Tea From The Galaxy

Join Serena Zappone a.k.a Angelfish Astro, an astrologer and astrology lover, every week where we will talk about ALL life topics through an astrological lens. For the girls, gays, theys, & astrology baes, we will be spilling all the tea and tying it back to what is or was happening in the cosmos, with a focus on dating, relationships, childhood upbringings, trauma, uplifting eachothers goals, predicting the future, & of course, QUEER ASTROLOGY.

On this week's episode I yearn for living life like a sitcom. We discuss the balance between choosing yourself & being selfish vs straight up just not being a good or present person in your loved ones life. Discussing the importance of community, being there for one another, and sacrifice as adults especially right now and moving forward. 

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What is Tea From The Galaxy?

A thirst quenching podcast for the girls, gays, theys, & astrology baes where we talk about anything & EVERYTHING through an astrological lens.

Serena:

Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of Tea from the Galaxy, a thirst quenching podcast for the girl's gaze phase and astrology phase where we talk about anything and everything through an astrological lens. So I'm actually prerecording this video. Actually, right now, it is the full moon in Gemini. It is December 4.

Serena:

By the time you guys see this video, I'm actually gonna be in Costa Rica. So I wanted to prerecord some videos. As I was sitting and thinking about what do I want to yap about on this podcast episode, I was thinking, should we talk about, you know, not going home for the holidays and stuff in that regard? Because I didn't go home for Thanksgiving, and I'm most likely not going home for Christmas. If you guys don't know, I live in Florida, but I grew up in Jersey.

Serena:

And all my family, they live up in New York and New Jersey. Me not going home for Christmas this year is actually a huge deal because Christmas is big in the Italian culture. Christmas Eve, specifically. It's probably the biggest holiday, and it's the most prioritized. So every single Christmas Eve and Christmas, I'm with my family.

Serena:

We do the same thing. It's the same vibe. It's sitting in someone's house and enjoying the seven fishes on Christmas Eve. If you're Italian, you know, you know. Even though it's not even really seven fishes, it's just like hella fishes, hella fish.

Serena:

Italians don't eat meat on Christmas Eve and that is something my family is very strict about. We don't even put the the antipasto and our antipasto is like vegetarian basically, which is good for me because I don't eat meat. Pescatarian, I should say, will put out some like shrimp cocktail or, fish salad, stuff like that, along with the marinated peppers and olives and bread, a lot of bread. Oh my god. So much bread.

Serena:

So going back and forth if I wanna buy a last minute flight to go for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. But because I'm going to Costa Rica literally the week before, it's just a lot of traveling. It's a lot of figuring out what I have to do with my son Blue, right here. He's actually making an appearance. Yeah.

Serena:

Just me sitting and prioritizing myself. Finding the balance between being there for other people and being there for myself and choosing myself. It's very important to choose ourselves, but I feel like we've been in a society where we're choosing ourselves too much to the point that it's selfish, that we're not even there for other people properly. And this is actually a full moon in Gemini realization too. Full moons illuminate.

Serena:

And in Gemini, Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury. So Mercury is all about communication, socializing, connecting, or absorbing information, especially through connecting with other people. So a big thing and download that I had this full moon in Gemini is the importance of connecting with people and connecting with the right people. And socializing with people, but socializing with the right people. And this has been kind of on brand with a topic that me and my friends briefly had yesterday, actually.

Serena:

That is actually the inspiration for this podcast. That was the light bulb moment that I was like, this is what I wanna talk about on this podcast. The balance of life and the balance of keeping the right people in your life and the need for socialization and the need for connecting but also the need to pour into your own cup and the need for the other people to pour into your cup too but the right people. And truly, only the right people will correctly pour into your cup. But I think this has been a theme.

