Joy G. Fanning shares updates on her spiritual business: moving meditations to Patreon ($3-$50 tiers), shifting her digital store to Gumroad, and launching a $333/month mentorship program. She channels guidance on the New Moon in Aries about starting projects and shadow work, with a group Ho'oponopono meditation Monday at 4 PM Central.
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Yay, we're live! All right, so tonight I'm going live on Instagram and YouTube. This is awesome. Oh, so cool. All right, let me fix my chair real quick. Yes, hey, welcome! Yeah, this is my first time going live on Instagram, but I'm gonna go over a few things tonight because got a lot of housekeeping I've been doing with Astronaut of Life. But I'm super excited. I did not do an energy update or a live last week because I just, I was just drained. I don't know about you guys, but I was freaking drained, and I was like, you know what, I needed a break. So now I'm here, I'm doing it. I'm a little sleepy, but it's okay. It's only 8 o'clock for me. Hey Linda, thank you for joining me. Okay, let me get through this, guys. We got a lot going on today. I hope you can hear me okay. So I'm Joy G. Fanning, an astronaut of life. I empower spiritual, spiritual seekers by creating meditations that allow them to embrace their inner universe. So to get us started, I want to do like a quick little 5-minute-ish meditation where we just— I'm gonna call in protection around our new projects that we're starting for this new moon and this energy we're connecting with over the past 2 weeks. And I also heard the word goal setting while I was writing that out. So as we meditate, I'm gonna lead you through this. I'm not gonna play any music or anything. We're just gonna talk. I'm gonna close my eyes. You can do the same if you want. So let's just go inward real quick and start this off with a short little meditation. Okay, so here we go. Okay, get your body comfortable. I always like to wiggle for a bit. Let's take some deep breaths. Just get in that calm space. Let it fill your belly. Hold at the top and release out. Let's do a few more of those. Just Deep belly breaths. So I'm sure you might be able to hear my traffic noise on top of your own noises. This is perfectly fine. Let them just fade to the background. So we're nice and calm. Let's call in protection as we enter this new phase, this new moon in Aries, this new beginning, a fresh start. Let's call in protection around ourselves, around our projects, around our energy. This protection comes from Source. It is pure love that protects us. For me, this looks like a light shining down over me and everything I want to protect. So call in this light. Let it feel your body, feel your heart. Think on your projects, anything you're working on. It could be for fun, for work, whatever you plan to start, whatever goal you want to achieve next. Let's set this intention and put protection around this. So for me, this protection looks like everything I'm thinking of is just turning to gold. It's got this beautiful shiny gold plate on it, just protecting it. So let's just give thanks to Source for sending this protection. Thanks to ourselves for taking the time to call it in. Just give gratitude for for a second. Okay, we can open our eyes. Yes! Oh wow, that was awesome. I hope that— I think that was exactly like 5 minutes too. That's crazy because I didn't peek. Wow, thank you guys. I think that might be a new thing we start for these energy updates, to just do a little meditation beforehand. I really like that. If you see me looking away on Instagram. I'm looking at my notes on my computer, so that's all I'm doing. So now I just want to jump in real quick to some housekeeping things because like I said in the very beginning, I have been working behind the scenes just really getting this Astronaut of Life kind of pivoting and It's been quite the process. It's been a lot of work, and this has caused a lot of changes, um, for myself in my routine, in the way I'm approaching my business. I've been doing a lot of, um, like kind of business soul searching or whatever. So what this has turned into For me personally, I only focus on Astronaut of Life 3 days a week now, which sounds almost scary to me because it's like my job, right? But you know what? I've been able to get so much done within those 3 days that it's really been an eye-opener for me because I, I'm writing a novel. The first draft is done. I'm working, I'm almost finished with the second draft. And writing fiction is such a passion of mine, and I was literally just kept pushing it on the back burner. So it was like, Joy, you need to give this more time. And I just kept getting that message, and I was resisting for whatever reason, because I was like, well, I need to make money, I need to do this. And I was in those energies, right? But this week was the first week where I'm like, no, Tuesdays and Thursdays are writing days, and that is final. And that's kind of what I've done, and it's turned out amazing. Just taking that step of faith and changing my routine, incorporating my writing more, I got so much editing done. I get to spend hours just engrossed in my story, which is For me personally, it's just this beautiful experience, right? So, and it's just brought, it's brought me to a place of balance. And I now I'm like, I can't believe not doing that. It just is so beautiful. And I'm going to be even more protective of my writing time. Because I have a lot of energy put into writing these. It's a book series, actually, and it— to me, I'm— I want to publish it. It's going to go out in the world at some point, so it needs the time that it