VIRGO SEASON IS HERE! How to Increase Income with Money Healing + Purification in 3 Steps.

It’s the first day of virgo season and we’re going to talk about how to leverage the energy of PURIFICATION to learn how to increase your income and NOT get stuck in the ‘back to school’ busywork that can be oh so easy to fall into this season (new stationary obsessions, anyone!?)

I just recorded an epic podcast on money healing and what to ACTUALLY focus on to not overwork yourself or get stuck in ‘healing cycles’ like the kid who can’t stop picking their scab. 

Get ready for some real talk on why I DON’T believe in money blocks and what to focus on to increase your income instead, without the fear of neglecting your subconscious blocks. 

Virgo is a complex conversation for me, as a Virgo rising. I’ve been through it with Virgo lessons that have been far from fun. But my Virgo strengths have become the things that serve my clients in the most powerful ways - consistency, grounded action, material results.

Some of the biggest challenges we face as multi passionate creatives, are:

The sneaky self-doubt that leads to procrastination 

The scatter-brained busywork that keeps us from big momentum and big results

The low self-worth that keeps us in under-earning 

The negative self-talk around what we deeply desire that keeps us from what’s possible….

Virgo season is the time to do this work, clean up that ish, and get hyper focused on powerful daily moves that bring the material results we desire with more speed and ease. 

I’m going to be diving into this conversation deeply this season, so stay tuned here on IG and on the Creative Magic Club podcast. 

Tune in to this week’s episode to learn the 3 things that have helped me to hit my biggest goals, with consistency. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Creative Magic Club
• 4:08 My Challenging Journey with Virgo Energy
• 10:13 From Health Crisis to Six-Figure Success
• 16:56 Navigating New Money Abundance
• 21:59 The Courage to Take Messy Action
• 28:41 Three-Step Virgo Season Money Ritual
• 33:10 Mercury's Influence on Your Stories

Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:43

What's up, this is Sarah Mack, and welcome to Creative Magic Club. Together, we'll discover inspirational stories of creative entrepreneurs living out their dreams, doing the work they are most passionate about and building wealth in magical and fun ways, while building a six-figure income. As a writer and coach, helping other women to launch their dream businesses, I've connected with so many incredible people and seen it proven again and again that you can thrive financially doing whatever it is you are passionate about. I am here to share life-changing strategies for mindset, making money and reaching more people with your work in a business and life filled with creativity are passionate about. I'm here to share life-changing strategies for mindset, making money and reaching more people with your work in a business and life filled with creativity, freedom and fun. Hi, sarah Mack here and welcome back to the Creative Magic Club podcast, here to help you become a six-figure creative by filling your high-ticket offer through authentic storytelling and astrology-guided content strategy.

Speaker 1: 2:41

Fogo season is here and I have decided to talk to you today about how to increase your income with money, healing and purification, with the three things that have made, honestly, the most difference for me in being able to hit my income goals over and over and over again and I am speaking from a place of deep, deep knowledge around Virgo energy as a Virgo rising and it's not always an easy one. I think of this time of year and this energy as kind of back to school vibes and I feel like you know that exciting feeling of buying new stationery. I don't know whether you resonate with this, but I feel like we can get distracted in this energy. It's and I see this all the time in myself and in my clients when we get really enthusiastic about a new chapter, about hitting our goals, about going all in, coming back from the summer with that, you know, so much energy to go after what it is that we want and we're going all in and we're highly motivated after having a break, hopefully is how a lot of us are feeling, and what tends to happen is that perfectionism kicks in. All of that programming around OK, so we need to go bigger, which means we need to work harder, which means we need to be more perfect. All of those old patterns tend to rear their ugly heads and just stuff our plates with unnecessary busy work that actually distracts us from doing the things, making the moves that actually produce the results that we want. So that's the conversation that I want to have today and Virgo energy is really.

Speaker 1: 4:25

It's a purifying energy which can be really freaking messy and uncomfortable and there's a lot of really intense shadow sides to this energy that, especially as creatives, especially as women, we tend to get pulled into because of our cultural programming around needing to be perfect, because of our unconscious patterns that we carry with us around not being good enough, around not being worthy of being able to have really abundant and fulfilling and wealthy lives, being who we are, doing the things that we love and having so much freaking fun. So hopefully you've had a lot of fun in Leo season. I know I have. It's my absolute favorite season. Obviously, I'm a Leo son and I have a lot of fun in Leo season, so hopefully you can ride that wave and bring the connection that having fun gives us to really come into Virgo season to optimize and to refine, and really these are the two words that I like most to describe the highest expression of Virgo and the way that I really find helpful to think about it is elevation. We're raising our standards right Like. That's why we purify, that's why we sift through what isn't working, we clean out the crap. We get clear on what we want and we do that so that at the end of that process it's better, it's more refined, it's more elevated, it's more in alignment with what we want and who we're evolving into.

