No. 35 — The Power of the Network
After a season of deep change—grief, a nodal return, and a full rebuild—I share a bold teaching on the Power of the Network: can you give without extracting? Is it even possible? If you’ve ever felt used by your “community/people,” this episode will flip the script so you can take your power back. From fourth-line/Mountains wisdom to rugby-field hive-mind karma, I want to unpack what I'm learning about the way healthy networks rush in before you even have to ask. I'll also reveal why I dissolved the Wellness Club to open The Lodge—where the inspiration came from—and how real, vulnerable, and transparent sharing in the co-creative commons will transform personal stories of illness, ailments, and superpowers into a living cathedral of Modern Mysticism.
In this InSight, I share:
00:20 Reflections and Transitions
10:04 The Power of Networks
19:58 Creating the Lodge for Modern Mystics
29:57 Redefining Value and Pricing
32:42 Creating a Supportive Community
35:56 Innovations in Membership Structure
38:39 Engaging with the Community
41:54 Adapting to Community Needs
44:48 The Art of Inner Expeditions
50:04 Sharing Knowledge and Experiences
54:49 Embracing Vulnerability and Growth
Vaness Henry (00:03.726) It’s Vaness Henry, you're listening to Insights, my private podcast exclusively for community members like you. Here's my latest insight.
Vaness Henry (00:20.366) Hello, welcome to a new season of Insights. Ya boy's been busy building some things, excavating some things. I like to take the summer season off. That’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere. I like to take the summer season off. Gives me a chance to unplug and that's usually when I'm really reflecting and working on things. I'm a September baby so that final quarter of my year really puts me into a state of reflection.
And while I was making these big changes, doing things over the season, I did have some loss that happened. I lost my dog this year. I lost my family's matriarch, my Gima this year. And I reconnected with some people who have not been in my life. And I was making a lot of changes in my heart, but also in my external world.
was also simultaneously experiencing my nodal return. I'm a Pisces North node, I'm born in 88, and we were having eclipses on that Pisces and Virgo axis. And so was feeling that in very key specific places in my life. And I wanna tell you about a teaching I excavated throughout this process. This is a very dense ego opinion, an ego feeling that I wanna share with you.
And it's a teaching that I've been observing and learning about through fourth lines in my network. But I also learn it through mountains people. And one of the most amazing things about mountains people and the fourth line in my opinion, is their ability to recognize what is useful. And a sort of sideways, uncomfortable teaching that is connected to that is sometimes the four.
anyone with a four in their depths, let's say, whether that is a fourth line profile, whether that is a calm or nervous touch person or inner vision person, or whether that is a mountains person or someone who has inner vision in their environment variable, or somebody who is a wanting view with a tone of meditation, or someone who is, let's say, need motivation with a super sense of meditation, any of these fours. There's a deep connection to the network.
Vaness Henry (02:40.302) There's a deep connection and calibration to what is useful. And a sort of shadow that can come up around this, I know I felt it in myself, is that sometimes we can make people feel used. Even though we're so focused on finding what is useful, we can make people feel used. And I want to tell you a very specific way I noticed this in my life. I have very strong opinions about the network, and I think that they should be shared from the perspective of
I'm a six line, not a fourth line. And I'd like that to really be a really felt here. But as a six line and a deep lover and observer of the network, part of my mantra going into this birthday, this new year that I'm entering is alignment and abundance for my entire network. It's very Libra, very Libran, but it feels really good to affirm and state that. And the reason for this is my philosophy around the network is that you
only ever give to the network. You only ever put in value to the network. A way that this can look is I was invited to speak at the Human Design Hotel in Montreal this November and there was an inquiry around, who else do you think would be a good fit for this? So I started naming who I thought would be a good fit. This person would be wonderful. That person would be wonderful. Consider this person. Consider that person. I have learned when the network is strong,
All I wanna do is recommend someone in my network. All I wanna do is give to whoever is in my network. And there have been times where I've been in a network that has felt extractive, where someone has come to me and they wanted something from me, or they expected something from me, or they would only come to me when they wanted something. And this is a sign to me personally of a broken network. Because if we're giving, giving, giving, giving, giving,
to our network and we feel bitter or resentful or angry that no one is helping us, there's already something karmically wrong. That's an opportunity for me to self-reflect and take accountability. I feel like no one is helping me and I need help. And it feels like all I do is help people or give, give, give. So when I feel that it's an opportunity for me to step back and back up, to zoom out on my life.
Vaness Henry (05:05.406) I feel like I'm giving, giving, giving, but am I pouring my heart and soul into destructive, extractive relationships or am I pouring my heart and soul into productive ones? And it's okay if I'm not adept at recognizing that. I had a period of time where I was really evaluating my network, really evaluating my relationships because I wasn't feeling good in them. I was feeling like everybody wanted something from me. Everybody wanted me to do something for them.
And my perfectionist ass felt like, okay, I love you, I'll show up and do that. When the problem was already in the dynamic I had set up, because karmically speaking, when I hear of somebody recommending me or giving to me, if somebody comes and sends me something or says something wonderful about me or my work or something that I'm associated with,
Or let's just say they make a connection point to me. Hey, I wanna introduce you to this person. I think you'd be a really great match. What comes up in me is like, hey, what can I do for you? It is so natural to want to give back. But anytime you plug into the network and you wanna take something from it, there's something already off balance because you are extracting from the network. So as I started to recognize, not only was I extracting from networks,
but there was a lot of people extracting from me. I know I needed to do a lot of breakups to reset my network, and I've taken a lot of great care in doing that over the last five years. And the reason for that was because I had entered into unhealthy relationship dynamics, and I didn't know I had done that. As somebody who was raised in a female form, a lot of my experience was give up yourself for the other so that you're able to take care of them so that you are kind.
completely sacrifice yourself for everyone else, that means you're a good person. And lo and behold, I was incredibly disempowered and starting to get bitter of everyone around me who didn't necessarily check in with me, but only checked in with me when they wanted something from me. Usually they wanted me to make them money in some way. Maybe that's just an ego manifest or thing, but it started to make me feel away.