needs. So I've been adjusting that myself. But as far as Astronaut of Life, I really was like, okay, March was one of my best months sale-wise, but for whatever reason, my business feels stagnant, like it doesn't have this energy I want. And I was talking to my friend Emma, and I even did like a 2-week business coaching course she had, and it was so eye-opening for me. And one of the things she mentioned when we were doing the interview that is— oh, on the meditation stories. When we talked that day, she was like, well, why don't you meditate with the energy of your business? And I was like, why didn't I think of that? So of course I did that. And this should not be surprising, but as a clairvoyant, which means I see things when I meditate, When I meditated with the energy of my business, it looked like space, like a universe, which of course it would, right? It's— I don't know if you can see it. No, you can't on the, on Instagram. It's the astronaut of life. Of course it's in space. And I was like, wow, this energy is so expansive. This is like, wow, I am in love with this energy of my business. Okay, I'm digging this, man. And as I worked with it— hey, Tammy! Yeah, I was, I was just kind of dumbfounded by this beautiful energy of this business I've created. So I was thinking, I was like, okay, well, business, give me some ideas because I need them. Like, obviously I know I need to pivot, I need to make a shift. But what do I shift to? I don't know. So then I can't tell you how far, but within a day I was given this random idea to start a Patreon, which I had had that idea before, but I was just like, uh, no, or that's too much work, or I don't have enough followers or subscribers or whatever. But then for whatever reason, when it was presented by the energy of my business, it was just like, oh well, this is a really cool idea. So now if you're on Instagram, you can find the link to my Patreon in my bio link. If you're on YouTube, the link is down below, and I'm going to be moving This is like the big, big announcement here. My Saturday meditations from Facebook to Patreon, which I had a little resistance because I'm like, oh man, maybe people won't like that. But you know what, I have to do what's best for me and my business, right? And the smallest tier that includes the Saturday meditations is $3 a month, you guys. It's $3 a month. That's less than a cup of coffee, at least in the United States. Here in Colombia, that would actually probably buy you like 3 cups of coffee. So, but I, I receive more than $3 from a person every time when I ask for donations. So this is like in lieu of asking for donations during those Saturday meditations. So you also get an energy update every day. That's the $3 tier. It goes up from that. The next tier is $20, where I'm going to put 2 meditations a month with like homework or guidance questions to kind of help you kind of dive deeper with them. And those meditations are only going to live on Patreon. They are not going to be anywhere else, not on YouTube, not on Insight Timer. Just for the Patreon people at that level. And then there's one more tier that's $50 where you will get all of that below it plus a personalized meditation every month. You tell me the topic, boom, you got it in your inbox. So that's, that's kind of where I'm going with this. I want to really make this Patreon page like a community and grow it and kind of move my business there. I've been having this, what, adverse reaction, I guess, to Facebook for some reason, which I know Instagram is owned by Facebook, but I— that was part of this pivot with my business is I was on too many social sites and I'm like, we need to condense this energy. So YouTube and Instagram kind of won the race as far as where I'm gonna like live in social media, and I'm gonna send people to Patreon. So just get used to me talking about it, you guys. I have to get used to me talking about it, and, um, that's just kind of where it lives. Another pivot I did was I moved from Etsy to a website called Gumroad, which if you haven't heard it, please just go take a look. You don't even have to look at my page, Of course I would love you too, but it is like such a cute website. I love everything about it. I spent like 2 or 3 hours today moving the store to Gumroad, and just as far as the back end goes, it was so much easier. It had exactly what I wanted to do in Etsy that I couldn't do is there in Gumroad. And it's just like a big thank you and just to show like my love of meditation I have 4 pre-recorded meditations that are now live instant downloads on Gumroad, and they're all donation-based. You just pay what you feel— a dollar, $5, whatever you want. I don't have the topics in front of me, but I know one is Abundance Blocks, which is a visualization I use myself almost every day to just kind of check in on where I am energetically with my abundance. It's like this river and the blocks are a dam, and I don't know, you can go download it and do it yourself. But, um, oh yeah, well, Linda, if you go to my— Linda asked, how do you find these platforms? I put them on my Linktree. So since you're on Instagram, just go to my bio link And I updated it all either today, so it'll— it's all live there, the Patreon and this Gumroad. Yeah, and oh, now I just feel like looking it up because I don't fully remember. Let's just see here, the other pre-recorded ones. Okay, yeah, Breaking Blocks to Abundance. I just, I just freaking love that. That one came to me in, um, meditation. Like, I didn't— it's so cool. I love writing meditations because sometimes they're based on experiences I had, like this Breaking Blocks to Abundance one. Sometimes, like, the