EP322: Money Isn’t Real! Auras, Worth & the 5D Mindset

Summary

Know Your Aura with Mystic Michaela

Episode 322: Money Isn’t Real! Auras, Worth & the 5D Mindset

Release Date: May 28, 2026
Host: Mystic Michaela
Guest/Co-host: Scotty

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Overview:

This episode delves into the energetic and spiritual concepts of money, exploring how our "aura colors" affect our attitudes toward wealth, self-worth, and abundance. Mystic Michaela frames money through the lens of 3D (physical/ego-based existence) versus 5D (soul/higher consciousness), ultimately challenging the conventional meanings of value and worth. She and Scotty discuss cultural, historical, and personal paradigms of money, connecting these ideas back to different aura personalities, and giving listeners tools and validation for navigating financial stress—especially in tough economic times.

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Episode Structure

• Introduction to Money in the 3D and 5D
• Societal & Historical Context of Money
• Money as a Mirror of Self-worth
• Economic Anxiety and Systems of Entrapment
• Aura Colors & Money Patterns
• Personal Stories and Anecdotes
• Birdwatching "Big Year" Overtime Segment

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1. Introduction: Money, Energy & the 3D vs 5D Mindset

Starts around 00:07

• Defining 3D and 5D:

  • 3D is “our physical reality, biological needs, ego, survival, and social constructs.” (Mystic Michaela, 00:39)
  • 5D is “the world of our souls… higher concepts like love, compassion, empathy, understanding abundance for everyone.” (00:55)

• Money in These Realms:

  • Money is described as "the most 3D thing society has come up with." (Scotty, 01:56)
  • Mystic Michaela frames money as “a tool for survival” that has become “outside of yourself.” (02:06–02:44)

Notable Quote:

“Money’s not real. It is real. It is, but then it’s not real… they’ve put us in this spot where we are just outsourcing ourselves to this 3D ego projection of worth.”
—Mystic Michaela (04:39–05:07)

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2. The Social Role of Money & Its Constructed Value

History & Social Analysis at 02:14–03:29

• Historical context: From bartering to complete dependency on monetary systems.

• Money becomes increasingly abstract (“not even paper… numbers on your phone,” 02:43).

• Discussion on dependency and how modern society removes self-sufficiency, creating more “entrapment.”

• The 3D system is enforced by societal beliefs—“if we all woke up tomorrow and decided this paper is worth nothing, it’s worth nothing.” (Scotty, 06:16)

• Systemic inequality: Hard to transcend socioeconomic boundaries; belief systems and lived realities impact access to wealth (07:00–08:20).

Notable Quote:

“The whole system is created to keep us down and scrambling and scurrying and hustling and so preoccupied that we can’t work on ourselves to further ourselves in ways that actually help.”
—Mystic Michaela (10:04)

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3. Money, Self-Worth, and the Aura Mirror

Money as a Reflection of Self-Image at 07:00–08:20

• Money’s presence (or lack) can perpetuate self-esteem loops.
• “Money is like this universal mirror: very dependent on the subconscious thoughts and agreements you already hold on yourself.”
  —Mystic Michaela (07:00)
• Challenges in altering economic status/circumstances: deeply rooted in both personal beliefs and social conditioning.
• No simple solution—validation is key (“I don’t own the labels they give me,” 11:07).

Notable Quote:

“Release yourself from any sort of guilt… If you can’t do it, it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.”
—Mystic Michaela (10:20)

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4. Economic Anxiety: “In This Economy?!”

Tackling societal pressure and shared struggles at 08:26–10:00

• The phrase “in this economy” evokes a collective stress and unites people.
• Emphasis on how societal pressure can breed comparison, self-blame, and guilt—especially when facing financial hurdles not of one’s own making.

5. The System Is Stacked

Reality checking the challenge at 10:51–12:15

• The “house rules” are built to keep us in place (Scotty, 10:58).
• Expense after expense (insurance rant), constant pressure to spend, and “every minute of every day there is someone or something trying to take this money from you.” (Scotty, 12:44)

Notable Quote:

“Every single minute of every single day there is someone or something trying to take this money from you to keep you in that same position.”
—Scotty (12:44)

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6. The Aura Colors & Money: Patterns, Approaches & Pitfalls

(Main segment begins ~16:16 with deep dives for each color from ~16:59–33:33)

Greens

Timestamps: 17:09–19:36

• Logical spending—even if logic is personal.
• Investing/planning and systems feel fun—not boring.
• When balanced: Money flows when focused on challenge/passion.
• Enough is subjective, ranging from minimalism to abundance.

Yellows

19:48–21:16

• Spenders but also meticulous budgeters.
• "Creative logic" justifying purchases (ex: retail therapy, self-improvement).
• Spending is often tied to projects or self-betterment.

Blues

21:17–22:34

• Overspend on gifts or support for others, rarely for themselves.
• Joy in giving, not in owning; sometimes travel/spend only when it serves others.

Indigos

22:36–24:52

• Strong “buyer’s remorse” or guilt after self-spending.
• Prefer supporting small businesses or causes.
• Will spend for convenience (delivery) due to exhaustion or keeping peace.
• Value anonymity and minimal social interaction (leave delivery at door jokes).

Purples

24:54–26:43

• Most likely to ignore the concept of money as real—“Why would I not go to Paris because of numbers?” (25:01)
• Tend toward all-or-nothing: ignoring budgets or, occasionally, hyper-managing.
• Need moderation in budgeting or “purples bomb” (overspending after restraint).

Turquoises

26:43–29:10

• All-in on 5D: excellent sharers, less susceptible to consumer “entrapment.”
• May hyper-fixate: when interested, spend excessively for that interest.
• Sharing focus makes them less attached to ownership.

Pinks

29:11–30:52

• Utterly unbothered by money’s reality—“joy bubble” around finances.
• If they spend more, they expect more to return (law of attraction works best).
• Resistant to external advice; have to “block out” the 3D world to preserve their vibe.

Reds

30:52–35:37

• Motivated by competition; want to “beat the system.”
• Question everything; skeptical of traditional financial advice/paths.
• Dislike looking “cheap,” spend readily on priorities; question daily expenditures.
• Risk taking differs: some conservative in investments.
• Value tangible outcomes or earned experiences (“having your own hands in something”).
• Inner tension between 3D practicality and 5D detachment.

