A little lesson I learned from the swallows… Think about the dreams and aspirations you had - maybe as a teenager, maybe in your early 20s. How aligned are you with them now? Did you abandon these dreams at any point? Or did you choose to keep going with them? This is your reminder to check in with your heart, to check in with your dreams. Are you following your heart path? Pause and ask yourself… “Is this still the direction I want to be moving in?” Swallow medicine asks us: “Are you...

How many of you from a really young age asked, "What am I doing here?" Like it or not, the fact of the matter is that every single thing about you, YOU chose. Your mom, your dad, your siblings, the color of your skin, your gender, your nationality - you chose to be here and now for a reason, to learn lessons and evolve the way your soul needs to at this moment. And not only do you have your spiritual lineage, you also carry the wisdom and lessons of your ancestry and bloodline here on...

If you’re sensitive to locations and environments, the energy of specific places may greatly affect your personal energy as soon as foot touches ground. I believe many of us possess this gift of clairempathy… Think back to a time when you looked at photos of a seemingly-perfect vacation spot or flipped through the listing of a promising new home, but when you actually stepped into the area, physically, you felt something else entirely. My advice? Listen to this inner knowing and choose...

Ultimately, an eclipse is a bringer of change. And today's eclipse is a bringer of How do you feel about drastic change? Are you like, "Yeah! Bring it on!" Or more like, "Uh oh, I really don't like the unknown..." Either way, trust that this eclipse is accelerating what you need. This might not be what you want to hear from me right now, because what we need isn't always what we want to hear, but trust that the wheels are in motion. Ask yourself - "What would a warrior do at this time?" When...

How many life metaphors are you being given all the time but are not finding the true lesson within them? We often think that signs are completely mundane, ordinary things (which they are, to the layperson). However, every sign is interlaced with magic and ancient wisdom containing beautiful lessons and messages. IF and only IF you choose to see them... If you don't, it's easy to think you're just moving through life on a mundane hamster wheel. Once we break free from this illusion, we...

You have a spiritual gift. Something that comes so easily and naturally to you that you may not even consider it a gift. Are you allowing your gift to be seen? Are you even aware of it in the first place? Sometimes we subconsciously don't acknowledge our spiritual gifts because this acknowledgment involves allowing parts of our current identity to fall away... Our current understanding of how the world works, maybe even the foundations of our childhood, how we were brought up, and the...

Have you heard of the "Witch Wound?" It goes all the way back to the history of how witches, healers, herbalists, midwives, etc. were persecuted, hunted, and murdered in the most horrific of ways. This gruesome point in time has been held as trauma in our bodies for hundreds of years, and is the root of why spiritualists and mystics avoid standing out... It's for the sake of survival. It's for the sake of being accepted and not rejected from the community. So many of us still hold the...

Finding a community - a group of people who get you, a place where you feel safe, seen, and heard - is absolutely essential to how far, how fast, and how deeply you will go in your journey. Many people (especially women) don’t feel safe or supported to share their true, authentic self with their local communities… In fact, many women who are drawn to join my circles tend to have throat chakra issues due to their struggles trying to express themselves without fear of judgment from their...

Have you ever thought you were coming from a place of love for wanting to help someone (especially someone close to you)? Despite your best intentions, there is actually something else that can be at play here. You may be so much in your ego that you think you know exactly what that person needs… But how can you? Do you know what their personal karma is? Do you have a roadmap of their life? The situation very easily crosses over into control... “I know what's best for you. Just DO THIS...

Is your worth dependent on what you do? If so, what happens if that title changes or is taken from you? Who are you then? How much doing, exactly, do you have to do to feel worthy? And what would happen if you stopped doing? All this and more in a deep dive into this commonly-experienced notion that your worth is somehow linked to your ability to do. I’m here to assure you that this is not true! This episode of the Aligned Alchemy podcast explores… How we are conditioned to “do” by our...

Have you ever wondered what your dominant element is? Earth, fire, air, or water? Resonating more deeply with one is not to say that you dismiss the others - trust that there’s beauty and value in everything. For instance, I’m a summer girl - I claim it as “my season.” But this doesn’t mean that I shirk or dread all the other seasons, it just means that I feel more in my power in the summer months; more vibrant, alive, more motivated, and I lean into that energy. This episode of the...

