What Is Your Sacrifice? with Priestess Gemini

This week the team is reunited and we return with a special guest, Priestess Gemini! She gives us the ins and outs of helping people find peace through Reiki Healing, Tarot Readings, Sound Healing, Dream Interpretation, Guided meditation, Conjuring Consultations, Chakra Readings, Love & Relationships, and even a little….witchcraft. 

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Celestine Cheney, Roberta A. Drury, Andre McNeil, Katherine Massey, Margaret B. Morrison, Hayward Patterson, Aaron Salt, Walter Jr. Geraldine Talley, Ruth Whitfield and Pearl Young. What's up, family? You know what time it is? I'm Javon. It's Jason. Welcome to Let Me Get My Headphones podcast today is Let Me Get My Headphones because Von is back on the mic, back in the state, and we are glad to be here. Co host Jasmine Jace. Listeners around the globe, how are you all doing? First of all, let's give you some horns because you back and you safe. Free. I was customs was that bad? You don't have to go into trouble. I did not have no trouble. That's one place a black man shouldn't have any trouble. But, you know, I got through customs the second time because I miss my flight the first time. But we'll get into that later. How y'all doing? How y'all doing? I'm doing. Doing all right. Been a long day. Been a long day at the best. Glad to be here. Chopping it up with you all. I know. That's right. Yeah. It's been an eventful two weeks since we've been off the mic. Obviously, we missed you. But me and Jay Hill down for it. Of course, we had a good time. Listeners, you're going to want to get your headphones for this as we have an awesome show lined up and a special guest coming on later today. But before we get into that. Bring in the swords for love that always never sold. But just as a quick recap for the last episode, of course, it was a two man show as me and Jason took over the mic and Javon took it international. But, you know, one monkey ain't stopping no surface, though. So we got straight to business. We talked the first Monday in May, if you know, you know, we talk Roe versus Wade and of course, what's on the radar for music and TV, just to name a few. The kids, we covered a lot of ground. So if you're in the mood to shoot the s*** with us, go ahead and check it out. You already know where to find it. But make sure you subscribe like download and review the podcast and also follow us on Let Me Get My Headphones. Now it's time for the big three. Hello, m************. So we got some familiar cities. These cities are home to us. We've got to visit. We've got to come see you all. Atlanta, Georgia, coming in at number one. I think you all maintaining that spot. It's a lot going on in Atlanta. We got DC coming in at number two and then we have Alexandria, Virginia, coming in at number three. Of course, I would say we'd love to see the leaderboard change. It has not changed in some time, but we love you all in Atlanta, DC and Alexandria, Virginia. Keep holding it down. Thank you, though. Thank you. Thank you for your patronage. That's all we got right now. But I think it's time for Melonews. I'm going to give it all over to Javon. Listen, over at Melanoows, we usually talk about the news that affects us. But today, baby, we are stirring the pot. So come back in about 20 seconds and we'll talk about what is really starting that way. Welcome back, family. This is Melon News news told by a black man. Like I said, usually we're talking about real news affecting black people. But today we're going to the kettle and stirring the pot. Or if no one stirs the pot, we'll all get stuck to the bottom. Let's start with the pot. Stirrer himself. Kevin Samuels, the YouTuber, the 53 year old man who described himself as an image consultant and gave dating and relationship advice that often spark outrage, has passed. Stop saying don't speak ill or the dead, because that is in the Bible. Just stop saying that. It's really stupid. You look really stupid when you say that. The only thing that they say about dead in the Bible is they sleep naked. You talk about them. Other than that, treat people nicely while you're alive so they don't treat you bad when you die. It's really like sitting with it now because it's been about two weeks now since I mean. About a whole week since it's really been going down. And the one thing I actually kind of thought about was now that Kevin Samuels has passed, what do a lot of you content creators have to talk about? Because it's going to be really hard for a lot of his disciples to regurgitate his message. Make a s*** pop like that. I don't really think I'm going to be honest. I don't really think so. I think what Kevin Samuels really did was speak to a space on the Internet of men in particular, that for all intense purposes hate women. And I'm just going to keep it kind of keep it cute. I'm going to just keep it real that hate women or have been scorned by women and held onto these animosities and this hatred. And he spoke to that. It's very similar to how Trump spoke to a lot of white supremacists during 2016 when he was elected. A lot of it is the same rhetoric. Honestly, when you listen to it and you listen to any of these white Insails on YouTube or four Chan or any of these other crazy Reddit, you can think of any other place, the dark sides of Twitter, and they say this stuff consistently in a lube and in a vacuum. And I think the one thing that is dangerous is that Kevin Samuel's rhetoric gave a lot of black men the green light to denigrate and disrespect women in their community that look like them because they felt validated by what he was saying. What was his validator when he passed? I don't know, because apparently he died very much alone. He was not within community. He died broke, apparently with less than $1,000 to his name. And he died with a woman that he met only 24 hours ago. Allegedly. Allegedly. I don't take advice from people who have been dating, advice from people who have been divorced twice. How you feel about this? I have not watched a Kevin Samuels video in my life, but I will say, based on the clips that I've seen, based on the responses I've seen from men who have advocated for Kevin Samuels, his disciples, I think, as Jason called it, I'm a firm believer that the world is definitely a better place without some people. Only because like I said, I don't know where all of this is coming. It's not all of a sudden, but the world is openly hating women right now and we're very much in the crisis women. So this is not something that I'm shedding any tears over. Because how is telling a woman that she has less value because she is 35 and she is unmarried? How is that healthy for the community? How is denigrating women and telling them that they don't deserve something because they have children, they're no longer with their child's father? Where do you get the f*** off? I know I did try to be polite about this. But where do you get the f*** off telling somebody that? Who made you that? Judge, jury and executioner put a nail and back coughing for Lori Harvey came on the fire this week. And I'm going to let my girl Jasmine come in on this. But she came under fire for revealing her recent workout routine. What is this about? So Lory? Kind of my sister. