The Weekly Vibe
This week: remembering where your power comes from, the state of the world, this week’s astrology and oracle guidance, and the astrology surrounding the recent meteor incidents.
It Was Always You.
On symbols, rituals, and remembering where the power really comes from
Whispering into a glass of water isn’t going to heal your life. Buying another crystal isn’t going to heal your life. That doesn’t mean those things are useless. I’m not saying that at all. I understand why people use rituals, crystals, water, candles, cards, prayers, sound bowls, and whatever else helps them focus. Sometimes people need something tangible. Sometimes the mind needs something it can see, touch, hold, or do. That’s fine.
The problem starts when people confuse the tool with the power.
A crystal can help you focus your intention. A ritual can help you focus your intention. Whispering into water can help you focus your intention. But the actual crystal, the actual water, the actual spell, or the actual object is not the thing doing it for you. It is you. It is your mind, your belief, your projection, your perception, and your willingness to step into what you are asking for.
After my near-death experience and years of working as a medium, this is one of the things I keep coming back to. Spirit does not care if your ritual looks perfect. Spirit does not care if you have the right candle, the right crystal, the right board, the right words, or the right aesthetic. Spirit cares more about your state of being than the performance of the ritual. If a ritual helps you get there, use it. If a crystal helps you get there, use it. If praying helps you get there, pray. I’m not against tools. I’m against people forgetting what the tools are.
They are not the source. They are a way through the doorway.
You can ask spirit for help without a Ouija board. You can ask for guidance without making it complicated. You can speak to your loved ones in spirit without needing a perfect setup. In my belief, there are beings, guides, loved ones, and energies that assist us, instruct us, and help us. But they do not need the show. They do not need the extra decorations. They respond to you.
That is where a lot of online spirituality loses me. It keeps making people think they need one more thing before they can heal, manifest, connect, or change. One more class. One more ritual. One more method. One more teacher. One more exact way to do it. And after a while, people start believing the power is always somewhere outside of them.
That is not how I see it.
The healer does not heal you in the way people think. The healer reminds you. The medium does not own the connection. The medium helps translate it. The Reiki practitioner is not above you. They are facilitating something. They are allowing that energy to move through in a way that helps you receive it. The teacher may help you understand something, but they are not the source of your power.
We are middlemen. That’s all.
If a healer helped you, good. If a reader helped you, good. If Reiki helped you, good. I’m not taking anything away from that. But don’t put all the power in the person who helped you. Don’t turn them into the reason you healed. They may have opened the door, said the right words, held the right kind of energy, or helped you remember something you had forgotten, but something in you still had to respond.
That is what healing feels like to me. It is often a remembering.
My near-death experience did not heal me because something outside of me suddenly made me different. It showed me who I really was. It pulled me out of the story for a minute and let me see from another place. It reminded me of something underneath all of this.
When I say “who you really are,” I mean the you underneath all the bullshit you have been through. The you before the fear, before the ego, before the labels, before the disappointments, before the relationships that changed how you saw yourself, before the world told you who you were supposed to be. I mean the part of you that existed before you came here and will still exist after you leave. The part of you that is more comfortable in spirit because that is your natural state.
At your core, without all the extra stuff piled on top, you can just be. You can smile. You can love. You can know. That is the part of you the world keeps trying to remind you of.
Sometimes a crystal reminds you. Sometimes a healer reminds you. Sometimes a sound bowl reminds you. Sometimes a reading reminds you. Sometimes your own breakdown reminds you. Sometimes a near-death experience reminds you. Sometimes a stupid little moment in the middle of the day reminds you. The form does not matter as much as what it wakes up in you.
That is why I get frustrated when spirituality turns into fear or dependency. I do not like fear-based spiritual work. I do not like when people act like you need them or you are doomed. I do not like when people act like they are the only one who can clear you, protect you, heal you, awaken you, or teach you how to manifest. That is nonsense to me.
A real teacher should not make you dependent on them. A real healer should not make you feel powerless without them. A real medium should not make themselves the center of your connection to spirit. If someone helps you, beautiful. Let them help. But the point should be to bring you back to yourself, not keep you reaching for them.
Manifestation is another place where this happens all the time. There are so many people online repeating the same ideas, putting different words on them, and making it sound like they found the missing secret. And I understand simplifying things for people. That can be helpful. But a lot of it turns into, “You need me to understand this.” No, you don’t.
You have been manifesting your entire life.
