Hello, beautiful lights and souls. I am coming to you today from a very noisy location, so I already apologize in advance for any background noise, but I did not want that to be a reason that I don't record this episode. I've recorded an end of the year episode already twice, but they haven't felt like the transmission that I really want to put through because I have this fire under me about 2026-27, and this is what we're gonna dive into today. I'm so passionate about soul resurrection in the body. And this is my theme, what I'm gonna be talking about now, from here out, really, but from the lens and from the point of being a Magdalene mystic and the embodied mysteries that she taught, that she demonstrated that we are here to live and be. So you know that feeling when you've touched something in meditation or in ceremony or in the middle of the night when you wake up when the veil was really thin and you come back to your life and you can't seem to hold it. Like you had a vision, you feel a truth, you have a deep knowing. But then your nervous system, it's your nervous system patterning that says absolutely not, and you find yourself snapping back into familiar patterns. And this is such a common human problem. It's the reason that we can't do what we want, get what we want, become what we want just by thinking it. So today I want to talk about why 2026 is asking us. No, no, no, it's not even asking us. It is a demand, it is a frequency demand that we upgrade our hardware and that we prepare our bodies to carry this frequency of light that we've been glimpsing. Because what's coming isn't more spiritual information, it's an invitation to embody what we already know. Embodiment is the key going forward. So I'm Joya, and this is That Mystic Podcast, and this is our final episode for 2025. So let me tell you what is actually happening in the sky with the astronomy of 2026. On February 20th, 2026, Saturn and Neptune will meet at zero degrees Aries. If you're not an astrology person, let me explain why this matters. Saturn and Neptune come together roughly every 36 years. So the last time was 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell. The year the entire structures, so many structures, just seem to dissolve overnight. And here's what makes 2026 different about this energy, though. They are meeting at zero degrees Aries. And that's not just any degree, that's the first degree of the entire zodiac. It's a spark point. It's the place where the wheel starts over. And this conjunction hasn't happened at this degree in over, well over a thousand years. So we're talking about a genuine reset point for human consciousness. And what are these planets about? We know that Saturn is structure, it's discipline, its form, it's what's real and what lasts. Neptune is our dreams, our spirituality dissolution, it's the imaginal realm. And for the last 14 years, Neptune has been in Pisces, its home sign. So we've been swimming in spiritual content, meditation, apps, plant medicine, mindfulness became completely mainstream, astrology has popped up everywhere, trauma awareness is completely mainstream. The mystical has now become accessible. What was completely woo-woo 10 years ago is now in everyday common conversations. It's fascinating to witness. I mean, I became a mindfulness trainer back in 2014. So that was 11 years ago. And even then, so many people had not heard of mindfulness, and now it's common, everybody knows about it. So this is the ascension of technology, of the spiritual technology, and it was because Neptune was in Pisces, receiving, dissolving, feeling into the oneness. But now Neptune is moving into Aries, which is a fire sign. It's an action sign. It's a sign that says, stop dreaming about it and do it. And Saturn's right there with it, saying, and build it to last. So the message of 2026 is this: the spiritual dream is ready to incarnate. We are moving from transcendence, from thinking about it to embodiment, being about it. We're moving from I had a vision to I am the vision walking around in a body. We are completely transforming who we are as a species, and it's starting now. But here's where it gets very, very real. Because most of us can't actually do that. And it's not because we aren't spiritual enough, but we're at many, many, many, many, many people are at that juncture where they bump up against themselves, is what I call it. It's where the nervous system is still calibrated for our survival and not our sovereignty. So think about it. Your nervous system was shaped by every moment that you have learned it wasn't safe to be yourself. Every time you've dimmed your light to fit in, every time you have felt too much and someone told you to calm down, every time your power scared someone and you learned to hide it or give it away or project it or let other people use it. Every time your sensitivity was treated as a weakness, your body learned being myself is dangerous. And that learning didn't just disappear when you started meditating or reading spiritual books or going to retreats or doing ceremonies. It went underground and it became automatic. And it runs in our background like software that we forgot we installed because these agreements were made with our pre-logical mind. So what happens when higher frequencies try to move through a system that's braced for survival, is you get spirituality that you can't integrate. You get big downloads followed by big crashes, you get insights without embodiment. You get what I call woke but broke. You can see the truth, but you can't live with it. And it's not because something's wrong with you, but it's because the container, which is what you are, a container for consciousness, isn't ready for what's trying to come through. It can't hold your light, and your body rejects it, and you default back to your patterns. And most people have not been taught how to stay with what's uncomfortable. And 2,000 years ago, there was a woman who understood just this: Mary Magdalene. And I'm not talking about the penitent prostitute that the Pope invented. That was a smear campaign, a deliberate conflation of different women in the gospels to discredit Mary. But I'm talking about the woman who in the Gnostic texts, the one got buried, burned, declared heretical, was called the apostle to the apostles, the one Yeshua loved differently more than the others, the one who got it when the others were still arguing about who