Notable Quotes:

“Money’s not real. It’s not real… Why would I not go to Paris? That’s so silly to control my experience in life because of fake, fake money.”
—Mystic Michaela (Purples, 25:00–25:21)

“You guys don’t like to look cheap…if it’s important you’ll just spend it, but in daily life it’s a lot of questioning every purchase, every idea, every bill.”
—Mystic Michaela (Reds, 33:09–33:33)

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7. Validating Everyone's Struggle

Theme: “Don’t Feel Bad” about financial circumstance (35:37–36:08)

• The core message: You are not your bank account.
• “It’s a system… very 3D. In the 5D, everyone has the same. It’s so confusing.”
  —Mystic Michaela (35:54–36:08)

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8. Overtime Segment: Birdwatching, Competition & “Big Year”

Timestamps: 37:52–47:48

• The Big Year: Scotty’s fascination with the competitive/“honor system” world of birdwatching. Plans for a family “Big Year” in 2034, with playful ribbing about rules and app use.
• Connections to Aura: Mysticism vs. competition, and differing priorities within the same supposedly “shared” activity (Scotty wants to win, Michaela wants to ID birds).
• Family, Play & Joy: Threading in how even in leisure and hobbies, the personalities and aura energies discussed find real manifestation.

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Highlights & Memorable Quotes

On Money’s Illusion & Power:

“If we all tomorrow wake up and say, ‘hey, money’s not real,’ Jeff Bezos becomes equivalent to you… which he really is. Not better than you on the 5D plane.”
—Scotty & Mystic Michaela (06:08–06:15)

On Societal Traps:

“Every single minute of every single day there is someone or something trying to take this money from you to keep you in that same position.”
—Scotty (12:44)

On Economic Anxiety:

“The whole system is created to keep us down and scrambling and scurrying and hustling and so preoccupied that we can’t work on ourselves to further ourselves in ways that actually help.”
—Mystic Michaela (10:04)

On Auras & Money Styles:

“Yellows: They budget to be a spender. It’s creative logic—for anything self-improvement based or a project.”
—Mystic Michaela (19:49–21:16)

“Blues probably spend too much on gifts for other people—they actually don’t like spending on themselves, but love spending for others, for the joy.”
—Mystic Michaela (21:17–21:53)

“Purples: Money’s not real…They ignore it or hyper-manage it, but can’t go cold turkey—have to allow little treats.”
—Mystic Michaela (24:54–26:43)

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Key Takeaways

• Money is a construct tied to both real survival needs (3D) and higher spiritual self-worth (5D).
• Societal systems are intentionally fear-based and designed to reinforce economic layers and dependency.
• Your aura color helps explain your subconscious money behaviors—from logical strategy to joyful impulsivity.
• Economic anxiety is real and widely shared, but does not reflect your ultimate worth or “rightness.”
• Compassion, release of guilt, and validation are essential, alongside practical action where possible.

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Useful Timestamps

• [00:39] – Explanation of 3D vs 5D
• [03:29] – Societal evolution of money and dependency
• [06:08] – Philosophical challenge: “If money’s not real…”
• [10:20] – Validating economic anxiety as non-personal
• [16:59–33:33] – Detailed color-by-color aura approach to money
• [37:52–47:48] – Overtime: “Big Year” birdwatching family plans

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Tone & Style

Consistently conversational, validating, empathetic, and playful—balancing spiritual insight with practical, humorous, and occasionally rant-filled dialogue.

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For Listeners:

This episode is all about untangling your sense of worth from your financial circumstance, recognizing the designed obstacles in our economic system, and understanding your unique energetic approach to money. Whether you’re struggling, thriving, or just confused by money's odd hold on society, this episode offers both comfort and insight—through the unique lens of aura colors and soul wisdom.

Transcript

[Scotty]

Foreign.

[Mystic Michaela]

Spiritual family. Welcome to Know youw Aura with mystic Michaela. Today we are talking about your aura and the energy of money. How the two communicate, how we can get the messages from the universe in different ways, monetarily. But first. Hey, Scotty.

[Scotty]

Hey, guys.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right, so first I'm going to talk about money in the 3D and money in the 5D.

[Scotty]

Okay, so let's just review for people like me who need the review. 3D versus 5D. What's 3D? What's 5D?

[Mystic Michaela]

3D. To me, the way I use that term, other people might use it different, is that's our physical reality. Okay? We're biological beings. We're souls stuffed in these human biological bodies. And we have needs. We have needs that require food and, you know, housing and social constructs and whatever.

[Scotty]

And.

[Mystic Michaela]

And it's hard because our soul self and our 3D self, which is more ego projected, don't always agree. So our ego projection is society. That is the 3D. So that's the way our government's set up, or the institutions of school, or just how we exchange ideas and services. It's all very 3D in this world. And that's why things can feel superficial or not real or. Or not fair or not abundant, because that's the 3D. Now, the 5D is the world of our souls, which actually exists all the time, just in a different plane, in a plane we can't see, but in one that we definitely connect with with kind of the higher concepts like love and compassion and empathy and understanding that, you know, there's abundance for everybody and we're all worth something because we're. We're light and we're here. So. So that's more the 5D. So it's just coming together and understanding, what is money in the 3D, and what is it actually in the 5D?

[Scotty]

Well, when I think of the 3D, there's nothing more 3D than money. Money is probably the most 3D thing that our system, our society has come up with, correct?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, 100%. So the way I think about it is money has been become this tool for survival.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know, like maybe we used to. This is my very sad history going

[Scotty]

back to the Sumerians.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, right. Like, if you think about it, we used to be responsible. All right? You farm, you hunt, you gather, you create, you make. You know, you bring your own survival to yourself with your skills and your energy and your effort. Now you have to go outside of yourself, earn paper. Use that. Now, it's not even Paper. Earn like numbers on your phone, you know, link to your bank account.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Earn that somehow and, and then use that. So it's like become kind of like an outside of yourself so that you can buy these things that we used to be able to do ourselves.

[Scotty]

Right. Okay. So yeah, if we go back in history, let's say we go back to the Sumerians and then you were self sufficient, so you did everything. Let's say you were just a farmer or whatever. At some point you probably did most things yourself, but then you might have needed a few things. So they came up with a system called like barter. Barter system.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

So maybe you would have traded your service for someone else's service.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

But then eventually, over time and after many years of civilization, basically people could either do one skill or now they could do no skill for themselves. And now they have to actually purchase everything.

[Mystic Michaela]

So there's more dependence, more dependency. Right.

[Scotty]

So like, you know, I'm not a plumber. If I need, you know. Well, I do try to fix things myself here.

[Mystic Michaela]

We sure do try.

[Scotty]

Right. But if I can't do it right, I'm going to have to hire someone to come to my house, give their time, you know, drive here and then I pay them with the paper, whatever you want to call it. Paper.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, exactly. So it's, it's, it they've taken it's money in the 3D has become this entrapment.

