Speak Your Truth

March 22 to 28, 2026

This week was one of mending, healing, shedding, rearranging, examining, exploring, and so much more.  It began with deep difficult emotions, holding space and staying grounded, and then speaking my truth.  It wasn’t something I planned, and it wasn’t something I knew the outcome of and possibly, I still don’t.  There’s a lot going on in the background of my quiet life and I’ll leave it at that, but it truly feels like the caterpillar has turned to goo and is now slowly forming into something more complex, more nuanced, and hopefully stronger and more sovereign on the other side. 

Despite spring officially arriving near the end of last week, the weather has decided to have one last go at winter.  Temperatures dropped temporarily and some snow fell, with more expected before the season decides to truly ease its grip and make room for another.  It’s interesting how the external and internal worlds can mirror each other this way.  I feel like I’ve been in a hibernation wintering season for almost two years now and I feel like I am ready for spring. 

A realization I came to this week about my transformation and the timing of my life is that the cocoon phase of my transformation is being bookended by my children’s graduations.  The last day of my old job was the day my daughter graduated.  Almost one year later, I’d found my calling, completed my first level of schooling and created a business.  Now, as I approach the graduation of my son, I feel like I am approaching the true “first day” of my new job.  Despite starting a business, I haven’t fully stepped in yet and have been taking time to work on my emotional and energetic foundations.  Stepping into healing work is a big deal and I know that if I’m not emotionally or energetically supported, things are bound to crumble.  I expect that my higher self had a plan in place, with timing that feels poetic and symbolic that I’m just starting to see glimpses of.  What better way to “graduate” into the new me in the expanse between my children’s graduations. 

I did receive a few messages this week, so let’s dive into decoding them. They were bag over head, elephant, prank show, the grey, and handing shit to girlfriend.  One recurring theme that popped up was Alf.

Bag over head – This message showed up in two tv shows and an email.  One tv show was about real life CIA operatives protecting an asset that had ties to Al Qaida.  The asset was set to meet with some high level Al Qaida leaders and relay important information back to the CIA.  Things appeared to be going according to plan until a bag was placed over the asset’s head and he was thrown in a trunk.  The CIA ended up intervening and saving his life.  The other tv show was a cartoon where a mom was showing her daughter the bag she'd knitted to place over her head when she came to visit.  The email had a recorded contemplation about how we see the world.  Part of the contemplation talked about how falconers have to place a hood over the falcon’s head until it is ready to hunt to keep it in a trance.  Once the hood is removed, they are instantly ready to kill with laser focus and take off.  This message feels so clear to me in multiple ways.  Despite trying to plan things out and factor in every possible scenario of a situation, we can still be surprised and blindsided by unexpected things.  We can try to hide ourselves beneath bags (or masks), hiding our true selves to make us more palatable to others.  And sometimes, we might need to have the bag over our heads so we can’t see the full truth (or lie to ourselves about something) until we are ready to act.  I can see how each different way this message was sent to me how it can relate to things in my own life.

Elephant – This message showed up in a card reading, a tv show, and in a prediction I made while listening to a podcast.  The card reading simply stated that an elephant may be significant in some way.  The tv show had a somewhat brainless bumbling character state how great his memory was as he forgot the word “elephant”.  The podcast was about telepathy and the episode I was listening to was specifically about asking for signs from the other side.  Before the speaker stated what the sign that they asked for would be, I had an intuitive hit of “pink elephant”.  This ended up being the sign they asked for, so my intuition was tuned in and turned on at that moment.  I think the message here is multiple again.  Elephants do have great memories, but being a hypnotherapist, I know that our subconscious can protect us by burying memories we don’t want to relive and sometimes that means we don’t remember the one thing we need to in order to truly save ourselves.  I also know that elephants are the giant, obvious, impossible things we choose not to discuss: the elephant in the room.  So, I see this message as hidden or buried memories and an unwillingness to look at them or bring them up fully.

