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EPISODE OVERVIEW: A time to deep dive into our origins and ancestry.
Hosted by Fiona Bicknell.
Understanding where we come from—our ancestry, family traditions, and the deeper purpose behind our roots—can provide great clarity and direction for the present. In this episode, we explore how our personal history is not just a story of the past but an essential key to understanding who we are now. Why were you born into your particular family? How have your origins shaped your path? And how can embracing both the beauty and the challenges of your lineage help you step more fully into your purpose?
Beyond personal reflection, in this episode we also tap into the spirit of generosity—not just in the traditional sense of giving to others but in the way we offer ourselves the permission to be who we truly are.
This conversation is about gathering proof, building a foundation, and seeing how everything—yes, even the challenges—has prepared you for this moment. Whether you're in a season of transition, seeking deeper self-understanding, or navigating complex family dynamics, this episode offers a framework for shifting into gratitude, or at the very least, acceptance.
THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:
You’re reflecting on your roots and want to understand how your past has shaped your purpose.
You feel called to deepen your connection with your ancestry, family traditions, or personal history.
You’re navigating complex family dynamics and seeking a new perspective on acceptance and gratitude.
You’re in a season of growth and want to build a stronger foundation for stepping into your potential.
You’re looking for ways to cultivate more generosity—toward yourself, your journey, and those around you.
What Next?
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Hi, welcome to November, the November Energy Forecast.
We have two key themes this month.
The first one is origins and ancestry.
And we're going to be deep diving a little bit into the where we came from.
And then the second theme is generosity.
And they might seem a little bit cliched for this moment. You know, we've just had Samhain last night. And we will have Thanksgiving in the US here at the end of November. But yeah, that is kind of the energy that everyone's in, right?
That is what we're experiencing. We are in the energy of family. We are in the energy of giving.
So it might sound a little bit cliched, but that is what I'm getting and where I'm putting the focus for this podcast.
So I'm going to start with these themes of origins, the theme of our personal origins.
This is really, really personal. It's getting into the nitty gritty, getting into the specifics of why you, yeah, why you come from the family you come from, why you have the background you have and how it helps to serve your purpose.
So if you remember last month for October, we had that line, who did you come here to be?
That I think it was particularly in the context of our vocation in the area of vocation. I was suggesting to meditate on that line, to kind of sit with yourself and really just ask yourself, like, who did I come here to be?
And then we had that action, like act accordingly.
And so it feels like October was a bit of a time for, like, no more beating around the bush and just getting clear on, like, this is who I am at my core, this is who I want to be, or this is who I came here to be, you know, whatever, whatever feels true for you there.
And now moving into November, it feels like we're building a bit of a case around it, or building a bit of proof around it, that's going to help create momentum and help create a foundation that you feel you're standing upon as this person that you came here to be.
So we're all being pushed to be bigger in the world. We're all being pushed deeper into our purpose. We're all being pushed to take action in the direction of fulfilling our potential of doing something great, because we're all capable of doing something great in the world.
And yeah, I'm going to suggest that for November, you look at all of the things that are working for you to help you step into that in a greater way.
And this is reviewing your childhood. This is reviewing your family traditions. This is reviewing the beliefs, the behaviors, and the roles of your ancestors.
And yeah, building almost like building a case for yourself, as to show yourself why what it is that you're doing in the world is exactly what you're supposed to be doing, because everything has led you to this moment.
That everything around you has actually been completely perfect to bring you to this moment, even in the challenge.
Even if you've had challenging relationships within your family dynamics, even if you have uncomfortable feelings thinking about where and how you grew up or the origins that you came from, it's even recognizing that those challenges have been exactly the challenges that you need.
And what I hope this will do is help put everyone into a space of I hope for gratitude going into the holiday period.
But I understand that for some people, or for many people even, that the holidays brings up challenge, it brings up pain, it brings up difficult family dynamics that doesn't always make the holidays a joyful time for everyone.
And my hope is if that you, you, yeah, perhaps you might not reach a place of gratitude, but I hope at least a place of acceptance.
And that going into the holidays, having some reflection on these aspects might bring us all into a bit of a place of harmony or peace.
Okay, but I don't want to carry us too far in that direction. I really want to go into the nitty-gritty.
These are the things I want you to reflect on.
When you're questioning where it is you come from, or where it is you came from, can you spend some time looking into the people, the people who you originate from, the people who created you?
