Episode 199 - Special New Year's Episode: Unveiling the Power of Feng Shui for Well-Being for 2024

Embark on a journey of enlightenment with me, Sandy Kruse, as we explore the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui and unravel its secrets for creating a sanctuary of vitality and serenity in your home. This episode is a treasure trove of Feng Shui knowledge, revealing how to align your living space with the annual flying stars, and offering practical & easy advice for Feng Shui cures. With over a decade of experience and guidance from a master, I'll lead you through the subtle art of harmonizing your environment to foster well-being, sharing personal anecdotes and success stories that illuminate the profound impact of this practice.  Something I've been doing in my home for over a decade.

As we map out our spaces with a 9x9 grid, the importance of direction and energy becomes clear. Discover how to integrate Feng Shui elements such as i-ching coins, singing bowls, and the interplay of colours to achieve a flow of positivity, regardless of the size of your dwelling. This episode isn't just about rearranging furniture; it's about crafting a haven that nurtures your spirit. From the significance of object placement to the influence of imagery on our emotions, learn how to create a home that resonates with health, happiness, and harmony.

Finally, delve into the practical Feng Shui tips that can transform your space into an oasis of good vibrations. I'll guide you on using saltwater cures to dispel negativity, and the strategic placement of metal cures to ward off potential risks. This enlightening episode bridges the realms of the scientific and mystical, offering a comprehensive blueprint for those looking to enrich their lives beyond the physical, by embracing a holistic approach that nurtures not only the body but also the mind, spirit, and soul. Join us and unlock the full potential of your living environment, for a life filled with vibrant energy.

All information was obtained from https://www.fengshuiweb.co.uk/ whose advise I've been following all these years.

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Transcript

Sandy Kruse: 0:02

Hi everyone, it's me, Sandy Kruse of Sandy K Nutrition Health and Lifestyle Queen. For years now, I've been bringing to you conversations about wellness from experts from all over the world. Whether it be suggestions in how you can age better, biohacking, alternative wellness, these are conversations to help you live your best life. I want to live a long, healthy and vibrant life, never mind all those stigmas that, as we reach midlife and beyond, we're just going to shrivel up and die with some horrible disease. Always remember balanced living works. I really look forward to this season. Hi everyone, welcome to Sandy K, nutrition, health and Lifestyle Queen.

Sandy Kruse: 1:05

This is my fourth annual Feng Shui episode. I do this every single year now for four years and I follow the advice of one Feng Shui master. I've been following this advice now for 12 years. I've been buying cures from them. I bought their software because they have a computer software program that you can buy and you can learn how to map your home and other people's homes. I just really really enjoy doing this. I follow the annual flying stars. So if you know anything about Feng Shui, there are different ways you can do this. You can follow the monthly flying stars. You can follow the annual flying stars. You can follow the flying stars if you're just doing home Feng Shui of when the home was built. There are a few ways that you can do this. I've done a few different ways, but I'm going to tell you I like to follow the annual flying stars. And if you need to look deeper, let's say you know, just as an example, you are not supposed to do anything that's any kind of renovation, digging noises, that kind of thing in the north area of your home and you have to do some of these renovations and you go and do them and you disturb the ground. There's a lot of cures that you can be, you can put in place and you can look to your monthly stars, the monthly flying stars on maybe which month those inauspicious annual flying stars are not so active. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, definitely go and follow me on all of my social media platforms. I am on Instagram, facebook, youtube, rumble threads, tick, tock. I'm everywhere and it's Sandy K Nutrition everywhere. If you want to connect with me for business opportunities, you can connect with me on LinkedIn I'm there as well or on any of my social media platforms, or you can simply email me, sandy, at sandyknutritionca. So definitely check me out on all those platforms. I have different content on all of them. Now a little bit of news for 2024. I am recording this just two days after Christmas, on December 27. Remember, chinese New Year is a little bit later and you're not going to want to put these cures into place until February, the third or fourth, depending on where you live. I usually will go with February fourth and that's when you're going to put the new cures in place, which is when the new flying stars for that year come into play and are active.

Sandy Kruse: 4:32

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Sandy Kruse: 6:42

I am writing a book, people. So I had a little bit of a delay because I did bring it to a developmental editor and she gave me some feedback, and then somehow I just kind of how would I describe this? I needed to absorb it and I needed to kind of sit back and think about my next steps on how I'm going to proceed. I do plan for this book to be done and I'm hoping to be published by June 2024. Let me tell you a little bit about what this book is. It really aligns beautifully with my podcast topics.

