Empowerment Diaries hosted by Lita, Goddess of Growth
Empowerment Diaries hosted by 'Lita': Goddess of Growth & Transformational Life Coach
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Join me, Carleta 'Lita', as I share my journey from a life of struggle and self-doubt to becoming the Goddess of Growth. Through candid storytelling, life coaching tools, and spiritual insights, this podcast is your guide to breaking free from limiting beliefs, embracing your authentic self, and stepping into your power.
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Empowerment Diaries hosted by Lita, Goddess of Growth
Life's Seasons: Navigating Drought and Harvest
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Have you ever found yourself desperately trying to extract results during a season that simply wasn't ready to yield? Join me as I explore the profound wisdom of recognizing when we're attempting to harvest during a drought.
Throughout my recent transformative journey—what astrologers would call my Pluto square Pluto transit—I've faced the exhausting reality of pushing against universal timing. Like a gardener who plants seeds with specific expectations only to witness completely different blooms emerge, I've learned that life contains many dormant potentials we didn't consciously place there—ancestral patterns, cellular memories, and soul agreements influencing our growth in unexpected ways.
This episode delves into the metaphor of life's seasons and how external pressures often fail to acknowledge the bigger spiritual picture unfolding. I share candidly about how financial limitations forced me to confront deeper questions about purpose, identity, and what constitutes a meaningful life after decades of "making do." Where once I might have stretched myself thin to maintain appearances, I now question whether that serves my authentic journey.
For those standing in similar liminal spaces—having left difficult periods but not fully stepped into new chapters—this conversation offers gentle wisdom about surrendering to uncertainty while remaining open to aligned possibilities. Rather than fighting against your current season, I invite you to recognize its purpose and embrace the natural cycles that ultimately serve your highest good.
What season are you in right now? Are you harvesting or sowing? Do you know the difference? Connect with me and share your reflections as we build community around these universal experiences of transformation.
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So hello again, lita Goddess of Growth here. I was actually quite excited about a week ago, as I acknowledged that my self-imposed brand name, lita Goddess of Growth, has been acknowledged by AI on Google. This is part of my visibility platform and process and I encourage you to do the same if you're someone that's out there hoping to coach or promote your business, your service. We are in the age of social media, connecting with others online. How else will people get to know us? How else will people get to know us? Today we're looking into harvesting in the drought, planting seeds for new beginnings, and you know when is it that we go around and collect the flowers, the fruits, the vegetables? At what point do we harvest, especially if we don't actually know that we're in a drought? And my podcasts so far are very self-absorbed. They're very much about myself. As I introduce myself. I really would like, at some point, for others to come forward and communicate, and it would be lovely to hear your story and see how your story has helped with your very own transformation.
Speaker 1:The last podcast I spoke about my Pluto square, pluto transit. For those that read astrology, you'll understand. For those that do not study astrology, let's just say my life went through a harsh transformation. Some might reflect and think not so harsh, but for me, being in it at this moment, I feel really aged. I feel as if the wind has been almost taken out of me. I've definitely aged over the last few weeks, and I don't mean in number. And I was having a conversation and in that conversation I had an aha moment, as you do, and I understood fully what it means to try to harvest whilst actually you're in a drought.
Speaker 1:I was trying to get things out of a time where the universe was actually encouraging me to stop, stand still, take a seat back. I definitely had to do enough to keep moving. I definitely believed that life would not have come to me had I decided to just stay in bed whilst things were progressing to and through me. This was my lesson, this was my life lesson. Only I could go through it. But in going through it, the challenges came, the hopes, the dreams. What does faith really mean to you? Does faith only work when things go your way? That was one of the questions throughout the transit.
Speaker 1:Can I accept that the good, the bad, the indifferent all happen collectively to create the lives that we are creating on a day-to-day basis and to take ownership of it all All, sometimes just like a plant pot. Sometimes we're planting intentional seeds and it's not until the spring that we see what was up beneath. I've had many a plant plot put seeds in, had an idea as to what I was expecting for the spring, for there to be a completely different bloom plant sprout that has come out to what I've planted. You know soil if you're a planter. Soil has many seeds within. Even if they sterilize the soil as I know some companies have said they do you often find different things growing at different times of the year, and that's a good analogy of life. There are things beneath the surface that we may not have personally intentionally placed. We're talking about our ancestry, our lineage, our cells, our DNA, the agreement that we made before we came here with whoever we made it as we got here.
