Erin Patten (00:00)
For a long time I was told that metaphysics belongs behind closed doors. Fine for your private life, but it has no place in business. And I'm building my entire business on it anyway. Today I want to talk about what freedom costs. Not 10 years ago, right now, in this season, because everybody wants to be free, but not everybody wants what comes with it. So welcome to this very special episode of the Meta Business Millennial Podcast. And I'm so happy to join you all today because.
as many of you who are following the metaphysical transits right now we're in a very special season of Venus retrograde and Venus passing through Libra and Venus doing the Scorpio thing and it's like the first time in many many years that this has happened eight years for the retrograde and like since 1930 for the for the Scorpio piece and the reason why I bring all that up is because it is calling us to really examine love
And all the aspects of our lives that require us to go deeper and reflect. And when I talk about freedom, freedom really comes from that deep, deep knowing of self.
Erin Patten (01:12)
So I really want to get into the definition of freedom because we really always think about freedom as financial freedom and being able to pay all of our bills and being able to leave work when we want to leave. And it really is always centered around our careers and our work life and our family and less about who we are as souls and who we are as individuals. And so, you know, I really want to talk a little bit about freedom from that metaphysical perspective and what it truly means and what I have.
Come to learn and know and embody in my freedom journey, and that's really that freedom comes from a deep surrender. And when I was talking all that about the Venus retrograde, is that it's requiring us to deeply surrender to our truth. Like what is really true for our lives right now.
What are we ignoring, overriding ourselves about, not listening to that intuitive or that intuition, that intuitive voice that we have within that really allows us to know the truth. And that to me is what really real freedom is. And you know, it really requires us to turn inward. And that inward focus, and I know sometimes it's just like so abstract when people talk about that inward focus, but it's
really about getting quiet and listening to your own voice. And for me that started very simply with journaling and just writing out how I feel. And today sometimes I I I will get out like my AI app and sometimes just
pontificate and you know, conversate with the with the AI tool and push back and think about it and you know come back to it. And it's just so beautiful that we have AI right now because sometimes you don't have the ability to talk to another human being. And sometimes our own inner voice is so conflicting. It's just sometimes nice to have that that pushback or that just that dialogue with that with someone or with something else that can really help push our own things.
Thinking. And you know, from that pushing of thinking and from that inward focus, from that looking at our feelings, looking at our emotions, feeling our emotions, allowing those emotions, that is how we start to experience more and more freedom. And like I said, the freedom is not coming from money. The freedom is not coming from your job or your money.
The freedom is not coming from you know someone you you you don't you answer to when who's giving you permission to to take a break. That's not real freedom. And in many ways, it's like we've been conditioned to accept that, and and and I just have to call it what it is: like an enslavement. And thinking that we have to ask permission to speak our truth, we have to ask permission to take time off, we have to ask permission to go to the bathroom.
It's really is a conditioning and it starts very young in our education system. Where there is this idea that, you know, we only have 30 minutes a day at recess for freedom. And every other day minute of the day is dedicated to performing and serving something else. Someone else. Submitting to someone else's authority. And, you know.
I did really well in that space. You know, I excelled in that performance world. And, you know, more and more I'm just being called to not perform, to really show up in my truth. And really show up as I want to show up and what I want to say. And so I'm just gonna get to.
This part, the story around, you know, what God is asking me to surrender right now. And the really reason why I say that freedom comes from surrender, because at the end of the day, our freedom comes from allowing God, letting go and letting God, let go and let God. I always like to say, let go and let Goddess. And for me, that surrendering came from just the complete contraction in my whole life.
I really have always been a big planner and a big strategizer and having things, you know, in their place. And earlier this year, I mean actually about a year ago, all that kind of fell apart. Like, you know, I came to Austin, I moved here, I got a house, and a few months later I lost custody of my son.
And then, you know, a few months after that, now I'm under investigations with my mom in her care, who I'm the primary caregiver for my mom. And so it's just these circumstances, as painful as they have been, as painful as they were, are still being allowed by God.
And that's the part of our lives, especially when we're going through a very difficult season where it's hard for us to see God in it. You know, we really want to think that we're being punished. And that is when we are being called to draw closer to God, draw closer to our own being, listen to our own inner wisdom. And this is the season where I literally, you know.
Had no choice but to listen to my own inner voice and and really trust that all that was being that was happening in my life was creating the space for me to become all that I am and all that I want to be. And you know, I really want to talk about what happens in that time, and it's the letting go of the old self. And I'm in that shedding phase right now, like.
Whether it has to do with romantic relationships or my my work relationships that have all shifted, or just in general, my old habits, my old ways of celebrating, my old ways of being are all having to be let go right now. And I have to acknowledge that there is like a grieving process in that, in that you
know this so well. You probably carried these habits and these traits and these ways of beings for lifetimes. And here now
In this season, in these transits, whenever whatever's happening in your soul journey, we're being called to let those things go so that we may embody and experience something likely that we've never experienced before. And it is so good. It is so great. It is the probably the highest experience we've ever experienced, likely on this planet. Yet the unknown of that.
is so scary. I just have to name it for what it is. I just have to name that there is fear involved. That there is fear in the unknown. And that's what we're c being called to shed is this fear of the unknown. Is this fear
We are being called to shed this fear. And I know it because it's me. And I know it because I feel it.
