I've Got This Piece I am Scared to Release Monday Morning Check-In Post
How Are You??!!
It’s been sitting in my drafts for almost four years, which is two years longer than this Substack has been in existence. I experienced some breakthrough moments during my writer’s block, which lasted for almost thirty years, where I would sit down and write something in a longer form.
I mean, is it even true that I had writer’s block? When I look at my Facebook posts going back to 2009, it’s clear that I put a lot of words out there into the ethers. When I look back further, I’ve been putting words to paper and the screen in fits and bursts forever.
I think it’s the book thing and the fact that I have not written one. I’ve not really healed my writer’s block until I’ve put enough words down on the screen to fill a book; therefore, I am a failure at being a writer.
Oh, goody, failure programs are up for examination again.
“Healing is a lifelong journey, Nora,” quotes the other me who says these words on repeat to anyone and everyone who needs to hear them.
I wonder how long it will take me to listen to myself.
I’m scared to release the thing that’s sitting in my drafts because it potentially could push me even farther out of the niche I carved out for myself years ago when I began channeling professionally in lecture style format, this would have been in the winter of 2009, right before our move to Ojai.
This niche is a place I have benefited from. However, I have found myself feeling increasingly confined by it over the past six years or so.
“My work is too fucking niche!” I’ve yelled at Jon, feeling frustrated by my reach. A college acquaintance long, long ago once said to me, “I think your ideas are really good. Why do they need to come from extraterrestrials?”
This is going to sound ridiculous, but without the Pleiadians, how am I credible as a voice in this world? Who the fuck is going to want to listen to just Nora and what I have to say? Where’s the excitement in that? Where’s my permission slip in the form of some kind of degree or formal training, without the idea that I am in contact with something that exists in a reality where there are no degrees or certifications?
To be clear here, I am not debunking my channeling or the channeling world at large. This is not my intent: to be a spoiler. I love the experience of channeling and offering it to others in the many ways that I do.
I am just doing what I always do, fully immersing myself into something I feel excited about and then eventually finding the dysfunction within these spaces and calling it out while also dealing with my insecurities and wounds.
There is a lot of dysfunction in the new age spaces, just like all other spaces. If it exists somewhere, it exists everywhere. There can be resistance from those within it to dig in and heal their psyches in grounded and therapeutic ways, instead choosing the off-ramps being offered. The psychological pieces are just as relevant as the spiritual ones, and spiritual bypassing leaves the human psyche unattended.
I am going to clean up the piece I have been fighting with myself and Jon about for four years and put it out there soon. I am going to continue to do the shit that scares me, jump off cliffs, and constantly ask myself, “Are you happy in this moment or are you just going along with what’s become familiar, too scared to shake things up?”
I mean, what am I waiting for? Second Saturn Returns are made for major shakeups, especially where careers are concerned. Saturn is going retrograde in Aries as I type this, more fuel for my introspection about my work. Jon and I stepped back in time on Saturday when we went to an event at Dawn Silver’s home, who was the first to hire me as a reader in her shop, Healing Earth Resources, twenty-seven years ago, when I went “full-time” in this realm. I saw people I hadn’t seen since my days in the metaphysical bookstores in Chicago over twenty years ago. I felt transported to another world while there, hugging people I’ve not hugged in forever.
Yesterday, we attended an event at Witchy Woman World Apothecary, where I’ll be having my first in-person event in Chicago. Details about this will be coming soon. The poignancy of the past and future bookended in this way did not escape me as I sit here in the liminal space between them.
Saturn moves back into Pisces on September 1st and goes direct on November 27th/28th. It’ll move into Aries once more on February 13, 2026, where it will remain for two years. I’m hoping this last round through Pisces will highlight how deluded the deluded have become.
Mercury will join Saturn in retrograde station on July 17th/18th. The retrograde space is starting to get crowded as Pluto and Neptune are already retrograde, and Chiron joins in on July 30th.
In classic for Nora, Mercury retrograde shadow happenings, I was just informed that the event I had promoted in my last piece that was supposed to happen in November is no longer happening. I had an uneasy feeling when typing about it, and it’s just another example of me not listening fully to myself.
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Hi Nora,
Thanks for sharing as usual! Your willingness to write and continue to explore all the dimensions of being human and beyond human, inspires me.
As you know I’ve always felt a connection of shared journey. I appreciate your courage and candor so much. Also naming what I’ve experienced too. Getting into new age spaces and then realizing the great dysfunction.
I’ve done that in the mainstream too. Trying to fit in, had to have my advanced degrees to really embrace my wisdom. Marriage, family, etc. playing the roles.
How am I this Monday? So free to be me. I’m still mom of five and grandma to 7. And I receive my guidance from many sources! Within- and in other dimensions! But unlike where I come from, I am not beholden to my roles. I am not enslaved to the dysfunctional structures I’ve escaped.
I’ve just spent a lovely time with two of my kids and their families in the Mountains and there is nothing like being me with them and cultivating real relating. We’ve seen our share of sorrow and pain and to be together in this way is the best! I am continuously holding ground in my healing journey. I so appreciate you and look forward to supporting you in whatever you will be sharing soon!
Love you!
I love how you even include us in the process of your dysfunction or insecurities in the lead up to posting the scary thing, which feels like we get to come along for the ride with you. That's something I've been telling myself for ages... to include people in the process along the way, sharing as you go, instead of just sharing the "arrived at outcome" so to speak. And it's something I majorly struggle with in my own visibility journey.
I started my own substack a few months back with the intention of building an audience for my business, but something about that feels too contrived. I just want to write and post and the truth is, I don't want to do it for other people. Sure, I'm glad if it helps people, but I think more than anything I actually want to be seen. And all the stupid programming around you have to offer something to others and be of service and focus on your audience has actually gotten in the way. Like, no, I actually don't want that. I want to be seen and I want to share my voice and my thoughts and not make it about what may or may not serve others. I actually want to center myself and that's allowed and okay and of course that will still help other people in the process. And, even if it doesn't, it's still okay. It being about and for me and whatever I want it to be is enough. Disentangling the people pleasing seems to be a life-long journey too.
In my world, I just had my 33rd birthday on July 4th (a much more fun thing to celebrate than the US holiday). I'm excited for the magic number year ahead! 22 was a major year for me in my life, and, thinking back, 11 actually was too, so I have delightful anticipation for whatever the future holds!