Sandy Kruse: 7:22

I do not believe that Following science only will make you thrive and be healthy and happy and vibrant and live an enriched life. I don't buy it. Science alone does not do that. However, we cannot discount, obviously, the importance of science and a lot of my training as a registered holistic nutritionist. I'm also a certified metabolic balance coach. By the way, I also have certifications in endocrinology and hormones, in peptides and anti-aging. So I've got a lot under my belt, but a lot of it is science-based.

Sandy Kruse: 8:08

But what I am incorporating in this book is all of the esoteric, unexplainable ways in which you can really enrich your life and be happier and healthier in body, mind, spirit, soul. So really, my working title is now called Bridging the Gap Between Body and Soul. I have not seen anything quite like this, although I've seen a couple of similar ways, but I'm really gearing this towards women in midlife, but a lot of these aspects of wellness are applicable to men too, and you don't have to be in midlife. You may be one of these people. That's very, very wise, and you want to start doing things that are good for your body at a much younger age than I did. I'm a late bloomer people. I mean, my career didn't even start going until I was 49 years old. I went back to college at 46. And I'm writing this book. I've always wanted to write this book because my university degree is actually in English. I'm an English literature graduate, so I love to write and I love the creative side of everything as it relates to what I do. So look out for it. It's going to be a book that's going to be unlike anything else out there. Definitely look out for it and I appreciate your support.

Sandy Kruse: 9:40

Now let's get to Feng Shui. So I'll tell you my backstory, why I got into Feng Shui. In 2010, my daughter, at the age of five, was diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma. This is a malignant tumor. She's fine now. She's all good, all healthy. Almost exactly one year later, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I went through that whole victim consciousness you know why is this happening to me and I really realized that there's a lot that we can do to shift and change energy. A year after that, my husband coded in the hospital from a bacterial pneumonia that he contracted in the hospital. So three years.

Sandy Kruse: 10:26

I call it a snowball effect of health crises and it really happened. It was so weird because all of them happened in and around mid to late summer into early fall. All of it, all of it One year after another. It's just so bizarre. So I called in a Feng Shui consultant. She just started to educate me on energy and what I can do in my home and all kinds of stuff and it got me thinking. And then I found this company. They will be in the show notes. The company is called fengshuistorecouk. I will have the link in the description. I found them and I loved how they made it really simple and that's why I started recording my podcasts four years ago, because there are ways in which you can just shift to either dissipate or elevate the energy in that area of your home for that year, according to the annual Chinese flying stars. So all of the advice that I give is actually from them. I've never really veered to follow advice from anyone else in all of these 10 to 12 years. I don't know exactly when I started, but it was around the time that all of this happened with these health crises.

Sandy Kruse: 12:02

Now I'm going to tell you a very quick and easy way in how you can figure out your directionals in your home. And it doesn't matter where you live. You can live in an apartment, you can live in a small home, multiple story home, so my home has a basement, a main level and an upper level. So often, if I can't figure out where to put a cure in an inconspicuous space, I will change levels, but still put it in, let's say, the east corner, or I'll put it in the basement, in the east corner. You get what I'm saying. So I actually have that ability with three levels that I can play with.

Sandy Kruse: 12:48

But you can do this in a condo, you can do this in any space, and what I want you to do is draw a nine by nine grid, okay, so like a tic-tac-toe type grid, except it's going to be nine by nine, though In the center you're going to put the letter C, that's the center. Then right, directly above it, you're going to put the letter S, that's the south, then over to the right. If you're looking at it, will be southwest and follow all along the grid. So then it's going to be southwest, west, northwest, north, northeast, east and southeast, get it. So you're going to have all the directionals. Then you're going to stand In the center of your home facing your front door, your front entrance. You're going to get an iPhone or, it doesn't matter, android, they all have a compass. You're going to hold that at waist level and you're going to see the direction in which your front door faces. So if you follow let's say your front door faces south, you're going to know how to map all of the directions all over your home. Let's say, your front door is in the south, you know that. You're going to label that, that area.