cord cutting one is another one. That's just one I'm like, okay, I want to write on cord cutting. I'm like, guides, can you help me? They send me an image and I turn it into a meditation. The other two are self-reflection and guidance. So these are basically free. Like it says, name a fair price. So whatever you feel, um, like that's what you, you can pay for them. And I'm cool with that because I want these out there. There's other tiers in Gumroad? I believe my friend Janet told me about Gumroad, and then I mentioned it to my husband and he knew all about it. So I was just like, well, okay then. So I had known about it for a month or two, maybe even longer. But of course, at that time when I first was introduced to it. Oh, it's 8:18 when I'm looking at the clock. I was just like, I don't know about moving my store, that's a lot of work. You guys, it took me like 2 hours really to move it all over, and I just fell in love because just, it's just so much easier on the back end. And I just really like the layout, and I like the way they word things. I don't know, you can check it out. So I also have the personalized meditations on there, same thing. The biggest pivot though that I've made was I stopped selling one-time meditation readings, like a psychic reading. I don't do those like a one and done anymore. Those are done. And the reason for that was I was in my an entrepreneur group I'm in called the Sublime Masterminds, and they, um, put me in the hot seat, which just means I'm like, hey, I need help, my business feels stagnant, I need to pivot but I don't know where, can you guys help me? And they're like, sure. And let me take a drink. Let's see here, so that one of them was like, well, what do you love to do? And the first thing I talked about was making meditations. And I was just like, I fucking love making meditations. I get my writing, I get my, my spirituality, and they just blend together in this beautiful way and they turn into something like so cool. And then I was like, my meditation readings are a lot of fun to do, but I just The only thing about them is when they're over, they're over, and I don't get to like ask that person, you know, did they do their homework? Did they decide to meditate with this guide or whatever that we met? And so I was— they were like, okay Joy, let's take a look here. It sounds like you freaking love writing meditations, but you don't have that same energy with your readings. Hey Abe, welcome! And I was like, I didn't think about that one. That was a nice, like, perspective change for me that they brought out for me. So I have got rid of the one-and-done meditation readings, and they're kind of incorporated now into— oh, thank you Abe! He says he freaking loves my meditation videos. Thank you, I love making them. I make at least 2 a week, it's so fun. But the, the highest tier on Gumroad is this spiritual mentorship where we do these meditation readings, and it is $333 a month, which I know that's like the highest thing, but you get a lot with it. A lot. So if you want to check that out, Abe, for you, the links are in the description. For Instagram people, just check out my link in the bio. It's in my Linktree. Okay, so that's kind of where we're going right now. I— the only thing left for me to work on is to update the website, which I got burned out today and moving everything to Gumroad. So that'll be either tomorrow or early Monday, I'm gonna redo my website and kind of reflect all these new changes. So this is all the housekeeping stuff. And the last thing for the housekeeping is on Monday at 4 PM Central Time, I'm going to be doing the— I don't know how to say this word— Ho'oponopono No, that's probably wrong, but I— hopefully you know what I mean. The 'I'm sorry, please forgive me, I thank you, I love you' mantra. And we're gonna do it for 30 minutes, which I think is very ambitious, but that's just how I roll, you guys. And we're gonna do it the first 10 minutes just saying it to ourselves or singing it. The next 10 minutes, we're gonna visualize people in our lives and singing it to them. And then the last 10 minutes, we are going to connect with Gaia or the Earth and do this mantra with them. Right now, if you want to join in with that, um, it'll be on Zoom. There's a link on Facebook, and I will put the link in the new Patreon page too. So I would love to have you join. If you've never done this mantra, or even if you have, it is like Boom! Powerful, man. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up crying, and I'm like the leader, right? So it's just— it just blows you away. And I'm— I'm— that came to me as well when I was like, hey, business, what should I do? I'm gonna connect with my business energy. And it sent me the Patreon, and it sent me to do this Ho'oponopono meditation thing. So, so I'm doing it, right? I'm just going with it. So that's it for the housekeeping. Thank you for, um, for letting me get all that out. So today is April 1st, and yes, it is April Fools', but in the spiritual community, I don't think we really care about that. Today's the new moon. That's kind of like the big kahuna of today, right? That it's this new moon. And I'm not super like— I love astrology, I like learning, it always resonates with me. But, and that's— I did some research today, like, purposefully, and then just The messages kept coming about this new moon. That's why I've titled it the new moon in Aries, because one, it is the new moon in Aries, and it was just a big theme for me today. Like, I've been watching this Mystery Teachings on Gaia, and the episode I watched today was all about astrology, and he really went into like what the