Can you look at the environment that you grew up in? And this, I mean the physical environment. Were you surrounded by nature? Were you in a city? Were your ancestors in a city? Which country were your ancestors in? What culture was there? Why were they in that specific geographical location? Why were you in the specific geographical location that you were born in? What has it offered you?
The physical location, the environmental aspects as well. What nature were you exposed to or not exposed to?
Then looking at the community, what kind of community did you come into this world in? What kind of community were you placed in? And specifically, we're thinking about our younger years here.
We're thinking about the places we found ourselves in in ways that were beyond our control. When we were still children and we didn't have autonomy and we got put in communities, we found ourselves in communities, not by choice, but because that is what we were born into.
So spending some time exploring why is that the community that I was placed into.
The collective view of the world, of that community, whether that is a view that you still carry forward with you now or whether it is something that you've broken for yourself, doesn't really matter.
It's just looking at why was I taught to see the world in that way?
Why was I placed in a space or an environment in a community where collectively we viewed the world in X, Y, Z ways?
And then finally looking at the opportunities that were presented to you in those spaces, in those communities, in the family, that you grew up in, your family of origin.
And I'm going to do some kind of, I'm going to do like a guided meditation that I'll share as a separate file that you can do at some point throughout the month.
But I'm going to, my suggestion is these aspects, so the people, the environment, the community, the view of the world, and the opportunities to spend some time contemplating these, spend some time thinking about what did all of these different aspects of my younger years and my family of origin offer me. What did, what came from it, that is currently serving the thing that I am trying to create in the world? My purpose, my vocation, my, I don't know, my vision, my goals. How are all of these things working for you?
How have they ultimately worked for you, even if there was challenge in some of them?
So spending some time contemplating that, and then perhaps next week or so, I'm going to share a guided meditation to, to work with whatever comes up for you, to help release whatever it is that needs to be let go of, and then really define what it is that you want to carry forward.
What are the things that are really important that were given to me, given to me by my ancestors, given to me by my community, given to me by my environment, and by my family?
What are the aspects that are really important that I'm going to carry forward?
And then which are the ones that need to be left in the past perhaps?
And so there's, yeah, contemplation there, and then next week, I will share a guided meditation to kind of put this into action, and into an action of sorts.
And yeah, it might sound a little cliché, but this is about a breaking of the patterns that need to be broken and a strengthening of the principles that need to be carried forward or that are of benefit to be carried forward and being able to discern between those.
So that's kind of our overarching theme here.
Then breaking this down into our various aspects where I'm going to start with our vocation.
So we'll go vocation, health, relationships.
How this might show up for you in your vocation.
I want you to, it's about building this case for your purpose.
So I want you to think back on that, whatever came to you last month for, who did I come here to be?
And make a list on paper, write this down.
Build a case for yourself as to why it is that every experience that you've had in life up to this point, anything that happened to you or was given to you that was beyond your control, this is about showing your mind why it was all perfect and why it's all led you to the point you're at right now.
And therefore, what it is that you're currently doing in the world or that you're currently committed to is precisely the thing that you are here to do.
It's precisely the thing that you are meant to be doing in this very moment.
So yeah, thinking about how using this, this theme in your, in a vocational context is like building a case study.
It's giving your mind the proof that everything has been leading you to this moment.
And you're precisely where you're supposed to be.
I'm going to share a little bit of my own, like use myself as a bit of a reference here as well, to just show how I want you to, I want to encourage you to get really granular here.
So my example is sports.
I grew up in a family that was quite athletic.
And my dad always encouraged us to play sports.
His dad played Australian rules football.
And so he played for, it's like the Australian equivalent of the national Australia's National Football League.
My grandfather was a football player.
And so there's this kind of, I guess, genetic athleticism that runs through the family in that sense.
And then there is a mental or an I guess, a mindset, an athletic mindset that was instilled in us.
And I remember, I actually haven't spoken to my dad about this in quite a while.
But it's a conversation that I will probably pick up again in November, given this theme.
And but I remember my dad really encouraging us to play sports, and it was never a question of do you want to play sport or not?
It was which sport will you play?
And it wasn't in a way that it was forceful.
It wasn't in a way that we needed to go and be the best at that sport, that it wasn't about winning.
It was about developing a mindset.
It was about teaching us what it is to keep ourselves focused on something.
It was about teaching us to be goal-oriented.