[Scotty]

Correct.

[Mystic Michaela]

Because they've taken us outside of ourselves to get things done.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

And in the 5D, you know, it's more of a spiritual construct. It's kind of a way, it's one of the many ways the universe will use to communicate back to you what your overall idea already is of yourself. So I guess money is like very necessary for physical life. Obviously. Like, like sometimes some spiritual people will be like money's, you know, manifest. It just comes like no, money is definitely necessary to survive, you know, and, and I'm, I would never discredit that. But also two things can be true. It's very tied to, to spiritual constructs and it's super duper a mirror of your own self esteem, how you think about yourself, how you think the world works. It's so tied to how money comes to you in the same way. Yeah, like money's not real. It is real. It is, but then it's not real. But it's not, but it's. So they've put us in this spot where we are just, I guess outsourcing ourselves to like this. This 3D ego projection of worth, if that makes sense.

[Scotty]

Yeah, that really does make sense. I. I mean, I never knew, like, the difference between 3D and 5D until we started doing this podcast.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

But I would actually say this might be weird for a red. That I actually take a more of a 5. I've always had the 5D approach to money. I always knew that this money is ridiculous. I always would. You know, I always tell my students, and I always, like, if we all wake up tomorrow and we all consciously just say, this paper is worth nothing. It is worth nothing. It is worth nothing, then everything becomes equal. We all become equivalent. Wow. Meaning, like, the only thing that keeps. Like I say, we'll just say billionaires and multi. Multimillionaires in their spot in society with all the power is I was giving it over to them because of this thing created this thing called money.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

But if we all tomorrow would wake up and say, hey, money's not real.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Jeff Bezos becomes equivalent to you.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

Which he really is. Equivalent to you.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. He already is. Not better than you on the 5D plane.

[Scotty]

Right. On the 5.

[Mystic Michaela]

And that's.

[Scotty]

I've always had that approach to it. I didn't understand it because I didn't know what the 5D was, but it always bothered me. And I always say, maybe one day we'll all just wake up and money's meaningless. But we have to collectively, of course, do that. It's not gonna happen. Unfortunately, we're not all waking up tomorrow. But truly, it is something that just keeps you in a spot that's like,

[Mystic Michaela]

in our soul identities. Money is meaningless. It's really weird.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

And I've always felt that that's why a lot of. I feel like highly intuitive and spiritual people or a lot of people who lead with the empath auras, they ignore money. They're like, I don't know. I don't care. Like, this experience is worth way more than what my bank account says.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Which is really great for the 5D, but really not good for the 3D. So the balance can be hard. Yeah, it can be really hard. And the other thing is, like, money is like this universal. It's like a mirror. So it's very dependent on the subconscious thoughts and agreements you already hold on yourself. So considering this is why people who have money keep it and don't stay that way, you. It's really hard to jump into a different socioeconomic class, and that's because of a lot of different things, but mentality and Also, ideas on money and idea and how you're treated by society can also give you, well, I'm only worth this much, or it only works out for me because I. I'm this race or gender or class, and so I only should get this much. So it's such a mirror that it agrees with you and it will give you what you expect. But it's really hard to pop out of that in the 3D mindset at the same time, because that is how things work in the 3D. It does matter who you are, what you look like, where you're from and how you get treated. That is the truth, unfortunately. Whereas in the 5D, the dark, it doesn't matter. But, you know, we're here, so it's confusing. And I don't even have like a crazy solution except just validating it.

[Scotty]

Yeah, right. I don't. I don't think there is an answer to that. But it's just what's been created.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes, but I guess how do we try to free ourselves a bit? And this is where I wanted to talk about. In this economy. In this economy.

[Scotty]

In this economy. In this economy, with gas at $4.55, it's so weird. Like, gas unites people, gas prices unite people.

[Mystic Michaela]

What is that?

[Scotty]

I don't know what it is, but for some reason, when gas hits a certain point, right, everybody is united and all of a sudden we all hate the other side, right?

[Mystic Michaela]

It's like, you know what? We all agree on this. Yeah.

[Scotty]

It's like, you know, politicians could do this, this, this and this. I know, you know, some people will say a peep and other people will just say nothing, right? But when it comes to gas prices. Yeah, whatever. I don't understand. I wish I know the answer to this, but we all unite on it.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's true.

[Scotty]

And then we all get upset.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's true. I think a lot of people were like, upset before that, but for some,

[Scotty]

then the other people come in, then

[Mystic Michaela]

all of a sudden, like, like the fringe are. Like.

[Scotty]

The fringe.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, right.

[Scotty]

Like, yeah, I don't.

[Mystic Michaela]

So what is it? This segment is called in this Economy. In this Economy, if you say that at any time, in any social situation, it just can start a whole thing.

[Scotty]

Okay?

[Mystic Michaela]

But yeah, so in this economy, so here, right now, everything is flipping expensive. And that's why I wanted to do this episode, honestly, because I need you all to know, and I know you know this, but I really need you, like, really to know this. Like, I really want you. I really want you to hear this money is not real. And your identity has nothing to do with what your bank account says. Especially. Especially. And it's nowhere more visible than now. Like, if you can't afford a house, that doesn't mean you suck as a person or you did something wrong.

[Scotty]

No.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know, the whole system is created to keep us down and scrambling and scurrying and hustling and so preoccupied that we can't work on ourselves to further ourselves in ways that actually help.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

So release yourself from any sort of guilt. Like, oh, I can't afford to send my kid to this school, or, I can't afford to live in this neighborhood, or I can't afford to have these shoes that all the other kids have to fit in. Like, yes, it's in the 3D. These things matter because they help us fit in or open the door, sometimes in different places or provide experiences that we might need to further ourselves in the 3D. But if you can't do it, it doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. I just need to know that.

[Scotty]

Yeah. And from a 3D perspective, it's stacked against you. The odds are not in your favor.

[Mystic Michaela]

House rules.

[Scotty]

Yeah, the house rules. It's difficult to get out of the level that you were, I guess, born into.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's really hard. It's really hard to sit there. And when you kind of take, I guess, an observing approach to it, you're like, whoa. Like, just. It can really depress you, but you can free yourself of it by saying, I don't own it. I don't own the labels that they're trying to give me to keep me, you know, productive for their sake, not mine. You know, I refuse. My freedom comes in. I don't want that. I don't need it. I don't own it. You know, Like, I don't own that label. And it's harder for some aura colors than others to wrap their head around, which we're going to get into.

