131 | Once Upon Your Money Story

You've tried the new system. The fresh spreadsheet. The money mantras. Maybe even a little self-shaming to scare yourself into doing better.

And somehow you're still stuck in the same place.

Here's why none of it worked: the story running underneath it all never changed. That inner narrative that says you're bad with money, or behind, or somehow doomed to repeat the same cycles. That's the part actually calling the shots.

In this drop, you'll look at that story for what it really is – not truth, not your identity, but something you inherited and never chose. And you'll see how naming your main character energy through your chart can rewrite the whole thing.

In this episode...

🗝️ Why you can't think, budget, or affirm your way into a new money reality – and what's really running the show

🪞 The truth about "bad with money" that changes everything – because it was never yours to begin with

🌊 The freeze-then-hustle loop so many of us get trapped in, and where it actually comes from

☀️ How your sun sign holds the main character energy your money story has been missing

💫 Why you're not too late or behind – you're just mid plot, and the arc is still unfolding

This one meets you right where you are on your money timeline and hands you the pen. You get to see your money story from a bird's eye view – past, present, and the turn it's about to take – so you can stop reenacting the old chapter and start leading the next one from your solar center.

🎙️ Brought to you by Lauren Poppins Raye – your abundance astrologer and systems witch

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Transcript

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There's a reason that you haven't been able to think or logic your way into a new money reality. A reason why simply trying to adopt a new system or affirm money mindset, mantras has not actually worked. None of that is going to land when the story underneath your efforts, underneath those thoughts and that inner dialogue stays the same. That's because the story that you carry is the part that you can see and understand of the unconscious currents underneath, below the surface, that are actually running the show. If that story says that you're just bad with money or you're behind, or you're somehow inherently flawed or doomed to repeat the same cycles that are keeping you stuck or stagnant, not making the money that you need to, not experiencing the growth that you would like to. No amount of mind setting or budgeting is actually going to set you free from that trap. We are so much closer to these things when we're kids and we're living those archetypal unfoldings of these primal story arcs. Naming your main character energy, which is something that you can access through the reflection of your astrology chart, can be used to recast yourself in a money narrative that intentionally shifts you in the direction that you want to go. So first let's talk about why being bad with money, and whatever form that story umbrella might take for you, is usually misdiagnosed. While it may be very live and well in terms of pulling the strings behind the scenes for you, it's not truth. And I want to shine a flashlight on it and talk about it for what it really is so that you can rewrite the kind of relationship you want to have with money so that you can live out this story arc with a climax and a turning point to get where you want to go. The thing about the stories that we, once we've actually take a look, find, running the show within us is that we didn't decide to put them there. Most of the time, more often than not, they came from our parents' examples of how they were with money, past struggles that left such a permanent mark on us that they are a part of what we are now reenacting to keep them in place and they're not something that you consciously chose and decided. Seeing this as a story with a beginning, middle, and aimed end is that you are positioned at the middle right now, the present moment of seeing behind you, where you came from, why you were left with what you were, what you are now holding in terms of beliefs around money, being able to identify that, so that you can intentionally and consciously choose the direction that you want to go forward. There's a very real breadcrumb trail of how it got there and often being able to identify and connect that dot can be really helpful to release the grip that it has on us, in terms of assuming that it is part of your identity and there to stay. Oftentimes it just came from being unsupported. What we have a tendency to do, however, is to file them away as if we are somehow incapable. Instead of the much more likely truth that we've been unsupported or under-resourced in that area. It's not actually saying anything about us, about me, about you, and our capacity of how to be with money. That really helps to dislodge it and create the space and the opening that you are actually really capable, and I'm here to help you show that to yourself so that you can actually trust yourself and know how capable you are. However it made its way into you, got its hooks into you. But the label, the story, the beliefs that you've been left with, that you're carrying right now, that aren't serving or supporting you to have the relationship with money that you want is not truth. So it holds a very important place in the story, but it is not a death sentence and it is not your identity. Often that pattern looks like some kind of freeze or avoidance, and then you notice it inconsistently, but when you do, you overreact, you hustle harder, and then you repeat the cycle. So you kind of go back and forth between some kind of avoidance, then when you look, there's some kind of anxiety, discomfort, reactionary kind of behavior, over hustling, and then you let it go, you forget, you look away. This common loop happens, especially for soul led entrepreneurs, because you haven't made the connection between the money side of your business and the magic. You see it as very separate from the other parts of your business that feel so aligned and inspiring and on purpose for you. And then there's money, this thing that I just have to do, the money management, in order to be in compliance, in order to make it financially viable and sustainable. But you don't actually equate that with the fun, the inspiration. So you have this kind of lean in, lean out, looping pattern. In order to break these loops, the reason I'm talking about this today is that the story has to shift to open up a new space, a new territory to inhabit, where that pattern can stop playing out, where you can interrupt it and find a new way forward and settle into that new way as a new normal. As usual in my world, you know we have a cosmic code to turn to for this your sun sign is that main character energy that makes the story possible. Your sun, like the gravitational center of the solar system is the cohesive central narrative or storyline that all of the other story arcs play a supporting role to. You need to be rooted and sitting at the seat at the center of yourself of that main character energy to be able to steer the course or direct the whole system differently. This is how we look to see your natural leadership style and also your source of energy and motivation. For you to be coming from that natural source of your light, your fire, your motivation, your energy to want to embrace this story too, your money story. Your cash flow is the vital lifeline of your business and your life, so you want to position yourself as the central character in that story at the center of that that then supports everything else. You are not trying to fit yourself into someone else's system, even the financial system of this world. Ultimately, you want to position yourself, center yourself at that core center, so that you're being yourself. So that showing up even for the money side of things is a coming home to yourself. That's why story is so important. When we're talking about wherever you are on your relationship to money timeline, we want to see this from the bird's eye view bigger picture of the full story, because that's where you have the power to shift and change it. The once upon a time lead up that is the setup for the climax that makes the story so interesting to tell, when your future self is telling how you got where you want to be now, that future place that you are calling towards you as part of where the story is going to turn. There is something quite mysterious about how story works so well to touch our subconscious, story has the power to speak directly to that part of ourselves that otherwise is difficult to access. You're not too late, you're not behind. Everything happens exactly in the timing that it's meant to as part of the story arc. You're just mid plot and that arc is still unfolding. You just need to step into that throne at the center of that main character position to start leading and directing it differently. and of course, following it up with the behavior and the actions to support the new direction that you want to go. This is your plot pivot, and you are right on time.