Many of us know our time on the planet is limited, but we don't really get it. Do you? If you did, you would wake up and live differently tomorrow. Tomorrow is promised to no one, and yet, if you're like most people, you are still delaying making decisions, choices, and putting off the things you really want to do because you think you know the timeline. But the truth is, none of us do... Life is short, fleeting, and incredibly beautiful if you see it for all it is in the moment. What...

Since listeners resonated with the last episode of the Aligned Alchemy podcast, “How to Manifest Anything,” I’ve decided to continue the convo with an exploration that dives more deeply into the energetics of how we manifest using language and frequency. Your words have resonance. The words you choose create a FEELING in you and that is what emits your frequency to the Universe. So yes, your choice of words are important, from a frequency point of view on where it places your attention,...

There are generally 2 schools of thought when it comes to mainfesting, however both often miss an imperative step, which when you add this, is where the magic really starts to happen. In this episode, Ichel brings you a real life example of manifesting the seemingly impossible for bringing everything together for her in person retreat in the Highlands of Scotland in 2023. She gives the exact process she used and how you can apply it to anything that you are creating in life right now....

⁠⁠⁠⁠What does connection mean to you? Are you a surface level surfer or a deep dive connector? To be connected is to be part of something. Do you feel part of something or are your feeling more and more disconnected? Let's deep dive into connection! https://linktr.ee/ichelfrancis

Ever wonder why you always seems to be working from just enough rather than having an abundance of money in your life? In this episode we explore what wealth and success mean specifically to you and if the stories you currently hold could be the very thing that block you from receiving more. ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/ichelfrancis

Nothing actually changes from Dec 31st to Jan 1st. What if you explored working from a new beginning that worked in tune with you, nature and her cycles rather than some Gregorian calender that throws us off our natural rythyms? In this episode we explore the alternatioves and if you do really want to make Jan 1st your new start, a word of caution and how you can be best placed for your own success. ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/ichelfrancis

Is the title of the episode incorrect? Surely it is meant to be the gift of giving? Yes and no! In this epiosde we look at the real reasons behind why you might be stuck in giving mode AND the shocking repurcussions of what happens when you don't receive. ⁠https://linktr.ee/ichelfrancis

Ever wonder why spiritual evolution is so hard? Why do our lessons have to be so painful? What is with the difficulty with the dark night of the soul? In this epiosde we explore exactly the reasons why it is so hard and what you can do to make your next spiritual jump easy, painfree and quick! https://linktr.ee/ichelfrancis

Whatever you are looking for, you will find. This episode goes hand in hand with previous episode 40 - what gets your attention. It is more on the energetics of how our Universe works, that when you seek out magic in your life, you will find it. And when you can be in that state of child like wonder and awe, gratitude for the pure magic that surrounds use every day in nature on this planet, that state, will attract magic back to you. Most of my greatest manifestations in life have...

This one of the money stories that kept me blocked for so long! That somehow being spiritual equated to living a life of punishment and shouldn't I get enough from just being spiritual? This episode is for you if you believe that wealth is not available to you for whatever story you have created around it. Money is energy and you can choose to be comforatble attracting it or not. ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ichelfrancis⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.ichelfrancis.com⁠

You get to choose 100's of times a day what you place your attention on. Whatever that is, your energy has to follow and flow there. In this episode, we go deep into the profound difference mastering this ancient wisdom of where you place your focus and what that will mean to you. https://www.instagram.com/ichelfrancis⁠ ⁠https://www.ichelfrancis.com

The more you try to figure out what your lesson is the more it will run from you. Just the act of wanting life to be exactly a ceratin way actually closes doors of possibility that were open to you. Just let go of the attachments you have to how things should look. There is no other way. https://www.instagram.com/ichelfrancis https://www.ichelfrancis.com

It is easy for your mouth to say one thing and your actions another but are you aware of what creates that? When someone (or even yourself) says they are one thing but everything the person is showing you is the absolute contrary. Are they lying on purpose? Or is something else going on under the surface that they may have a blind spot with and be unable to see? In this episode, Ichel talks about self deception, cognitive dissonance and the work it takes to remove all of the stories...