new moon means. And the new moon, which if you already know this, I'm sorry, but I've like solidified this in my brain, so I want to get it out there. The new moon is when you start stuff. This is like what I think his name is, Johnny Enoch, was talking about the ancients would do. For them, the new moon was when you start a new project. It's when you start getting this energy moving, right? You're like, okay, I want to build this, so for the next 2 weeks I'm gonna do this, and you do it. And then once the full moon comes, you kind of slow down and you reflect and you kind of take stock of, well, did I do the right thing? Do we need a pivot? Do, do, do, do, do. And you just kind of calm down. So we're getting in this revved up energy And we've also been experiencing a lot of solar energy. I just looked around for my phone because I found this new app that gives you like the solar report, but I realized I'm using my phone for Instagram. Where's my— where'd it go? So I can't look up the app, but DM me if you want to know what it is. It starts with an M. Which is so not helpful, but it just kind of gives you like this big number to tell you how much solar flare or whatever, which I want to say today was like a 6 or something, or at least yesterday was. It's been intense. But my whole thing is about going inward for the answers, so I don't necessarily— I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it because obviously I just told you I watched a Gaia video and he like told me just happened to tell me what the new moon means, but I was like, oh, maybe I should learn what the new moon means. And I like to ask my guides, and lately for me that's been one through meditation. Like, I'll do a short meditation, it's actually really short, and then I just start automatically writing, which if you don't know what that is, it's a form of channeling. So So for me, I mean, I show you guys how sloppy my handwriting is. I write really fast when I'm doing this. Let me find like today's page. And like, I don't even know if you can read that, right? Thankfully I transcribed it onto my computer so it is readable because it takes me a bit. Sometimes to read my own writing because I write really fast and it's almost like my hand doesn't even want to make the words. It just comes. It's quite a unique experience, but it's been, been cultivated in me lately. So I was like, hey guys, what can you tell me about this new moon in Aries? And This is what they said. Let me move this over a little bit. Okay, so they said, yes, new moons are for starting projects, because that's kind of what I was thinking as I was going into this automatic writing channeling thing. For this new moon, focus on what urgent things you want to bring into your reality. For whatever you set your intention and focus on will grow rapid— rapidly. So that's pretty cool. So I would say use discernment in that, right? So for me, I just opened a Patreon, I just opened the Gumroad. That's kind of where I want to bring more fruition to, so I'm going to put my focus on that. And watch it grow rapidly. Then they said, give your projects your blessing and ask your guides and Source to bless them too. Which, this is actually a theme. When my guides a few days ago gave me the idea for the Patreon and to shift kind of these places I had my business on, it came with the message like Joy, you need to bless it. You need to put— pour your energy and your blessing onto that. Keep it on your screen and do it. And if I'm being fully transparent, I actually haven't done that yet. So as soon as I end this live, I'm gonna do that because today's the new moon, so it's like the perfect day to do it, right? And it's like the launch, so why not? Oh, right on, Abe! He said he just applied for his real estate license today. Right on. That is like a perfect thing to just put that blessing on, man, right? Just smack it on there. That's okay. It's okay if you're missing one thing. It'll— you'll, you'll sort it out, right? It's gonna get sorted out, and it says it's gonna happen rapidly, which is pretty cool. They also said, keep the faith in what you are— keep the faith that what you are starting will grow. When doubt comes, let it fade from you. Yeah, that was— I'm gonna say more for me, but probably for everybody, obviously, because I can get real good about being in this positive energy, but then I can only hold it for so long and And then the doubt tries to come, and when that comes, you don't need to get mad at yourself, is what I'm learning. You just, like, like they said, just let it fade and be like, oh, there's that doubt. Bye-bye, doubt. Yeah, we're not, we're not gonna give you attention. Just let it flow like you would in meditation. Just let your thoughts just kind of like be like clouds and just float away. And then I asked, well, what can you say about this upcoming week? I asked my guides that after this, and they said the energies will calm, like from the sun and these intense rays we've had, but this is the time your body needs to incorporate and integrate all of the energy it has received. Be ready to adjust. You may have to adjust many things in life like your routine, sleep patterns, diet, etc. Have patience with yourself and others. Stay hopeful. Keep doing your spiritual work faithfully. So like I told you, I adjusted my routine this week by adding 2 days where I just work on my novel. So I've already kind of been in that energy. So if you've been having this notion to make those changes, now's the time. This next part's pretty interesting. Um, they said this is also time to reflect on your shadow and integrate it. Big leaps of personal growth are possible