[Scotty]

Yeah. I think we're going to go through all the colors in this. Yeah. No, it is difficult. I mean, just from looking at the 3D. I mean, it is designed to keep you in. In place. I mean, if you think about it with all. I mean, every day, every minute of every day, unless you're indigo and hiding under your covers, people are trying to take the money from you. Someone. Even when you watch TV now, I was watching, like, you know, show on Amazon, on Prime. Yeah, Prime. And then all of a sudden there pops up, like, buy Tide. Like, all you have to do is press the button and you get tide delivered to your door, everyone.

[Mystic Michaela]

So get ready for this rant.

[Scotty]

So even now like that used to be maybe like a safe time where like you can't buy anything. Like I'm just watching TV, I'm in bed, it's 10 o' clock at night.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Watching my House Hunters or whatever.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And I can't spend any money here. No one can get any money out of me. And then there it is, there's a button that says just press this button and you get the tide delivered to.

[Mystic Michaela]

So easy.

[Scotty]

So every single minute of every single day there is someone or something trying to take this money from you to keep you in that same position.

[Mystic Michaela]

But it's like when the big corporations do it, that's like small businesses. Like, like the little, the little guys. Like I feel like that's like back to the exchanges of like you were talking about the Sumerians, you know what I mean? Like that's one thing. Which I'm gonna talk about that too. But like these big like conglomerates are just coming for us and you know, and they're part of it.

[Scotty]

Yeah. I mean, look, I could go on a whole rant on this, but like just insurance.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh my gosh, this is a red

[Scotty]

rant if you really think about. I did this a few times and I looked into how much of our income goes to paying insurances. You know, whether it's car insurance, homeowner insurance, health insurance, everything is like, it's. They almost have it. It's like so fear based too. Because insurance is for fear. Right. The fear that your house is going to blow up.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

The fear that you know your car is going to explode.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

All the, you know, all these fears keep you paying these huge premium insurance premiums. And if you really look at it and you add it up, man, go out, if you're at home, do this add up all your insurance that you pay for insurance in every year.

[Mystic Michaela]

I'm not doing that.

[Scotty]

Yeah, yeah, I've done it. And it's just sick.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And you're like, wait a second. And then basically for the most part, you know, once in a while, yes, something does happen and you read it, but for the most part you're just paying it.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

You're just paying these premiums every month.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And you get nothing in return.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, yeah. And you, and you hope you never get the return.

[Scotty]

Right. And you're hoping. Exactly.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

You don't want to get the return for health insurance. You don't Want to get to the right because then there's a worse scenario

[Mystic Michaela]

or even homeowners like you don't want to deal with that. But like, yeah, but if you really

[Scotty]

truly think about all that, you pay for insurance. Fear, Fear that in itself is going to keep you down.

[Mystic Michaela]

I'm surprised you don't have like more insurance, like apocalypse insurance.

[Scotty]

Oh, I'm sure they do. They have insurance for everything. Like, I, I just, I'm like, I'm like anti insurance. So I, I just, I, I'm a red. I roll the dice, you know, roll the die. Yeah, I roll the dice. So if our house explodes.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh God.

[Scotty]

Knock on wood. Yeah, we're, we're. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

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[Scotty]

Hey guys.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay, so I'm doing a new workshop. What's my Aurora Workshop 3. And we're talking, talking about all sorts of things but one of the things we were talking about is money. And I asked, I always get excited when I do a workshop because I get so much insight from all you guys. So I asked them about following your aura dollar so taking a look at your bank account and being like, oh, like what, what patterns here can I relate back to my aura? Which is just like a, it's like a less, I think stressful way to look at your budgeting. That doesn't. It's kind of a more for me as a purple, that's a more fun way to me to consider like spending versus the more traditional way of looking at it. Cause that's boring to me.

[Scotty]

All right, so you wanna go through the colors.

[Mystic Michaela]

So I wanna go through the colors. And just. This is supposed to be more kind of, like, fun.

[Scotty]

All right.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know, and obviously this changes, and these are general patterns, but I took the observations from the group, so I'm gonna start with greens.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

So I noticed with greens, a big pattern is spending. Must make sense. Like, even if it's their own logic, like, it's logic that makes sense to them. It's not necessarily logic that makes sense to other people, but it has to be logic that makes sense to them. Like, if they are. Have a coffee habit, you know, in the morning, that one place, they're like, well, that's how I get my day going. Or that is, you know, I've decided that Matcha is good for me and this is the best place that has it, therefore I need it, you know? Or if sometimes with greens, it's like, well, this is the right technology to have. And then this, you know, I'm gonna spend the money on this technology. So they come up. It's not impulse, it's like a very solid reasoning behind it. Also, I noticed with the greens, they seem to think investing and planning for money and use, you know, kind of like systems with their own money or retirement or whatever, that's actually fun for them, not boring.

[Scotty]

Oh, okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And greens, usually money does come to them.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, yeah. So money coming. That's a good one. You can do that for each one, too. So greens, when they're balanced, I notice that when they are focused with fun on something or something's fun for them or challenging, or they're focused, money's an afterthought. Like. Like when greens are balanced and they're in a good spot, like, to them, it's just money is like, oh, yeah, of course. Obviously, I'm gonna. It's not even something they consider. They're just like, yeah, obviously I'm gonna make money.

[Scotty]

Like, Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Obviously. Like, when they're just focused on the passion or make something a passion, money just kind of comes because they just logic it in. Is like. Well, obviously, also, I noticed that depending on the green, because, like, sometimes I'll. I have different types of greens. Like the CEO green, for example, they like money, but money to them is. That's more like the afterthought thing. Like, of course I'm going to make money. You know, I'm the smartest person in the room and I know what I'm doing. So obviously money is coming to Me. But then sometimes greens will do this thing when they have an idea or a vision of something, and in their head, they're already living in the future of it. And they're like, yeah, this is. And it hasn't made money yet. But they don't connect with that quite, if that makes sense.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

But then there are some greens that they don't care. You know, they're like, why live with less? Or I have two pairs of shoes. Why would you need more like that? So it's enough is a very subjective term for a green.

[Scotty]

Right. Well, this is definitely the time for greens to make money with the whole AI technology boom. Yeah, the greens are raking it in.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, the greens are.

[Scotty]

This is their time to shine.

[Mystic Michaela]

Leading it.