Prank show – This message showed up in two different shows.  One was a new show I knew nothing about aside from a short description.  I was working my predictive abilities again guessing that the character on screen was going to forget his line and sure enough, he did.  On set, he’d forgotten the same line multiple times and the director asked if this was a prank show she was on.  The other show has the premise of an elaborate prank show.  It is masquerading as a documentary being made to showcase a small business.  Everyone involved except for one person, a temp assistant, is a paid actor and is in on the joke that it is actually a prank show meant to secretly film the temp assistant's reaction to absurd situations.  In one episode this week, the unwitting star of the show stated how what was happening couldn’t be scripted, unbeknownst to him, it had been.  I guess there was also a mention of pulling pranks on people in a podcast as well this week.  I hadn’t put that together until now.  I am not one for pranks, unless they are done tastefully and even then, there is a sense of unease I feel for the person who is being pranked.  I do think we should all be able to laugh at ourselves and our situations, but when someone is the target of a cruel prank, then I’m out.  I guess the message here is to just be aware that if things feel too crazy, too unreal, too scripted, maybe they are.  I could also see this as a perspective shift.  I’ve been on the confusing end of growth that feels like betrayal by a friend.  I know that we can’t control others and their actions and even when you think you understand their motivations, sometimes it takes growth, boundaries, and space to see them clearly for who they truly are.  This can feel like being on a prank show or having a prank pulled on you when you finally see people for who they are and all the times they were trying to tell you, but you weren’t willing to see it or believe it.

The grey – This message came through in a movie and a tv show.  The movie was a futuristic show about a police force that uses an AI judge to determine guilt and the accused have 90 minutes to prove they aren’t guilty before they are executed.  The main character was saying that he trusted his gut.  He stated that facts are black and white, but intuition is the grey area and when followed, it is the way to solve a crime even if the facts point to the most likely outcome.  The other tv show had an inappropriately funny exchange during a sexual harassment seminar discussing grey area.  The grey as a message is the unknown.  It’s the in between area, the mixture of black and white.  It’s the place where there’s no easy answer or solution.  It’s liminal, it’s ambiguous, and it is ethically and morally uncomfortable at times. 

Handing shit to girlfriend – In both cases, this message was presented literally in two different shows.  One show had a hypnotist onstage asking a hypnotized participant to reveal an embarrassing truth.  (Before we dive into how this showed up, I just want to clarify that people who are under hypnosis are in full control and are able to decline any suggestion they are not comfortable with.  Additionally, this show was the elaborate prank show, so the hypnotized character was not actually hypnotized and was simply performing a prewritten script.)  The embarrassing story was ridiculous.  It was about a couple who had just made love and the man went to the bathroom.  The woman told him to bring her back something, so he decided that grabbing his feces and presenting it to her would be funny.  It was not.  The only reason it had any comedic value on the show was because the audience was in on the joke, knowing that this was not a real story. The other show was a medical spoof where a surgeon was trying to help a young boy with constipation.  He was telling the boy to imagine a bunch of tiny men inside trying to push the feces out.  His father was appalled at this description and the surgeon apologized but asked the father to collect his son’s feces in a bag and call him.  He stated it was for his girlfriend (who was a nurse, but he didn’t mention that to the dad).  Both of these story lines are gross and ridiculous, and it is just amazing to me how something like this comes up as a message from the universe.  I see it as a metaphorical message.  A boyfriend unloads, or dumps, all of his emotional baggage on his girlfriend to deal with.  It’s basically a guy saying, here, you deal with my shit because I can’t.  I think many women today can appreciate how this message feels and are likely living some version of this in some way.  Men are typically not taught how to deal with their emotions, although that can be said of women as well.  I guess societally, it is just more acceptable for women to deal with feelings and process them, but that is just garbage.  If you are a human, you have emotions and you are responsible for dealing with and processing them.