When you were a child and wanted an ice cream cone, you could already see it. You wanted it. You imagined it. You felt it. Maybe you asked for it. Maybe you did something to get it. Maybe it just showed up. That is not some brand new spiritual secret. That is something you have been doing in one way or another since you got here.
The issue is not that rituals or techniques never work. The issue is that people sometimes perform the technique without any real intention behind it. They do the outer action, then wonder why nothing changed. But if you do a ritual and your whole belief is still sitting in “this won’t work,” then what are you really projecting into it?
Intention matters.
Belief matters.
State of being matters.
The ritual can help you get there, but it cannot do the whole thing for you.
That is why even very simple physical things can work. If I talk to someone and the energy feels heavy, or the conversation feels bad, or I feel like I am carrying something that is not mine, I might brush my hands down my arms or across my body like I am sweeping it off. Sometimes I will shake my hands out. Sometimes I will shake my arms or my body a little, the way a dog shakes itself off after it gets startled.
I am not going to sit here and over-explain whether that is spiritual, physical, symbolic, emotional, or all of it at once. I know what it does for me. It tells my mind and body, “I am done carrying this.” It gives me a way to move out of that state. It helps me feel less anxious, less drained, and clearer.
That is enough.
Sometimes the body understands a symbol before the mind catches up. Sometimes your physical body and your spiritual body already know what you mean. When I brush something off or shake something off with intention, I am giving myself permission to return to the state I want to be in. That does not make the action fake. It makes the action useful.
The same thing is true with sleep. I look at sleep as a small death and a small rebirth. Not actual death, but a reset. Every night, the projector turns off. The world you were looking at all day disappears. Your job disappears. The conversation disappears. The problem disappears. The body goes to sleep, and in my belief, something else is happening.
Sometimes dreams are just dreams. Sometimes the mind is sorting through the day. But I also believe we go places when we sleep. I believe the soul receives something. I believe we can get notes, guidance, impressions, and reminders while we are away from ordinary waking awareness.
That is why the time before sleep matters. Most people spend the last part of the day scrolling through TikTok, arguments, bad news, fear, and everyone else’s opinions. Then they go to sleep with all of that running through them. If that window is powerful, why fill it with garbage?
Before sleep, you can set an intention. You can ask for clarity. You can ask to remember if you connect with a loved one in spirit. You can ask for a feeling, a sign, or some kind of guidance. You can decide what you want tomorrow to feel like. You can tell yourself, “Whatever happened today, I am leaving it here for now.”
Then you wake up.
And this is where people miss the reset.
They wake up and immediately continue yesterday. They pick up the same problem, the same anger, the same job stress, the same story, the same identity, and the same reaction. But the morning is new. You are not required to drag everything back with you in the exact same way.
That does not mean the problem magically disappeared. If you hated your job yesterday, the job may still be there. If the bill was there yesterday, it may still be there. If the difficult person was there yesterday, they may still be there. But you can choose a different relationship to it.
You can wake up and say, “I still do not love this job, but I choose to go today because I am making money for something I need.” You can say, “I am not trapped by this today.” You can say, “That person annoyed me yesterday, but I do not need to keep dragging them into today.” You can decide not to react the exact same way.
That is not pretending. That is choosing.
The same thing happens with patterns in your physical life. Sometimes you feel stuck because you keep doing the same thing, in the same place, in the same order, while thinking the same thoughts. The body gets used to the loop. The mind gets used to the loop. Then you start believing the loop is your life.
I have walked into my house and felt that. Nothing was technically wrong, but everything felt stale. So I moved furniture. I moved a picture. I changed something small. I changed the order of how I did things in the morning. I interrupted the pattern.
Moving a couch is not magic. Changing a room is not magic. But changing something physically can remind you that you are not stuck in the exact same pattern. It can take the monotony out. It can give the mind a new signal. It can say, “This is not the same as yesterday.”
Sometimes that is all you need to begin shifting.
This is why I keep coming back to the same thing. The tool can help. The ritual can help. The teacher can help. The healer can help. The room change can help. The sleep intention can help. The brushing off can help. But none of those things are above you.
They are not here to replace your own power.
They are here to help you remember it.
So if whispering into a glass of water helps you, whisper into the glass of water. If holding a crystal helps you, hold the crystal. If lighting a candle helps you focus, light the candle.
Just understand that you are the one with the power.
It was always you.
David Hanzel