[Scotty]

All right, what about yellow?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yellows? I noticed the pattern being they're spenders, but they're also budgeters. They budget to be a spender. Kind of like the logic thing with greens. But they're kind of funny because they're more. They have like creative logic to their spending. You know, they're like, well, I need to have. I don't know, I need to do this. I need to go to home goods today. And because the bathroom needs to be redone. And if the bathroom's redone, you know, and I have all the fun lighthouse, you know, decals, then whatever. Like, they kind of. They make their own creative logic to be a spender. Sometimes retail therapy does work for the yellows. It does make them feel better to kind of go use money to kind of spend in order to make them feel better. Because. And I noticed that when they do spend money, it's for a project or a class or something for them. Has to be like self improvement based. And that seems. That seemed to be a lot in the comments for the yellows. Okay, but then we have blues and I'll do indigos next. But we're doing blues first. Blues probably spend too much on gifts for other people. And I thought this was really interesting. A couple people were talking about, like traveling, but only for like this one. One participant. She was talking about how she travels everywhere, but it's only for, like weddings and stuff for other people. Like, and like, if she spends all this money to go all over the place, but it's for other people.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know, so I wonder if she wouldn't do it for herself. She'd only do it if there was the excuse of. But I have to go support my friend and support my friend and support my friend here. I thought that was really interesting. And then also I noticed the blue pattern is they actually don't like spending money on themselves, but they love spending money on other people because it's not the thing that gives them the joy. It's like, the energy from the thing. So watching someone open something or watching someone feel validated, that's the actual, like, payment they get. Okay. From spending.

[Scotty]

This is a little more 5D.ish.

[Mystic Michaela]

They have, like, more of a 5D tendency with money, but it can get them into trouble when they feel like spending is the only way to get that. Because you can show up for people and get that same feeling without spending. But I did notice that with. With that, like, somebody was saying. Also, like, this one participant, she said her husband was like, give me what you want for your birthday. And it was just like, a list of really small items for the house. Like, all under 20 bucks. But they were, like, for the house. Like, so like a compost bin, you know, Like. Oh, like. Like the things they want make everyone's life better and make the house run better. So, yeah. So they have a more 5D thing with money.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

Which I thought was cute.

[Scotty]

All right. Indigo.

[Mystic Michaela]

Indigo. So I noticed, like, Indigos, if somebody's gonna have, what's it called, Buyer's remorse, I think it's like Indigos a lot. Like, kind of the guilt factor comes in, like, oh, did I spend too much on myself? Am I not doing enough for other people? Should I do this kind of like making the Amazon wish list? I just talked about not using conglomerates, but here I am, like, making your wish list, you know, online. Like, I want this, and then putting it in the later, you know, category instead of buying it for yourself now, that kind of thing. I do notice that Indigos and blues, if they're going to do something, they're gonna do it for a small business first. I feel like they get a lot of feed, like, just give back from spending money in places where they feel like it's going to good use or they're giving to actual people. Like, I notice, like, good feelings come from spending money. There's. I also noticed, and this was, like, really interesting. I noticed with Indigos, and I noticed this with Indigo moms. So a lot of moms were expressing their guilt, of course, over. I do too much delivery or too much taken or, you know, convenience with food. And a lot of them were expressing they're just exhausted. They're exhausted during the day. And the thing is, Indigos hold everyone's mental load all the time in themselves. So dinner Comes and you make something. And, like, two people in the family are like, I don't want that. It's like, you know what? I'm just ordering in, you know, like, just every leaving alone, like, so. I know. So a lot of them were spending money on delivery, like, doordash and stuff like that. I thought. But. But why? That's the thing, you know, you gotta think, like, what is it that's causing this? Am I just exhausted all day? Or I care too much what people think. And, like, dinner's just an easy way to make everyone happy.

[Scotty]

I think also the indigo does check off the box on doordash, even though I don't use it for Leave at the door. Do not ring bell. I do not want to see you. Yeah, just leave. Actually at the end of the driveway. Leave at the end of the driveway. And then the indigo scurries out, picks up the door, dash, scurries back in.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Well, their blanket still over their head. Exactly. They're like a little, like, rat coming out.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Sunglasses on.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Like you're watching through the blinds, like, did they leave? Okay. Okay.

[Scotty]

Let's go. Go, go, go.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Okay.

[Scotty]

All right. Let's go. Purple.

[Mystic Michaela]

Purples. Purples. You know, listen. They ignore it.

[Scotty]

You know, they just spend.

[Mystic Michaela]

Money's not real.

[Scotty]

It's not real.

[Mystic Michaela]

Money is like, what? Like, why would I not go to Paris? Sure. Because of numbers. That's weird. That's very 5D though, you know? Like, it is 5D. It's like, that's so silly to control my experience in life. Because fake, fake money. That's where, like, it gets.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

It. They always make sense. I'm purple, so that makes sense to me. I'm like, yeah. Heck, yeah. But then the other part of it is, you know, when things come up, and then you're like, oh, gosh, you know, I have to be responsible or. Or whatnot. Or. Can we.

[Scotty]

It's kind of how we all wanna be.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Because, like, well, purples are fun.

[Scotty]

Yeah. And we know they're right. I mean, obviously they're right. I mean, you're totally right.

[Mystic Michaela]

You're totally right.

[Scotty]

It's just this ridiculous society has created it. Being wrong.

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, like, you, like, just living with a red, red, blue husband. Yeah, I think. And then you have three purples living with you.

[Scotty]

Yes.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then we're all like, come on.

[Scotty]

And I'm like.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then. But it's. But sometimes it's hard for you. And sometimes, like, I remember once I had to tell you, I'm Like, I don't know. I remember, like, looking at you and being like, just go with the flow. Like, it doesn't matter.

[Scotty]

You know? What it is, is I have to

[Mystic Michaela]

get so used to it.

[Scotty]

And I've been working on this. I have to draw because I agree with it. That's the thing. I agree with it. I do take that. I really do agree more with the 5D approach. I just have to drop the logic. Sometimes that logic just gets in my way and I can't get over the logic of it. Like, how could you possibly do this? But I know that's 3D and that bothers me about myself.

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, I think you have kill switches so that you don't screw us all over in the 3D.

[Scotty]

Well, yeah, which is good. That's it too.