Vaness Henry (07:13.92) Now, is this really anybody else's fault for coming to me and asking me for favors? Or was it me who had initiated that dynamic in the relationship and let them know it was okay? Because I am of the mind and the philosophy that anytime I need to go to my network and ask for help, it's a sign that the network already is broken. It's a sign that I already don't resonate with that because I have had the experiences now where I am in need of help and I haven't even realized it yet.
And lo and behold, there is someone in my network who has realized it and has come to my aid before I even needed it. There was a time where I was struggling financially and a friend just sent me five grand because they were an overflow. Didn't think twice about it. I didn't have to ask. Well, you know what came up in me? What can I do for you? What can I do for you? And I think that's the karma that I am personally after in my network.
because then you better believe I paid that back and then some. You better believe I was naming that person everywhere we wanted to go or wanted to be or wanted to be seen or I wanted to have an experience. What can I do to bring value to your experience? And people can really feel that. And we can really feel when people are not in a productive relationship with us, but they're in a destructive one. Now, what happens if this is your family member? What happens if this is your parent or your partner or your best friend? Yeah, that's really uncomfortable to look at.
That's really uncomfortable to take accountability for yourself and say, shit, have I entered into this relationship in an unhealthy way? Am I enabling the unhealthy dynamics that are going on here? Because as soon as we start to blame the people around us or something outside of us, it's somebody else's fault, you were too mean to me, you weren't nice to me, you didn't come to my aid, you didn't help me when I was in need.
We've already displaced our power. We've already placed our power outside of ourselves. So when you approach the network with give, give, give, give, give, all I'm ever gonna do is give to the network. Even when I am receiving, what comes out of me is I wanna continue to give. And I recognize that this might be very distinctively ego-driven and not everybody may feel this way. But for me, it felt really necessary to give voice to the network and the power available in the network when it's healthy.
Vaness Henry (09:30.53) When everyone in the network wants to give to each other, help one another, you don't actually have to go ask for help because your network is already there seeing you and ready to rush in. So if you're so angry, bitter, frustrated, disappointed with your situation, like why is nobody helping me? Take a beat to self-evaluate. Take a beat to take your power back and take accountability for your role you play within that dynamic.
Because I sometimes hear, be brave, ask for help when you need it. To that I would say, if you feel you do actually have to go and ask for help because no one is there helping you, could there already be an imbalance in that relationship? Could that already be a sign that these people are not my people because they don't even see that I'm in need? And what have I done historically?
to contribute to that? Have I made it seem like I always have it together? Well, that's inauthentic, because none of us do. Have I never opened up to them when there was an opportunity? Am I always just receiving and letting them dump into me? Well, that's not balanced, and that's not sustainable. I think what the four has taught me is there is extreme karma in the network. Man, don't fuck with a fourth line, hey? Like, are you kidding me? I would never. The whole network should come after you.
I really learned this on the rugby field when I was a rugby player and we have this hive mind. And I was a really adept, I was a forward, so I was the person who was in the scrum. And when I would break out of the scrum, I also happened to be really fast. So was like a little secret weapon on the field because I could just run just as fast as the backs, the people who were the runners and tossing the ball to one another. And there was this time where there was a more senior player than me who had injured me.
and I was racing after them on the field. And I was really good at back-tackling, which is you have to be trained on how to do that, because you could really kill someone if you don't tackle them right. So my advantage was you could be ahead of me, but I could catch up to you. And I was strong enough that I could take you down. And then as soon as I've taken you down, the ball's out of play, my team can recover it, we can regain the move. Okay. So I was in a tournament in Calgary and I was running after, I was going to go do a back-tackle, running after this player who was
Vaness Henry (11:48.802) heading towards the line to make her point. And she was more senior than me. She was more experienced than me. And right at the last second when I was about to go tackle her, like grab her by the waist and yank her down, she abruptly turned around and grabbed me by the back of the neck with her free hand and slammed my head into her knee. And I was knocked out cold. I went straight down to the ground snoring.
She got kicked out of the game. She got kicked out of the whole tournament we were in actually. But what happened after? While I was regaining consciousness in the ambulance on the sidelines, my teammates were crying. My teammates were concerned for me. And the hive mind that clicked in once I was out of play, all my teammates were not gonna stand for that. And we...
crushed that team. I say we, but like I wasn't playing anymore, but it was the team I was on. And we won that tournament and we actually won the entire league that year. I played on a team called the Brumbies and I never played rugby again because I couldn't get a doctor's note. After I got knocked out, I wasn't allowed to play again until I had a doctor's note and I have a heart condition. So my doctor was like, why the hell are you playing rugby? No, she wouldn't give it to me.