Serena:

This has been a theme since 2023, actually. Since the Aries Libra eclipse cycle has happened since 2023 to the beginning of this year. It was a big theme for the collective of you versus me, my needs versus sacrificing myself for the peace of other people, and keeping other people happy, but also keeping myself happy. I've been saying that as a collective, we have not learned that lesson. Because if we wanna look at the future astrology of what's coming up, a lot of transits that are coming up that tells me we have not learned our lesson because there's still a lot more lessons to be learned.

Serena:

That is Saturn moving into Aries next year, Neptune moving into Aries next year. So there's gonna be a lot more emphasis and obstacles being thrown our way and life lessons, hard life lessons, a lot more wisdom coming our way in the Aries area of her life, which then affects the Libra area of her life because they are sister signs, they aren't in opposition. So to me, there's still there's still a lesson to be learned and a lot more situations coming forward and happening now, but especially going to be next year as well. That includes me versus them. My peace versus the peace of other people.

Serena:

Doing what's right for me versus correctly being there for those who I love. You can choose yourself over and over and over again. And in our society these days, we're we're being taught and praised to do that. That's an awesome thing. Right?

Serena:

You actually can't pour into other people's cup until you are happy within yourself. And if you are pouring into other people's cup from an empty cup, you're just going to drain. I've also been in situations like that too. Literally felt drained. Everything from me sucked out of my life because I was just pouring so much into other people.

Serena:

Every less fiber of my being was was taken. But what we see is when we are too focused on ourselves, then the relationships to other people also dry out. We have to remember that. It's okay to be selfish, but there's also repercussions to that. And those results could possibly be people feeling left out or people feeling like you don't want them in their lives anymore, people feeling unloved.

Serena:

That has been a realization. I am 27 years old. I am in a friend group with multiple women. I have a growing family. I mean, not my personal family.

Serena:

I'm single as hell, baby. But cousins are getting married, and they're having babies on both sides of my family. So my family's getting bigger and bigger. Topics that have been brought up is feeling unloved. And I think it is very unintentional because everyone is just so focused on themselves and building themselves up.

Serena:

And that is so amazing. But where did we lose the plot of being there for other people? Like, I was watching a sitcom last night and I love sitcoms. Growing up, it was sitcoms and reality TV. And it actually still is.

Serena:

It's like to this day. That's my go to TV shows and cooking shows. But people like are just walking into each other's houses, you know, knocking on the door. Hi. I'm here.

Serena:

How are you? Oh, come in. Let's have lunch. Come in. Have a coffee.

Serena:

You know, like, where did we lose that plot? Even growing up, it it was like that for me too. When I first lived in New York, like open open door policy. Oh, people are always in and out of my house and vice versa. I was always in and out of other people's houses.

Serena:

Even in Jersey, my mom had a friend. This friend was over almost every single night, like multiple times a week, and they would just sit around the table, talk, have have cake and coffee. You know? Like, sometimes she would just show up at the door. Hi.

Serena:

You wanna talk? Like, when did we lose this plot? And it's because we're so caught up in our own worlds that we're missing being there for other people. Like and by doing that, you have to realize that if you're so focused, you're so in your own world, you're going to drop out of other people's worlds. And you have to sit back.

Serena:

I think it's very important for everyone to kind of take a step back and realize, do I want that? Am I purposely doing that? Because my actions are showing that I don't care about this person, that I don't love this person, that I don't really care how this person is doing, that I don't care to water this friendship, to water this relationship, that I will just let it wither and I'll see you when I see you. If you could sit in your lonesome and think, does that bother you that it's making another person feel that way? And if it doesn't bother you, and then honestly, you should just drop that relationship and drop that friendship.

Serena:

If it bothers you and then let's start making conscious efforts to do things differently. Pluto is an Aquarius, entered Aquarius for good at the beginning of this year. It's gonna be an Aquarius for, like, the next sixteen years, seventeen years. Pluto is a generational planet. It rules societies of people, so rules what's happening in our society, basically.