gets to sit at the right hand. In the Gospel of Mary, which is a text we only recently discovered, well, relatively recently, in 1896, there's a passage where Mary describes the soul's journey of liberation. And it says that the soul has to pass through seven powers, seven forces that keep it bound. I've studied these for many years, and was going to create a mystery school around them before Weston transitioned. So the text calls them darkness, desire, ignorance, zeal for death, enslavement to the flesh, foolish wisdom, and wrathful wisdom. And for centuries, scholars treated this as abstract theology, Gnostic cosmology, interesting but impractical. But in my study of them, I've come to understand something entirely different. Because these seven powers aren't just spiritual philosophy, they are literal states of the nervous system. They're the way our bodies have learned to dim our light. There are wound patterns. So let me walk you through these. Darkness is the first gate. It's the fundamental lie that says I'm not enough. There's something wrong with my basic existence as a person. And this is the freeze state. It's collapse. This is the nervous system that learned it wasn't safe to take up space. It wasn't safe to be who you are. The second gate is desire. And this is the wound of wanting, believing I can't have what I truly long for. Love and freedom, depth and variety, pleasure and success. You have to pick one because you don't get both. That's what this gate teaches us at the shadow. Ignorance is the third gate. And this isn't stupidity. It's the wound of not trusting your own knowing. It's inner ignorance. I don't know how. I don't know who I am. I can't figure it out. I need someone else to tell me what's true. It's where we outsource our worth and our power. Zeal for death is the fourth gate, and this is the survival wound. What would you rather die than do? Submit, change, be alone, be ignored, be vulnerable. Whatever it is, that's where your life force is bound. The next gate is enslavement, which is addiction. And not just to substances, but to patterns of behavior, to being needed, to achievement, to transcendence, even, to the next spiritual experience or the next plant medicine ceremony, to anything that promises relief from being right here, right now in this body with these feelings as it is at this moment. The next one is foolish wisdom. And this is emotional knowing without understanding. It says, I feel it, but I don't know why. It's intuition without integration. It's the gift that becomes a burden because you can't metabolize what you're receiving. And the last is wrathful wisdom, the seventh and final gate. And this is the place where you know who you are, but you're bitter because no one else sees it. I'm courageous, but seen as aggressive. I'm compassionate, but I'm seen as weak. I'm powerful, but I'm seen as dangerous. This is the wound of being misperceived. And it's also the wound where our ego, conversely, thinks it's better than everybody else. And I see this one a lot online now with people calling other people NPCs. They're non-player characters in my reality of the world. And every time I see that, I just I go, oh, you're in wrathful wisdom, and you don't even know it. So do you hear yourself in any of these? And this is not for judgment, because what I want you to understand is that Mary Magdalene didn't get through these gates by bypassing them, by denying her humanity. She got through them because her nervous system had been transformed through practice, through love, through devotion, through presence, and then finally through grief. She could stay present with herself and what was when others couldn't handle it. At the tomb, in the upper room, when everyone else was running or hiding or doubting, she could stay. And that's not theology, it's regulation. It's a nervous system that is prepared to hold what is coming. So here's what I've come to understand about why this matters right now. The body is not the obstacle to spiritual awakening. The body is the technology of awakening. Your nervous system and your endocrine system, your hormones, they work together as one instrument. Your hypothalamus sits right in the center of your brain and it receives input from your nervous system and it translates that information into hormonal cascades inside of you. And when your nervous system perceives threat, cortisol floods your body, your adrenaline spikes, your perception narrows. You literally can't see clearly when you are in survival mode. And when your nervous system perceives safety, oxytocin flows, the love hormone, serotonin stabilizes, your happiness hormone, your perception widens. You can receive information that wasn't available to you just a moment ago. And this is why Yeshua's first words in almost every encounter are do not be afraid. It's not just comfort, it's instruction. He's regulating nervous systems so people can receive what he's about to transmit. Do you get it? Fear collapses perception, and wisdom requires safety. Sophia, the divine wisdom, cannot be received in survival mode, and that is why also sound works, particularly your own voice. Why breath works, why chanting and toning and singing have been a part of every wisdom tradition on earth. And it's because sound that comes directly from our instrument stimulates the vagus nerve, which is the main nerve of your parasympathetic system, your rest and receive system. Sound changes your breath pattern automatically. You're automatically breathing deeper when you're sounding. Sound signals to your hypothalamus that you're safe. Truth can come through now. And in the Aramaic prayers, whatever the exact words that Yeshua spoke were, they work as a sound technology because the vibrations and the breath patterns, the tonal quality, they're not magic words. They are embodiment technology. And Mary Magdalene, beloved Mary, she wasn't special because she was smarter than the others, or that she was holier than the others. It's that she did the work, she was prepared. Her body had become the kind of container that could hold the resurrection frequency. And this is what 2026 is asking of us. Not more visions or more information. We're living now in the age of information with AI. But now we're moving into the capacity to embody what we've received. And I want to share this download that I received from Mary this morning, the Magdalene, in my meditation, and she said, Everyone