Sandy Kruse: 14:19

If you have a floor plan which I do from my home even better, because you can draw that grid right I would suggest you take a photocopy of it and draw this grid evenly right over top of your floor plan. Sometimes you can get these on what is it called Zillowcom. Like all of these, you know different websites where you can get a floor plan. There are ways. I'm sure you can. You know Google that and figure out if you really want to get specific. Or you can buy the software from feng shui storecouk, which will be linked in my description. So that's how you find out the directions of each of these important areas in your home.

Sandy Kruse: 15:13

A couple of things that I say to people. If you're going to buy anything from Amazon you're going to need definitely, for your saltwater cure you're going to need the i-ching coins. Okay, these are the Chinese coins that have. You know, on the one side there are four symbols, on the other side only two. You're going to need some of those, but what I would highly recommend is, if you do buy them on Amazon or any of these stores online, make sure you cleanse them before you use them.

Sandy Kruse: 15:50

Different ways that you can cleanse them is using any kind of smoke. You know a lot of people believe in sage, but you know I've heard different things that sage is endangered, like white sage. So just use any smoke that resonates with you and put the intention in there that you're cleansing and clearing the energy. And then other things that you can do is you can put the coins in the sunshine, depending on where you live, and sprinkle a little bit of salt on top of them and have them sit in the sun, because that's also going to charge them. The sun is a beautiful charging way for your crystals, for your coins.

Sandy Kruse: 16:31

A couple of things that I have in my home are singing bowls. Again. If you get them from Amazon, be sure to cleanse the energy, just like I described. I also really love Wooloos, so I think it's about WU and then L-O-U, so they look like a little gourd and they're considered very, very auspicious, very lucky. I've actually had a health gourd at the bedside table of every bed in my home ever since I can remember the ones that I got are made of solid brass. You don't have to get solid brass, but you can. They're really nice and they're tied with a red ribbon.

Sandy Kruse: 17:19

Now, red is an interesting color in feng shui. A lot of times people will use red to really accent the energy. So, for example I'll give you an example Having a red couch maybe not the best idea for furniture, because it's very hard to change that energy if you don't want a lot of color in that space for that year. I'm a pretty. I'm calling myself basic. I'm a pretty basic girl. I do like more toned down furniture colors as well as wool colors, very basics, although in here it's kind of like a terracotta brown.

Sandy Kruse: 18:04

I'm painting this room and I'm actually in the middle of a renovation in my office. Anyway, what is very important that you choose your accent colors wisely and you don't want to put red in a room where red is not wanted, because red represents fire. If you have a wall, let's say you paint a wall red well, it's gonna be kind of hard to tone that down. I'm not gonna say you can't do it with the other, more muted colors, let's say an earth color or maybe a metal color like whites, that sort of thing. But I personally would never choose a fire color for my furniture or my walls. So that's just a little bit about red. Then you're gonna say, well, why would there be red on?

Sandy Kruse: 18:56

You know how you see the six Chinese coins tied in a row with a red ribbon? It's because the red is accentuating the energy of those coins or the energy of that object. So, for example, with that woo-loo, you will often see a red ribbon tied around it. So with the woo-loos, I typically do not change them every year, but I do cleanse them every year. Very important to do so.

Sandy Kruse: 19:26

So let's get in to the Feng Shui. I am going to have a transcript for this so you can print it out and then you can go to the areas of your home and you can kind of figure out what you want to do in each area. Remember, february 3rd or 4th, depending on where you live Now. 2024 is the year of the Yang Wood Dragon. Another thing I want to point out which is kind of fun is you can go to their website and just put in the search bar your Chinese animal. So I'm pretty sure I'm a rooster, yes, I am an earth rooster. So apparently this is gonna be a really good year for me and it's kind of fun to do that. And then you can find out, almost like your Chinese horoscope, according to these flying stars for this year. Okay, now that I've told you how you can find out your directionals, how you use a compass, how to label the areas, how to get a floor plan if you want to, let's get into some of the fun stuff. So 2024 is a huge energy shift overall. Overall, they're saying it's a pretty good year, which I'm happy, because for me, 2023 was kind of that up and down very much, so for me I don't know if you felt that. So there's a big shift in the annual flying stars, meaning the lucky stars will become unlucky, the unlucky stars will become lucky. So it's a big shift in Feng Shui, and this is gonna be over the next 20 years. So this year is a huge opportunity, people, for shifting fortune and luck for the better. So this is gonna be a really, really fun episode to record.