Serena:

Aquarius is all about the collective. It's about groups of people connecting with like minded people, but also keeping an open mind. It's about moving within community and doing things for the collective, doing things for the community, and doing things as a community together. I think what's happening right now is a a breaking point. And I think I'm realizing this under this full moon in Gemini.

Serena:

The illumination and realization of if I can sit my lonesome and think of who am I affecting by not being present, and do I care about that? No? Okay. What's the next move after that? Yes.

Serena:

I do care that I'm affecting these people by not actively nurturing the relationship or pouring into their cup or being there physically, mentally, emotionally. I do care. Alright. Let me do something different. Like, I need to prioritize my days a little better.

Serena:

We're all busy. Right? I think that's another thing, like, in our society too that's happening. And I wanna say American society. I can't speak for all societies, but definitely, like, American society right now, there's a lot that's hack happening economically, money.

Serena:

I feel like so many people are focused on money and just surviving, make enough money, hustling, striving for stability. That's great. That it's needed. Right? We have goals.

Serena:

We We need money to survive. But it's been such a sole focus of just surviving that now most of our day is going towards just working to survive and most of our day is just focused on money and most of our day is doing all that and now we're tired. So in our in our free time, now we don't even want to get together with friends or we don't even wanna pick up the phone and check up on someone. We just want to hermit out. That's what I've been doing this week.

Serena:

Like, I've been such a hermit. I've been so burnt out. And I've been and I slept so much this week. It was like no matter how much slept sleep I got, I just felt so burnt out. And I need to organize my life better.

Serena:

I need to prioritize things better because I've just been surviving. Like, I've just been working so much. And in my time's off, I'm just, like, hermitting, and I don't wanna socialize. I don't wanna pick up the phone, and I don't like that. I don't like that.

Serena:

We are social beings. Like, we are social social creatures. We are meant to connect with each other. We're not meant to live life individually alone. I hate that American society has turned into such a individualist individualistic society.

Serena:

Oh my god. I couldn't say that word. I hate that. Like, it takes a village. It takes a village to survive.

Serena:

I know what that's a saying for to raise kids, and I believe in that too. It takes a village to raise kids for sure, but it takes a village to survive. I think more people are gonna start opening up their minds to that moving forward. I think we're starting to realize that, you know, support local small businesses, buy within your community. A lot of people talking about wanting to buy plots of land, friends buying plots of land together, just living on their own, like, land.

Serena:

I know a lot of people are talking about homeschooling their kids. Mark my words, society is changing. So many outer planets are gonna be in a different sign next year, 2026. 2025 was the breakdown of everything, everything crumbling. We are in a nine year.

Serena:

And then next year, it's gonna be the rebuilding of a completely new society. And I think this is, like, the realization. As a person, I observe a lot, but also as an astrologer, I observe things through a whole completely different lens, which is that of the astrological lens. So when people speak to me and I hear different stories from my girlfriends and my friend group and then my coworkers and then my friends and then when I'm out at a social place and I meet a stranger, you know, my family, all these different perspectives of what I'm hearing. And one common denominator that I'm hearing is that a lot of people are just over shit.

Serena:

A lot of people want a complete change. Not like a little change, like a complete one eighty change. And I think in order to make that change, it's going to take a village. Like, I think we all need to come together. We need to start supporting each other, supporting starting small, supporting small local, and being there for each other more.

Serena:

Prioritizing being there for your friends more, being there for your family more. So going back to what I was thinking, like, at the beginning of this podcast episode, what I've been sitting on is not going back home for the holidays. I'm like, that would be pouring into my cup because I'm gonna be traveling the week before. I'm obviously spending money on the vacation. I'm spending money on having someone watch Blue, and then I'm gonna have to come back home, spend another more money on a flight.