So I never played again, but the only time I played, I got to witness the extreme power of the network, of the hive mind, of the community coming together karmically for what they stand for or do not stand for. And I won. I never needed to play again and be a loser. It was also way too violent. my God, it was so violent. But it was also an incredible team energy. It was incredible to be surrounded by women who were so powerful on the playing field. These women who would race after each other.
work in unison, be in harmony, make plays together, and have each other's back when shit went down. And yes, sometimes my team was too aggressive towards the other players, but really what stood out after that tournament, after that particular match, was our ability to work together and respect each other and not let anybody fuck with us. It was a really powerful teaching for me. So when I think about the power of the network now, I really like to experiment with
Vaness Henry (14:02.536) only giving to my network, only putting in energy, never ever extracting and taking something out of the network. And if you think that can't work or can't exist, I challenge you to reevaluate because I have seen that to be proven. I have broken up with my network to the point where I was completely alone and had no one else. And your girl ain't resilient. So she was alone. She did break up with everyone. And guess what?
She entered into new relationships with people who treated her with respect because she, I treated them with respect. So that means I had to confront the fact that maybe I wasn't being as respectful as I could be before. Maybe I wasn't taking as much accountability for my own behavior as I really could have. Maybe I wasn't being as responsible with my power as I could be. Because the karma I have learned from the network is they will always rush in and have your back
and take down anyone on the playing field who fucks with you. And when you're in need, they're gonna see it light years ahead of you seeing it. And they're going to rush to your aid before you realize it. So if you're in a situation where no one is rushing to your aid or you're the one who's always rushing in, pause, zoom out and reevaluate. Part of these teachings really helped me move into what I was doing with the wellness club.
The wellness club had started to feel really Virgo driven, really health focused. And as somebody who's a Pisces North node, I was always a little bit intimidated by the mystic persona or the unknown or the void or, you know, eight house shit. That's where my North node is placed, but it's also in Pisces. So Pisces North node in the eighth house, which makes a Virgo South node in the second house of the natal chart.
So as I was sort of leaning into what it would mean for me to, I'm gonna say embrace, become a modern mystic, I needed to reshape some things. I needed to get away from everything sounding so much like the hospital environment or sounding so much like the medical background that I was steeped in as somebody who grew up in hospitals and was really comfortable there.
Vaness Henry (16:23.936) and what would it look like going somewhere else? So I kind of shared with you over the last year, I was doing a lot of examining of my family's heritage and culture as part of wanting to understand where I come from for the sake of being able to pass that information on to my son, especially at a time when certain stories are being deleted or policed. felt oral tradition started to feel really important. And, you know, as I watched...
my Gma or family matriarch pass away, I was confronted with the fact that there were stories of hers that I didn't know and stories that would just kind of go away with her. And it did make me want to be a little bit more adept at oral traditions. So while I was learning about my heritage, I really discovered something that was upsetting to me at first, which was this secret Freemasonry heritage. And I was really alarmed by this because even though these
Details of that was around me as a child. I didn't really know what they meant. Like I remember my grandpa being the potentate at the shrine. I remember the practices of the shrine. I remember the regalia that was worn from the shrine, but I didn't know what that was. That was just like what my family did. And I think a lot of us think things are just normal and happening in our life and we don't realize not everybody else has that experience. At least that was my experience as someone who grew up in a small French village.
Not even a town, it was so small, know, that's pretty sheltered. I didn't know what I didn't know, second line things. And discovering this Freemasonry background was really confronting. It's reserved for men only, even though there are sub-sex all over the world who have practiced with women or sort of have more inclusive spaces that doesn't care what your gender is. But the practice was really about brotherhood. You could say sisterhood. It's about the network, it's about connection. It's about...
making good men better. It's about using your connections. Now we can see that there's a lot that could go wrong there. There could be a lot of extractive things happen or when we make a mistake instead of taking accountability our network might help us cover it up. But we need to recognize that. So while there's all this lore that I was learning about Freemasonry, there was also a lot in it that I just thought was very interesting, such as the Grand Lodge.
Vaness Henry (18:43.532) such as the Blue Lodge, such as this language of inner architecture that was overlapping with my human design studies and my shamanic studies and my feng shui background. So I really allowed my family's own stories to inspire me in this new space. You'll definitely notice new language that I'm using during a time where I feel we do need to come together and be brave, courageous, and bold, and a little bit more empowered.
We're needing this in this time in the world, and I think we can all feel that. We're a part of the generations who are here to help with the breakdown and the rebuild of what our societies are going to be as we define this new world order. And the way this came alive in me was I need to create and initiate a space where I can call in the right people. I want to call in modern mystics specifically.
There have been a lot of people who have started to recognize the way I read the human design body graph and particularly translate the inner architecture, the variable depths. And I would sometimes get emails or DMs when I used to have DMs. They've been shut down for years. But they would kind of say to me like, hey, this is for your data. This is for your collection. And there was nothing really I could do with those stories other than
remember them and share them when the opportunity came up. And part of the four, part of need motivation or wanting view over on the personality side of the body graph is everything that needs to get done gets done through the network. It's not necessarily done through the individual. So what might that look like in practice? What might that look like in real life? And the way I wanted to experiment with that is to not so much focus on private self-study
but welcome people into a space where we could learn respectfully through each other's submissions. So I wanted to create a space where we could each submit our own stories, comment back and forth about our own stories and experiences. I wanted to create the space that was exclusive and private still, because she's always a hermit, you know what I mean? But that allowed us to share with each other. Instead of it just being an isolated,
Vaness Henry (21:12.159) self-study experience. And I started to really play with that when I would host an event that went really well. And I do plan to, when I feel, when it feels right, to do more kind of live events, like, hey, we're all in the call together. But it wasn't necessary to set that up in a predetermined way anymore. What was necessary was to create a space where I could operate correctly, using my own energy and my own urges.
where something could be co-creative and built together, because this is actually a time that we need to come together. It's necessary to find like-minded people that you resonate with to craft and construct your own network. And when we do that, we are more empowered to recognize and take accountability for the dynamic we play in the people we don't resonate with anymore. To me, that is one of the fastest ways towards peace.