Sandy Kruse: 21:28

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Sandy Kruse: 22:33

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Sandy Kruse: 23:51

Overall, you're going to want to enhance the areas. These are positive areas in your home the east, the southeast, the northeast, the north and the southwest. The bad I'm going to do quotes here. You can't see me, but I'm doing a quote here. The bad areas are the center of the home, the northwest, the west and the south. One thing I do want to note.

Sandy Kruse: 24:20

So if I talk about the element of water, for example, it's really important to understand that water represents not only the colors, but also, let's say you have you guys are going to probably laugh at this one. There is a. It used to be really popular, not as popular anymore. The group of seven, group of artists and I had quite a bit of group of seven artwork and there was one print that I had that was water. However, it was really menacing looking waves. It was like violent looking. It's really important to look at feng shui in that manner. So if you see an object that is metal and they say, put metal in this room, okay, but that metal is very angular, pointy, more menacing, that's not going to bring the positive energy. So same thing with any pictures. If you look at a picture that gives you that like not great feeling, take it down, at least until you can clear the energy around that photo if you really want to put it out. So I'll give you an example. Another example of this great example I had professional photos done and it was literally between my daughter's two surgeries.

Sandy Kruse: 25:54

I had also broken my foot and my son was basically the starting of flesh eating. That's another whole story. So we had these beautiful professional photos done for the longest time. I could not put these up. I couldn't. They were so beautiful but I couldn't put them up because they represented so much sadness to me. And so if you look at a print or a photograph and it doesn't represent what you want it to represent. Most people don't want to look at things that make them sad all the time, then don't put it up.

Sandy Kruse: 26:38

Now a word about saltwater cures. It is said that saltwater cures are the most essential, most important cures that you're going to put into place every single year. The reason is is because saltwater cures dissipate and clear energy Period. End of story. I have been doing saltwater cures for over a decade and I can tell you that you know the humidity in my home. I have a humidifier and everything's pretty closely monitored. Like the only thing I can think of is if the humidity changes, then the Crusts around your saltwater cure might change. But I tell you there are some years that the crusts that form on your saltwater cure are Massive and other times not so much, and you never want to touch those crusts. So I actually just got rid of one of my saltwater cures about a month early because it was close to where we put our Christmas tree this year and I noticed Just a couple of little flakes. I'm like, oh crap, I don't want anyone touching that or knocking one of the crusts off, so I just got rid of it.

Sandy Kruse: 27:58

The way I get rid of them is I put them in a bag and I take them to Like park. I know you're not, I don't know if you're supposed to do this, but it's not a big deal. It's just a small little mason jar with saltwater cure. That's salt and water in it, that's it, nothing else, and the coins, and I just throw it out there. I just make sure I do not touch it. Make sure, if you have a cat, it's nowhere the cat can be. It cannot be in a closed cabinet. It must be in open air and it cannot be behind it like a cabinet door or anything covering the top of it. So it's tough for people who have cats because I think they kind of go everywhere, right, but the way that you do. I have videos on this. Make sure you go. Follow me on Instagram especially. I am also on Facebook I don't think I mentioned Facebook and I have a private Facebook group as well, just Sandy Kay nutrition, health and lifestyle Queen podcast.

Sandy Kruse: 28:58

So what you want is you want to get half leader Mason jar. You're gonna fill it up about three quarters full with salt and Then you're going to take six of those. I chain coins that are cleansed remember I mentioned them at the start Yang side up. So the four characters are going to be up and you're going to put the six coins facing up On top of the salt don't worry if it's sanks or whatever, it's fine Then you're going to fill that up with water to the top of the the, the, the jar, but under the, the mouth of the jar, not too too high. And then you're going to put that in place and this year there's only one salt water cure needed and it's in the west of the home. So if you can manage to find a place for it in the west of the home, I would highly Suggest you do even just that, just do that. And then I'm going to do a new video on Instagram on this, okay and that. So you know, I think I mentioned For me, energy, feng Shui, vibration all of that is part of being healthy, whole, vibrant, all of those things.

Sandy Kruse: 30:27

That's why it's so important for me to do this Feng Shui episode every year, because I think a lot of you have grown to understand that energy and vibration all ties into wellness. Anyway, I just had to interrupt that. Okay, now we're going to run through all the areas pretty quickly. So I'm going to start with the bad areas BAD, bad. These are not great energy areas. Typically, in these areas you don't want a lot of noise, you don't want construction. If you have to do construction, like I said, go look back at the monthly star to see which star might be, which month might be ideal to do the construction and then Make sure you have your cares in place and you'll be fine. All good, okay.