Serena:

If I wanted to be selfish, I wouldn't go back home because it's taking a a lot out of my energy and out of my pockets. But the more that I think about it, the more that I'm like, if I love my family and Christmas, especially Christmas Eve is like the biggest holiday celebration in my family, the least I can do is to show up. Especially because now I have family members offering to pay for my flight and, like, splitting my flight to go there, which I'm very appreciative of. And that's what it's all about. Like, that is what I mean.

Serena:

Like, it takes a village. Like, I have my mom, my dad, and my uncle all saying that they will split up flight for me to fly in for literally a day and a half, not even. And that's what it's all about. Like, yeah, it might be tiring. Like, I'm hopping on back to back flights.

Serena:

That's my family. I love them. These are memories. Like, you just show up for people who you love. Even if it's gonna be tiring the day of or a couple days after, I feel like we're losing the plot.

Serena:

Like, I hate when people abuse the word boundaries. Ugh. I'm not gonna show up because I'm just not mentally okay. Like, I get it if you're going through something extreme like a death or, you know, a really bad breakup or an illness or something like that. I get it.

Serena:

But if it's like my birthday and you're just like, ugh, I just can't cum. Like, this is my boundary. Like, no. You're actually just not a good friend or you're not a good family member. Because if you can make it happen, then why wouldn't you like you know what I mean?

Serena:

I don't know if I wanna what I'm saying if I'm getting out the right words for this, but I feel like we're just losing what it means to be a good friend and being present and being there for people. If you are not around and it's a long distance relationship, friendship, whatever, then how you can show up is checking up on each other. Random calls, random texts, you know. We are busy, but if you can't do that, and then also you can't arrange to see me in person at all, two plus two equals four, that math to me is you do not care about me. And I actually had a friendship that I that ended.

Serena:

And it was a long term friendship too. It was like a friendship that was like going on ten years long. This friendship ended almost two years ago. But that was the breaking point for me because she had so many boundaries. Oh, I'm just not like, I have to pour into my own cup.

Serena:

These are my boundaries. I have to do what I have to do. Have to focus on myself. Like and I let that excuse run for so long that I my needs of a friendship on the back burner because I'm like, oh, you're working on yourself. You're doing what you gotta do.

Serena:

You might not check up on me. You might not care. You don't wanna get together with me. You're going through a lot. It's whatever.

Serena:

But if it's like going on years, if you're not answering text, if or if you're answering a text and it's like a one word response back, if you're not making any plans to see me and I'm constantly trying to see you and talk to you and reach out to you, two plus two equals four, you do not wanna be my friend. And and that's that. And I kind of just dropped out because if it's true that you are focusing on yourself, like I'm so happy that you have to do what you have to do, but in return, you focusing on yourself is neglecting me completely. And then I'm sorry, but you do not care about me. And I think we need to start realizing that.

Serena:

Because I there are time periods in my life where I get it. I do not have the mental capacity to focus on anyone. Like, I need to focus on myself. But if that's lasting for years, and for years, you're just focusing on yourself, and you're neglecting your best friends. You're neglecting your family.

Serena:

You do not care, so I will exit your life. And don't you dare turn around and say you you do or you did care because you don't. I had that friendship. I have another family relationship. Both are heartbreaking.

Serena:

One was a best friend that was like a sister to me. One was a family member that was like a sister to me. Both you do what you gotta do, but if you doing what you have to do in return neglects our whole relationship, then I have no choice but to think and know and assume that you do not care about me enough. Because if an ounce of you did, you would pick up the phone and see how I'm doing, or you would try and get together. Neither is happening.

Serena:

Yeah. I'm a friend to you. You're not a friend to me. This is what we need to start realizing. It's so good and so great to focus on yourself, but if you are not nurturing any other relationship in yourself because you're so focused on yourself and relationships are sacrifice.

Serena:

Like, are sacrifice sometimes. If your best friend wants to do something for a birthday and that's outside your comfort zone, if that's your best friend, like, do it. I always had that mentality. If one of my best friends wants wants to do something for a birthday or or celebration or something, and I'm like, ugh, I don't really wanna do it. I will do it because I love you.