It was about showing us how to work as a part of a team, how to show up for other people, how to commit to other people and play your part and fulfill your responsibility in the group.
And I think ultimately, my dad always saw sports as being a way to stop us from getting distracted.
And I don't just mean myself and my siblings here, but youth in general, there was this mindset of, when we're part of a team, when we're part of a sport, when we're part of a subculture like that, it keeps us on a path, right?
The space and the time is filled that could otherwise lead us down other paths that are not going to be of great benefit for us.
And I'm not suggesting that every kid needs to play sports either.
And I'm not suggesting that sport is the only way to teach us these themes.
But when I think about what it is that I'm doing now in my life, I'm teaching Kundalini.
I'm committed to this podcast and developing my practice around Akashic readings.
I'm committed to coaching and my clients.
These are all everything that I've just said there.
The mindset that I developed through growing up in a family where sport and being a team player or committing to a team was a big part of our, I guess, family culture, has taught me all of the skills that I need to be able to be committed to what it is that I'm creating right now.
And like I said, there's multiple different ways I could have learned these skills.
And there's multiple different avenues that these skills could be put towards.
But for me personally, to build my case, to show myself that what I am doing is aligned and to remind myself that I'm on track, to build self-trust that I'm moving in the right direction, I can use that piece of my origin story to help prove something in my mind or to help build a case in my mind to give me the confidence to keep going.
So this is about being pretty specific and pretty nuanced and very subjective.
It's not just anyone who plays sport becomes XYZ in the world.
Don't be general about this.
Get as specific as possible.
Yeah, I hope that makes sense.
Okay.
And then for the next category, so that's vocation, the next category is our health.
And this is actually, I'm going to suggest, it's very emotional.
Like the thing that I was getting here for health, it's very emotions focused.
And it might not sound like I'm talking about health so much here.
But the question to contemplate is just what fears run in the family.
And take a look at both your paternal line and your maternal line, and go back as many generations as you can, as much information as you have available, move back.
Like this is more about like, what emotions do we carry in the system that can lead to disease?
What emotions do we carry in the system that lead to certain behaviors that don't support our health?
And in particular, I want to suggest paying attention to fear.
What fears run in the family?
And this doesn't have to be fears directly connected to health.
There might be some of those.
It might be like there's a history of cancer in your family, or there's a history of heart disease, and there's a fear that we all need to be extra careful about looking after our heart.
Or yeah, so it might be connected to health in that way.
But I'm suggesting to explore all areas of life here, what fears run in the family, afraid of what?
Is there fear of lack?
Is there fear of something for me that has I've looked at and has popped up in my life so many times, is what in Australia, what we call tall poppy syndrome, a fear of being perceived as arrogant, a fear of being perceived as living from your ego, that oftentimes can make us play small and make us hold back.
Yeah, it can be across any area of life here.
But just looking at that question, what fear runs in my family or what fears, multiple fears run in my family.
And then looking at where they might be held in the body, if you want to take this further with each fear.
So if you create a list of all of these fears, then go one by one and like sit, close your eyes, tune in to where in the body is it held, where in the body is it carried, each of these different fears.
And then can you practice releasing it?
Can you imagine or visualize that it's leaving your body, that you're leaving it behind?
And I'll try and make sure to include something around this in the meditation next week as well.
It is about releasing these.
Finally, our relationships.
There's no real, I want to be clear that what I'm going to share here about the relationships is not about having to discern which relationships are good and which relationships are bad, and taking action in some way.
That's not what this is about.
But what came up for me here in relationships is exploring which relationships remind you of your younger years or your connections from your younger years and which relationships feel like they offer you something new.
And again, there is no right or wrong here.
There's no good or bad.
There's no hierarchy.
It's really just an investigation.
It's really just something to bring awareness to that might offer greater insight into yourself, greater insight into what you want from your relationships.
But this is exploring all types of relationships you have in your life, and maybe spending some time thinking about which ones feel familiar.
Which ones feel like they offer me the kind of energy or the kind of feeling that I experienced in my connections when I was younger.
This might be in friendships, it might be in romantic connection, it might be in work collaborations.
Which of those give me a feeling of something old, something that I've experienced before?
And then which of those offer me something new?
And this isn't a logical or a rational review, this is a felt sense.
Which relationships in my life feel different to anything I experienced in my younger years?
What are the new feelings that I've been able to experience through connections that have come into my life in adulthood?
And so that's quite simple.
And like I said, there's no, no specific action that needs to be taken there.