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's how we called you and Javon. You recall, I always said, hey, Laurie, you really lost a lot of weight. She was saying that didn't give a d***. Every time I said it didn't give a d***. You know, he don't be paying attention. You don't be paying attention to that. But that's fine because it was more for me. I sometimes have to think out loud, but whatever. So she got on Twitter or on her IG stores or whatever. Finally revealed the work that routine. Because if you remember her look from the Met, I forget who she was wearing. But she had those ABS out. She had the bloody ABS out. Body was looking right and tight. Was looking very good. Beautiful woman, right? So she got on her Instagram story, as one does. And it was like, I heard you all was asking for my workout routine. Obviously started with Pilates. But Pilates alone is going to get you the ads, right? And we know that one thing alone is not going to get you the ad. But she went on to say there was a point in time I was going to Pilates. But then right after that, I would probably go to the gym and do a cardio routine for about 30 minutes. The cardio routine is a little bit specific, so I can give you guys that if you want to. She said that verbatim. I was like, okay. Not apply it to memory. She said, I was doing that. I was maybe working out like twice a day. I was eating like 1200 calories Max. I pause that video. I said, she's just like me, actually, because I'm doing so. I was here for it. But of course, the Twitter nutritionist and everybody and rightfully so, honestly kind of criticized that routine and kind of brought to light how a lot of the folks that we prop up as it girls or the people or the women on IG who are very prominent have a really big platform. They are kind of promoting disordered eating, but under the guise of healthy eating. But again, she's a small girl, obviously. I don't know Lori Harvey, but there's been a lot of pushback on that. The 1200 calories a day. They say that a toddler should be eating 1200 calories a day because the USDA and Department of Health and Human Services recommends that an active woman in the 20s consume 2400 calories a day. I can't say I'm ever going to do that. I don't know. I don't know if I'll be able to do that. But how long ago was that study that, you know what I'm saying? Usba. You want pretty. Updated regularly. Okay, well, how regular? Because I don't know if it works for her. It works for her. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to tell you all, like Beyonce told us at the beachella when she did that work out to lose all that weight, and she had them kids. She said, I will never do this again. She's like, do not try this at home. Do not do this. This is not a good idea. I don't know why I did this. I could have been in serious danger. I appreciate her transparency because it also was an educational moment for me because I didn't know what calorie intake I was supposed to have. And I'm very thankful for the Twitter nutritionist for coming out and telling us, that's not what you do. Because I ate a baked potato earlier. You don't have dogs in the fight, I'm afraid, right? Laurie my girl, though. I got to. I don't know why they always catch me attacking you on the show. That's my brother. For real matter, because any time you get Lori together, I'm just going to use this out. That's my girl, Lori. Well, that's the pot for today. Thank you all for just jumping in there with us. Because if nobody serves the pie, we'll all get stuck to the bottom. We'll break for one little second and we'll be back. We came, we saw, we kicked it down. This baby hits 88 mph. They got to see some serious s***. What's up, everybody? It is time. For what? The flick. First and foremost, I guess I'll start with what's on my list. I am binging conversation with friends. If you don't know, this is a Hulu series that was turned into. Well, it was turned into a Hulu series, but originally it was a novel written by Sally Rooney, which is why I tapped into this, because I did read that novel and just coincidentally, it happened to be, I don't know, turn into a show. No, it was because of your book by. I think you're right, actually. Yeah. Give yourself some credit, girl. You contribute? Yeah, I did, actually. I heard some good things. How many episodes are out? Is this a week to week thing? No, they're all out. It's twelve episodes. I think I'm on episode six. I suck with it. The actors are. It's pretty spot on with the characters. I think we love that. Yeah. As far as capturing the essence of the characters, I'm not mad at it. I like we are fans of accuracy. We do love when things are canonically correct. Right. Also, if you all are into love, Death and Robots on Netflix, I know there's supposed to be a new season premiering, I want to say, on Friday. Have you all watched that Love? Definitely, yes, I have. I need to catch up, though, because I only watched half of the second season. I need to go back and re watch. But I did love. I thought it was only one season. Two season. Yeah. You all would know better than me. Better than me. Yeah. I think it's the third season, but that's not the only thing that got announced. The boys are back. The boys are back. The boys are back. Also, I sent it to you all before we started recording. You guys had a chance to watch it, but they announced the Obi Wan Kenobi starts next week, which I'm Super excited about. They cover Vanity Fair this week and it is super dope. If you haven't seen that panel, go check that out. But also with two shows in particular. So the boys come back on Amazon. She Hulk just got announced. She Hulk attorney at log just got announced. It comes out in August. Preview looks really great, and it looks like it's going to be very much of the theme of SheHulk of being a comedy, which I'm really happy that they're sticking to that. Kudos to Marvel. And of course, the pink he valleys back you all next time we record it