Serena:

Sometimes I'm tired. I don't wanna show up for my friends, but I do because they are my friends. I'm tired and I don't wanna go to family events, but I do because they are my family and I love them. Now I'm not talking about, like, you know, toxic family or toxic people. Like, you know, obviously, if these people are toxic in your life, then do what you gotta do.

Serena:

And who knows? Maybe my friend and my family member thought I was toxic or something, and that's why they were doing what they had to do. Nothing was ever said to me in that regard, and I would hope to think that if they did feel that way, they would turn around and say, you know, I felt like our relationship was toxic. I had to take, you know, a step back. I feel like I deserve that conversation.

Serena:

But if something is toxic, then, yeah, drop it. Take a step back. You know, don't don't water it. Water yourself. Nurture yourself.

Serena:

If people are dropping out of your lives and you're like or taking a step back, you're feeling distance from people, kind of turn around and be like, what am I doing? Like, am I doing anything? Like, may am I not showing up as a friend enough? Like, what's happening? You know, I'm not perfect.

Serena:

No one's perfect. My hopeless romantic ass wants life to be a sitcom, man. Like, if my friends were to knock on my door, even if I was in a bad mood, I would be like, come in. Come in. Sit down.

Serena:

Like, I actually had a friend growing up, and she just was always at my house. We're still friends. And we would just chill on the couch. Like, that was, like, an era of of our friendship. I didn't mind doing that.

Serena:

Show up at my door. Come, like, call me and say you're gonna be at my house in five minutes. Whatever. As long as I'm home, I'm home. Like, if I'm not home, and then a different story.

Serena:

But I miss that. We need to start living life like a sitcom. I feel like I feel like life would feel more fulfilling. Doing things more as as groups of people, like, as community, as friends. Ugh.

Serena:

Fuck. Life will feel feel more fulfilling and content. Like, some people will be so so caught up in, like, their job or just their romantic relationship. This is an another thing too. I just reconnected with a friend, and she was like, I was so caught up in my relationship, and they're broken up now.

Serena:

I was so caught up in my relationship that I forgot that I needed friends. She's lesbian too, by the way. So that's a big queer woman thing too. I know definitely queer woman definitely fall on that because when you're dating another woman, it's like that it's like all your boxes are being fulfilled in a way. Like, I have my lover and my best friend and one, someone who just completes me on all levels.

Serena:

So sometimes you, like, forget that you need to water and nurture other friendships and other relationships in your life. It was like, you're you're good, babe. Like, I get it. What matters is, like, the coming around. Right?

Serena:

I will always be a listening ear to people who wanna, like, come come around and apologize, try and make it work again, but then the effort needs to be there. Right? Like, the communication and and the hanging out and getting together. I don't know. One of my top love languages is quality time.

Serena:

So I can even be chilling with not even speaking for a long time, but you're making effort to see me in person. Solid. You know? Like, Because once we're together in person and we're catching up and it's, like, a grand old time, I'm satisfied. You know?

Serena:

It depends on people's love languages too. That's another thing. You have to understand other people's love languages, And everyone has a different love language. Like, that's my love language. Access service, quality time.

Serena:

I'm not a friend where I need to talk to you every single day or I need you to oblige to all my friendship rules. I'm a very flexible friend. But I will say quality time is up there on the list. If you're not making time to see me or wanna do things with me, that's where I start to feel neglected. Now I do have other friends who need me to speak to them more often to feel loved.

Serena:

I have other friends who like to just chill and hang out, and that's like their love language and feeling loved. I have other friends who like to go out and do things together, and that's their love language. So it's like understanding people too and loving in their love language and not just loving in your own love language. That's definitely something that I'm in my moments of burnt out the past week where I've had a lot of hermit days, I'm, like, just thinking a lot. And I'm like, okay.