now. Take this in stride. This is hard work, but if you do it, you will be better prepared for what is to come. Now, I don't know like what that means, like what is coming. I'm not sure. But yeah, I know, and I've also been feeling this, like something about my shadow. And so meditating with your shadow is a good idea. And bonus points I can make you personalized meditation on it if you want. If you want to check out the Gumroad, check out the link. That's actually one of the options is, is shadow work meditation. So then I paused in the writing, and even with my eyes open, I saw this vision. It reminded me of Fantasia, that old Disney movie with all the classical music when they're like the Greek— I don't know, and I took Greek history in college, that was years ago— but the Greek guy of wine and dance and laughter or whatever. I saw like these people dancing and it was so beautiful, and they were just dancing in a circle clockwise. They looked like Greeks. To me. And they, like, old ancient Greeks with the togas and stuff, and nothing— I don't know, grape leaves on their head? I don't know what those leaves are, you know what I mean? Like drinking wine and just kind of like, yeah, just kind of— if you know what I'm talking about, that scene in Fantasia. Um, it reminded me of that. And then I was like, well, what does that mean? Why am I seeing this? And so they said the meaning is take joy in your spiritual— in this— take joy in the spiritual work you do. Celebrate this opportunity to grow. They're talking in relation to this shadow work that they're saying we should do. Know you are growing together, never alone on this journey. Give thanks morning, noon, and night. Which is so, um, to me interesting because shadow work's like this dark, you know, really digging deep with these negative energies. But, but then I saw like these happy people dancing, and not to me, it's just this beautiful kind of culmination of how this work should go, because it's almost a privilege to dig deep and have that opportunity and the know-how and what have you to dig deep and do that shadow work and integrate your shadow. And that, that is something to celebrate. It is something to celebrate that you're growing, because when you integrate that shadow You're accepting more of who you are, your true self, right? Because that's what our shadow is. It's the parts of us that we reject. That doesn't mean they're bad, okay? A lot— like, for me, in the past, I rejected my writing. Writing isn't bad, but I had trauma around it, and so I thought it, you know, I pushed it away, and that was At one point, that was in my shadow, and I had to integrate that back into my life. And like I said, just this week, I, I dedicated 2 days out of the 5 days I work to pull that, you know, pull more of that writing energy into my whole self. Yeah, Linda wrote becoming wholer. Yeah, we're becoming more whole, and that is a beautiful thing. Totally worthy of giving thanks morning, noon, and night. And we're not the only ones doing this work, you guys. That's the whole never alone on this journey. Yeah, you're doing it maybe by yourself, but we're all doing this work alone. But I don't know, to me, in the energy realms, we're together. We're doing it together, and it's happening. And then I asked, is there any affirmation we can have for like this next week going forward? And I just realized that in the meditation I was told to do goal setting, and this is what the affirmation is: I am strong and capable of achieving my goals. So if your goal is to get your real estate license— for me, my goal is to grow this Patreon and Gumroad page and to get my website on board— we are more than capable of achieving that. Yeah, right on! Wow, okay, but that's kind of— that was all I asked. That was all I got for today. I'll repeat this affirmation again: I am strong and capable of achieving my goals. Yeah, so one more time, the Ho'oponopono. I think I'm thinking too much. The Ho'oponopono— I'll tell you a hint because I'm dyslexic and I have trouble with phonics, which is like deciphering sounds, especially in English. But my trick is to just say it super fast because then it, it usually sounds semi-right. So Ho'oponopono meditation on Monday, 4 PM Central Time. So that's the fourth month on the fourth day at 4 PM for me. Anyway, and I put the link in the description box on YouTube. There's a link in my Linktree on Instagram. It'll say Ho'oponopono meditation. You can click on it and join. Right now that link is— will direct you to Facebook. But if you decide to join the Patreon, like I said, $3 a month guys. Totally doable. Um, the link will be there as well because like I said, I'm moving away from Facebook. That's kind of the big thing, and we're moving to the Patreon. So that's all I got for this video. Thank you so much. This— I'm so glad I did this. I love that I'm back coming live. I'm assuming I'll be live next week, but you know what, if I need a break then I'll take it. But the goal is to keep this momentum, right? And I wish you all a blessed time. I'm gonna go meditate on this new moon, pull up my Gumroad, pull up my Patreon page, and just shower it with blessings from myself, from Source, and just call it in. And I, I challenge you guys to do the same. So when I leave Think of whatever it is that you're— the goal, whatever it is you want to work on this next week or two while we're in this new moon energy leading up to this full moon. Figure out what you want to work on and do it and pour that blessing on it. Yes. All right, guys, thank you so much. I love you all. You're beautiful. You're wonderful. Thank you so much. Love and light to you all. Namaste.
