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What does self-love really mean, from bubble baths and roses to self-acceptance and forgiveness?

In this heart-opening Valentine’s conversation, I’m joined by the luminous Rachelle Mecca — thrice-published poet, multi-media artist, tea goddess, and host of the soulful podcast Speaking of Tea.

Together we steep in a deliciously feminine, honest, and expansive conversation about:

✨ Self-love as a daily devotion
🍵 The ritual and symbolism of tea
📖 Poetry as healing and truth-telling
🎙️ Podcasting as creative expression
💫 Astrology, authenticity, and living aligned
💌 Valentine’s Day beyond romance
🌹 Reclaiming passion, joy, and inner radiance

This is a juicy, playful, soul-rich dialogue between two women devoted to creativity, consciousness, and living from the heart.

This one feels extra special. Rachelle is just my second guest ever, and I also stepped into a new space myself by being a guest for the first time on someone else’s show. To have that experience on her beautiful podcast, where I felt so welcomed and nourished, made it even sweeter. A genuine creative exchange between kindred spirits.

Pour yourself a cup of tea, settle in, and join us for a conversation that feels like sitting at a candlelit table with your wisest, most poetic friend.

And yes… you might hear my little love toddler chiming in here and there. This is podcasting on the move in motherhood, with tea, poetry, and real life all in one delicious blend.

Happy Valentine’s Day to every kind of love: romantic, soulful, friendship, and the beautiful love you cultivate within. May it waterfall into all your relations, situations, and doings.

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With love & gratitude,

🪶MC Mama Bird

www.HealTrueLove.com/links

Bonus Resources:

💫 Rachelle's Speaking of Tea Podcast

💫 Rachelle's Tea Shop & Website : https://www.meccateapoet.com

💫 Rachelle's recommended Tea for Valentine's: Shou Pu-erh

💫 Wabi-sabi is a fundamental Japanese aesthetic and philosophical worldview that finds beauty in imperfection, transience, and simplicity.

💫 MC Mama Bird's favorite teas: Rooibus for caffeine-free & Earl Gray, Irish Breakfast, and Chai with caffeine. Prenatal/Postpartum: "Secrets of Tea Relaxing Mama Tea"

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In Part 2 of this two-part exploration, we continue weaving astrology, ritual, Earth-based wisdom, and nervous system nourishment into a living conversation about timing, becoming, and the future we are quietly preparing for.

This episode opens at a powerful seasonal threshold, where Tu BiShvat (the Jewish New Year of the Trees) meets Imbolc, the Celtic festival of returning light. Across traditions, we’re reminded that life doesn’t begin at bloom, but underground in roots, patience, and unseen preparation.

Astrologically, we explore the shift from Capricorn’s grounding discipline into Aquarius’ visionary current, alongside reflections on myth and cosmology through the work of John Lamb Lash, the Sophia myth, and resonances with modern physics, including Nassim Haramein’s work.

Bringing it into the intimate and practical, the episode turns toward nourishment, nervous system regulation, and everyday ritual in how what we feed daily becomes the soil from which our future grows.

You’ll be guided through reflections, a short grounding meditation, and journaling prompts for nourishment, coherence, and future vision.

This is not about returning to the past, but about remembering how to listen to the body, the Earth, time, and the quiet intelligence moving through all things.

✨ Themes include:
Astrology • Earth-based ritual • Tu BiShvat • Imbolc • Sophia myth • nervous system regulation • nourishment • embodiment • sacred cycles

Take what resonates. Let the rest flow.

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✨ Learn about my Kabbalah school plus goodies that sustain me: https://healtruelove.com/affiliates/

✨ John Lamb Lash's Not In His Image book

✨ Ginger's The Invisible Gemstone podcast show

✨ Special thanks to Mindfulliving & Breakzstudios on Pixabay.

✨ https://healtruelove.com/resources/ that inspire me

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Welcome beautiful souls.
February arrives as a threshold month, a space of rebirth, recalibration, and heart-centered communication, and in this Part 1 episode, we explore the numerological and astrological energies shaping this moment in history.

We begin by reflecting on the completion energy of the 9 from 2025 and the initiation energy of the 1 that now carries us through 2026 as a year of rebirth, courage, and deep inner alignment. Birth, like death, is not without pain, and this year holds both extraordinary promise and real intensity as something new presses its way into form.

Astrologically, we explore a rare and powerful configuration being discussed by astrologers such as Rick Levine: the alignment of Saturn and Neptune at 0° Aries, the “big bang” point of the zodiac.

This marks a profound collective reset, not a revision of old systems, but a call to embody our values, ideals, and spiritual truths in lived, accountable ways. With Uranus and Pluto woven into this larger pattern, humanity is undergoing a long-haul evolutionary initiation, disorienting at times, yet deeply meaningful.

From here, we move into the healing and connective medicine of February’s 3 energy with creativity, self-expression, communication, laughter, and heart-led dialogue. The 3 invites us to process what January stirred emotionally and collectively, and to give it voice with sincerity rather than division. Expression becomes medicine. Art becomes bridge. Words become instruments of peace.

We explore how to stay awake without becoming overwhelmed, how to remain informed without collapsing into fear, how to honor suffering without taking it all on, and how to walk the middle path with discernment, self-care, and compassion.

The episode then opens into the essence of Aquarius, the visionary, the future-seer, the one who plants without proof. Through story and symbolism, we reflect on nourishment, trust, roots growing underground, and the quiet preparation required before visible change can bloom.

This is a space for reflection, curiosity, and integration, an invitation to listen deeply, tend your inner soil, and remember that there are many ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

✨ Part 2 continues this journey with deeper cultural, mythic, and embodied explorations.

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🪶MC Mama Bird @ The Yoga Garden Online

Rooted in Mama Love, Blossoming Everywhere

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Bonus Resources:

✨ NEW: https://healtruelove.com/fieldnotes/ + https://healtruelove.com/podcast/

✨ Learn about my Kabbalah school plus goodies that sustain me.

https://healtruelove.com/affiliates/

✨ Sue Frederick's 2nd Edition Numerology Workbook

✨ https://www.ricklevineastrologer.com/

✨ Special thanks to Siarhei Korbut, Avisionfx, Natureseye, Background Music For Videos on Pixabay.

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