Serena:

How how can I prioritize my days better? Because I feel like I'm doing so much but nothing at the same time, and it's frustrating me. So I'm like, okay. Obviously, I need to be more organized in my day. I have a Virgo Midhaven.

Serena:

Okay? If you have any Virgo placements, prominent Virgo placements, especially Virgo, sun, moon, rising, Mars, Midhaven, you have to be organized for success to come. Point blank period. And whatever type of organization that is. For me, it's literally a to do list.

Serena:

It's literally a very specific detail oriented to do list. Anytime I'm working off a to do list on the daily, I am doing good. I feel good. If I'm not doing that, I get so caught up in my days and my emotions and my feelings feel like a blob. So I'm like, alright.

Serena:

What do I have to do to prioritize things differently? And that was something that came up. I'm like, okay. Showing up for all my friends in this way, this way, this way, this way. And then my family in this way too.

Serena:

But also making time for myself in this way. These are growing pains. I feel like it's easier as teenagers. Right? You have a lot more time on our hands, not worried about fucking paying rent.

Serena:

Now we're entering adulthood, 27. These are the growing pains that I feel like people just go through in general. Having friendships in teenage years then forming friendships in adult years. There's a lot more efforts to watering and nurturing friendships in adult years. And sometimes if you have to knock on someone's door, just fucking do it.

Serena:

I feel like, and if you can't because it's long distance, random fucking call or a voice note or Snapchat. I low key love Snapchat. But, again, that's not everyone's love language. You know? I love Snapchat for my friend group.

Serena:

I don't use Snapchat for anything else but catching my friends up on my life because it's like, it's almost like a FaceTime without being a FaceTime. Like, I'm gonna send you a quick, like, one to three minute thing of what the fuck just happened in my day. Send it, and and you're kind of caught up with what's happening in my life. You know? That is an outlet that I like as well, but not everyone's on the same page as that.

Serena:

Some people like that. Some people don't think that's enough. Obviously, it's not, but I like it as a quick. Like, this is what's happening because I'm not a big texter. A voice note, sending a voice note to a friend and you're like, I'm thinking about you.

Serena:

You know, like, little things like that. Touching back upon sacrifice. This was a topic of discussion that I had with my friends yesterday, and this is something with adulting, sacrifice, and needing to parent yourself as an adult. Like, you need to be the parent to yourself. So with sacrifice, like what I said, in relationships, any relationship that goes without saying, there has to be compromise.

Serena:

There has to be sacrifice. Pouring into other people's cup, doing things that you might not really want to do, but it will make your partner, it'll make your friend, it'll make your family member happy. And in turn, they're happy. You should be happy too that they're happy. Right?

Serena:

Like and I I would hope that that person does the same for you and sacrifices the same for you. I know I definitely appreciate that because sometimes I know if I'm bringing my friends to something that's not their scene or I'm dragging my friends to something, whatever. I know they're sacrificing their own comfort zone and their own time and their own energy to do something that I want to do. That is so greatly appreciated, and that would be returned in 10 times fold. And that is an equal give and take in relationship.

Serena:

In adulting, there is a lot of sacrifice, and that was something that me and my friends were talking about yesterday. And that was, like, something that a realization that I had because something that I learned this year was moderation. Because for, like, twenty six years of my life, I didn't know moderation. I was very much an extremist. I was very much zero one hundred with everything, with drinking, with love, with drugs, with everything.

Serena:

And last year, I had a rock bottom moment where I realized I needed moderation in my life. So I cut out everything out of my life for over a year, drinking, drugs, and relationships, and sex. Recently, have opened up the door again to drinking and dating. I have a different awareness. And I just sent a Snapchat to my friends saying, blessings in the rock bottom moments.

Serena:

You know, a rough day at work. I've obviously been feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. There's just a lot happening. I feel very overwhelmed. So I'm feeling, like, heightened emotions, but I'm not really sure exactly what I'm feeling.