should already be out. If I'm not mistaken, like, the first episode will be out. So I'm really excited. Obviously, for season two, we're going to get to see what all these crazy scribbles is doing up in Chuckalisa, Mississippi. And maybe, just maybe, we might get to do some fun stuff around that show. We know you guys really loved when we covered Euphoria every single week. So if you all want to go to the bank with us every single two weeks, we'll do some recaps for you guys. But those are, like, the big ones that I'm really excited for. I'm trying to think there was something else that was coming up. I think Hales Paradise is an anime that I'm really excited about. Like, really big manga. It's going to come out this summer, but that's about it. This past week, I've been really into the documentary series, and I watched our father on I watched our father. I watched it with my homies. I thought about it as a group. It was like a group of us, like maybe ten of us on discord. Yo, that s*** was wild. Vaughn, this is my thing. If you got that many kids and you all know that you all are all siblings. Why don't you all just jump that n****? That's valid. And there's possibly more. You know what I'm saying? What state? Indiana, and just the amount of kids was just wild. Also see how deep it goes from a religious standpoint, which really did not surprise me at all. Correct. Right. With him being like, he was an elder of the Church. He baptized people at his home. What is it, Quiverism or something like that? It's what the Duggers believed in, basically, is that you have as many kids as possible. Like this conservative thinking point. I can't remember the exact who was the architect behind it, but he was basically like, we don't have enough white babies. And so we need to have, like, also centers around this antibortion race area stuff. So you have all these white kids, and then you put them in positions of powers like educators, doctors, lawyers, politicians to push this big conservative, anti immigrant, very much white supremacist agenda. And they couldn't even put him in jail, which was crazy because there was no type of law. The only thing that they really caught him on was that he perjured himself, essentially lying to the attorney general and lying to a person who had interviewed him who had it on tape. But after that, I would have been like, Yo, why don't we just spend a block on this n****? Matter of fact, he has so many kids, they could have just put $100 into a pot and just hired a hitman to kill the n****. He's already old. That was like $9400 we gonna need at least. Could you imagine? Because it was a small town that they lived in. Yes. And, like, you could have possibly dated your sibling because this sick nut, like, had the audacity to, like, go into a room and m********* and then go inseminate women without knowing. Like, that's wild. And then sometimes he would do that, and then the parent, the father would go into the other room and thinking that just because he gave the doctor his semen that he was putting his semen into his wife, if it wasn't the kids that killed him. It should have been the parent of this. What a real dad is it? What a real Daddy you are supposed to say, you know, let me go get my shotgun. Let me make an exact. Baby got blonde hair. The whole family got Brown eyes and black hair. This baby come out. Jay. This is such a Game of Thrones reference, but these n***** are BRAPPY. I know that's right. What did that book say? Pair of dirt. He was like, bloody h***. Blue. Ryan said my boy Robert never gave birth to no kids. Remember this happened. So this whole Quiver thing. This happened with the Duggers. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you don't remember the show with the Duggar family and they live like in Utah, like somewhere on the Mountain West. Tigers, I think, at home with the dough. But one of the sons got in trouble for inappropriately touching younger girls and like his siblings. And I remember they sent him to reform camp or something like that and came back. And I think the N***** Steele went to jail. It was like a bunch of child pornography involved. And it just didn't surprise me. I remember everybody was fascinated watching their FML saying, don't this s*** feel weird to you all? None of this isn't that suspicious? Suspicious? Come on. I'm just saying they should have put they should have jumped that n****. I would have caught that n**** while he was taking the trash. I know. That's right. I would have had to get my lick back. We spin in the block. Okay, quickly, they came out. And that's why I'm an end on this point. That's why I never get really I will never give one of those ancestry or 23 and me kit to anybody in my family because I just think, one, the fans be using those samples. Okay. But two, it's like the amount we need to do an episode on the amount of 23 and me ancestry family horror stories that have come out of their business venture, trying to connect the world. That would be actually really interesting. I'm also going to say if you are black and you want to do your ancestry, don't do ancestry at 23 ANDME do African Ancestry.com, it's black on business that actually does not sell your data or your DNA samples. And it actually helps you find instead of it telling you what percentage black you are, like 23 and me, it does. And they just kind of tell you like kind of spread out. What this does is actually tell you close to what tribe you would be from in the African continent, which is really cool. I actually found out about it when Chadwick Bozeman was being interviewed, I think, during the Black Panther press run, and he talked about it on his Breakfast Club interview. But yeah, they don't sell your data, which is really they don't sell your DNA, which is really cool. They destroyed after you do your DNA and samples and you can do your paternal and your maternal side and it's not that expensive either. So definitely go check that in African ancestry. Yeah, African Ancestry.com. We'll put that in the show notes for you guys. We got anything else. Ma'Am, I think that concludes what the flick? I think we covered what we're watching. What's coming up next. On that note, we're going to pay some bills real quick and then we'll be back with past the ISDI. Music y'all hit that music. It's past the Oxford it's. Let me get my headphones. It's Chase and you're in the place. What's happening? Look, I know for you all cuss me out because I know you're like, what a playlist, Jace. What a playlist is. Okay. I said I was going to drop a playlist and miss a week where you guys aren't going to get a chance to hear all