Fear is heavy, it's limiting, it's contracting, it's stifling.
And that's the exact opposite of what we're being called to go in this next season is expansion and growth and evolution.
And knowing and seeing. When we're in fear, we panic, we can't see. We sometimes harm ourselves because we're so scared in some six circumstances. And so, you know.
Also along with that old self is the perfectionism, the performance, the having it all together, the looking good, looking great, being smart, saying all the right things, making everybody else happy. And
I am so done with that. I am so done with that. And I hope you are too.
'Cause we can't make everybody happy. We can damn near make ourselves happy. Hard as hell to make ourselves happy. It's hard to make ourselves happy, put it that way.
And that should be the focus.
If we don't have it all together, if every room's not clean, that's for me, because I like everything to be in order and right now I s I didn't hurt my toe and I'm so busy, I can't walk properly. Like there's so many things keeping me from like having this thick and span, you know, house everything in order that I want right now. It it can be messy, Erin. It's okay. You don't have to punish yourself for that.
You don't have to be perfect every moment of every day.
Like I had a friend on the podcast earlier, I believe it was Barbara, and she was talking about she didn't get all her steps in, and she was beating herself up because she didn't get her 15,000 steps in on a day where she had been traveling and doing all these things and just needed to rest. Like there is just something in our old self that really believes that performance and perfection is linked to love and acceptance, and that can be furthest from the truth.
Okay.
And I wanna talk about the metaphysical part that I led with and building my business on the woo-woo. It's laughable now.
Because my life is this. This is my purpose.
There is no business. There is no family. There are no relationships without the spiritual spirit, without source, without God. These things just don't exist.
And as much as we want to pretend that we can separate church and state, I'm gonna use that language for now, but it's definitely not church. Holy. It's greater than that.
We just can't do it. And I polled my Instagram followers yesterday around, do you carry spirit in your work or do you separate them? And the last time I checked it was a fifty-fifty split. Maybe it's changed.
But so many of us are not allowing spirit into who we are, into everything that we do.
And that is the prerequisite prerequisite. Can I say it? That's the prerequisite for life. Is calling in spirit into all that we do.
To guide us, to guide our words, to guide our actions, to guide our thoughts, so that whatever chaos is happening around us, I know that I am unharmed. I know that I am safe. I know that I'm protected.
Cause the chaos is real. The dark forces are real.
The parasitic elite are real.
But no weapon formed against me shall prosper.
When I walk with God in God in truth.
And that is what I've come to know in this season. Every weapon is being thrown at me.
Has been is being
And I have no choice but to trust in God that all will be provided for.
All will be given to me. All that I need is right here.
And that is the surrender, that is the freedom.
To know when bill collectors call. I am free. My debts are paid.
and then having the tools to do so, whether it be with banknotes, with money or other forms, which we will get into as my platform evolves and develops.
Because I have been stripped of everything in this season. I had a team of employees helping me with my business. I had a a house full of caregivers that was helping me care for my mom and my son when he was here full-time. Now he's just here part-time.
I had mentors who I could call on and do energy sessions with. I had acupuncturists and massage therapists and my glam team and you name it, I was able to have the resources around me to support me in that. All that is gone. Gone, gone.
Just me and God right now.
And I actually am grateful for this time with him, with her.
God and God S, Mother God, Father God, I like to honor both the masculine and feminine aspects of my source. The nurturing, the provision, the protection, the mothering, the holding, those things that I did not perceive as a young girl, that I now have to give to myself.
In those moments when I'm so alone and so isolated.
Knowing that I'm surrounded by my spirit team, my entourage, my spirit entourage wherever I go.
So I'm never actually alone.
And being in this place of what I like to call the contraption, my fallow season is what me and Claude like to call it, letting the land rest, letting my being rest.
To be nurtured.
To be loved on.
be aligned so that when the season does come for me to do the work, this is the work. This is the work.
And I thank you for holding space for my emotions today because I am really emotional today. And this is just sometimes how it flows from my heart, from my being, from my experiences. The tears are the clearing. And
As you're kind of going through these seasons of seeing yourself, questioning yourself, allowing yourself, you will get that outside reflection of that. And when you have that inner judgment and that inner criticism and that inner conflict, it's going to be expressed externally. So you can guarantee that you will be questioned by.
outside folks. You will be judged by outside folks. You will be ridiculed by others, likely those that you care about most. You will be betrayed especially by those you probably care about most. But all of this is part of that journey of coming back to yourself, of knowing who you are, of trusting in your path
Trusting in yourself, trusting in your knowing, loving on yourself, the love that you expected from those other people who are betraying you or judging you, you give it to yourself.
Because being free and being alone are not the same thing. Okay?
When we are alone, I like how I said it before, I just don't feel like we ever are. We may be like physically like solo. But we're always, like I said, we got the spirit team, the entourage, our ancestors that are praying for us, that have prayed for us, who are their answered prayer. Of course, we always walk in with God. And in that is the freedom. And that's why I say they are not the same.