And it's only manifestors who are calibrated to a signature of peace. But something that the manifestor community really does think about is like, I know everyone can experience the frequency of peace, but when it's your signature and you're also told, hey, this is the time of the projector, back up, get, move aside. What might that look like in practice? To me, that looks like being a warrior for peace. Cause you can't actually know peace unless you know violence. So what might it look like?
to stand up for peace, to be a warrior for peace. I feel it's required to have a strong network to empower you to actually be able to stand up for peace when it's necessary or when it's called for. So what is within my power to initiate a peaceful, respectful learning space that is co-creative and community driven? And I admit I did not know what that looked like, because I have never done anything like that before. And so it was going to be experimental.
And I had to do a lot of experimenting to find where I could build a space like this. You know, what software do I need? And that took me quite a bit of time. Like once I got the urge and I had accepted I'm going to do this, it was kind of tricky to see what features I needed.
Vaness Henry (23:25.642) It was going to cost me a lot more money and that almost took me out. That was like, do I really want to do this? You know, my current rates don't reflect that this would be possible. I'm going to have to do a price adjustment. But honestly, in my heart, I wanted to be surrounded by people who were ready, who were modern mystics in their own right, who we could speak shared language with and who I could learn through.
And what happened, what was born, was the lodge. The lodge for modern mystics. I needed to get away from that medical language. And so you'll notice woven through everything is language that's feeling more of like a Pisces North node. I knew you were going to have your own altar, your own space. I knew there was going to be a commons, but I had to start trimming some of the existing things that I had made.
Part of my character is I will, I love what I do and I love the subject matter that I'm focused on and I'm always creating different art with that. And what happens is I always reach a point where I've created too much and it's too big and it can't be held in that way. There's always an aspect of recycling, trimming, pruning that does need to happen in my work. I think that's very important to be transparent about. And so over the environment and determination seasons I was doing, I had
tried new features and released new features and they weren't performing the way some of my other stuff had performed. People weren't engaging with experiments as much and I could see where people were going and how they were using with the space through analytics. By the way, sometimes people are like, hi, I haven't logged in and used the space. And I'm like, girl, I can see that you were on here yesterday, the day before. Like I can see what you're doing when you're on there. So don't you lie to me. Don't you lie to me.
could see you, I could see what you're doing. I do want you to know that when you go and see pages or read things or listen to things or you go take an inter-expedition or you're listening to your audios, I can see when you do that. My team can see how you use the space. So I wanted to create an environment that it was even more transparent. I wanted you to be able to go submit your own story so we could all see how you're using the space. And as soon as I invited my Mountaineer testers in,
Vaness Henry (25:51.104) I had selected some mountains people who had been studying and working with me for a long time and I invited them into this space to help me set it up and initiate the space and they started exchanging with each other. Ooh, your boy was getting excited, very excited. And I knew, okay, this does not need to be perfect right out the gate, that's not the point, because I need to get people in here first to see how they're using it so that I'm able to then adjust the features to better meet the need.
So out of the gate, didn't need to be perfect. It needed to have a good kind of baseline set. And now I'm entering the time when people are actually entering and using the Lodge in this new co-creative common space. And I want you to know you can expect this to change slightly. For example, based on some submissions that have come in, like, ooh, am I gonna, we have a symptomology in a superpowers area and people tend to submit in the symptomology more than the superpowers. So I was like, okay, how can I encourage more reflection on
superpowers and seeing that in ourselves. And sometimes people would write about their colors. So I have been musing and wondering, ooh, do I need an area specifically for the environments, specifically for the determination, where you can come share your findings about being a light eater or ask your questions if you're stuck on something or need to vent or if you just need to reflect? The answer is I don't know. I'm going to first see how people are using the space. I thought it would be wiser to start simple and build out later.
since I know I tend to build, build, build, build, build, build, build, build, build, the point of excess, and that's not what's needed anymore. You know, she transfers to fear motivation. So what's actually necessary here? So here's what you can expect in the Lodge. When you log into the Lodge, you're gonna have your own altar page. On your altar, you're able to access features such as latest in virus scope. You're able to access the Oracle Deck, which has 10 modern mystic
cards in it. That's a new addition that I've added. You can also find links to the Commons, links to the library, which I have updated to be a little bit more user-friendly. It's going to seem like it's more of like a podcast style, like playing it. Hopefully that helps navigation and makes it a little bit more user-friendly. And I've also reorganized how those are laid out. So that's just to increase functionality. Hope you like that. If you don't, I don't want to hear about it. I'm a baby.
Vaness Henry (28:15.212) And also you can find inner expeditions and insights in there. What has changed is I removed the features that were not being used as much. I removed the color maps. People felt away about this. People felt away about me taking color maps away. When what you should know is that you are always gonna receive a embodiment map for the environment variable and the determination variable, but we don't embody the personality variables.
So what I had planned to do for the perspective season was to do a gathering where everybody could get each other's perspective. And from there, that's what evolved into the lodge because you can see each other's perspective through here. But the maps were a lot of work and they weren't being accessed and used. So that told me these are in the wrong place. Sure, there were people who checked it out and liked it and they would just watch theirs.
but I thought, hmm, this doesn't belong here, we're gonna remove this because this is not actually a selling feature, even if some people really like it. Even if some people really like it. So I've extracted that and I'm planning to do something else with those, so I'm not quite settled on what that will be yet, so it tells me I don't need to know. If you knew how many things I created and I have just housed in my vault, ooh boy. So I'm always able to pull out cool resources. But what happened was people felt a way.
about losing color maps. I joined only for the color maps. I definitely got emails like that. And in my world, if you couldn't see the value in the new comments and you were hell bent on the color maps going forward, that was just a sign to me that maybe these people don't resonate here and don't necessarily need to come into this new place. After all, they came in expecting that. And so if they want to leave, they can absolutely leave. That is the right thing to do.