[Mystic Michaela]

What are the control valves or something? You're like, if I say no to this all the time, no matter what, but without thinking about it, that'll keep us safe, right? Like that. Yeah, but what else? Purples. Purples were interesting. Oh, here's the thing with purples, though. I. I noticed with purples with looking at their budgets, either they'll totally ignore it, or they are the ones on the flip side of that to do the 180 as well. Like, they're either going to totally ignore it or they're going to be like, one day look at it and be like, hey, wait a second, hang on, I'm gonna change everything. And they're real, actually really good because they're good at change. So they can actually take a look at their budgeting or look at their money situation and be like, hey, you know what? Things gotta change and it's not gonna do it. But I do notice with purples you can't go cold turkey with stuff. You just cannot. Don't do that to yourself because you're gonna have purple bombs later. So I noticed that the purples that were successful at like, budgeting in the 3D were the ones that allowed for themselves to have their little treats here and there. You can't. You can't. It's not all or nothing. Turquoises, I would say turquoises are so the last two. Turquoises and pinks, if anybody's leaning mostly, I mean, purples kind of, but turquoises and pinks, 100% in the 5D. So turquoises, they just, they're great with sharing, which makes it very, you know, with our society, the ego. The ego projected society says everybody has to have their own. Okay, you have to have your own land. You have to have your own clothes, you have to have your own car, you have to have your own everything. Everybody has to have your own. One for me, none for you. You know, like that is really what they tell us. It feeds our fear based egos where we're like, we have to have our own thing, we have to have our own this, we have to our own make. Turquoises aren't like that. They're like, I don't need one, the neighbor has one, you know, or the, in the family, if we have one, that's enough for everybody, you know, like that. They're just better with sharing, so they need less, which makes them kind of easier. They're harder to kind of have the entrapment situation because they don't notice it as much. But a lot of the turquoises did say that they get hyper fixated with spending. So if they get into something like plants, they're like, I need all the plants, you know, like that or crystals, I need all the crystals. Or you know, if they want to go on a vacation, they're like, well, I need to see all the things that here while I'm here. Like all of it. Like they get a little hyper, hyper fixated on something. Yeah.

[Scotty]

And then they'll just spend it.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

That's their.

[Mystic Michaela]

What if they're going to do it?

[Scotty]

That's your Achilles heel.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then pinks. So here's the thing. Pinks don't. They don't. How do I put it? Like nazi money is real is an understatement. Like they just, they have a joy bubble around it and they just don't worry about it. Now of course your other aura colors can come in and like, obviously people that you live with can come in and change that mentality. But I would say the pinks at their most authentic core do not give a crap. And I noticed that with pinks they understand that if they spend more, they get more. So I would say like pinks because they're so all in on the 5D part of it. Like when we talk about the typical manifestation money, like, or, or you know, manifesting abundance, that stuff probably works the best actually for them. In the most lucky girl syndrome way. The tiktoks say, you know, like they. Because you have, you gotta work with who you are though, you know, that's not for everyone. But I feel like for the pinks, it works for them. They do have like that joy bubble with spending. And I noticed another thing with pinks. I noticed this with turquoises too, by the way. So turquoises, this might apply to you, too, but with pinks. I noticed that to stay pink, you already had to ignore everybody and ignore most of 3D society anyway. So if you are an adult and you're still pink, you're really good at not hearing things. You're not good at hearing advice. You're not good at hearing anything that you're like, I don't. I don't hear it. Because you got good at it. So it can be hard to kind of change your ways or hear advice or hear differences because you're used to. To like, shutting it down. So anyways.

[Scotty]

Oh, we skipped the reds. Oh, my God.

[Mystic Michaela]

Reds. Yes. Oh, my God. Sorry.

[Scotty]

I guess I'm your test.

[Mystic Michaela]

So what. What would you say, Scotty, about reds?

[Scotty]

I don't know. Am I a true red when it comes to. To money? That's my question now. Maybe. Maybe years ago, I was. I don't know if I am a maybe. You need to flush this out for me. I mean, I get, I guess, competition. It would be my number one thing.

[Mystic Michaela]

You want to beat the system.

[Scotty]

Just, like, beat the system, like, because

[Mystic Michaela]

you don't think it's real.

[Scotty]

I don't think it's real.

[Mystic Michaela]

So you like to beat it.

[Scotty]

Because I see a lot of elements of all these colors maybe, except for the yellow in me.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Yeah. I really do. Because now, more so now than I was. I think I've worked on this over the years because I think I was, like, a staunch red. Like, would you say like, maybe like, 10 years ago, real staunch red? And now I don't know, because I really don't.

[Mystic Michaela]

I don't.

[Scotty]

I don't know. I can't explain it. Like, to me, money is, like, meaningless. It really does. Well, in the.

[Mystic Michaela]

In the 3D. It isn't right.

[Scotty]

But I do also have those elements of like. Like, I believe that with the pink, like, now if you spend it, it's gonna come back to you. I believe that, like, would believe that. I believe that.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

I believe all these things now because it's not real to me.

[Mystic Michaela]

But, like, if I'm like, you know,

[Scotty]

it's important in the 3D, but, like 5D, I don't really care.

[Mystic Michaela]

I guess that changes all changes, though, and goes out the window. Like, when the three of us are like, hey, let's go to Disney. Well, Disney's greedy, Megan.

[Scotty]

Well, yeah, that's because they're greedy. That's. That's a different story.

[Mystic Michaela]

Parking's. What, What, What? You said money's not Real well.

[Scotty]

That's what I fight with this. This is the inner fight that I have. The 3D versus the 5D.

[Mystic Michaela]

All the kids want mouse ears to go to Disney. Like, ah, what do you need that for? Then you're gonna lose it. The crap.

[Scotty]

That's the logic that I guess I can't get rid of. I want to. I really want to.

[Mystic Michaela]

He wants to be a pink.

[Scotty]

But, like, I think, yeah, I do want to be a pink. But I think, like you said, there is that survival. Like, I gotta make, you know, I am dealing with three purples. And I gotta make sure that this one logic color that we have going for us keeps it in check. But you guys are right. I know. Like, that's my thing. I know you guys are right.

[Mystic Michaela]

I think with reds, you guys don't like to look cheap.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know, so, like, if it's. If it's important, like, you'll just spend it, you know, like that kind of thing. Yeah, like that. But in your daily life, it's a lot of, like, latest questioning. Everything. Yeah, like every purchase or every. Every idea or everything. Like, what is this? Or every bill, which is not a bad thing. It's just a lot of questioning.

[Scotty]

I guess so.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then I think more risk taking with red aura is a little bit, like, throwing the dialogue. Maybe stocks or kind of gambling or like that kind of. Yeah. You know, like, well, how can we move around this? Or what's a different way? And you're not always taking the direct path, like from A to B or this is what you do.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

I think you like to question kind of like what everybody does and be like, well, is that the only way to do it? Is there a different way to do it? You know, what are they trying to get out of me? That kind of thing.

[Scotty]

Your stocks are weird for it. Like, I think I'm. I. I mean, I think I. With stocks, I don't take risk at all. I'm like, I think I'm very conservative, to be honest.

[Mystic Michaela]

Because you're too conservative, I think, because you believe yourself so much. And I couldn't, like, if I looked at, oh, you know, this. That's a great price and it'll go up. I'd be like, how do you know? And you're like, well, it's very obvious because of the it is XYZ stuff. And I'd be like, well, I don't see that, you know.