of that music collectively with a bunch of other new stuff. But a lot actually happened within these last two weeks since we've been off the mic. Music wise, Billboard Awards just went down, which is really dope. Doja cat came through and clean. Well, Megan also won an award. I don't know what JT was wearing on that stage, but her p**** lips was out and I was very upset about that. But also Jay's favorite Caucasian brother album. He did Come Home, the kids miss you. And some things were really if we go get into that today because I was listening. It is very rare that I feel sorry for white folks sometimes with this brother right here. I was like, d***, why you do him like that? It was unjust. I don't know about adjust because it wasn't a 2.9 out of ten. No, it wasn't. Let's actually tell the audience real quick and they will actually. Jay is going to read us the STIP it. But Pitchfork recently released a review and if you do not know, Pitchfork is a culture music everything kind of publication and they also do music reviews and they are infamous, not even famous, but infamous for offering very harsh reviews of music. Like they are very strict about their parameters. I myself don't really kind of f*** with Pitchfork because if you guys don't know as a music listener, as a black music listener, I don't feel like any white publication should be reviewing black genres, especially hip hop music, because you share no real connection with it as a white person, since the music was written for the black experience by people who experienced blackness. However, Mr. Harlow is not a black and I don't know the gentleman's day. But I will let Jay get into this just a snippet of this review. Because my man pulled no punches. None. And I'm going to just get to the meat of it, the meat of what he had to say because the rest of it is kind of just bullet after bullet. But this was the first shot right here, and his name was Matthew Strauss. I think he had a hit out for him. I don't know what was going on with that. It was hard. He must have got out on a date or something, like d*** n****. Adjectives so well. But let me get into it. Okay. So he says Harlow's ability to rap well somehow acts as a hindrance to his ability to make good songs. He does not have a definable trait or tick that could be parody, preferring to keep things tidy and also make terrible illusions. The worst might be Can't Lie, I'm on Angus Cloud Nine, and because, you know, I like to dictate things, Kim Jong. It's so obviously stupid that it must be a joke. The straightforward approach is similar to those the fellow Southerners Megan, the Stallion and the Baby, the sort of bars first, but make it pop throwback rappers who maybe would not have set out in the commercial landscape of the 2000s, but our anomalies in the day and age of vibes. Unlike them, however, Carlo does not make bright songs and Come Home the Kids Miss You. The album, for the most part, consists of a monochromatic palette of generic smooth beats, one just bleeding into the next. Musically, it's unfulfilling, lacking standout melodies or exciting rhythm. The sound of Come Home the Kids Miss You, in turn, is about as sophisticated and interesting as a Daniel Arsham sculpture. Kneed at a glance, but Vapored upon any extended interrogation. That was Matthew Strauss that picked. That Etha burn slow through your body, shout out. My thing about, you know, it's gonna be mentioned in the next single or whatever song whatever's come out next. I feel like. Because my thing is, don't be weak in a knee. Stand up. This cannot stand. Mr. Harlow. This cannot stand. You can't let that white folks talk about you like that. He wrote a song about me, actually, so I can do take this personal. He's listen to it. That's about me. That's personal. Yeah, that was real personal. I listened to the album, and before I sound shady, I did enjoy it. There are several tracks on the playlist that I really did enjoy. I love the Ferrell beat that he produced. That s*** sounds good. But I think the one thing that kind of sticks out to me, it's kind of a bigger conversation around Jack Harlow is that I've been seeing a lot of discourse on the Internet about black women that really do like Jack Harlow or just enjoy his music or what he does. And this response from black men that are like. Why do you like this white boy so much? And so I think it's two things. One, Jack Harlow is a very safe artist. I like to say he is doing the best Drake impersonation that I've seen in recent memory in that he is very relatable. He makes a lot of corny jokes. He's moderately attractive. He can be very flirtatious when he does music videos. He makes sure to put a lot of black women in them. So for consumers that are black women, they see themselves. But also the one thing is it's very bare minimum mediocrity. And so for me it's like as a black man and who has a lot of black women in my community, I know that black women do not like mediocrity. They don't accept mediocrity. So if you don't take mediocrity from n*****, why are you taking mediocrity from this spicy white. Community? Don't use the C word on me. As black people don't f*** with mediocre. So why are you all messing with this mediocrity? I get it. If it's a Bob, it's a Bob. I don't care Bob, don't care who made it. That's one thing I always say, unless it's a problematic Bob, like super problematic, which we'll talk about the next day. But for me it is always about I guess for me as a black man, I am not the biggest fan of Jack Carlo. I do like a couple of singles. I did enjoy the listen of the album. I don't think it's a 2.9, I think it's more of a I'll say like it's 5.8. He rounded up to a six. I think his first album is a lot better because Jay was the person who put me on the first album and when I listened to it, it does not have a review on Pitchfork either, which I would be very interested to see the review of that versus this. But that's not the only music that has been hitting the airwaves and has been discussed as far as debating on whether it's good or not. Kinder dropped the album and the Sunday prior to him dropping the album. He dropped the music video for The Hard Part Five. The Hard Part Five is a continuation of the series that he has done since really the beginning of his career. Kind of like signals that a Kendrick album is supposed to drop. He always drops this song like right prior. He never puts it on the album and the music video is just absolutely stunning. Use a lot of deep fake technology. He shows six different faces. Those are OJ Simpson, Jesse Smollett, Will Smith. What is it? Kobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle and then of course himself. The lyrics are very much kind of connected to the different faces that are switching in between, which I thought was really dope. I think one of the one things that really stuck out to me was of course like the verse while he was using Nipsey's face because it actually sounded like how Nipsey would wrap, which I thought was really dope. So basically hearing what he would say to his loved ones, even though that he is gone, which I thought was really beautiful. You guys don't know Nipsey and Kendrick are really good friends. They went on tour together for the first time, like touring. When they went on the Games tour, they were opening for the Game back then. So they have known each other, not just both being from Los Angeles, but also as peers. And I think it was really beautiful because he had not really said anything in the album, actually, which we'll touch on just a little bit. He even talks about being in Argentina at Lapalooza, finding out the news that one of his friends and comrades had obviously been murdered. And so putting that into perspective was really cool. And then obviously the album is dropped. Mr. Morale, Mr. Morale. And the big step is and there's been a lot of talk. And before you all think that I'm about to actually review this album, I am not because I actually want to. We've actually agreed to kind of save this conversation. We want to circle back to it at the next pass the odds court. And this is why one thing that I have found to be really annoying, especially in the age of content creation, is that we have this addiction to quickly being the first person to give the best hot take about something. And it is very hard to give a hot take for an album that took five years to make. This is five years worth of sitting down, processing a bunch of information and experiences that an artist has gone through. And I think that it's unfair to try to give such a full throated opinion about something that's only been out for less than a week. And I just don't think that that's right. And so for me, I want to actually give it pause to breathe. And it kind of brings up to the conversation that we'll be having around this album the next time on Past the Oxford is what Qualifies is like, what's the time needed to qualify something as a classic or even a masterpiece for that matter? I've talked to some of my friends who are either musicians or just other lovers of music. And some people have argued anywhere between six months to a year to even longer. And it just makes you wonder, like, what does it take to actually consider what is a classic? Like, I really do enjoy this album. I want people to be able there are some really high highs on the album, but there are some lows in the depths of h***, and I don't really want to get into them. But the one thing I do want to say is for the people who especially like the conversation route on diaries or the classic shouting match between him and what was the actress name? Laurie? No, not Emma Page. Taylor Page. Taylor Page and Taylor Page. What I would say to you is this is a very good moment for those who are not black women or who are not black people. Or not black trans people. This is a really great time for you to really sit down and listen to people. Because when folks are telling you this is why this is wrong. Even though a lot of conversation has been about an intent versus impact, how your intent can be in good spirit. But your impact can still be toxic. It can still be homophobic. It can have a detrimental impact on people that actually harms them in real time. And so in this moment, instead of trying to tell somebody, you just don't get it. No, they do get it. They can listen to the music just like you. You are not deeper than them because you see something that they don't. You guys just see something from two different vantage points because you live two totally different experiences. If you were a straight black man, it's going to be very hard for you to understand what a trans woman or trans man goes through when they are misgendered in their dead name. Right. So take this moment to center those people in this conversation because those are the people who are trying to talk the loudest and you're over talking them because you're just trying to tell them that they don't get something. Because you want to defend your favorite artist when your favorite artist on the album said, I'm not your savior, right. That is the crux of the whole entire album. These celebrities, these musicians, all these people with all this money, they are not your savior. They should not be your benchmark for how you conduct yourself as a human being. You should determine that for yourself. Right? So we'll get into that in the next Pass the Oxford. That actually concludes this episode of Pass The Oxford. Remember to check out volume 15, which will be out this week. I promise you it will be out. And I'm going to be dropping a lot of new music. Going to be over 4 hours of music, including Kendrick we didn't get a chance to talk about, which is super f****** dope. That's probably one of my favorite projects of the year. And it's only six songs, 19 minutes, 19 minutes. And it's called simple and it really was that simple. Also Tanking the Bangers came out with a new album. Actually, I can spend a block real quick and give you all some stuff when we get out of here. But remember, if you are looking for the music, it is on Apple Music, Spotify title and YouTube music. And I'm working to also get it on SoundCloud. But Lawrence and The Machine dropped the album. The Black Keys dropped an album. Bad Bunny dropped the album, which is super dope. You guys will hear that on there. Quell Chris dropped a new album with Kaylee. 