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Hey y'all. Welcome back to the AO blog cast. I am still recovering with my voice from this past weekend of The Zodiac Show. It was absolutely incredible. I'm like--, I'm still like--, you can prolly hear me grinning. I'm literally grinning from ear to ear, and it just makes me so happy when I think about The Zodiac Show. It makes me so it makes me so happy to think that it's done! Honestly, like that's a big part of my excitement, is that is done. The pieces are out in the world. It's been like four years in the making, and they're finally here. I think I actually finished the series last year in 2021. So it was really three years that the pieces were done, but it's been a whole year like you've been planning the show. And I'm just over the moon that is done! It was a success. It was so wonderful. SO many friends and family came out Patrons flew in from out of town; my family came in from out of town. I made the Artist Talk available to the Patreon community; so that full Artist Talk and Q&A is available over there. If you're a Patron make sure you check that out, and of course we are always welcoming new members as part of the Patreon community.

I'm just I'm just elated. I'm grateful that it came to pass and now you know the next questions are "what's next?" and to tell you the truth - I don't know. A part of me knows, honestly like a part of me knows, Yeah, obviously-- like you, you keep painting. You keep creating; there's no mystery there. You know what's next you just you keep going you carry on. But then the other part of me is enjoying this pause; enjoying this break. I'm actually recording this right now, it is June 12th, on a Sunday evening; and we ordered some Thai food. So we're waiting for that to arrive and I'm just chilling, like literally a week after, it's been a week since the show, and like this entire week I've been chillin. Barely had any meetings, and like I just checked in with the team just to like check in after the show; express gratitude; kind of recap everything; had a meeting with the VMC. Actually, yesterday was a two year anniversary of painting the Black Lives Matter mural. Yeah, just so many, so many different things have taken place in this week, but for the most part, me and Andy have been chillin. Okay, we've been doing a little bit of yard work; we've been mowing the lawn; we've been trying to pull the weeds up. Look, the house has been completely neglected, since preparing for this show. So, now we've had the time to really just focus on the house, which has been really great.

But the other thing that I'm going to be creating is starting a new series. I actually finished Book Four of The Law of One, which has been so inspiring. And yeah, that could be a whole nother talk about the Law of One like, I'm not even meant to get into that. But I did do a YouTube video talking about art and spirituality, so I'll make sure to link that here because I think it's a really good talk just about the new series that I'm going to be working on. Because in that video, I do talk about the new painting, which is around like black sheep, and different dimensions and different realms and all that is really inspired by The Law of One. So that is a series that I'm going to be working on in the future, so that is something that I can see of being next. But also, I'm sitting here watching YouTube. And if you know me at all that you know, I'm constantly watching YouTube. It's truly my favorite platform, and it's kind of like my place to just escape and just listen to other people's life. I'm that weird person who actually types in YouTube search "life update" just to hear what other people's life is going on because I'm just curious and nosy, and it gives me inspiration about different things to do in my career. Because, I'm just--, I guess I'm--, I guess we're always on the search, you know, we always trying to find answers. We're always trying to figure it out, and I'm on that journey too, you know. One of the things that I'm excited to do is to take YouTube even more seriously, like, I love YouTube so much, and I love the community that I'm building over there on YouTube. And so I don't know, I'm thinking, like, this blog cast is going to be an extension of the rants that I already do on my YouTube channel, and people who watch my YouTube, or who just really want to be connected with me even more and learn more about some of my inner thoughts can connect with me here on the blog, and of course on the next level, is connecting even deeper on Patreon. I think just like overall, I'm just I'm just trying to figure it out, you know, and yeah, I'm on a journey of figuring it out.

But I do want to include some of the photos that were a part of The Zodiac Show because I'm so grateful to have had Jeanette there, my photographer who takes so many of the photos with me. She took the ones like the candle collection, the ones we did in the backyard with the bathtub. She did the boudoir shoot with me and Andy. She did my 30th birthday, photoshoot. And now, like, I just turned 33. So it's just like, yeah, Jeanette has been on a journey with me through photography, and I absolutely love her photos. So I definitely want to include a gallery of those photos here in this blog post while also just checking in. You know, this is me, kind of coming back to the world and saying 'hello' and 'welcome', and everybody now that my voice is kind of coming back even though it's not 100%, it's still a bit raspy. It's a she's-giving-five-year-smoker, okay? Not 20 years. Like before I was I was giving straight up 20 years smoker; it was on some Miley Cyrus raspy. Okay, but she's coming back a little bit and coming back out into the world. And yeah, yeah, I'm breaking my silence here. And I'm grateful to be back. And I'm so grateful for everybody who attended The Zodiac Show. And yeah, connect with me more, I'm gonna be sharing even more on YouTube. And I think I even want YouTube to even be my more consistent platform; even more than Instagram, which is like odd to even think when you think about the time it takes to even bring a YouTube video to the world, but I'm just really enjoying time away. And like, wha YouTube I feel like people understand that, okay, a video is going to be posted at the most for me once a week. And so I can have those days to just kind of go silent and just retreat. Whereas Instagram is so quick, you just, it's more expected to be posted more often. But even this week away has just been really nice to just kind of go inward and have these internal moments of reflection, and not feeling like I need to post, post, post, post or create. Like, I haven't even picked up the paintbrush. Even when I'm feeling like I've been wanting to pick up a paintbrush, I'm like, well just give it a little bit more time. Just give it a little bit more time because you've been cranking out this series for so long, and even though I want to paint, I still feel like I want to pause too. Like anything I've been wanting a break more than I've wanted to paint. So I've just been honoring that feeling and honoring that time of rest and release. And it's been really great. It's been really beautiful. And I just want to continue to remind myself to give myself abundant amount of grace, and an endless amount of gratitude with every moment and step that I am in life. And so that's where we leaning into. We're leaning into the creative journey in their artistic expression in every medium and every modality and that's through video; that's through YouTube; that's also through painting; maybe at some point through movement and dance. Like that's a whole nother aspect that I love. I mean, but if you've been following around, if you've been around for a while, then you know, I was doing aerial acrobatics for a while. I probably linked my AOHamer.fly, okay, she was on Instagram sharing that journey, but of course COVID put a major pause on that. My aerial studio permanently shut down, and just haven't really been on a search for a new aerial home even though movement is a huge part of just my life and my morning routine. I'm excited to share that as well. But yeah, we just taking it one day at a time. So thank you for being here. Thank you for listening and for being on this journey. Of course, stay connected on YouTube. There's probably a new video over there waiting for you. And if not, there's always some goodies over there on Instagram. And yeah, thank you for tuning in. Thank you for listening and I'm sending you all the love and all the light and I hope you have a fantastic day.