Speaker 1:I truly believe there are souls that came through this dark period that I've been through to come and interject some light, and they disappeared People coming in to give me loans, people coming to give me me criticism, to give me advice and then step back. Whatever it was, this was the time and season that I was to go through. Illnesses have taken over my nearest and dearest, so they were the ones that would be there to champion a cause. Give me time to talk through any changes I was going through. They were not available because they were dealing with their illness. It wasn't selfishness, this was a necessity. They had to focus on their health and their health has not got better.
Speaker 1:There. There's been relief in some areas. Some have gone further in a more of a decline. So my support system, yeah, has gone. I've learned to been encouraged to go back to myself.
Speaker 1:There's so much energy trying to harvest in a season of drought and if you're like me, that feeds off. What the energy from others are is that's coming around us, us the expectation. Why aren't you doing? Why are you doing? And knowing that? You've got people around you that have no clue, as much as they believe in a good or have faith or what have you. For some reason, people have no clue that often what we're going through is connected to something so much bigger than what we see. Why is that? In fact, when we're giving guidance and support, we do need to tap in and say you know what I get it. You're going through XYZ, but what's the bigger picture?
Speaker 1:I love reading astrologers and so when they make comments about transits and what's happening with this and what's happening with that, I'm no astrologer. I've been reading astrology for years, but I'm not an astrologer. What I like to do is get the message within the transit, the context, the message, what is? Is it telling you? I'm quite good at that, much better at doing it for others than myself, because whilst I'm looking at myself, I've got a vested interest and I do have a habit of trying to dismiss the bad things and projecting the good things and then wondering why the other happened and this didn't happen and so. But for others, I can see the picture, what it's telling me Harvesting in a drought. How many times have you done that?
Speaker 1:Try to extract from a situation where the things that you need to extract just aren't ready, like the child that is forced to grow up early, wash, cook, clean iron, be the mother of the house, so to speak. You're expecting her to have wise decisions and an awareness and a knowing, because you've trained her to to do the house, but actually she's not had the life experience to match the physical doing. Yeah, and that's how we see a plant pot. The plant pot has so much nutrients. You know even the soil is dark, you can't see through it, you don't know what is in it. But taking a step back, you're able to view the plants as they sprout, the flowers as they sprout, the buds coming through. But we need to know the difference between a planting season, when is it to put our seeds? And our seeds are always being planted, mind you, even in the harvest, every day we're planting a seed that will be harvested at some point in the future, in our tomorrow Intentional planting versus unintentional planting.
Speaker 1:But we all have periods in our life where we come across and are encouraged and forced through a drought. If we reflect, I think for me it's happened more than once in my life, I think, would I say this has been the worst one. Different scenarios, different environment. You know, when I was younger, I moved around a lot. I didn't have a mortgage, I didn't have a home to call my own. Have a mortgage, I didn't have a home to call my own. The picture has changed. The scenario is different this time. The survival instinct was really prominent and to hear the same old feedback you're not doing enough, you should do this, you should do that. If I was you, I would do this. I love it when people tell you what they're going to. They would do if they were in your case, which they've never been in.
Speaker 1:It's an interesting phenomenon, the drought, and I don't know what it is, why we all forget the droughts in our life. Regardless of how wealthy you might be, there's always been some level of drought, there's been some reckoning, so, but for some reason we don't have that grace or empathy for others when they're going through their time, and it's a nice thing to be around people that's in different seasons. How else do you have that contrast? If we were in a zone of war, for example, would you want to see everybody in a panic or would you like to have a mix of people, some people calm, some people reflective, like you need that variety so that you can always shift your mood, shift your focus, because ultimately, we want to be balanced not too high, not too low, just zen, right?
Speaker 1:This is lita here, goddess of growth, and I was spoke speaking about pluto, square pluto which I've been through, my midlife crisis, and how it took energy and youth away from me. I'm aged. Now I can feel it physically, get the hot flushes. I wear wigs now as well, and they can be really hot. I never knew they could be as hot as they are, doing things that are new.
Speaker 1:And as much as we think about droughts and season, it's about acknowledging time, because time is not just about our age, our solar returns, our progressions, our perfection, years or the day as we sit in on a day-to-day basis. Time and season is also about the collective, what we're going on, what's going on environmentally, politically, globally, right, seasonality, seasonality and acknowledging that there's a spiritual significance throughout it all. Like how much of it has already happened, was already destined to happen, so I do believe it was pre-written, but has it all happened before? Have I done this before or is this all new? Am I creating this new? Is this a new, new, new, new, new experience. And then we have real life kicking in, as I feel the heat of my body and I have to cool myself with water, with ice, to remind me I'm a physical body. I'm in the present. This is the reality that I'm living.