keeps saying they never want to come back to earth, and yet the soul chose to go in the first place. The way to end the cycle of samsara is to awaken and become the love that doesn't need to choose separation ever again. God loves all equally, for we are that source poured out in perfect measure. So what do we do with this? First, stop treating your nervous system dysregulation as spiritual failure. End the self-judgment because it's not. It's faithful, it's doing exactly what it was trained to do, and it's trying to protect you, but it's based on old information. And the work isn't to override it or to spiritually bypass it. It's to be with it, it's to update it, it's to teach yourself that you're a safe space for yourself. And secondly, is to understand that 2026 and 2027 is preparation time. Right now, as I record this, Saturn and Neptune are already dancing close. They came within minutes of exact conjunction last summer, and the energy is building. And this is your window to do the foundational work, the nervous system work, the somatic work, the grief work to let to let what is in you have completion. Because grief is a very spiritual technology, as I have come to discover. And research shows that grieving brains, as I've shared before, mirror psychedelic states. Grief naturally opens the doors of our perception, and if we don't slam them shut, we let the process move us. And Mary Magdalene stood at the tomb of the person she loved the most in the world after watching him be tortured. And she didn't run from death. She stayed with it. And she trusted and she believed. She had faith. And she was the first to see the resurrection. And that's not coincidence, it's causation. The third is to find your practice and your people. This is not solo work because the nervous system is a social organ. It was shaped in relationship and it heals in relationship. And you need practices that work with sound, breath, and body, not just the mind, not just insight. And you need a container of people who are doing the same work. So you have mirrors, you have sacred witnesses, you have people to talk to, people who can just hold you while you weep. Sisters, and I'm answering the calling. And I've developed the Magdalene Sisterhood, which is a mystery school for this exact work. It's not just more content to consume, although I am teaching some very profound things I've been given over the last year, but it's also practice, embodiment, and moving through this work together, healing these very, or confronting rather, sitting with, being with, these very wraths of the soul. Because I believe, and I do not say this lightly, that what's coming in 2026 and beyond is going to require people who can stay, who can hold frequency without fragmenting, who can be the steady ones when everybody else is spinning out. And not because we have transcended above our humanity and we see all these other people as NPCs, but because we have landed fully in our humanity and we don't deny it. We're embodied mystics, and that's what these times are calling for, and that's what's coming. The body that you're in, the knowledge. Nervous system you have, the wounds you carry are not obstacles to your awakening. They're the raw material. And it's so beautiful. I've been working with some really powerful women who are in this liminal space where they're like they've changed so much. They've left relationships that weren't working. They've left careers they've had for 20 years. I'm talking big, huge moves because it doesn't feel in alignment anymore. But when they make that move, the nervous system freaks out because it's wired for our safety. And so suddenly they're doing the thing that they're called to do. But now they're facing profound anxiety. And they're like, I just want to, I'm feeling like I want to go back to old habits. I want to drink wine or I want to go shopping or I'm finding that I want to get out of this. Because that's what our nervous system wires us to do is to find the solution to not feel this way. But the wound is where the light enters. Rumi said that, and grief taught me that. Because when there's nothing that can numb or escape ultimate deep truth, when you lose someone you love, there's nowhere to go. Except present with it, in it. So this is where the wound lets the light in, but it's where the light learns to stay. Because your body is not a problem to be solved on the way to enlightenment. Your body is the temple. And 2026 is asking you to get the temple ready. Not perfect. There's no such thing as perfect. I am not perfect. But just ready and prepared. So if this landed for you, I want you to do one thing right now, a somatic practice. And place your left hand on your heart and your right hand over your left hand. And gently just press into your chest and take a deep breath. And let it out with a sound. And ask your body, not your mind, what do you need to feel safe enough to hold more light? What do you need to feel safe enough to hold more light? And then listen. That's where it begins. We are about to go through the most amazing time in humanity. And I have two offerings for you. One is to join the sisterhood. And the other is divinely you, which is your astrology and your human design that will tell you your new earth new earth oracle leadership type. It'll also tell you where each of these wounds fall in your chart because they can be mapped to the planets. So that you start to know exactly who you are, so that you can realign your identity. It's an identity shift. And I had a download from the Magdalene where she said, All transformation is preceded by a change in consciousness. And all form follows consciousness. Meaning when we change who we think we are, who we are changes. And the more you do this work, the more you realize that there is no identity to cling to anyway. Every day is new, every day is fresh. And you show up authentically in whatever moment you're asked to show up in, in whatever way you're asked to show up. It's freedom, that's liberation right there. All right, beloved, happy, happy, happy new year. You can find both of these offerings at thatmystic.com. And I wish you a blessed and beautiful New Year's Eve. Step into 2026 with intention to embody and live the light that you truly are. So much love. Bye. Thank you for listening to that Mystic Podcast. I appreciate your like and subscribe, and of course, if you share this with your friends, Happy New Year.