel’s advice that we all need to grieve. “Please f**king grieve!” The upcoming Wood Snake year presents us with a lot of death energy, the shedding of things literally and on an energetic level and we need to detox!  Even good change is exhausting on our systems and without grieving and taking time to process we can become accusatory and inflamed. I am guilty of this myself, and this conversation did give me perspective on my own processing, and I hope gives you some food for thought as well. Known as “The Skeptical Shaman”, Rachel White is making waves as an unusual spiritual practitioner. Blending more than 20 years of corporate experience with a deep knowledge of the World of Woo, Rachel’s fresh, pragmatic and inherently practical take on spiritual and personal development is a hit among the “spiritually homeless”. Rachel is the host of TheSkeptical Shaman podcast, the Owner of TOTEM Readings—her Austin, TX-based spiritual practice-- the author and publisher of the TOTEM Tarot Deck and the TOTEM Flower Essence Deck, and the purveyor of TOTEM Flower Essences on her TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy Shop. She is also the author of the TOTEM Readings Substack, an engaging community that challenges preconceived notions of what it means to “be spiritual”. Rachel works with clients in-person and remotely, offering one-on-one psychic services and tailored Spiritual Transformation Coaching and Business of Woo Mentoring programs. Links: Website: https://www.totemreadings.com TOTEM Flower Essence Deck: https://a.co/d/8NEZKgC TOTEM Tarot Deck: https://www.amazon.com/TOTEM-Tarot-Deck-Rachel-White/dp/0578980126 TOTEM Readings ATX Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TotemReadingsATX Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/totemrach   To find me (Britt)  https://www.goldenthreadalchemy.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/goldenthreadalchemy/ or https://goldenthreadalchemy.substack.com/ Check out TheWitch and The Shopkeep, Tales from the window seat podcast Music provided by purple planet https://www.purple-planet.com