But if they do want to come back, they're going to have to come back at the new rate, which has significantly changed. Part of this significant change was there were people who I was charging a low rate to. And I have some karma with this. I used to have something called Human Design Academy, where I would produce new content that explained human design features every month. And you were able to subscribe for $15. You can imagine how that went. I felt taken advantage of. I definitely burnt out. And
Vaness Henry (30:34.926) People treated me like shit. The quote unquote cheaper it was, the more disrespectful people were. And the higher I charged for things, I was met with more respect and a way better high quality engagement. Low and behold, I go do the same thing again and I keep lowering my price. I keep lowering my price. I keep lowering my price. It's a pattern of mine. I wanna actually confess something quite vulnerable to you that I may misstep around.
But I work with a lot of people who are sick. And I'm always quite afraid that I'm gonna take advantage of these people as an ego manifestor. And I reflect that by undercharging. And I'm kind of transparent about that.
But I've had some of my friends really help me work through that and show me why that is actually disrespectful of me to behave that way. Even though I think I'm doing something good or noble or helpful, I don't want to take advantage of anyone. Every time I would receive a payment or somebody wanting to cancel their payment plan, it started to make me angry. And to protect myself from that, I just started sending it to my manager, the lodge manager, Ash, who's been with me for years. And I started to notice through protecting myself, I was just
putting all that shit onto her and she started to get protective of me because through her open heart when she noticed someone taking advantage of me, who we could see they were using all my platforms but they wanted to cancel saying they weren't using anything. It's like, well, you're on a payment plan first of all, you bought that training, you know, you bought that training and you gotta pay for it. And you join the wellness club and you gotta pay for it. You can't tell me that you're not using it because I can see that you're using it.
And I actually didn't have to go do any of that. I'd protected myself from dealing with that. My team did that, but I still saw it causing stress on my team. And so I thought, if somebody doesn't want to be here, I don't want them to be here. And I don't want to have anyone feel trapped, locked, changed. So as I initiated the lodge and set up a new pricing structure that reflected what it's going to cost me to run the space and how I want the space to be used, I set up seasonal payments only at a higher rate.
Vaness Henry (32:50.382) that is cancelable at any time. The intention was you were gonna pay a little bit higher price point and come in and get a totally different experience, way more high touch from me. And also you'll be able to leave whenever it doesn't work for you anymore. You'll also be able to come back whenever you want to. And so in a way it became a more affordable mentorship that was strengthened by the network who is inside of it. That is strengthened by all the different levels of awareness and experience and wisdom that
fellow members have and fellow modern mystics have. I also think it's expected, we can expect, when we make a change, that not everybody's gonna resonate with it. It's not that these people are bad. It's not that they did anything wrong. In fact, maybe they can't afford what's going on now. I highly expect that people will say to me, hey, I can't afford this number. Can you put a payment plan that's less, that's monthly? And the answer is no.
because if I want you to be able to cancel it whenever, I need to be able to get the value in return for the season in order to make it worth it for me. So even though it might not be accessible to the same amount of people, I know that I'll be able to do things throughout the year, run promotions or potentially attract people in other ways, but I have to really get clear on my own value.
the value that the space brings and the value that the network brings by being connected to something like this. My intention in the future is to take all this data of real life stories showing just how incredible our cognitive abilities are and present that to the world to prove something. I imagine I'll only do that when I come off the roof, so I need time, but you can feel the incredible changes.
happening in us and those around us. When telepathy tapes came out, that was wild, right? Whoa, what do we not know? I expect our abilities are gonna start to come online in a big way, and I only, as the journalist, wanna see what those are coming alive in others. The way I'm able to offer support is to share what I've seen in the past, to potentially spark things in the other. But what really will build this cathedral of a co-creative commons?
Vaness Henry (35:06.016) is when you share your experience within it, when you comment on what it is you're reading, when you DM that person and make that connection and maybe they give you reiki or maybe they give you frequency healing or whatever the case may be, it starts to become a productive, co-creative space that becomes a strong network that is never extracting. There's no extraction in the network, because that's only going to attract the kind of karma we do not want. We always add value.
to the network, we always give to the community. And when we do that, there will be a byproduct that comes out. There will be something that takes form. So here are the final things I want you to know about some of the changes that I made. The Wellness Club has been dissolved. I felt I had to really change the name and the branding because it really was a totally new space. And I recognize that that might not feel good for everyone going forward.
and I have deep respect for that. And if it doesn't feel good, I want you to know you're able to not fulfill your original payment plan and you will be able to leave if that feels good for you. I'm not gonna hold you here if you don't wanna be here. But you have to know that if you choose to rejoin, you will be paying a different rate. I do also want you to know that it's a seasonal rate.
that you're able to cancel at any time, you're in full control. I'm not doing any of that back and forth. Even though putting someone on a payment plan gives me a sort of financial security, I'm trusting that the right people will come in and the cathedral will be built with those who are called. So there's a new commons where you're able to set up your own profile, set up your own chamber. And in that space, I've created kind of like a little player card for you where you'll be able to select your superpower.
your realm of origin, your feeding style. You'll be able to select some features. I've loved seeing people set their profile and cover picture. I've loved seeing people set their tagline. That has been so rewarding, so exciting. I get so excited to go in and see what is being shared and how people are setting things up. I notice badges. So you can earn badges in this space. You get one as soon as you go in. It shows that you're a new mystic, you're a new member.