[Scotty]

Yeah, but I guess, like, the weird part was stocks for me. And I know every trade is attached with money. But for me, like, the money, like, I'd rather. I don't know if this is a red. This must be a red thing. Like, I would rather do a good trade. Like, know that I bought it, and I bought it at a certain price, understood why I bought at that price, and then, of course, sell it at a higher price. That's how you make money. And for me, that's more important than the actual money that comes. Like, the money comes with it. But for me, the act of the trade where I did this, bought it, then sold it, understanding the knowledge that came with that is more like a thousand times more important to me. Well, what is that?

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, that's just like. Let's go back to the Sumerians.

[Scotty]

Okay. Back to the Sumerians.

[Mystic Michaela]

And it's kind of like having your own hands in something makes it more worth it. And I think that's a big red aura. I mean, it could be other aura colors, too, but kind of like maybe hunting yourself and, hey, I got this, you know, Or I made that. Or I. Yeah. Or I, you know, harvested that. Or like, you know, like that. It's like I did it, you know, and that's my ownership or my legacy or my hands, my work in it. Maybe it makes you feel like. Like you had a say or identity in there.

[Scotty]

Yeah, maybe. But I. But I think this was really good. And I think we just want everyone to go away with the feeling that. Like you were saying earlier about this economy.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

That we don't want. You know, don't feel bad.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

You know, it's not about you or whatever. Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's a system that's just, like, very 3D.

[Scotty]

3D.

[Mystic Michaela]

And in the 5D, everyone has the same. It's just. It's such. It's so. So back to the beginning. Money is 3D, and it's 5D, so it's confusing.

[Scotty]

Yeah. All right. All right. We take. Should we do. Do an overtime?

[Mystic Michaela]

Let's do overtime.

[Scotty]

All right. Let's do an overtime.

[Mystic Michaela]

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[Scotty]

Hey, guys.

[Mystic Michaela]

So this is overtime.

[Scotty]

Overtime.

[Mystic Michaela]

The rules of overtime.

[Scotty]

Okay, you can go now.

[Mystic Michaela]

Go.

[Scotty]

Anything we say, it's on you.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's on you.

[Scotty]

Not us.

[Mystic Michaela]

Not us.

[Scotty]

Yes. If you get an energetic hole, whatever we called it last week, that's on you from listening to this.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay. I wish everybody saw your hand motions there as you said the word hole.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

It disturbed me.

[Scotty]

Yes, it was disturbing. That's why we don't do video. People have been asking, why don't we bring this to video? And you don't want to see the things that go on.

[Mystic Michaela]

You don't especially like what the cat does during this.

[Scotty]

Yeah. You don't want to see all these things.

[Mystic Michaela]

You don't want to know.

[Scotty]

But anyway. All right. You know, anyways, I've always been fascinating with this concept of what's called a Big Year.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

Okay. I read a book once, long time ago, and then they made it into a movie. It was called the Big Year.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And like many of you are probably like, what is he talking about? What is a Big Year? Well, a Big Year in is a birding thing for birders. And what you're supposed to do, I think you're supposed to do it like once in your life. Some people do it many times. But really your Big Year is when you count all the birds that you've seen in that calendar year from January 1st to December 31st.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And you add up all the birds that you saw in that one year.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

Okay. It only counts is if you saw it or heard it or heard it or heard it. Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And to me, like our system, it's all the honor System. And before technology, it really was based. Total otters. I mean, people must have been cheating. I have no idea. But I always thought it was the funniest thing. I just, like, it brings me so much laughter when I think about people doing this and that. You could just hear it. And it counts because they're so.

[Mystic Michaela]

Because they're so. That's why, like, if anybody cheated and it was found out, that would be bad. Like, they would. They would attack those people because this is like. Like truly their honor.

[Scotty]

Yeah. So basically, you know, every once in a while, I'll just be like, I'm going to do a Big Year this year. But I do it as a joke. And then you know this about me.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And then you're like, oh, this documentary just came out on YouTube. So you're like, we have to watch it.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right? So there was this. I don't know, in my travels on the Internet, I happened upon this kind of, like, underground movie that came out last year, and it's only on YouTube. And it's called Listers A Glimpse into Extreme Bird Watching. I highly recommend it.

[Scotty]

Really good.

[Mystic Michaela]

Really good. It's about two brothers that do not have never done bird watching before, but then they go all in and attempt to do a Big Year. And they live in their van and they. Because one of their. They have, like, funny rules, like, they'll never pay to sleep somewhere is, like, one of their rules. So they're. They're in a van and they're. And they kind of show you the world of bird watching, which now, because you what, you read that book, and that's when you used to call a hotline and report a bird or find out what birds. Right now there's this app called Ebird.

[Scotty]

Ebird. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

And that's where people list all their birds. And there's. And so you do it that way. So it's just fascinating. And I love bird watching. Just for purely. I think birds are cool. And I like to just, like, lay outside and look at all the drama in the trees in the backyard. And I like to know what their names are. But you took it to the red. You're like, let's compete.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Here's the thing. I don't care about anything like that. I don't care what kind of bird it is. I don't care the name of the bird.

[Mystic Michaela]

Really. I love that.

[Scotty]

Care less. But we are gonna do a Big Year. Okay? I have proclaimed we are going to do a Big Year.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

Now we're not doing it this year.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, no.

[Scotty]

And I came up. You know, during the film, there was this couple that go. They do it, like, every year. They're insane.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

They keep winning, but their kids left.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Now we got a. We got a ways to go because Abby's only 11.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

You know, Brie's a little bit older, but I figured out that in 2034.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay, okay.

[Scotty]

So that's like, in eight years, I think both of them will be in college.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Ish.

[Scotty]

Ish.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right, Right.

[Scotty]

So I say we plan for 2034 to be our Big Year. We are going to do the Big Year. Yeah. Now, look, I'm going to have the Scotty rules for this Big Year. Like, you know, I am going to do it my way. Right. And I'm going to test these burgers because the burgers are. Are so serious. I think most of them are green. They have to be green.

[Mystic Michaela]

They're all green at the top. They're green.

[Scotty]

I plan to mess with these people that year.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, God.

[Scotty]

I'm going to put things on that list that I seen or heard, but in Scotty fashion.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Okay. So I don't know what that means. Yeah, we'll find out in 2034.

[Mystic Michaela]

So I already started. Like, I downloaded Ebird. Me too. I downloaded. He's just. He's a copycat.

[Scotty]

No, I did.

[Mystic Michaela]

I downloaded the Merlin app.