Speaker 1:Financial pressure how much of it can we change? And that's another thing, because whilst I was going through the Pluto, square, pluto, it was almost like I wanted everything to change, but my home and I spoke in the last podcast about coming towards the end of the transit and then, all of a sudden, all I want to do is change my home. Not that there's anything wrong with my home per se, but I just feel quite enclosed here. Now I need more space Financial drought, emotional drought I feel as if my drought was more financial than emotional. But then the opportunity to interact with others, to connect with each other and others on an emotional level outside of social media was sparse, unless, of course, it involved an interaction where I know, asking for a loan or so I think that was the most emotion that I came across.
Speaker 1:Towards the end of the transit, people have been very distant. Distant, maybe, because part of it is questioning why, at my ripe age, I'm going through difficulty at this stage of life, but also distant because within my collective, lots of people are having health issues. People have started to pass away more frequently. So the focus has shifted. It's not about the me support, you support that we had before. Life has changed, priorities have changed.
Speaker 1:Just like my birthday of last year. There was no big celebration. Everyone seemed to be celebrating in a space where I was really impoverished. I found I had lost some finance, I wasn't able to do things as I would have liked to have done. In fact, I didn't plan a big 50th bash, it just wasn't a priority for me. So I found myself in an environment where everyone was celebrating but me. I pacified myself by spending the day baking a cake.
Speaker 1:But the point of my story is that actually sometimes we are with others that are in different realities. And as I've gotten to this stage of life, I now question this party, the reason for a party, if actually my life is not balanced. It's not right. In the old days, if I didn't have, I could definitely muster up an outfit, a little bit of money and be present. You would look glamorous and no one would know what you had in your fridge, in your cupboard. But today, priorities have shifted. Life has changed. If I'm not okay at home, I don't feel comfortable leaving to go and party anywhere else. I'm still celebrating those who need to be celebrated, but in my own way.
Speaker 1:But I must say, the financial limitations that I've gone through I can't do them anymore. I'm really exhausted and I do know that life has to shift. I need to feel a value in the work that I do no more can I do work for free, for no return, and I question if, as I'm not having children, husband and so the dream of a house is it really something to hold on to. I did it because I thought I was going to have a family of my own. I didn't have any trust that would meet a man that was going to house, clothe and feed me. That wasn't my life story and somehow, by this second property, I did it again on my own. So now what is it that I'm working towards? It's an interesting place to be in.
Speaker 1:Financial limitations has made me consider the quality of my life and the reasons for life. As I'm living it. There is uncertainty, no idea really what I'm working towards, because I've lived a life of survival so long and there has been a lot of time just surviving. I'm really tired of just surviving and I'm really tired of pretending and when I say pretending, showing up to places and being made to feel that I should have what I don't have. I've done it so many times before gone on a holiday, used a credit card, come back and spent a year or so paying it off, tired of it. No more will I allow anyone else's frustration that I don't have to determine how much I will have to risk on in the future.
Speaker 1:Now is the time to clear out and start again. New furniture, new environment, new decor. Something needs to change. I don't know what it will be, but something needs to change. No more false promises, no more pretending and when I say no, pretending, gosh. I haven't had a relationship in such a long time and I cannot remember a relationship in a very long time where I didn't have to squint my eyes or make extra allowances just for the sake of having a relationship. And that be the truth.
Speaker 1:I'm in a different space. I'm older now and I am thinking well, okay, how am I living my last quarter? Who knows how long I will be here? Surely there must be quality in life. It's not so much about quantity, because for me there's been decades. I would say, yeah, had I known if I did of, would I, could, I, should I that kind of situation. I'm here in my home. I really hope that spirit doesn't think I'm being ungrateful, but it's been a place of incubation, a sanctuary, a place for the release of my old self, and the financial limitations has meant I have had to come face to face with myself.
Speaker 1:There was no get out clause. This was my space and my space, but this was my space, a feeling of being stuck, and only recently did I acknowledge it as the season of drought. I thought it was a season of planting seeds and ploughing and waiting for things to happen, not realising that, yeah, yeah, you were planting but it wasn't ready. It wasn't time now for your things to manifest. No children, I thought by now. At least one child, two children max. A husband and the meaning. What does my life mean as a woman? What does that mean now? Questions, no answers.