Vaness Henry (37:29.166) But also you'll notice there are mountaineers in the space. There are very few mountaineers. These are people who through their elevated perspective helped me initiate this space. They were some of the first ones in and they were helping me find flaws or helping create submissions. And I didn't realize that I had selected only mountains people. So that's why I ended up giving them the badge of mountaineers. So if you happen to see a mountaineer, that's what that means.
There's also inner expeditionists or experienced expeditionists, I should say. These are people who've been journeying with me for a very long time. And they are quite adept at navigating the playing field of life within. They've conquered towers. They have found a spiritual team. They've actually adjusted their work in the world. So if you see that badge, that's what that is kind of pointing to. And when you hover over any badge, you'll be able to see more information.
Now, as you continue journeying and you continue journaling your experience, you may earn that badge. And I've created an expedition log area. Nobody has posted in this at the time of this recording, but I've just released the Amulets of Power Expedition. This is an autumn expedition that I always do, and it helps you find through creatures, through guardians within where you're going to receive these amulets. It's been a community favorite in the past, and...
Part of what I wanted to do with that is to give you a space where you could share your journey, your expedition. Because sometimes a part of that experience, as you're learning to trust your imagination and what you saw, you might feel overcome to get it out of you and share it with someone, but I don't know where to go to share this with someone. That's what this space is for. There are also some people where you may feel too vulnerable doing that and sharing, so you don't have to. That is just set out for you if you feel called.
but please know that I will read your expedition log and I will comment on it and others may as well as we help you translate what it is you saw and excavated within. So I'm really quite excited about that. You'll also see some admin badges that lets you know who's on my team and who helps out with things. You'll be able to reach out for help to anybody like that. There's also a scribe badge. Nobody has unlocked this yet, but this is assigned after you've been commenting and posting on other people's articles.
Vaness Henry (39:50.2) I've also noticed that there's been a little bit of confusion on how to actually submit something in the Symptomology or Superpowers archives. So I just little opportunity to speak to that. I created these templates. I created these posts in each category for each cognition and each superpower, just so you could see how to do it. And sometimes people would comment on that post with their own share. That's fine. My intention, however, was that you would actually be able to submit your own article.
you'd be able to submit your own post. You you need your own space. You don't need to just comment on one of mine. You get your own article to write. So when you're in the symptomology page or the expedition page, or excuse me, the expedition log, I should say, or the superpowers page, you're actually able to create and post your own article. There's a red button that says add article. And when you click that, you'll be taken to a post, a posting area where you can give your post a title.
You can add a photo if you want. You can share your thoughts in the content. And I ask that you tag it. You tag it with whatever those features are in your design. Whether you're sharing something about your cognition or you're sharing about someone else's that you've witnessed. Because not all of us can see ourself, but whoa, we recognize a beautiful moment in our child or our friend or our partner. And I want you to feel like you have somewhere to go.
If you forget tagging, don't worry about it. My team will come in and be checking and we will tag things if there needs to be adjustments and we're just there to kind of support you. Just when we're all learning how to use the space, there might just be some reclassification that we do just to help you so that other people can receive benefit from the really awesome thing that you shared. And even though we can only post in the Expedition Log, Symptomology and Superpowers Now,
I am watching to see what new needs might pop up based on the way we're exchanging. So you can expect that there will be some adjustments going forward as I recognize what our community of lodgers needs. So I'm thinking about new features or the tagging potential that we could do, right? Because maybe we can just set up things with certain tagging, but I'm going to need more time to evaluate that, probably a season.
Vaness Henry (42:07.256) So this is a really awesome experimental season where we get to use the space together and build it out to see what happens and what it becomes. And you can expect when we go into the next season that I'll be making these adjustments. I'm not going to be structuring things, new content each season anymore, such as this is a determination season, this is an environment season, this is a perspective season, this is a motivation season. Because actually my community didn't respond to that the way that I thought they would.
And you might be listening to this and be like, I liked that. But actually, on average, the majority did not. And so that's actually what I am reacting to. It was unnecessary to divide up the space that way. Instead, people wanted to learn about whatever they wanted to learn about. And I actually just really want to respect that and facilitate the right environment where that can unfold. Another change has been to insights.
You know, I like to feature a lot of the same people. I want you to know who's in my ear. I want you to see who the modern mystics are out there and what they're doing. And I started to recognize that what actually would be best for these people that I was inviting in and having these great conversations with was to not keep that isolated in a private space, but to share their brilliance with the world. So an adjustment that I made going forward in insights, anytime I do a solo insight like this, you can expect it's going to be private. I don't need this on display to the world. No, thank you.
But when I do an interview with someone, there's gonna be some features that are private and for you only, such as the transcripts or the actual picture of their color palette that we're observing them through, which you can find on Insights on my website. But if you are somebody who listens on your podcast platform, you're not gonna be able to see those features, but you're just able to listen to it in a way that accommodates you, whether you listen on Spotify, whether you listen...
on Apple or some other platform, you're able to pull the pod onto any platform that really works for you. Should you leave the lodge, you will no longer have access to those insights and when you rejoin, you'll need to regain access to those insights. Two weeks after the insight drops, I'm releasing it to my YouTube channel in video format. Now this video format might be a little bit different. There may not be all the things that we talked about in the original insight.