Sandy Kruse: 31:15

So, number one center, the center of your home. It is the number three star. If activated, it can activate issues with stress, legal issues, disputes, theft arguments, loss of wealth. Okay. So what you want to do is you want to weaken that star and you can weaken it with fire, fire and earth. See, that's kind of weird because typically in the past you would not want to add fire to certain star areas that were bad energy. In this particular case, in the center, you want fire, okay. So what do fire and earth cures mean? That means crystals. Crystals come from the earth. Anything that represents the earth, okay. Candles, any kind of lights, anything like that would represent fire.

Sandy Kruse: 32:10

However, you don't want a lot of noise in this area, but you want to bring in red, orange, purple, burgundy, browns, pinks, yellows, beiges. Those all represent Fire and earth, those colors. Okay, so you can. This is why I love, like you know, you can throw in a pillow or an area rug or Whatever it might be. Okay, so that's how you do the accents. Just throw something in there that will enhance what you want to enhance, which means you want to enhance the good energy, not the bad. Okay, you want to avoid white, silver, gold, copper, blue, black, gray, anything that's wood, metal and water. So that's for the center of the home, northwest moving along. Number four star it's pretty much the same as the center, except this number four star can affect romance, friendships, careers, focus and general well-being. So you want to weaken this star using earth and fire. Just like the center, you don't really want plants in this area, by the way, I didn't mention that, but you don't want to have a lot of plants either in the northwest. So follow pretty much the same advice as the center.

Sandy Kruse: 33:46

Now let's move on to the west. That's another bad area. Number five star the risk is illness, accidents, bankruptcies, fatalities. You want metal here. Remember I mentioned the singing bowls? That would be a great cure. Now, what you also need in this area is that saltwater cure that I talked about and I'm sure people have seen this where you get the six Chinese coins tied with the red ribbon. You want that in this space too, okay. And again, if you buy it off Amazon, even just as is, you can recognize it. All you have to do is even Google it Six Chinese coins, red ribbon, you'll find it. Make sure you cleanse it. You're gonna want that here in the west.

Sandy Kruse: 34:38

The other thing that this is a great spot for is if you have a six it has to be six hollow metal, rod, wind chime. Make sure that it's also cleansed. So yes to whites, silver, gold, copper, bronze, blue metal and water. Remember I mentioned the brass Wooloo. Did I even finish talking about that? Yes, I did. I mentioned. I have those on every beside, every bedside table. This is also a great place for a brass Wooloo. No candles, no crystals, nothing that represents fire or earth.

Sandy Kruse: 35:27

You want to keep this area not noisy and tidy and clean. You don't want to have reds, pinks, yellows, greens in this area. Now let's move on to the south. This is the number seven star. This represents assault, deceit, violence, robbery, lung problems. So this is an especially troublesome spot in the south. You want to keep this area quiet as much as you can and you want to weaken that star with wood and water elements. So yes to greens, black, gray, blue, anything that's water, wood related. You can add plants in this area too. You do not want white, silver, reds, orange, anything that represents fire or earth Moving right along.

Sandy Kruse: 36:27

Let's go to the good areas of the home and how to enhance those areas. The east is the number one star and it is a wealth star. It actually enhances career wealth, overall luck, and it's especially lucky for the eldest son in the family. So this area you want to enhance it with water and metal cures, the singing bowls. You can add a wulu there. You can add six Chinese coins with the red ribbon. Here you want colors like white, silver, gold, black, gray blue.

Sandy Kruse: 37:12

You want to avoid wood, fire, earth, greens, browns, yellows, reds, pinks. No crystals, no fire. So wherever I say no fire. By the way, guys, make sure you don't burn candles in there. I actually am so strategic with how I use my candles. You know some people will be like, well, candles are toxic, you shouldn't use them. I'm like all in balance people. I say that all the time, balance. You don't have to burn candles every day, but every once in a while. If you burn a clean candle, it actually brings really good energy. If you do it in the right parts of your home, it actually activates that fire energy for that corner, southeast is the number two star. When it's activated it enhances health, luck, relationships and wealth. Although you do want it to be calm this year, for whatever reason they say, keep it calm. But you want to enhance it with earth and metal balanced. So don't go too hard on earth elements, meaning you know, have the entire room crystals but don't have any metal in there. Because you want to have a balance of earth and metal. So you want whites, silver, gold, bronze, browns, yellows, beiges. Avoid green, red, orange, black, grays, blues. No fire, no water in the southeast.

