Intro: [00:00:00] Welcome to Energetic Advantage, the podcast where energy isn't woo, it's your edge. I'm your host, Jessica Cerato. Intuitive strategist, lifelong pattern decoder, lover of numbers, and energetic guide for visionary leaders. Around. Here we go. Energy first, strategy second. Every episode will give you a perspective, a tool, or a timeline shift that helps you lead from your power.
Because the truth is your energy is your most undervalued asset. Until you learn how to use it, get ready. You're about to have the advantage. Let's begin.
Hey, hey, everybody. Quick note before we get right into today's episode. My Q4 forecast, Take a Bow, is coming up soon. , And if you've been feeling like there is a lot moving right now, you are right. Personally, collectively, energetically, this is exactly what we're gonna get into. We are going to look at the final three months of 2026, [00:01:00] and October, November, and December, to ground into the actions we can take now to feel more confident as this year closes, and even better, to get excited and ready for 2027.
It's not just about knowing what's coming, it's about understanding the energy so we can actually work with it. You can get all the details, , and join me at the link in my show notes, or message me on Instagram if you have questions, ' cause a lot is happening right now in the collective, and today we're gonna talk about part of it.
, And I love, it's like, should I start this way so abruptly? Yes. Like, we are gonna talk about what to do when your energy feels like absolute shit. There, I said it. Right? And you won't hear a lot of people talking about this because quite frankly, their ego won't let them admit it. But I will, so here we go.[00:02:00]
Because this is something that I am very much in, and this feels really important to say to start off, because so often, I think especially, you know, in the online space where you can choose what and when and how to share, we tend to tell stories once we know how they end. We talk about the hard season after we've come through it.
We tell you what it taught us once we've figured out the lesson. We connect all the dots, put a nice little bow around it and say, "Okay, here's why that had to happen." And I get that, right? I, I do. There are definitely things that need time and space before we're ready to talk about them. And I also think there's something really valuable about talking about energy while you're actually experiencing it, before you've even decided what it means.
And again, the other reason I want to talk about this now is because I don't think I'm the only one feeling [00:03:00] it. In fact, I know I'm not. Because you know that people will tell you when they're feeling amazing. They'll tell you when everything is flowing, when they're having their best month ever, when they feel clear and aligned and on fire, and they don't always tell you about the days when they want to say, "Fuck it," and burn the whole thing down.
But I can tell you that everyone has those. How do I know? Because those people tell their coaches. They tell their mentors. They tell the people that they trust behind closed doors, and I've been one of those trusted people for a long time. I've heard it all And I just thought, wow. Instead of me just sharing about this with my coach, with my mentor behind closed doors, what if I shared it out in the open on a podcast?
And to interrupt the pattern and see what happens. And if you're in one of those seasons where it feels a [00:04:00] little bit tricky, it's really easy to look around and think that everyone is doing great and you're the only one who's somehow gotten off track, and you're not. Why? How do I know? 'Cause I'm there with you.
It, it feels collective right now. A lot of people who are in it in very different ways, questioning things, feeling frustrated, tired, restless, uncertain, maybe wanting change, but not necessarily knowing, like, what it is yet. And listen, obviously, as an energetic strategist, there are absolutely things we can do to shift our energy.
We can move our bodies. We can change our thoughts. We can change our environment. We can get outside. We can meditate. We can rest. We can choose differently. We can ask for help. We can interrupt a pattern. I could go on and on and on and on all of the strategies. And yes, yes, yes to all of it. I am not [00:05:00] suggesting that we simply sit in shitty energy, for lack of a better term, indefinitely and make a home there.
But I do wanna offer another perspective that I think we can hold at the exact same time. What if you don't always have to change your energy before you can access yourself? What if you can work with the energy that's here? What if there are parts of you that remain completely intact even when your energy feels nothing like you want it to feel And again, I'm going to share this from my perspective, but then I'm also going to give you strategies based on your unique energy, so you can really start to work with this.
And again, I want to preface, nothing catastrophic is happening for me. I'm working, I'm seeing clients, I'm momming, I'm living my life. , There are actually a lot of really good things happening. And [00:06:00] also, there is a part of me that is just like, how else do I describe this? Like, fuck it, burn it all down.
I don't want to do this. I don't want to do that. Maybe I should change everything. Maybe I should stop everything. And listen, of course, you know, working with energy for a living, I've been paying attention to it. And at first, I think I was trying to figure out how to get out of it, right? How do I shift this?