Vaness Henry (44:26.072) but that was a way for me to put my own network on display and say, hey, look how brilliant this person is. And I felt that that was actually what was better for my guest. Yes, my guests come in and they're able to use certain resources or have a fun conversation or whatever, whatever value they were getting out of it. But I felt I could provide more value to them. So I decided to follow in the footsteps of Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of my fave bros.
And part of what he does on StarTalk is if you're a paid member, you get some of their content first. And then as time goes by, it then releases to the public. And so I really just wanted to do some modeling around that while keeping some things kind of locked, tucked away and special. Now, as a fellow modern mystic, my specialty and my shamanic art form are inter-expeditions. This is something unique to me. This is something that I've designed over my, I'm gonna call it career. Ooh.
over last 15 years. This is based on my personal shamanic practice. Classical shamanic journeying happens with drumming. I'm trained through the foundation of shamanic studies and I have a private Lakota mentor. J.C. is his name, Juan Carlo, and he is my primary mentor through that space. Even though I go do studies with other, I'm going to call them teachers and people all over the world, there is one person that I kind of let
school me sometimes, I'm gonna say. But he's very charmed by me too. We have a very great relationship. And so I, through that encouragement, I make my own art. And I've had other mentors along the way. had a Prairie mentor named Susan as well, who was a university instructor and social worker and shaman.
I don't want to bypass her teachings because she did a lot of the shaping before I came to the Okanagan when I was in the prairies. And through her teachings and her practices is where I actually learned that drumming wasn't enough audio stimulation for me. And even though that's, you know, classic journey work, I felt like I needed more help. I could journey through the drum beat, but I just wanted something more cinematic.
Vaness Henry (46:42.226) And once I started learning about being a high sound person 10 years ago is when I really started experimenting with these cinematic audios that the intention there was to sweep someone away on their emotions in a way that would bypass the intellect. Because the biggest barrier with journeying is it's really the imagination. There's a huge, huge collective wound to the imagination. If we can't imagine it, we can't manifest it. We can't move into it.
And so inter-expeditions really is a deep, deep remedy to a wounded imagination. There's been people who worked with me for years before they actually could journey. And I noticed that more and more people are really able to now. More and more people have experience with shamanism, journeying, or meditation, or visualization, and that just really helps them participate in this practice. And because this is kind of my bread and butter, and it's the thing that I've always tucked in the background of my work,
Ever since I've ever been in human design, I've never done human design without journeying. I've only ever done those things together. And you usually hear me talk about astrology as well, because that's one of my favorite languages. So now, instead of just tucking it in the background, I did want to start pulling more focus to this. I have been like redesigning them, because again, it's my art and I love to perfect it I always revisit and I always make new things. And I like to make new seasonal expeditions.
just to keep it fresh and fun and to help unfold more areas of the playing field of life within you. But I want to bring more focus to this and more journeying together because that really is part of the deepest frequency healing available to us right now. And time and time again, I'm so moved by the shares and the cathartic crying and the experiences that people share with me. You may have read my Signs and Omens page. That is
open to the public on my website. And that's actually for journeying. That's actually for when you go into your inner world and you see a lion or you see a piece of sage or you see a rose quartz or you see whatever you see, smoke on the mountain. That guy, that legend of omens was there to help you translate what you were experiencing there. And though people would sometimes have their journey and have their experience and build that trust with their imagination based on what they were seeing,
Vaness Henry (49:02.306) They didn't always know what it meant. And so after they would go translate, that often started to facilitate a lot of crying or a lot of release. So there is this aspect of needing to share, needing to get it out of you, needing to translate to find meaning. And of course, what started to happen a year ago, I started doing land journeys and encouraging people to do one of these inter expeditions, but be awake and go walk outside and notice the landscape around you. And after that happened, I really, really started just
kind of being more open about the signs and omens in the world. And now some of the things I get posted and reshared the most about are people seeing a spider in the wild or a snake in the wild and they go and they read my omens. Some history and some karma about that. I've written those. Those translations come from me based on things I've seen and excavated in my own world over the past 15 years. And I have had experiences in the past.
where people thought I didn't write that and they completely stole my entire translation and sold it for some of their, I'm gonna say, art they were making. And the only reason I found out about it was because there were people who were already in my network who had gone and purchased these things from these other people, happened a total of three times. And in some of my translations, it says inter-expeditions. And so people recognized that was my language and then showed me, hey, I...
this course with so-and-so and they're using your library. it was so hard to reach out to those people. was so hard. And I got so discouraged from it. And for a time, I took that all away. I didn't let anybody access it. I was so offended, I'm going to say, that I was doing this thing, giving this thing, that it would be stolen. It kind of broke my heart. And I needed time to get over it, you know? And so what I chose to do after that,
because like the only way someone could have taken it from me, like my omens and everything was, sorry, was, excuse me, let me back up. That was locked away. That was hidden when I first did that. That was like, you're in a program with me or you're learning with me. So that meant someone who had paid me had taken it and shared it because they thought, this isn't, didn't write this. This is just from whatever. Even that would have been wrong anyway, but you know, plagiarism. So I felt betrayed.
Vaness Henry (51:27.278) by my network, you know, I felt heartbroken and that's really hard for me. But that's what I was going through at that time, right? I had entered into unhealthy dynamics and I needed to take my power back. So you know what I did? I made it free. I gave it away. I put it online. Anyone can translate these. Anyone can use this. But if you want to do a journey with me, that's going to happen over here. So I've been all summer writing a crystal library.