Speaker 1: 5:54

So my relationship with Virgo has been very challenging and strained, like I love Leo, leo vibes, leo energy that's my sun sign, my rising sign. I've been a bit like that's not as fun as Leo season, mainly because you know my relationship with my rising sign really kicked in at hyper speed when I stepped into entrepreneurship, amidst my giant burnout and five years of chronic fatigue which really pushed me to purify, to refine, and I studied physical purification at its deepest levels, really looking for answers Like why wasn't my body working? Why was I having these headaches? Why did I just have a massively reduced capacity to do the things that I loved in my life and then, as I, you know, learn everything I could around how to purify and care for my body. That conversation then extended to my mental health, to my emotional health and to my spiritual health, and each of these layers kind of revealed themselves to me one after the other, after I got answers. But I knew it had only taken me so far and that there was more. And this really culminated in an ayahuasca trip where I was crying for what was probably a solid 12 hours, releasing what felt like the entire pain of the world from my soul.

Speaker 1: 7:16

So, as you can see, this is not fun stuff that we are talking about. I did a ton of diets and cleanses and it's that willingness to get into the mess, to put on our rubber gloves, to clean things up so that on the other side it feels so much better, things are running smoothly and, yeah, like other shadow sides of Virgo that I've experienced have been that controllingness that is that a word, being kind of preachy, you know, and wanting to control others so that they can be the best, that they can be, holding really high standards for other people in my life, which, yeah, the shadow side of that has been in me telling people what to do, what to eat, how to live, from a place of genuinely wanting the best for them. But that doesn't always go down super well and obviously, like that is a conversation I'm having with myself. So you know that experience of really having lost my health for such an extended period of time really taught me the value of preserving and prioritizing health, because really, without it, we have nothing. I feel like this is my greatest Virgo rising lesson to date now, because I got so many skills and knowledge and in-depth understanding about myself and how to care for myself that has brought me so much more freedom and joy and feel good in all of the years preceding that.

Speaker 1: 8:45

And it was this situation, this lesson, where I really learned the power of mindset to create any even seemingly impossible result, right when I wasn't getting any answers, when I was being told that I was fine on paper by doctors, but I didn't feel fine. You know, I did it. I transformed my health and my reality by setting my mind to it and I made it happen. And this is a really, really key mindset that carried me through into entrepreneurship, which was deciding that everything is working, and I really did have that mindset. You know I would hire a healer and be like this is going to be the thing that gets me better, and I just kept going and I kept going and I kept going and I did so many like crazy things. I was traveling the world, I saw every different kind of healer under the sun, and I do not believe all of these things were quite necessary. But whatever, I had an adventure doing it, you know, and that was, that's just always going to be the way that I'm going to get to my goals is having an adventure doing it.

Speaker 1: 9:48

And then I turned what I had learned from that experience of, if I just set my sights on my goal, if I do everything within my power, if I decide every single thing, every single step, every investment, every conversation, every piece of support that I cultivate for myself in bringing my goals to reality, if I turned this approach to money, anything is possible. And that's what grew my business to six figures within 13 months. That approach, that attitude that I continued after recovering my health and actually I was still recovering my health during that period and I completely recovered it, you know, within a couple years after my first six figure year. And it's just so empowering to go from rock bottom to achieving what you set your mind to. And I did it one step at a time, you know, and that's really what gave, has given me the courage and the confidence to set bigger and bigger goals for myself, because I've proven the approach. I've proven that even seemingly impossible, huge transformations and goals can become possible for somebody like me when I take this approach.