47, finally dropped her album. Shape up. Nukes new drill rapper out of London dropped the album, which is super dope that I'm really enjoying safe Drop, get home safe part one. We also have some new artists like Life Harris. We have Uni. Also, our favorite girl, Umi dropped the new single. Mark Ross has a song with Lucky Day or Ray Drop, Levin, Khalid, Drop. There's so much music out that you can be listening to. And the best place to find it, guys, is Let Me Get My Headphones playlist. So volume 15 is going to jump, stupid. So don't get left out and miss out on that new music. But hey, if you're listening to something that we don't know that expire, make sure that you send it to us to the DM on Twitter, on Instagram, at, Let Me Get My Headphones that's at Let me Get My Headphones link will be in the bio. Let's pay some bills real quick and we'll be right back with more. Let Me Get My Headphone. Welcome back, family. Today it is my episode and you know, I had to bring somebody new into the group chat. I want to welcome the group chat to Priest. This Gemini. She is an intuitive life coach in Reiki, healer, family, cousins, cohosts and listeners around the globe. Y'all give it up for Priestess Gemini. Now. Come on. Come on up in here. Give us some Horn. That's good. We are so glad to have you. I have reached out before and reached out and finally got a hold of you. I've been following you for a long time on Instagram and always stop to scroll to hear what the conversations are about and tapping into this spiritual healing. And most of the time on the podcast, we're often talking about things that are reflective and then thinking about how that prepares us for the future and then also just bringing the poor discussion to the podcast of spiritual healing and having an expert on the pod. The pleasure is ours. Okay? The pleasure is ours. So very glad to have you. And anything you want to say. First off, before we get jump into the question, I say blessings. I'm just happy to be here a lot. Thank you. Come home. Feel better already. I know. All right, so listeners, come on, come on. Get your headphones on because we're about to jump into this beautiful discussion. First off, just setting the stage for Ms. Priestess Gemini. Describe what spiritual healing and the practice of spiritual healing is for our listeners. I think that spiritual healing is the practice of healing some of your past trauma in order for you to manifest some of your future. I mean, you can do it through different metaphysical tools or through some type of therapy. I like that the trauma that you experienced and preparing for the future. What are some misconceptions about spiritual healing that often leads people to stay outside of actual healing of their spirituality? I can see and understand why there are some misconceptions about spiritual practice and healing. There are some negative people out there that kind of screw up the truth about appealing. They manipulate people for money, things of that nature. So I can see why people would have, like, a negative perspective about that. So in your opinion, how does spirituality affect healing? And obviously, we're all adults here, so we can obviously understand why healing would be beneficial. But to you and in your practice, what specifically would you say makes healing so important? I think that healing is very important today because there's a lot of people out here that transmit a lot of negative energy. And you want to know how to, like, deal with those types of people and those types of energy. I mean, it's like people throw negative energy like it's STDs out here. Okay. Talk about it. Okay. So it's really important for us to become aware of ourselves and the people around us so that we can block that type of energy so that we can have a better potential for our future. We don't want to bring it back to our home to keep ourselves happy and focus. So how does spirituality bleed into that kind of healing? How does spirituality lead into that type of healing? Yeah, because I know that I wouldn't necessarily call myself a overly spiritual person, but I'm working on myself, but I don't know how that would necessarily look different from me trying to spiritually heal myself. Okay. So, I mean, you could be spiritual all day and burn stage, but at the end of the day, are you burning the stage for your negative energy or somebody else's? Sometimes it's how you react to some of this negative energy. So it kind of combines some of these schools that we have been learning to like spirituality and witches coming like, more on the Internet out of the Broncos. So we're using those tools to help activate us to be in our highest high, for us to not worry about what other people think about us, to not criticize ourselves, because sometimes we can be our own worst pretty. So we need to lose those types of flaws outside of ourselves in order for us to be the best essential part of ourselves healing. Yeah. So my question is, obviously, I like to get to the root of it. So what led you down this spirit to this spiritual healing as a profession? Right. Because I know I'm a millennial, and we do a lot of like, we've gone a very winding road of a journey, and it's always very interesting how people end up in certain spaces. Right. So I'm very curious, what was the journey that led you to spiritual healing as a professional? And also, Jace, I don't want to don't mean to interject, but as black folks, there is a lot of skepticism around this kind of thing. Whereas if you're not a Christian or if you're not in the Church, what other kind of healing is there? So just an extra point to add on there that is true. That is true. I was born and raised in a Christian household, and my mom ran through the house like, clean the blood of Jesus through the wall. The black experience. What led me to this? I used to have a lot of lucid dreams, and they were telling me a story of things that came true. So I decided to ask a Tarot reader, like, how can I be like you? I need your gift. She said, you just need to meditate every day. I was like a lie. I want some more powers in it, right? It's just meditating. That was how it's your gift, your awareness. No, go. Go ahead, ahead. No. I was going to say that I decided to get my first decade card. I studied for about a decade, and the first time I gave a re in, it was so accurate. They told me, getting paid for it. Let'S do it right? So all of that is very abstract to me. The Tarot cards. And really, I'm the type of I look for guidance wherever I can get it. Really. I know that from my understanding, it's never explicit. The messages that you guys come up with. Not even come up with, but I don't even know how you receive them. I don't want to insult you. I don't know how you receive the messages or whatever, but when you relay it to people, what do the Tarot cards communicate? Like, what is their intent really? Well, each card represents a different spirit, but each spirit is broken down into different lessons of life. It's starting a goal, or if you have to end a goal because ran into a certain type of situation, it became a game in the beginning of the mid evil days. And that's when some of the spiritual people started something real. When you were telling me what led you to the profession, I'm not going to lie. Priestess, gymnast. I don't remember. If you remember on Twitter, whenever they thought that we was going to get our superpowers a third eye open. Did you hear Nina Simone in the background? Like, this