You know, in a past life, I had a company called Roguewood Supply where I sold crystals and I had a massive crystal library where people would translate their stones with me. This was kind of my claim to fame. I had a really successful website of people just using my transformations, or excuse me, using my translations. I tend to build libraries of information. I tend to build resources like that. Freemason background, know, steeped into the body, steeped into the ancestral line, can't help who I am.
but I burned down that whole Crystal Library, closed that business, I burned everything, deleted everything. So that took me a long time to rebuild. And I approach it a little bit differently. Like I tend to write these translations, I give some keywords, I write a kind of a small paragraph. But for my Crystal Library, that should be open by the time this comes out, but if it's not, it will be out soon.
part of that was wanting to add practical uses. Like how do you actually use these stones? So whether it shows up in your, whether like a rose quartz shows up in your inner world or whether someone gifts you a piece of tiger's eye, like whatever it is, or whether you seek out a stone yourself, how do you actually use it? So I followed my traditional way of creating these omens, keywords, a small paragraph, but then I've included practical uses. I've included what energy centers that you might want to use these stones with.
where to place them in your home sometimes, if the stone is appropriate for that, where to place it on your body and what center it connects to, if it's appropriate for that. So I'm really excited for you to see that. It's taken me longer than I thought. And it's supposed to go with the Amulets of Power expedition, you know? It was supposed to come out last year, but I guess I needed more time. So that is also a big change that's available. And I plan to do some kind of fun things with that. And I hope you enjoy that when you see that. Over the summer, I...
Vaness Henry (53:51.864) took some time off from like kind of publicly sharing. My social media manager was kind of running things for me. I was making some art and building some things privately, but I needed to experiment with like maintaining some kind of presence online to see how that would go. And I didn't grow at all over summer. And as soon as I started backing off, I started to grow again. So it's like, why do I post so much? I don't have to. And I was, the reason I needed to pull away and hide.
I told you in my final quarter, that's what I tend to do. But I was pretty nervous about how I was gonna feel, because I knew I was gonna have some big kind of karmic things happening with my 20 year anniversary, with my nodal return, just with what was going on. And I had approached my friend Jazz to do the show on YouTube, Everything is Spiritual, because I was pretty nervous and I needed...
a safe person to make art with to help me kind of process my experiences, whether that was directly or indirectly. And I wanted it to have a really spiritual undertone. And she's one of my most spiritually inclined muses. is really a brilliant, beautiful person and someone I have deep love for, someone who I am so grateful to be in connection with and have in my network. And she really did hold me through this kind of vulnerable time.
And so if you've not seen the Everything is Spiritual show yet, I really want to encourage you to go check that out. It has its own channel, Everything is Spiritual Talk Show. It comes out weekly and it began in summer. It began in summer of 2025 and it will run into November of this year. And then we will kind of take a break and reevaluate. And there's been just an awesome, amazing community show up in the comments on YouTube. You know me, so scared of the comments.
And I was reminded that yes, while there can be chaos in the world, when we come together, man, there's some beautiful people in the world. So if you're listening to this and you took the time to watch that show and comment on anything, I want you to know just how much I deeply appreciate that because the reason I created that show is I needed to help myself process with a really close companion who could hold my heart, could hold my grief.
Vaness Henry (56:07.598) Sometimes we talk about these deep things before we even hit record, like what's going on with us. And it has become just a real touchstone during a season of vulnerability. And so if there's ever any art that you wanna make in the world, but you feel scared about it, I really wanna encourage you to follow your heart and listen to your body. Listen to your motherfucking body. So beautiful, so amazing.
That's what we're here to do and we're here to do it together and I only want to champion you and encourage you to listen to your body, love your body, respect your body. And when things feel like a no for you, I hope you deeply respect that as well. So if you're listening to this and I've said things and you're like, I'm not resonating with this space anymore, I want you to know I deeply respect that and I want you to listen to yourself. I want you to listen to yourself. You're not gonna have any ill will from me. Your boy's in peace, your girl's in peace. Your person over here is in her peace frequency.
And I trust that you're gonna feel that on the other side. So may you go forth and be well with whatever is happening for you in this new chapter of life, new stories are being told. I can't wait to hear about them in the Lodge's comments. We'll see how we're able to accommodate that for you. Like I would love if you could just post to your own page. Like you have your own profile and maybe you just wanna like share a thought. So I wonder if I can accommodate that. If you like that, I trust you'll let me know. If you have cool ideas, please feel free to reach out to Ash on our management team, mgmt@vanessehenry.com. The reason I'm directing you there is because I'm not a responder and if you send it to Ash, there's a better chance that I'm actually gonna get it. So you're able to send to us, hey, this would be cool. Hey, what about that? Or I had this thought, please feel free, please feel free. This is a co-creative space and you can expect it will change as we get your feedback coming in on some of the features you wanna see.
And if you're missing some of the features I took away, I get it, I understand. Girl, boy, I understand. They, them, whatever, I understand. But I also trust that you're gonna see the strategy and why I did that. I'm not gonna put my energy into something that's not being used. And I still have those things and I may do something with them in the future. My color maps, for example, experiments, for example, challenges, for example. But also the majority didn't like that, so.
Vaness Henry (58:21.644) When we go through eclipses, some things don't come with us, and that was some of the things that I wasn't able to bring forward. But I hope that you're able to see the new value in having a space where we can learn together and share with each other, because that's actually the kind of shit that's gonna change the world. I will see you over in the Lodge Commons. You can expect that I will be commenting on your articles that you submit. You can expect that I might DM you sometimes, and I can't wait to assign.
Some really awesome and cool badges onto your profile so other people can see and recognize all the value that you're bringing to our shared space. All I ask is that you meaningfully engage with the material and you meaningfully engage with the space that I've created for you.