Speaker 1: 10:57

So more recently, I've been going through a shift in my relationship with money, and this has really been a new chapter that I'm navigating, which is since my partner finally graduated from his 10,000 years of training, he finally became a doctor and we've been in more overflow of money than ever before in our lives. So I've been navigating the shift from the drive to survive, which was really driving me through those two really major transitions from rock bottom, to meeting my objectives and my goals, both for my health and for my money and my income and my business, and so now I'm shifting into the drive of desire. Right, it's no longer a fear of I'm not going to survive unless this works. That is driving my action and driving my commitment and my devotion towards my goals and my vision. So it's been a recalibration process because for the first time in my life, I don't feel the pressure or the fear of not being able to pay my basic bills if I don't hit my goals in my business and as somebody who, you know, even when I was having six figure years for a long time, I was spending all of it because I didn't have any money management skills and that was just a whole new world for me. You know, I thought I was like rich forever. I thought when I had my first 20k month I would never need to use a credit card again in my whole life Like it's.

Speaker 1: 14:20

Every phase has been a recalibration, and so in this new phase, I've been renegotiating my relationship with money and how I make it in my business, and I've noticed some of that Virgo shadow creeping in. So let's talk about it and if you want a custom ritual for your own Virgo placement, message me the word Virgo on Instagram to my Sarah McMagic account and I will send it to you. So, firstly, how this shift played out for me was as I started to think bigger beyond how much money am I going to make this month? I've noticed that I've shifted away from more short term thinking and into longer term planning, and this is kind of new for me in the last few years and, as we know, planning is and can be a shadow side of Virgo when it's not done well and in balance.

Speaker 1: 15:16

And this was a real issue for me in the beginning of my creative career, actually when I was doing my master's, and even before that, to be honest with you in the early phase of my life I had so many ideas, so many creative ideas, and I would plan and plan and plan and plan and I would love to plan things but I never actually followed through and executed and I really eroded my self-trust and obviously it was all of the mindset that I had to work on. You know, I really had no choice but to work on that as I stepped into entrepreneurship and my income and my survival literally depended on me being able to follow through. And I did, did learn. You know, I started to make those shifts in my masters when it was just the sheer workload kind of forced me to outgrow and out like develop some of those resistance patterns of procrastination, of really leaving things to the last minute, of needing that outside pressure to really hold myself accountable to following through on my work and my ideas.

Speaker 1: 16:15

And obviously, since being in business for many years now, I've built habits and I've built systems that maintain my business without me having to think too much or having to access a whole load of motivation, because these are just well established ways of being, habits, practices that have been in play for years now, and this has led to me obviously being more capable of taking on bigger projects like publishing my book, you know, going through IVF, launching my Cosmic Copy Mastermind, launching a new digital course, growing my podcast, and these are some of my main projects at the moment. I'm also bringing back in music projects and I also really want to record my audio book at some point soon. So what this has meant in bringing in these bigger projects that require more in-depth work is I've been working a little bit more seasonally, which is different to how I built my business on my very Virgo strengths of consistent daily habits, and this is really like my strength and the main reason why people hire me is because I help others to build consistency and build habits that make them money, and this is what you know led me to make money. Obviously, as a creative person who has struggled with that, I get it, and that's why highly creative people come to me when they want to realize their visions, when they want to ground their revolutionary creative ideas into material reality and bring them into fruition. Not only that, but to birth businesses that support them consistently. And that requires creating those building blocks, those behavioral building blocks, and once we get going with those things, once we've had the support. Obviously it can be much easier to then sustain them because that's who we become.

Speaker 1: 18:03

So I've gradually been making the shift away from doing a little bit of everything every day and obviously there's still those foundational habits that are really locked in. You know that are a daily thing, those foundational habits that are really locked in. You know that are a daily thing. But really working to create more space for deeper work on top priority projects, while putting other projects to the side for a bit and even talking about it now, like it brings me anxiety because there's that old part of me that just never trusted myself. You know that would say to myself well, if you're putting this to the side, you're never going to finish it because I didn't have that self-trust, I don't have that same level. Obviously I have a lot more self-trust now, but it's still uncomfortable to be like, oh, I trust myself, to just put this to the side and I know that I'm going to come back to it if it's meaningful and it's important to me. And it's still going to be important to me. I know I'm going to come back to that because I follow through.