Sandy Kruse: 38:43

Northeast Number six star. This is a lovely influence with career and wealth, especially for those in leadership roles. This is the northeast. If you have a front door here, it's a great place to have a front door because they want you to have this area active. You can enhance this area with browns, yellows, white, silver, gold, metal and earth. So remember metal and earth elements for the northeast you want to avoid blacks, grays, blues, greens, reds, pinks. No fire, no wood or no water. Okay, so they're saying, if you can find eight Chinese coins you know I talk about six you can also get eight. Eight is a really auspicious number in feng shui. If you can find eight Chinese coins with a red ribbon, you're gonna want to put that here in the northeast, the north number eight star.

Sandy Kruse: 39:52

So this is the manifestation area. You know every year it's kind of cool because they have a corner where you're going to want to put pictures of your loved ones, things you want, like whatever. If you do a vision board, whatever you do, however, you manifest. This is kind of that corner. So you it's very lucky in this area for relationships and wealth and you want to enhance it with fire and earth. You're going to put photos of people that you love or photos of things that you're manifesting. This is it. You want to add browns, yellows, reds, orange, purple, pink. You want to avoid green, white, silver, gold, coppers, blacks, grays, blues. So no metal, no water and no wood elements. Okay, the last area which is the good area for 2024 feng shui is the number nine, southwest area, number nine star. This is a really strong wealth recognition and fame area. You want to have this area active, noisy. You want to enhance it with fire and wood greens, purples, reds, pinks. You want to avoid white, silver, any water or metal. So this is an area that you want to say yes to.

Sandy Kruse: 41:27

Candles and plants, have fresh cut flowers, that sort of thing. So that's it. You guys, I'm actually going to have this in a transcript so you can just print it out. Now a note about flowers, just so you know. There's a few little things that I've read about researched.

Sandy Kruse: 41:50

You never want your flowers to go bad. It's extremely bad energy to have flowers, dead leaves, around your property, anything like that. Flowers, you know. Flowers get stinky in a vase if you leave them for too long. All of that actually increases negative energy.

Sandy Kruse: 42:12

The other thing with feng shui is dried flowers. I will never dry flowers and keep them in my home. Dryness is more of an. It's like a. I guess you can say it's symbolic of dry death. You know it's dead. Whereas if you buy, let's say, a silk flower which a lot of people will do, that is, that is more vibrant and beautiful and it's using silk, which is luxurious. So remember everything that it represents, right. So those, and then bathrooms are typically water's a funny thing Bathrooms usually never have good energy, and so that feng shui consultant that I brought into my home so long ago. She said the best thing you can do with all of your bathrooms is always keep the lid down. I wish I could tell my boys in my house this to follow this. But keep the lid down and keep the door closed to that bathroom. Make sure you don't have drips and leaks or anything like that. Those are all negative energies within your home.

Sandy Kruse: 43:23

If you're a person that is looking for a new home, look out for poison arrows. So what's a poison arrow? The best example of a poison arrow would be if you are on a street corner. You want to look at this house and this is a corner lot, and there happens to be another street where the homes it's almost as though they're driving right into your home. You get what I'm saying that is considered a poison arrow. Other energies that you really don't want to have close is anything like a highway or a cemetery, which obviously we know what cemeteries symbolize any of those things.

Sandy Kruse: 44:08

That's pretty much it, and, please, I would love to hear your feedback. I do these every year. I've got like three pages of notes because I really try and make it very, very simplified so people will listen. And I'm going to ask you to share this episode with anyone else who might be interested in enhancing the really positive, good energies of 2024, because there's so much good, you guys, so much good, and I feel like we've been waiting for a year like this energetically. I feel like this is kind of like a breakthrough year for a lot of people. We've almost been in that whole shadow scene of what went down during COVID and I feel like this is really going to be a great year for many of us. So why not do what you can to spread that goodness for anyone who's interested in hearing about it?

Sandy Kruse: 45:12

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