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Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin

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Conversations around the sacred and resources for prayer, meditation, & abundance. uponawakening.substack.com

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38:23

Deep into Caring

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/04/22

We dive deep into the source of our Altruism and Caring with breathwork and meditation in this 30 min episode. When we tap our Selflessness, our life supporting energy, we are tapping the real “free energy”. The holy grail of fuels. This is the energy that makes an acorn grow into a maple tree. It is the intelligence of mycelium. It is the divine message that all life answers. All life is this web of answering what the divine wants to be; myriad expressions and diverse and subtle experiences of

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8:54

How to Grow a Sense of Humor

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/04/20

This week there was a glaring omission in my podcast. What is so darn funny about chaos? Is it possible to grow a pear? …I mean, a sense of humor? Is it possible that stopping and enjoying this moment could make all our dreams come true? Impossible! Listen for the answer… and for the true secret of comedy… and what makes something funny (you don’t want to know, jk. ;-) You already know. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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29:21

Deep in Play

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/04/16

We experience everything as Chaos or Cosmos - meaningless change, or divine ordering. When we see through the eyes of a child, we see everything is Play. Everything is a divine game of pretend and everything is a part of this play. That’s what is so serious about it. Ha. Everything has a chance and must play a part. You know? But it can all look like Chaos. Chaos is like “chasm”, a distance to cross. The distance here is the difficulty of beginnings. The I-ching name for this archetype is Difficulty

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28:46

Experiencing Growth

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/04/11

Celebration is the sacred potential of healthy Detachment. When we accept our expectations and attachments, and then let them go, something happens. We are able to celebrate every event – every feeling, expansion, reorientation, reinvention – as beautiful and part of the unfolding of life. This awareness is beyond life and death. It sees meaning in everything. It sees something more pure than any thought or idea or reflection that moves on the surface of our lives. This celebration of life is

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24:46

Awakening Experiences

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/04/07

Change can shock us. We have to at times directly experience the precariousness of our own lives, the fragility of this miracle we call life. We must experience our nakedness to fate, to life, to change, in order to awaken to the spiritual logic of it all. We face the limits of our projections and attachments to how things are supposed to be. We face the failure of our illusions to fully explain our reality. Everything is pulling us to the moment where we can let go of the illusion and embrace our

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28:53

Deep into Inner Authority

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/03/31

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. - Viktor Frankl Each of us is an Authority in something, even if it is an authority at simply being ourselves. We are each responsible for the one thing we can control. How we choose to respond to life; our thoughts, feelings, actions, people, places, and things. Paradoxically, we gain power by admitting to ourselves how powerless we

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33:43

Sacred Journey, Rishikesh

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/03/30

Here I read some stories of my time in Rishikesh. Being attacked by dogs (or was it Krishna?), Bathing in the grace of the Goddess, Hiking to the Beatles’ Ashram, Ecstatic Dance Partying, Resting at Her banks. Har Har Mahadev on a “Scooty” and More. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe

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36:47

Open in Awareness

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/03/26

Tuesday-Sunday (March 24-29) our sun is transiting Gate 17, Opinions. This is about our Awareness, and how we can let it be narrowed by our identification with only one perspective. Or, we can let our deep desire for having an opinion – finding and protecting the integrity of reality in any opinion – lead us to a broader awareness that interconnects perspectives. Our awareness is naturally interconnecting and in service to life. The secret to an open mind is an Open Heart. We are Awareness itself

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43:28

Deep Into Universal Love

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/03/19

From Thursday March 19, to Monday March 23rd, our sun transits Gate 25, Universal Love. This gift of Loving Spirit and Acceptance carries the shadow of Constriction. It is what happens when we forget our natural capacity to Love everyone and everything. It draws us deep into our fears, like a trap that, when leaned into, continues an inward spiral of fear and fear-based thinking that gets more and more constricting. This feeling can be totally paralyzing, and you know it this shadow by those who are

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39:41

Transit Meditation: Suffering & Compassion

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/03/13

I am back from my trip to India! More on that soon. But for now, here are my reflections on this week’s archetype: Compassion. This week, Friday through Wednesday (March 13-18th), we will experience the gifts of our Humanity, our emotional Suffering, and ultimately our Compassion. I talk about emotional turbulence, lust, suffering, and being human. I provide meditations for you to presence Compassion in the fullness of your feeling (humanity). No feeling is final. Each of us has the ability to

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32:49

Transit Meditation: Abundance

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/02/18

Wednesday February 18th to Monday the 23rd, our sun transits Gate 55 in the Human Design astrological mandala. This gift moves us from Victimization to Freedom. This is a new collective Freedom coming from individual awakening. This Gate is at the center of the Gene Keys teachings. It represents a huge collective shift and new phase for humanity. Fear of lack and emptiness becomes trust in life, and a deeper Freedom. Victim consciousness may be the most defining characteristic of our time. Being