Speaker 1: 18:50

So yeah, as someone with an ADHD diagnosis, this is mindset shifts. It's also just like skill building and habit formation that has built daily momentum that has created evidence, more and more and more evidence that I can bring my ideas to fruition. But I started so so, so small in that process. So I have a very complex relationship with planning and organization. Where I'm at now is I've switched to building with a clear big vision in mind, and you know this has always been the case. But I guess my vision is just way bigger now because I have built so much more in-depth self-trust with myself. I have allowed myself to dream bigger and to actually plan for it. Plan for those big visions that, naturally, are just going to take longer because they're bigger, and this has really given me more space and more depth, allowing me to refine my work and make it better and better without getting scattered in trying to do too many things and following every impulse. And this has helped me to significantly streamline my spending because I'm clearer on where I'm going, which means that I can then let go of more. And this is the power of clear decisions that are grounded in vision. And this has actually increased my profitability in my business and it's also brought me a feeling of even more spacious groundedness in my business as well. So the shadow side is I'm really feeling the slow down to speed up vibes, which can make it feel harder to get started on new projects and initiatives and really like build momentum.

Speaker 1: 20:25

And, like I said, the highest expression of Virgo really is that refinement and optimization and efficiency. And some of the gifts of Virgo energy is that grounded, consistent, devoted action. But when it's not pointed in the right direction, what we end up with is unnecessary busy work or getting caught in perfectionism loops of making things better that don't actually need to be better, um, and that creates a certain type of stagnation. That happens when we hold back from just taking the messy, the messy necessary action right. Like it wasn't comfortable for me to get on two ferries to a little island in Vancouver fast for however many days I had to fast for I think it was 24 hours drink ayahuasca like, puke my guts up and cry all night long and then I was super freaking, depressed afterwards from just really processing all of the emotions that I released from my system. But that became a big turning point in my life and my life went in a different direction after that.

Speaker 1: 21:27

And I'm not saying that everybody needs to do that. Like you get the call when that is appropriate for you, it will present itself to you and the call will become undeniable and you'll have a desire to do it right. And sometimes it can be those really small things, like getting started with a launch, you know, like starting to talk about what it is that you really want to sell on your stories today, instead of waiting and trying to plan out everything perfectly in advance. And I noticed that one of my biggest saboteurs that is super common in clients is staying busy, doing too many things to avoid the uncomfortable growth work that leads to next level results. So the word that's really helping me as a driving force in this new relationship with my next level of Virgo rising expression and I want to bring with me into Virgo season that word is courage.

Speaker 1: 22:21

So combining courage with that consistent, devoted forward action and sticking to the plan and doing what you said you were going to do, not from a place of comfort or limitation or just continuing to repeat, repeat, repeat what you already know, but really in moving into those next level moves one step at a time, but getting stretchy within that grounded consistency, taking one stretchy, slightly different, slightly bigger move each day, and sometimes just getting to a move can feel stretchy when we're in the resistance or when we have been procrastinating, or when those old patterns of perfectionism or low self-worth or low self-trust rear their ugly heads, which naturally they will. And that's how, having that support system of a habit it, helps us to override them. Because this is always going to happen. There's always going to be some level of resistance when we step into new things that are required to create new and different results. So this has really been my success recipe for all the results that I have achieved in my life and business.

Speaker 1: 23:24

And healing and purification, rather than making it the goal, it comes from getting honest, taking stock, clearing, refocusing and getting into messy forward action. This is a super important point. Do not make healing and purification the goal. Do not make trying to fix, trying to purify, trying to get better and better and better the goal. That's like I don't know what the word I'm looking for is here, but like that's like a Virgo illusion that is a wild goose chase. That's why I've never really believed in money blocks and healing money blocks, or even talking about money blocks, because the thing that has always led me to heal the things that were blocking me or that were in the way or that needed healing. They never came from me looking for what to heal. They came from me focusing on my vision, taking messy, forward, action, committed devotion, making moves.

Speaker 1: 24:18

Day after day after day, your shit is going to come up, the things that you need to deal with are going to present themselves to you and then, in that, as we're taking that daily action, then we can lean on support, then we can problem solve and be like this is how I'm feeling, or this is what feels really hard. How can I problem solve, how can I keep moving forward? And every time I've done this, I'm really leaned into this around a specific result. I have created shifts from stagnation, from procrastination or over complexity into simplicity, into flow, into momentum and into meeting my goals. So here are my three steps that will guide this process for you. Step number one is the elevated vision Know where you are going, get specific.

Speaker 1: 25:09

So I'm a big believer in working with money goals and recently I've actually shifted the way I'm working with money goals. So right now because here's what I know to be true you get what you focus on, what you continually focus on over and over and over again, that you continue to make moves, you continue to bring the mindset of this is working, it's all working, I'm getting there. This will be the thing that gets me there. I'm just going to keep going, keep going, keep going. You will get there unless you quit. Right, so decide never to quit.