Speaker 1:The coaching that's the only thing that gives me joy and hope, but even the way it's delivered has changed. Everything has changed. Everything has changed. You know, we started off with my hypnotherapy base hypnoanalysis, emotional freedom techniques, alternative therapy and then I find myself this year being encouraged to coach, but coach based on what people want and need. So people want and need, in this time of economic crisis, so to speak, they want a way to monetize, to make money, to grow, to get visibility.
Speaker 1:How do we match that with my ideas of transformation? Because I understand that, actually, for money to flow through my life, I need to transform my ideas, my self-concept. It starts from within, so now I have to find a way to match what I know from my soul and really transform it in my life and the life of others. And we start with tools on a platform. We start with ideas of community, of connection ideas, and with those ideas we tap into purpose. We try to find meaning, but they're only as good as those that come forward to connect the dots with us, participate in the transformation on offer. And that's where, after so many years 2022 to just the end of July 2025, working towards what I thought I was working on, my fully self-employed business where I wouldn't have to do any work for anyone else, just myself I sit and wonder how much of it was a dream and how much of it was actually planting seeds to create a reality.
Speaker 1:There's definitely a disconnect between the time and resources I've spent building, building, building, to come to the end, and to question, building, building, building, to come to the end and to question well, what do I have here? I closed my creator account on TikTok just a few days ago. It's got 30 days to close down fully. I should have done it ages ago, should have, would have, could have. They suppressed that account almost from day one when I opened it. I'm glad I had it because I got to see the other side. Only my posts were suppressed most of the time. I suppose I needed to go through it because I needed to be in a position as to when I coach others for us to understand fully.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we can transform, we can acknowledge what it is that we want to change and make better and so, but understand, in life there's what we can do and what is there to be done. I've had this house. I've had this house. I've got two spare rooms. I have had it on advert for a very long time. I've learned that in this life we can have resources and still not make money.
Speaker 1:I remember watching an old war movie and found that prisoners were released from jail and they were brought to a piece of land that had lots of gold and trinkets that were stolen from the houses, and it was intriguing because these people were brought there. They had all these jewels, lux household goods that were valuable, but the simple thing of having things like water and food was not there. So those things that were so valuable were worthless in the time of need. And those are the things that one reflects upon when they've left a period of drought like what is it that we're taking forward of value, actually? What are we left with? And even at this end, the end of a drought, you come forward and you question the things that we find in our homes, around us, that we collected. There was a time that we really wanted those things, there was a purpose for them, and then one day you look around and there are things that you haven't used in such a long time, things that you've not seen for years. Locked in a cellar, In a loft, somewhere In a shed, somewhere. They were really important at one time and then, all of a sudden, years go by, you've not seen them and you don't even remember that you have them.
Speaker 1:Season of harvest, season of harvest. Biblically, they say for everything there is a time and a season, do they not? Is it Corinthians 13? They talk about when I was a child. I behaved as a child. We need to teach children, I think, seasons and to teach children that actually the idea that we are all in this world but in different worlds this is a real and true concept. In one classroom we've got children with different histories, genetically, spiritually and in different seasons of life, and we need to understand that contrast from childhood because that will help us greatly in adulthood the time to sow, the time to reap.
Speaker 1:But if you're anything like me, maybe you would be told anyway and still try to push the boundary, find out if it's true, test it out out, wait till the middle, the end of the season, before you finally acknowledge. Hold on a minute. This is actually true. I should have trusted. This is what's going on, this is the season that I'm in. If you're spiritually aware, I doubt you need astrology actually, because I can tell you there is a feeling, there is some kind of connection, it's like a almost inner knowing.
Speaker 1:I use astrology just to, I suppose, evidence what I'm feeling, what's going on and the patterns I find easier to look at in others than myself because I have a vested interest in how I want things to play out in my life. But if there's anything that I've learnt from 22 to 25, end of July, there is patience. 5, end of July, there is patience, and patience doesn't mean denial or pretending everything is okay, but patience could actually be taking some time out in the day to just spend some moments breathing, focusing, getting centered, oh, just breathing. And I know it's not easy, because I too still want to know okay, what's next, why, what's going on. I feel disappointment in the time that I let pass thinking that things will work out in the end, and they do work out, in the time that I let pass thinking that things will work out in the end and they do work out in the end. But I've understood now that not necessarily in the way that we'd like. When they tell you, oh, it's all going to be all right, yeah, it's all going to be all right, but maybe not necessarily in the way that you envisage. Even that is okay, isn't it? This life is a short one. We've all come for a contracted period of time and now I understand probably more emphasis needs to be on that knowledge, the beginning, the end, so that the quality is really focused. We focus on it in between, what people have to say and you know they're just mirrors coming in to prod us, remind us to get back on path, on purpose. But building the quality in the in between, the beginning, the end is really so important.