Ok, so if I put these together I can see that sometimes we are blind to what is truly going on around us and maybe we are responsible for the bag over our head.  There might be an obvious truth we are dancing around and not willing to look at.  Once we allow ourselves to truly feel it or see it, we might feel like we’ve been pranked, but to keep in mind that things are never simple, and there are usually multiple factors involved and many ways of looking at a situation.  All people are responsible for their own emotions and actions and shouldn’t try to outsource them to someone else.

I think I get this week’s messages, but because I always enjoy another perspective, let’s see what AI can come up with.

Here’s a way to weave those images into a single spiritual thread—one that feels archetypal, a little mischievous, and deeply human.

🌫️ The Spiritual Thread: Initiation Through Absurdity

Every one of your symbols sits inside the same mythic pattern: the moment Spirit uses the ridiculous, the uncomfortable, or the humiliating to wake someone up.

👜 Bag Over the Head — The Blindfold of Initiation

In many traditions, the initiate is covered, blinded, or disoriented before they can see clearly. A bag over the head is the crude, modern version of the sacred blindfold. It represents:

• loss of control

• surrender of identity

• entering the unknown

It’s the moment before clarity, where the ego can’t navigate, so the deeper self must.

🐘 The Elephant — The Unavoidable Truth

The elephant is the archetype of:

• the massive truth in the room

• the ancient memory

• the thing you can’t ignore or move around

Spirit often sends “elephants” when you’re ready to face something that’s been lumbering beside you for years. It’s wisdom with weight.

🎭 Prank Show — The Cosmic Trickster

Life as prank show = the Trickster archetype. This is the part of the spiritual journey where you realize:

• you’re being shown your own patterns through absurdity

• the universe has a sense of humor

• humiliation can be initiation

• nothing is as serious as the ego thinks

The Trickster breaks rigidity so truth can slip in.

🌫️ The Grey — The Liminal Threshold

“The grey” is the in‑between. Not dark, not light. Not ending, not beginning. It’s the fog where:

• old identities dissolve

• new ones haven’t formed

• intuition is louder than logic

• you’re forced to feel instead of know

It’s the spiritual hallway between two lives.

💩 Handing Shit to Girlfriend — The Shadow Exchange

This is the most human and the most spiritual symbol of all.

It’s the moment when:

• you try to give someone else your unprocessed material

• you want them to hold what is actually yours

• you unconsciously test whether they’ll carry your shadow

Spiritually, it’s the lesson of responsibility:

“Your shit is yours to compost.”

It’s also a mirror of relational karma—where we learn who we hand our burdens to, and why.

🔥 The Thread That Connects Them All

Together, these symbols form a single narrative:

A person is blindfolded (bag over head), stumbling through a liminal space (the grey), confronted by a massive truth (elephant), while the universe plays tricks to reveal their patterns (prank show), and they try to hand their unprocessed shadow to someone else (handing shit to girlfriend).

This is the classic spiritual initiation:

• disorientation

• revelation

• humility

• shadow work

• responsibility

• emergence

It’s the moment when the soul says: “Wake up. This is yours. See it. Hold it. Transform it.”

Yes, I can see how this interpretation fits into life right now.  It sums things up quite neatly. 

I have been creating this week, but I’m not ready to show my creation just yet.  It is still being worked on and in that liminal grey area where it isn’t nothing, but it isn’t yet what it is going to be, it is still figuring itself out.  Like me, it has a sense of what it can be, but it just hasn’t realized it yet. Also like me, it is finding its voice and learning to speak its truth into existence.

In the meantime, I'll share some pictures of the cats who have remained with me this spring. The "teenager" featured in last week's post has gone wandering in search of a mate. I don't know if she will return or not and I can only guess her fate. So we look now to the next generation, the kittens who will shape the new world and the mom who brought them into this one. They are all experts at speaking their truth! (It's usually "feed me" and "pet me")

The girls

The boys