Speaker 1: 25:36

So right now, I focus on growing a net worth of $4 million, and this, to me, represents true financial freedom. I could probably have financial freedom at less than that, but it still raises questions. To be honest, with you living in LA knowing how I like to live, this number to me represents not only how much I plan to earn over my lifetime, but also what I plan to keep and grow, and this is a shift for me, too, because I would hit my money goals and then spend it. That is a pattern that I've been healing, and this goal holds so much more meaning to me than an annual income goal, because to me, this represents that my man can stop working if he wants to, and we can live in LA and grow old here if we want to, while maintaining our current standard of living with an expectation of inflation throughout the decades, and I'm already living my dream life in pretty much every area, so I know that getting there is going to be so much fun Like that's not a question for me.

Speaker 1: 26:32

So step one is to pick a goal that holds real meaning for you in the current phase that you're in, and if that's a monthly income goal that will bring you lifestyle upgrades that you're super excited about, then pick that. Whatever number or time frame you actually genuinely connected to Like I know that this is going to feel good when I get it. I know that this is going to bring me good things and I believe it. You know it feels within the realm of believability for me. So step two is the clear decision and this is to journal on how you would like to get there. What do you know you do and you don't like doing in this life? What do you want more of? What do you want less of? And this is not about having the perfect plan, because obviously there are things we don't know and things are going to evolve, but this is really to design the vehicle for your vision, based on who you are and what you know now. So really just decide on the route that you desire to get there. If you could pick any right now. Pick what would be a dream come true for you in your life. Don't overthink this.

Speaker 1: 27:32

And step three is the grounded ritual. So now pick the daily and weekly habits that will move you forward along this path. Put them in your schedule, create a habit tracker and take those daily steps and tick them off. And maybe all that is is I'm going to give myself x number of minutes or hours on this day at this time, and I'm going to show up and I'm going to take action. I'm going to figure it out as I go along, but I know where I'm headed and I'm picking the next road that I'm going to turn down. I'm picking the route that excites me next, and then your job is to notice the discomfort or the mess that arises as you make the moves in that forward direction. So assess, take care of, purify, clean up, but never, never, never, never, never, at the expense of these three steps. Know where you're going, make a decision and take action. Keep moving. The mess is going to take care of itself if you keep that forward momentum going.

Speaker 1: 28:33

So my invitation to you is to channel the sometimes obsessive or rigid or tightly gripping shadow of Virgo, when it crops up, to unrelentingly taking forward action towards your vision in alignment with your decision. And it's going to be messy, and that is okay. So be honest with yourself. This Virgo season not from a place of self-criticism or nitpicking or judgment or I should be here yet, or this isn't good enough yet, or why isn't it working. Because Virgo is ruled by Mercury, this is my chart ruler. It's also the ruler of my 10th house and this is really my genius in how I serve others, and my understanding of Mercury is like number one the conversations that we're having with ourselves. What stories are you telling yourself? What stories are we telling others in our immediate relationships, in our client work, the people that we're in relationship with in our business, and then your brand message. What stories are you telling in each of these three levels? Because those are the stories that are going to determine your success.

Speaker 1: 29:36

So use this ritual as a metric to assess if you are truly devoted to your high level, refined vision. Are you backing your clear decision or are you getting bogged down by busy work and not actually taking actions towards bringing the vision to life? So you can assess what did I do today? Where did I invest my time. What was I telling myself? What did I take action on, and are these actions moving me towards my vision or not? And just that constant reassessment and refinement and tweaking and fine tuning until you get the results that you want.

Speaker 1: 30:09

This process is everything. Whenever I have run my goals through this process, I have seen exactly why I don't have the results. Yet I got distracted, I lost momentum. I simply prioritized other things my comfort, my joy, my rest, my relationships and there's no judgment around this. Comfort, my joy, my rest, my relationships and there's no judgment around this. But the better we can clearly and powerfully prioritize the habits and actions that move us towards our clear vision, the sooner it is going to materialize.

Speaker 1: 30:37

So tell me what you think, tell me what comes up for you and again, dm me the word Virgo on Instagram at Sarah McMagic if you want a custom ritual for where your Virgo sign falls in your chart. And do these three steps. Let me know what comes up for you, let me know how it goes. I would love to hear and we're going to continue to unpack these themes over the coming episodes, so make sure you stay tuned. I'm going to be sharing some behind the scenes of how it's going for me on my Instagram. So I will see you on the internet and I'm sending you so much love. Bye.