Speaker 1:I'm ready to move on, but I find myself trapped. I find myself trapped in the survival, the survival mode that I've been in really for a lifetime and I understand that I am resilient, I am a fighter. I've put myself through embarrassing situations just to keep my home, just to keep my home, and now I am ready. I'm ready to move on. I don't know what moving on looks like. I don't know how it will be with little to no resources. Do I need to survive some more? Put in more hours? What do I need to do to make it happen? I really don't know.
Speaker 1:But I must admit, over the last two weeks there's a part of me that's just surrendered. I'm just like, actually, rather than continuing, try trying to build. You know, this is the time to start cleaning out, and there's been many a day when I've just wanted to just cut things out, um, advertise sofas, like, just get things gone, like I have nothing to replace them, but I just want them out. How ungrateful is that? Right? It's non-intentional. I'm just done. I've done my time, I've done it. Now it's like now it's time to move forward.
Speaker 1:So there is a surrender accompanied by uncertainty, and I know that, the full surrender and acknowledgement of how I feel, because feeling what we feel is really important. This is not about me asking for permission to feel. No. This is me acknowledging what I feel, because I understand. My feelings are like the litmus tests. They're the barometer, the barometer, the thermometer, to tell me okay, where you are right now, something needs to change. Surrendering is okay, understanding that I can only control. What can I control? My response to ever-changing circumstances on an every moment and day by day basis.
Speaker 1:But in understanding that, I understand that with the shift, I am now open and ready for new possibilities, new opportunities, and I also understand that there are opportunities that will come my way that are just not for me. How about that? So many things? It's like going into the cupboard and deciding to bake a cake. I love this analogy. When you go to bake a cake, you go to the cupboard. There's a set list of ingredients for your in your recipe. You're not going to go to the cupboard and put everything from the cupboard into the cake and that's life. So it's about being open and then, when the opportunities and possibilities come my way, being as centered as possible so that I know okay, this feels right, this is for me. Oh, no, this probably is not the one for me right now and the intention is to raise my energy enough that actually, the more I progress, the opportunities that come are much more in alignment to my destiny and purpose. So it's not just a question of if they are suitable for me, it's a case of okay, when do I get started?
Speaker 1:Are you in what's called a liminal space, my darlings? In what's called a liminal space, my darlings, are you like me? That's just at the end, at the cusp. You've not left, you've just left that dark space. Just at the end you can see the light, but you've not quite stepped over into that chapter.
Speaker 1:I do feel that there is a time and a space that I need to take and put aside for mourning. I've said to myself if I can and I live to see it I'd love to travel, take myself away and really just put this last chapter to bed. I've not had a chance to really mourn the dream of a life, as to what it could be, but that's okay, I plod on. So if you are in the in-between stage, the liminal space similar to my own, do tap in and let me know how it's going for you. I know for myself.
Speaker 1:There are times when I feel hopeful, not quite excited. I go into a bit of a dream world to what could be, what might be if things were different or if I did this or you know that a different way. I'm thankful that the drought has gone. I'm thankful that the new season has begun and I understand there's just some weeds that need to be taken and cut away. I understand all of that. I am looking forward to the summer to come, on this season, where I can bask in the glory, flowers and everything that has manifest until then.
Speaker 1:I understand I need to respect the spaces that I'm in, the time, the place, because otherwise what tends to happen? I try to continually skip past the lessons of life, and we know that that doesn't happen. Right, and in wanting to skip past it, I think in a way it makes it harder. But we're using lemons and we're making lemonade and we're not going to continue sucking, sucking, sucking the lemon. I do love a lemon, though, admittedly I do love a lemon, so I do encourage you to connect.
Speaker 1:This is a podcast where we can build community and I would love to build community. If you are listening, please pass this on to others. If you'd like to support my presence, we've got ways to do so at the end of the podcast, but, more so than anything, I would love for listeners to really connect with me. If you have any questions, any suggestions, if you'd like to open up communication on this space, I'd love you to do so. And in the meantime, I invite you, my listeners, to reflect on your own season. What season are you in right now? What season have you been through? Are you in a season of harvesting? Are you in a season of sowing? Do you know the difference? And of sewing? Do you know the difference? Thank you so much for being here. You've been with Lita, goddess of Growth. I look forward to seeing your comments at the end of this podcast.