What's underneath it? What needs to change? You know, what's the lesson? , And of course, we have the option of just choosing something different. But then I had a thought, what if I'm not supposed to get out of it just yet? What if this energy is actually trying to show me something? Rip the Band-Aid off, like let's just show it to me.
And after that morning when that thought popped in, I had a client session later that day, and it was one of the freaking best sessions I've had in a long [00:07:00] time
I channeled this incredible structure for her. Things were coming through so clearly. The session was beautiful, like so impactful. She literally said, like, "Seriously, can you believe yourself sometimes?
Like, do you impress yourself?" I was completely in my work, and then afterwards, as I was reflecting on the session, I had this moment where I realized, where I was like checking in with my energy, and for some reason, I had expected, because I just had this amazing session where I was like freaking on fire.
I was like, "Oh my God. Okay, this is like totally gonna shift my energy." But when I really tapped into my energy, I was like, "Wait, like my energy still feels like shit." Nothing magically changed. I didn't suddenly become super positive, like after the call. I did not meditate myself into like a different frequency.
I didn't wait until I felt [00:08:00] like Jessica again. I was just Jessica, and that hit me because maybe that's what we get wrong when we're in these energetic ruts. We think that we need to feel like ourselves again before we can be ourselves again, and those are two very different things because your energy is not your identity.
You know, sometimes we give our current energetic state way too much authority. I'm frustrated, so something must be wrong. I'm uninspired, so maybe I'm on the wrong path. I'm exhausted. I'm feeling tired, unmotivated, so maybe I've lost my passion. I wanna burn my business down, so clearly I need to burn my business down, maybe, but also maybe not because energy moves.
Energy changes. Energy cycles, and the energy that you are experiencing today isn't [00:09:00] necessarily an instruction or a direction. Sometimes it's just information. Sometimes it's something that needs to move through you. Sometimes it's asking you to stop or go forward or something has been dormant, right? We talked about this in the September energy forecast, It's finally coming to the surface. And sometimes, like let's be totally real 3D life, sometimes you're just having a bad day We don't need to make every energetic experience mean something enormous about who we are And so once I kind of realized that, I was like, "Okay, so what's the question?" And here's the question that I've really been sitting with: What remains true about me even when I don't feel like myself?
And I think that client session gave me the answer. My gifts are still here. My [00:10:00] intuition is still here. My ability to see someone is still here. My work is still here. My ability to serve, and serve really well, is still here. I don't lose those things because I'm pissed off or frustrated or questioning everything, and neither do you And this is where I really want you to question for yourself some of these conversations that you might have heard about energy or participated in about energy You know, we've been taught that certain energy is good and certain energy is bad.
High vibe, low vibe, aligned, misaligned, however you wanna describe it. And therefore, if we are experiencing one of the, quote-unquote, "bad ones," our job is to get ourselves back into the good ones as quickly as possible. But what if that is not the entire assignment? What if you can be frustrated [00:11:00] and brilliant?
What if you can be uncertain and intuitive? What if you can question everything and still do incredible work? What if your energy doesn't need to be perfectly aligned for you to be powerful? And this feels very different to me than pretending that the difficult energy is not there. I am not interested in bypassing it, and at the same time, I'm not interested in sitting in it.
There is such a nuance here. So I'm not just gonna tell myself, "No, Jessica, everything is amazing," I can tell the truth about that, and I don't have to hand that energy the keys to my entire life, right? And the biggest thing that perhaps I want you to take from this episode is don't wait until you feel like yourself again.
Be yourself. So in my case, well, what does Jessica [00:12:00] do? Well, apparently Jessica gets on a call with a woman and blows her mind. She channels, she creates, she connects dots, she serves. And something happened when I did that in that client call. It didn't necessarily make the other energy disappear, but I could feel myself again, not because I chased the feeling, but because I did the thing that is fundamentally me.
And the cool thing was that over the course of the two days since that client session and now, I really doubled down on service. I continued to be and do the thing that I do best, which is serve others. And ask any of my clients, a few of them have asked, like, "Dude, what? You must be in, like, such an amazing space right now because you're just on fire."
And that kinda makes me laugh. But I [00:13:00] don't want you to take away from this that it's your job to now go and serve because I feel everyone is different here. And I started to think about ruling numbers And maybe the way that I come back to myself is not the way that you come back to yourself, and your ruling number might be the doorway.
So let's explore this a bit. I'm gonna ask everyone to do just a little bit of math, which is calculate your ruling number, if you don't already. I want you to take your birthday, I want you to separate all the digits and add them together until you get a number between two and 11. And you will notice that in my work, ruling numbers go from two to 11.