[Scotty]

I did not.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's a bird identification app.

[Scotty]

Do you know how hard it is for me to down. I hate apps.

[Mystic Michaela]

I know.

[Scotty]

And I downloaded the Ebird app. That's, like, a big thing for me. Cause I don't like to download apps.

[Mystic Michaela]

The last one you did was, like, Dunkin Donuts.

[Scotty]

Yeah. And that was big, too.

[Mystic Michaela]

That was a big deal for you.

[Scotty]

Yep. But right now I have seven birds, right? Seven birds.

[Mystic Michaela]

Seven.

[Scotty]

Just added a Limpkin. I just put out a Lipkin before we did this podcast.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, that's right.

[Scotty]

Yeah, I heard it. I didn't see it. I heard it.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Scott's a little, like, sketchy with his adding. Cause are they.

[Scotty]

These greens don't know what's coming for them in 2034.

[Mystic Michaela]

So anyways, we were talking about this last night at dinner in front of the kids, and we're like, Dad's like, you know, dad, Dad. I just called him. I just called to the listeners. Dad said it's overtime. Because that's how I. That's how I talk to the kids. I'm like, dad said, we're doing a Big Year, guys. That's what I said.

[Scotty]

Here's the thing. They wanted to come.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. And then Bri's like, when is this?

[Scotty]

When are we doing it?

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, how do you do this? And then she was like asking all the rules because the rules are so hysterical.

[Scotty]

It was supposed to be when we were empty nesters, but they want to come.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. But, well, Bri wants to go and

[Scotty]

Abby will definitely want to go.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yesterday in the backyard, Abby was helping me identify, like a fish, crow. And then we were doing bird sounds in the backyard to see if we could call it, and it answered back. The neighbors must think we're insane. We're like in the backyard, like, like that. And I love talking to birds. Okay. You know, and squirrels. And I like talking to animals, like in their voices. So I feel like I'll be good at the bird call.

[Scotty]

I think you're gonna be good at this.

[Mystic Michaela]

And I'm excited. But I have to learn now. I have to learn now. I gotta get familiar with it all. Get familiar, otherwise I'll get overwhelmed.

[Scotty]

And we want everyone who's listening to this overtime to also get familiar with it. Because if 2034, if you're. We're still doing this podcast and you're still listening to this, we might see you on the trip.

[Mystic Michaela]

The MMSF is very helpful. I put up a picture of a bird I didn't know and everybody was like, that's a boat tailed grackle.

[Scotty]

A grackle.

[Mystic Michaela]

There's a thing called a boat tailed grackle.

[Scotty]

Boat tail.

[Mystic Michaela]

They're very common in Florida. I've seen like a grackle. I'll show you. It just looks like, like a nothing black bird, but it's not.

[Scotty]

I just saw an ibis. Put that down right after this. I'm putting that at 8. I'm at 8.

[Mystic Michaela]

He's more compatible, you're more competitive. I just like to know. I don't know. I get like a kick out of seeing them.

[Scotty]

Yeah, well. And you know, speaking of money, we're going to get. We're gonna get. See, now we're gonna get the good binoculars.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And we get the good camera. Like the one with like, goes out like 20ft. Those cameras.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. But I feel like you're. You're so annoying because, like, you're gonna be like, what's that? What's that? What's that? And you tell me you don't care.

[Scotty]

No, I don't care.

[Mystic Michaela]

But you'll ask me, what is everything?

[Scotty]

Yeah, of course you're gonna know.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's why, that's why I'M the overwhelmed one. I know. Also, I'll be the one holding them, and I. No, you'll hold the binoculars. I know that. I'll be holding the camera.

[Scotty]

You'll take the pictures.

[Mystic Michaela]

I'll be the one listing it on the app.

[Scotty]

No, that's why I'm. That's why I did get the app.

[Mystic Michaela]

I need, like, five more hands for this.

[Scotty]

No, I'm gonna. I'm gonna do the listing. I'm in charge of the listing because I don't trust you.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then. And then you told me. What did you say? Because you have to travel for this thing.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

And you don't travel all year. You travel and, like, you know when.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

When you can. During different seasons, but sometimes birds pop up and you gotta, like, go.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, are you gonna do that? No, I'm like, scott, there's a vagrant bird that's a bird that's traveled outside of its normal range. I'm like, there's a vagrant bird. And in tech in Austin, my plant. You going, probably.

[Scotty]

Well, if it's on my. If it's on the route I'm taking,

[Mystic Michaela]

we need an MMSF bir. Like, when we do this, we got to get the mystic Michaela spiritual family involved, and we'll.

[Scotty]

We'll wear our shirts on the trail.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. And then we pin where we're at. And then if that's your neighborhood, you need to come.

[Scotty]

Right. So my plan is.

[Mystic Michaela]

This is like. I don't know who's running the. That GPS thing.

[Scotty]

My plan is we fly to Arizona.

[Mystic Michaela]

Good idea, though. Okay.

[Scotty]

We fly out to Arizona.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

We hit up Arizona, and then we drive back to Florida. So we hit up all the good spots like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and all of that.

[Mystic Michaela]

Are you planning on winning? Because you can't really. That would be too hard to drive the big Year. Oh. Because you guys on Ebird, they track everybody. Who's the top birder?

[Scotty]

Well, like I said, I'm going to mess with a lot of them on the trails.

[Mystic Michaela]

No.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

No, because they'll shun you from the other. They're scary. They're like the bird mafia.

[Scotty]

If I don't get shunned, then I didn't do.

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, I'm not. I won't know you. That scares me. Oh, and then there's, like, different years. Like the lower 48.

[Scotty]

Yeah, we're going to do lower 40.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Lower 48.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right.

[Scotty]

We only have to get 759. I think the record 759.

[Mystic Michaela]

If you've ever done a Big Year, we really want to hear from you.

[Scotty]

I would love to. Oh, my gosh.

[Mystic Michaela]

I feel like. Yes. Oh, my gosh.

[Scotty]

If someone's done a Big Year, please tell us.

[Mystic Michaela]

Somebody must have or know somebody who did.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Or. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Or, like, these are celebrities in the birding community. Like, there are names, like, in that list, and, you know, like, everyone knows that person.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

You can also be, like, top in your county. Like, stuff like that. Oh, and then. So, yeah, I want the MSF to tell us if you've ever done a Big Year. And then. Oh, and then also we should have like, a thread with just, like, pictures of birds, and then people tell me what they are, because I really do need to learn these things.

[Scotty]

Okay. But we have eight years.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, I'll need that long. I take it. I take a minute. All right, guys, this podcast is for you and about you, and we're so glad you spent some time with us today.