time? It's my time. It's my time. I did read a Moment of Awakening. At one point, I told all my friends it was time for us to stop smoking weed and do something better in our lives. And I had a dream that everybody was still smoking weed and everything. So then God gave me a number, and that's my spiritual number now. And then as I woke up, I felt like something twisting at the back of my spine. It shot up and hit the back of my neck. And I was researching it, trying to figure out what the f*** is wrong with me. I'm sorry. I was trying to research what was going on, and I just found out that the number that he gave me was 34. And it met high start, which means passed away. And I was two weeks clean sober from, like, smoking weed, drinking alcohol. So God was just telling me, girl, you have something about fasting, even if it's not just food, it could be a bad habit, something about fasting that will help you become more enlightened. So then that's one of the misconceptions you said you got received a message from God. That's one of the misconceptions. That because there's a spirituality that is not necessarily taking place within the Church does not mean it's separate from it. It's just a different type of connection. But, girl, it's crazy because it's people. There's Deacons in the Church that still believe in this and they only got. Okay, yeah, you sum that up for us? Let's take a step back to your name. It might not be obvious what it stands for. I know some of us have certain names for certain reasons. Javon means brave. Somebody told me that. But tell the listeners exactly what Priestess Gemini of Priestess Temple means. Okay, so my name is Priestess Gemini. A priestess is a female version of a priest of a non person based. Priestess Temple, LLC is an ecommerce business that I own. I hire men and women, especially vendors and spiritual people of all nationality. So I'm looking for people that are spiritual, just like me, have spiritual gifts and they would like to sell their own product. That's what the spiritual temple is. So I have to ask, though, are you a Gemini? Yes, ma'am. Me too. Me too. That's family. It's like for the 21st. Okay. Can I ask When's your birthday? May the 22nd. 22Nd. Okay. Jasmine's birthday the 26th. It's coming up. I'm counting the day. That's what I'm saying. Just a little jig real quick. I know you mentioned witches before, and I'm the youngest on the show, so I just want to talk about the handful of witches that I've come across in my years. Tia and Tamara on Disney Channel, of course. And then there's Angela Bassett. I know. She was in American Horror Story. And Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Obviously, Eve by you and the list could kind of go on. But did any of that play a role, like growing up or at any point did any of those witches play a role in you deciding to pursue this, honey? Yes, I got a good one for you. Okay. Do any of you guys remember the movie called The Crass? I do. Yes. I love racist. I love the fact that her role in the movie was fighting white supremacy and racism with her own spiritual power. And it's funny to me because today there are people in our black community that are still fighting for their own rights, using their spirituality. I just want to give a shout out to you all because I know you're out there fighting. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Yeah. But it's perfect that you actually mentioned that using it spiritual work to fight against that. So if you can. If you could just name one off the top of your head, what would that even look like? Is it prayer? Is it meditation? Pharmacy in the spiritual realm. Well, listen, I want to tell you peace at this moment, because I'm practicing, Ricky, okay? Okay. I'm not going to get too dark for your listeners. I'm saying I'm practicing peace and peace of mind because I moved out to the West Coast, and it's different out here when they're ready to get it's about how you react to the racism because you could react to it like, d***, I'm a piece of s*** because I'm black. No, you play your pencil, Amar. You know you black. You know you black. Come on now. Look, it's about how you react to some of that negative energy. So if it is you playing that music, if it is, you meditating, but you can't react to the hate with hate. Spiritual, obviously, now that you say it out loud. But it looks very different for everybody in the way that you fight against those, quote, unquote demons or whatever. I don't know if I'm using the right verbiage here, girl, but energy. Yeah. Okay. Is that better? Energy is the right better word. I like that. You make a good point about riding down the street. Like, listen to your own music, blaring it and just simply being okay with being black. And I know, I feel like if I have my windows down and I have tinted windows, but having them down on a nice day and I'm blaring my music, but I know in my mind that somebody is probably thinking like, oh, he shouldn't be playing that music like that. How do I stop myself from having those negative feelings toward myself? That's self doubt. That's like your inner monologue. You can't function happily in life if your inner monologue and negative towards yourself. Yeah. So every time you say something negative about yourself, say five things positive. Come on now, Mark. Like this. Read the tweet for us. Yes, I'm going to read this tweet by Mascul Valencia. And we just want to hear your thoughts on it real quick. So it goes to say, do not hire healing to the hope that someone is going to someday regret what they did to you. Some people do not regret doing you wrong. Some people even forget doing you wrong. Some are unaware of their wrongs, and some will never accept that they did you wrong. This is really interesting because it reminds me of something that Albert Einstein said, and it's about if you want to live happy in your life, higher goals, higher life to goals and not the people are things. Healing is the goal. And practicing forgiveness in your life is to keep healing. If you spend all day holding your breath over something somebody else said, you're the only person that's suffering. They're still breathing in their living. They don't have the Rona they sneezing and you're tripping over yourself. But listen, honey, you have to forgive yourself and you have to forgive those people and you got to hold on. You have to forgive those people and you have to forgive yourself for entertaining the people that had f***** up in the first place. Okay. Okay. So all of this is internal. All of this is internal work. We got more power than we know, basically. Okay, exactly. So