There's no conclusion that needs to be drawn.
And it's not about labeling anything in any way.
It's just recognizing it.
It's just feeling into it, getting a little bit more connected into the body in relation to your connections to other people in life.
Okay.
So that is our, our overview of our origins and ancestry.
That's our first big theme here and how it plays out across the various areas of our lives.
And then the second theme, that I'm just going to do one like general, talk about it generally.
I'm not going to go, I'm not going to break it down into those different categories.
The theme was, the second theme is generosity.
And really what I got here, where did I write it?
Extra generosity, experiment with giving, go big and give big.
So it feels like we're coming, like I said, we're coming into Thanksgiving here in the US, and then we'll move into the December holiday period.
And yeah, giving is a theme, right?
Giving is definitely a theme this time of year.
We will be inundated with messages of giving, giving thanks, giving gifts, being generous.
But with that, I'm going to suggest to use it as an opportunity to explore your own generosity, to look at the ways you already are generous with others, look at the ways where you might be over giving, but in particular, look at the ways where there is the capacity for you to increase your generosity.
And I want to be really specific here.
This is about increasing your generosity without expectation. This is not giving to receive. This is not giving to get. It's giving because you can.
That's it.
And there is several studies on this. That one of the fastest ways to raise our baseline level of happiness is to give without expectation, is to be kind with no expectation of receiving something in return. That is a fundamental aspect of being human. It feels good to give.
And so I want to challenge you to think about where it is that you have the capacity to be more generous.
Explore what comes to mind if I am to request that you make a commitment to generosity in some way.
Where can you make a commitment to being generous? See what comes to mind. And then I want to challenge you to make it even bigger. So whatever first comes to mind, take that and now see how far you can push it.
And I'm not suggesting to push yourself into a place where you're giving more than you can manage, or you're putting yourself out or causing yourself stress to do this. This is truly just looking at what am I capable of?
Like, where can I actually give in a way that is is manageable, that is feasible, that is within my remit, which is like available to me, that I can do it in a way without causing myself stress.
And this might be maybe through your business, you want to start, I don't know, or if you already donate a portion of your earnings to charity, maybe it is increasing that. Maybe it is your time that you could give to something. Maybe it's signing up to a volunteer program. Maybe it is through the work you do, it's offering something that is above and beyond what is being asked of you, but you have the capacity to do it.
So why not?
But this is a challenge that I want to pose to you for the month, is find a way to be more generous without over giving, without putting yourself out, without causing yourself additional challenge or harm.
Look where it's available to you to give more.
And if there is any feeling of, oh, I'm giving with the hope to receive something here.
So in that example of work, if you think that by going above and beyond, if you're doing it, even in a small way to, I don't know, hope that you get a bonus at the end of the year, or you get given a promotion, or to prove someone wrong, or to show, like prove that you're capable of something.
If there's any part of this, that is you looking to create gain for yourself, that's not the area to give.
Drop it and find something else to place your focus on.
And be really cautious here of your interpersonal dynamics, and especially romantic dynamics and partnerships.
If the first thing that comes to mind for you is, oh, I can give more to this person, but what you're hoping is that person's going to change as a result, or they're going to behave differently towards you as a result of your giving.
If there's any part of you that feels like you're giving for that reason, drop it, find somewhere else to use your generosity.
This is truly about finding where it is that you can give without expectation and teaching ourselves.
Yeah, teaching ourselves what happened there.
I wrote down the line, experiment with giving.
Just explore it for yourself.
Just see how it feels.
Do it for the sake of doing it.
My, I would anticipate that it's just going to make you feel pretty fucking good.
Okay, that's our forecast for November.
That's everything.
Like I said, I'm going to work on some kind of guided meditation or visualization that I will release at some point next week, that is going to help clarify some of these aspects around origins and ancestry.
That because the overarching, the ideal place that I want to try and bring us to, is that we have clear discernment between what it is we're carrying forward, what it is that we're leaving behind, and that for whatever it is we're leaving behind, we can do so with total acceptance and gratitude for those things that are being left behind, even if they're challenging, even if they're painful.
So I'm going to suggest for this first week, you just contemplate some of these themes that have come up, and then I will work on having something to share next week that will help to create that discernment and that release of the old and the building energy behind the things that are being carried forward.
Okay, I hope you have a really beautiful month ahead.
I'm sending so much love, and you'll hear from me again next week.