Serena:

I should definitely, like, whip out the emotion wheel that my therapist gave me years ago to figure out what the fuck's happening. But this is why I always turn to escaping because I can't pinpoint a reason. I just know I feel uncomfortable. So therefore, I don't want to feel uncomfortable anymore, and I go to the extreme. I have one drink turns into 10 drinks.

Serena:

And this was something that I picked up on. After work, I grabbed a drink and some food because I was starving. I'm sitting at the bar top for almost an hour. All I could think about in my head is I wanna keep drinking. But which bar should I go to in this area and just keep drinking?

Serena:

Should I just keep drinking? Should I just keep drinking? Then eventually, was like, Serena, no. Snap out of it. Then I was like, okay.

Serena:

Should I hit someone up and smoke? Granted, I haven't smoked in, a year and a half. Why did that even pop in my head? This is just an escaping thing that I'm feeling. Then I'm like, okay.

Serena:

Let me go to Wawa and order I really want a pierogi quesadilla and an ice cream sundae. Serena, why are you gonna binge right now? Like, you literally just ate. So this is what I'm talking about where I'm like, I just wanna do anything not to feel the uncomfortable feeling that I'm feeling right now. But I got to my car and I drove home without doing any of those things.

Serena:

And then I sent a Snapchat to my friends, and I was like, I'm feeling overwhelmed right now, but the blessing in my life is that I have an awareness that I never had before. And I'm blessed because sometimes people don't ever get this awareness of when to stop. And one of my best friends responded back, and she was like, this is the sacrifice of adulting. This is the sacrifice of the bigger picture, like, not giving in to the little temptations in the day to day for the bigger picture moving forward. And I love all my friends in my friend group because everyone has such a different perspective.

Serena:

Like, we're all very similar, but we're all very different, and we're all on very different points in our life. If she's listening, I look up to her so much in all ways. And she is the friend who, you know, is is getting married, and I think she's just very wise. She's a very stable person in my life. She's a rock in my life.

Serena:

So kind of hearing her advice, it's like, you listen to that advice. You write. You write. You speak in truth. You know?

Serena:

You don't speak anything but truth. And she kinda, like, related it back to her life. And it's like, you know, I didn't do this, this, and this in college and my early twenties because of the bigger picture of I'm, you know, planning my dream wedding. And it's like, yes. That's exactly what it is.

Serena:

Like, I can't give in to these little things because I have such a bigger purpose. I have such a bigger picture happening for me. Another one of my best friends chimed in. She's actually out in the Peace Corps right now in Costa Rica. She's the one who I'm visiting in Costa Rica.

Serena:

She had another perspective. I know she relates to me heavy in that term of, oh, I had one drink. Let me drink 10 more. And it's because we find peace in that chaos. And I love that she has the awareness too and that both of us have that awareness because growing up, we both did it.

Serena:

We both kinda spiraled. And it's still growing pains. I mean, no one is perfect. But she kinda just told me, like, and reiterated and validated to me that, Serena, you have that awareness. Like, you are 10 steps ahead.

Serena:

Like, you are you made so much progress from where you were at last year because you have that awareness. So I think adulting, honestly, is a lot of sacrifice. And it's a lot of sacrificing for the long term picture. Sacrifice is just part of being a well rounded adult, and that was the realization I had. This full moon in Gemini.

Serena:

And, honestly, I hope that whoever's listening right now relates a little bit to what I'm saying. Yeah. I just feel very inspired under this full moon in Gemini. Some things that are just happening to me in my life, conversations that I've had, realizations, observations that I've had through other people surrounding me in my life. And I feel like I wanted to share this because I think it's definitely relatable to people.

Serena:

I hope it reaches the right audience. But yeah. I mean, that was my little yap session for the day. When you're listening to this, I will be in Costa Rica. But then episode after this, I will be back in Florida for another episode.

Serena:

And I hope you guys enjoyed this episode, and I will catch you guys in the next one.