And my way of living, I mentioned before about the Cusby case and allegations with my mom and feeling accused for absurd, ignorant things, it just brought me to my knees in a way that I had to.
Absolutely stand on who I am.
Brought me to my knees so I could stand, right? How beautiful is that. It brought me to my knees so I can stand taller. I can stand in more truth. I can stand in more freedom and sovereignty so that
The no weapon against me shall prosper could actually be. Because all those were tests. They were absolutely weapons. Spiritual weapons, physical weapons, emotional weapons. To test my ability to really fight for myself.
Are you gonna fold, Aaron? You wanna kill yourself? You feel that bad? You wanna just resort to violence against yourself? Cause these people don't see you for who you are.
Because Satan wanna take you out.
And so many of us get there.
Because in many ways.
It feels like the easy way out. It feels easy to just give up.
And fold. Feels easier. Then I don't have to feel this heavy pain anymore. Then I don't have to be the then I can just be a victim. Be little old me.
I don't want that anymore.
I wanna see how great I can be.
I wanna see what God can do.
I wanna see how God shows up for me. I wanna see how we defeat Satan.
I wanna see how the dark forces go down.
And then they gotta rise up too. Because that is the only way. We all have to go back to God. And we go back to God on the path of ascension, on the path of awakening. Everybody on the way there.
You know, some slower paces than others. Clearly a dark force is a slower pace.
And I always have said I'm on an accelerated path, I'm an advanced soul, I'm on this accelerated path. I just didn't know what it would cost. I just didn't know what it would take, the Christed consciousness, the Christed path. And we have a a very good example in Yeshua Ben Joseph and Jesus Christ.
Of what that Christoph could look like. Mutilation, murder, betrayal, hate. Whew, sounds pretty familiar from my life. Sister murdered, dad put in prison, lots of judgment, lots of lies, lots of betrayal from family members in my perfect my current life.
Son taken away from me, I'm called all these horrible names. Mom taking threatened to be taken away from me, I'm accused of all kinds of abuses. Sounds very familiar. This Christ's path.
Is not a path for which you're celebrated and people are throwing confetti for your goodness, for your good works.
It's actually the opposite.
Condemn condemnation.
Subjugation by the world, of course.
And it is our duty in that role to not allow other people's projections to make us fold.
We saw Jesus get nailed to the cross. They thought they had him.
Three days later, he completely regenerated his body, his mutilated body.
and then ascended with that body into the ethers.
Huh.
That's the kind of level that I'm trying to get to with God. What is actually possible when all is thrown against me? How what will my ascension look like? And that is what I'm here to encourage you to just allow whatever is happening in your life to really.
inspire whatever that ascension is for you.
that unimaginable, miraculous possibility for your life. That is what I'm doing every day right now.
I'm trusting in what I'm able to create for myself and not worried about what other people are saying and doing for the first time in my life.
Whether it's romantic partners or family members or friends or business colleagues or whoever, relationships, neighbors.
What do I want?
What do I dream about?
God, can you make my dreams even more amazing and bigger?
And that is what the metaphysical journey is about, what the spiritual journey is about. Not the woman who hides behind closed doors, pleasing people, keeping all of her feelings inside, not sharing them with anyone for fear of rejection, hatred, judgment. She allows.
So that she may see the greatest
Transformation, elevation, ascension possible for herself.
And with all of this, I have to encourage you, comes a profound peace.
I spend so much of my life anxious.
Questioning, self-conscious, insecure, lying to myself and others.
All that goes away.
When you walk in truth, when you embody truth, there comes an unimaginable peace in your being. A knowing, a love for yourself, an honoring of yourself that can't nobody take.
wait.
And I just wanna leave you today with a prayer.
That we may come to know ourselves so deeply, to experience freedom so vastly, that there is never any returning back to that old self, to the old ways of being, to the old ways of shrinking, to the old ways of contorting, masking. That from here on out, our beauty is revealed.
Our truth is heard, our goodness and our righteousness is received and seen.
Hmm, what a channel today.
I just want to thank you so much for holding space for this. And I really want to send you light on your own journey.
Because we are entering a new paradigm.
And I'm so, so grateful to be among those that get to experience it to the fullest.
And I just want to encourage you, if you resonate with this message and you want to connect with me, I'm across social media at Iam Erin Patton. Of course, if you want to work with me, you just hit me up. Check out my resources and all the things like my website, erinpatton.com. And of course, I have my hibiscus pedal.
oil my raw beauty oil that I love to share with you guys. Let's make sure we get that in frame.
There you go. It has that reflection on it. And you can get my my raw beauty product at rawbeauty.co rabeauty.co. And I just want to leave you with the question: where are you still living as who the world wants you to be? And what would it cost you to stop? Okay?
So let that question marinate. We're gonna be back next week with the podcast. I'm doing all solo casts this October, so just rye with me, y'all, because this October, it's the Venus retrograde. It's the season of really uncovering our love, our language of love, and it's hitting hard and it's hitting good. All right. I love you all so much. Peace.