how have you seen, like, spiritual work impact or not impact, like our community specifically talking about black folks here? Spiritual work is now becoming obviously a much more front facing thing. We have a lot especially, I like to say, like millennials and Gen Zors are really starting to operate out of I won't say necessarily turning it back to the Church, but just wanting to experience new things are searching, like for new answers. There's a lot of we talk a lot about misogyny and patriarchy in here, and there's a lot of that in the Church sometimes, and a lot of folks turn to other spaces. And so I guess for our listeners to get a sense of, like, how does that work or how it doesn't work in our community, just give us, I guess, your vantage point in that. Well, I guess it depends on if you are applying spirituality to your everyday life. It seems like when black people are given rules and they follow it, that's when they get their biggest manifestation, that's when they get it. I think that them not following the rules or any type of spiritual rules, whatever Dominion of spirituality that you are under. If you're not following the rules that are given to you in your spirituality past, then I think that that's when spirituality is not impacting. I mean, like some people, they Muslims, but they only eat bacon at breakfast. What's your sacrifice? What is your obedience to God? You talk to man. Yeah, well, show sacrifice. That can preach on his own. Not for real. That character you got me thinking about that is very interesting because it's really about not even it's like what are you going to set your mind to and what are you not going to be moved on that really gives you that spiritual healing gives you that stream of like I can do anything or belief that you can overcome these challenges or whatever you have in your day to day. And if you have something that's solid that you stand on, that's how you're able to move through those things and you preaching that. And I feel like the more I don't know if it's the older I get or the more I go through s***, I don't know. But I'm coming to realize that spirituality or my spirituality, like I said, we have more access to it than we know. And those feelings when I feel really intuitive or like I have a feeling this is going to happen and then it does come to pass. You know what I'm saying? I think I'm realizing now the spirituality, obviously it doesn't always just look like sitting in a few doing, praying, getting on your knees, praying to God, spirituality. I guess it is more personal, I suppose, and then even like having dreams or just having a feeling or the things that we can't see or the things that are unexplainable. And that's why I know you said it's not the same thing, but why astrology. And I think that people and like you said, Jace, people, especially younger kids or younger my generation really are kind of not necessarily turning their back to the Church but finding different avenues because I think it's more the environment, but it's more than one way it's going to catch and it's more than one way to find these answers. And I think a lot of it is within ourselves in this spiritual world. People going to wake up soon. Like they said, it's coming more to the forefront. So this is interesting stuff to me. I don't know. And I think we all have said it in some capacity. I don't know if people are turning from the Church or requiring more in our spiritual world because I think a lot of us have that foundation in what we know, but looking for other things to make sense of it because our parents went this far and we got to go this far to have an understanding. And it probably builds and really brings the whole congregation of spirituality together in a way that just strengthens us in a sense, you know, and us having this conversation right now and Priestess Jim and I really telling us, like, it's not really separate. We're not really separate in our spirituality or separate in how we communicate or what we are seeing or what we're experiencing. It seems like it's more I don't know if fluid is the right word, but more in line with spirituality as a whole and getting better and finding it from what's inside and knowing what is inside of you that comes out to the people. So I really appreciate that. One thing I've been really thinking on is like songs like Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You, Suspicions by Stevie Wonder and Boo Do Women by Coco Taylor is ingrained in black culture. But what would be the title of the song you create and why? I would like to recreate a song I was thinking about that I would like to remix Ruja by Princess No Kia. Okay. It's almost like she spoke the word that I would have said, but I wasn't from her nation. So I was like where I'm from and where my ancestors come from and how our ancestor line is and everything. I think that would be awesome. I didn't know, you know, about some Coke. What do you know about Cocoa? Taylor. Did not say I was demanding music. I am an audio file. I mean, I keep it on me. Well, you know, we got to listen to that Princess. We do. We got to go get it. Yes, definitely. This has been a wonderful conversation and wonderful to get to know you and really hope that you come back on the podcast or you have anything new to break in the spiritual realm with us. But before you go, we want to just make sure the listeners know where they can reach you at know what you're doing, know how they can get involved, know how they can. You have several different offerings for people to find their inner peace. So tell them to run down one more time so we can push some business to you and help people get spiritually whole. Yes, love. Thank you so much. I am Priestess Gemini and you can find me@priestessimplellc.com there. I offer all types of spiritual advice and it's from selflove healing through shadow. Self healing. And I also offer classes for psychic development. In case you feel like you are psychic and you would like some help developing your pricing skills, come on down to presistimplellc.com. D***. That's what I'm talking about. Listen, it was so great to talk to you. We will have many more opportunities for this, but thank you for being a guest or let me get my headphones podcast and as always, we say to the listeners, thank you for listening. Come back again. And when we drop an album episode with Priestess, we might drop an album now because you say you're going to remake the song, we might have to put you on the track. Yeah, but everybody say bye bye be good. See you later, Priestess. It was great having you all really did enjoy it. Thank you. Bye.