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54:12

Transit Meditation: Desire, Shakti & Bhakti

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/02/13

Friday the 13th through Wednesday the 18th we are in the Days of Feelings & Desires. Desires are endless. Fulfilling them never brings lasting peace. Our desire is meant to move us into evolution, but it also forms the basis of our longing for Divine Union. This comes by feeling our feelings. Feelings come in waves. We are not driven by them when we let them pass through us without reaction. We learn to mindfully pause when feelings arise so we can feel them fully, and relate to them clearly. We

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38:17

Transit Meditation: Revolution

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/02/07

Saturday through Thursday Feb 7-12 Our sun transits gate 49: Revolution. “Unhappiness is the first sign that something powerful stirs within you.” There is a powerful motivation to protect humanity, protecting humans, protecting the vulnerable, standing up for human beings and living your principles. Is our revolutionary spirit a reaction, a positive change? The greatest revolution of all is our collective rebirth of all that we truly are. Our nature to love, serve, and remember that source is in

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42:06

Transit Meditation: Listening

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/02/03

This week our sun transits Gate 13: Listening. In these days of Listening. Listening is not hearing. Listening is absorbing the sound. It is listening to the whole story, the experience, the experiencer, the past, the whole problem, beyond any raw desire to accomplish a goal, It is Deep Listening. Deep Listening is actually Empathy. Empathy is to be within the other. This is growing and evolving collective awareness beyond individual experience, beyond the illusion of separation. It is the

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49:17

Transit Meditation: Sensitivity

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/01/27

This week Tuesday-Sunday (Jan27-Feb1) our sun transits Gate 19: Approach, Codependency, Sensitivity and Sacrifice. Where is our healthy Sacrifice? What is unhealthy Sacrifice? We naturally want to serve, serve community and individuals. We thrive when others thrive. But we can forget or misunderstand our own needs, not giving time or space for our needs, not growing in those spaces. This makes us susceptible to overwhelm in the energy waves of others. We are going to talk about sensitivity,

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35:17

Transit Meditation: Emanation

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/01/22

From Thursday to Monday Jan 22-26, our sun transits Gate 41: Emanation, Fantasy, Anticipation. These can be our days of Emanation, being in the Anticipation of the unfolding of our dreams. In this gate we can live in Fantasy, or we can embrace our manifestation – the energy to honor our hopes and dreams, watching them evolve by fulfilling them. “Means gather around Sattva” is good news. We don’t have to worry or fear, escaping into illusions of happiness. We are here to embody Divine Will. We simply

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35:28

Transit Meditation: Containment Magic

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/01/16

Friday through Wednesday Jan 16-21, our sun transits Gate 60: Regulation, Realism, and Limitation. Your Realism is magical. Seeing things as they are is to see magic. Creation structures freedom, because structuring serves energy. These days of Containment, of Embodied Magic, show you the power of your boundaries, the freedom created by structure, and the magic that comes when we make room for it. We can deeply respect the darkness between things, words, notes, and actions as the much needed space

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69:06

Intimacy With What Is – Erin Reese

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/01/12

In this episode of Upon Awakening, I talk with Erin Reese – astrologer, psychologist, and writer. Listeners will recognizer her name, as I have been quoting her for some time, regularly tuning into her astrology forecasts. I am honored to present our conversation here, where I ask her to read for us and share her wisdom around Love as Intimacy with What Is. She describes Love as “not a feeling, or a state”, but total acceptance and the Ground of Being itself. Our conversation touches on this Love,

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41:00

Transit Meditation: Mystery

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/01/11

Sunday through Thursday 1/11-1/15 our Sun transits Gate 61: Mystery, Inner Truth, Inspiration and Sanctity. Enjoy these days of “The Divine Door” by getting still in the body, at peace, or in your breath. Rudd says once we end our Psychosis, the gifts of Inspiration and Sanctity naturally come. We may be able to live in our shadows of Disenchantment and Fanaticism. But it is not really living now is it? Open the door with creativity. This week we can experience ourselves as the “Truth at the

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33:45

Transit Meditation: Drive

Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin ·

2026/01/06

This week, our Sun transits Gate 54 in the Human Design mandala. The thing about Greed is it is mistaking winning with the process of playing. Acquisition is not prosperity. The secret of material success and of spiritual success are found when we experience them as one and the same. We can be confident because our existence itself has a plan for us. “The Way Knows the Way.” And we are designed to move and transform. Listen for meditations and more.Listen to the song The Way Knows by Lyndsey Scott

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