There is no ruling number one in my system because we are all one. We are all the individual. We are all the self. We are all here having this human experience. so sorry. I laugh. And the people that really argue with me about this are the [00:14:00] ones. Sorry, ones, you are a 10. and so I feel that our ruling number tells us something about how we're designed to move through, through this experience.
I think all of us do at times have this sense of when our energy is just a bit off. And so I did some work on this, and it's like, okay, so our-- when our energy feels a bit off, what... like, what if your ruling number can give you this doorway back into being yourself? Again, not necessarily a way to make you feel better.
I'm not giving you like 10 prescriptions to strategies for getting high vibe. We already talked about that in the beginning of the session here. We've talked about ways that you can move your energy if that's what you're doing. Here, the question that I'm asking is, what is so fundamentally you that you can access it even when you don't feel like you I love this because that makes this less important [00:15:00] for me.
So having this off energy a bit, you know, a week ago it felt so important, like I needed to solve it. And what happens when something is so important, our brain views it as a threat. And because it was a threat, I was trying hard and pushing and really focused on it. And when we focus on something, what happens?
It grows. And so this is just a third door or another way that I encourage you to perhaps feel into this energy. So again, my question is, what is so fundamentally you that you can access it even when you don't feel like you? And I'm gonna go through every ruling number, and I want you to feel into it and see how it resonates.
So ruling number two. For you, I'm thinking it's connection. You might want to isolate when things feel hard, but your way back may come through connection with another person. [00:16:00] Call someone. Be with someone. Listen to someone. Let yourself receive the gift of listening from another. You don't necessarily have to talk the entire thing, right, to death.
I just think you might need to remember that you're not meant to experience everything alone Ruling number three, it's expression. Say it, write it, paint it, create something, talk it out. Make something ridiculous. Your energy as a three can get really stagnant when everything stays trapped inside of you.
And you don't need to understand the energy before you express it, because expression is how you're going to understand it. For my ruling number fours, come back to what is real. What can you touch? What can you actually do? What needs your attention today? Again, not your entire life or your five-year plan, today.
Give yourself something solid underneath your [00:17:00] feet. And for you, the way through energetic chaos is one very ordinary next step. Ruling number five, movement. Change the scenery, move your body, go somewhere, do something differently, break the pattern. Movement is going to reveal the answer for you.
Ruling number six, come back to what you care about. Tend to something. Create beauty. Take care of your environment. Be with someone you love. Make something feel better because you touched it. And it's not because you're responsible for fixing everything around you, you're not. The shadow side of the six feels that.
That feeling of caring, can reconnect you with yourself. Ruling number seven, I know you do not want to hear what I'm about to say, but you may actually need to stop. Not forever, but [00:18:00] intentionally create enough space that you can hear yourself again, so you don't need another opinion or another strategy or another person telling you what to do.
You might just need some silence. Ruling number eight, you need somewhere to direct the energy. You need to give the energy a job. So choose a target and take the intensity that you are feeling and put it somewhere useful. What feels frustrating to you is actually this enormous amount of power with nowhere to go.
So give it somewhere to go. Ruling number nine, what am I done with? Not how do I make this go away, what do I need to fix? Just ask, like, what is complete? What am I carrying that actually doesn't belong here in my life? And sometimes I feel the energy feels off for you because something has already ended energetically, and you're still trying to keep it alive.
[00:19:00] Ruling number ten, you need to remember your own amazing capacity to create a new beginning. Create something. Put something in motion. There is something so powerful for you about remembering the fact that I can begin again from here, from right where I are. Oh, from right where I am. Ruling number 11.
and this sounds familiar because this is who I am. I'm a ruling number 11, and the doorway is service. Now, not martyrdom, right? Not abandoning yourself to take care of anybody else. Service, letting what moves through you become useful to someone else, and that's exactly what happened to me. I didn't fix myself and then serve.
I served, and I committed myself to the best service, and in the serving, I remembered myself, and that's the [00:20:00] distinction. And so if you're listening to this, and your energy is a bit off as well, and you've been asking, "How do I get out of this?" maybe you can stop and interrupt that pattern and ask yourself some different questions.
What is this energy asking of me? What does it need? and then give it what it needs. And then the next question is, okay, who am I underneath how I happen to feel today? What is still true about me? What do I know how to do? What comes naturally through me? What makes me remember myself? Because you do not need to wait until you feel like yourself again.
You need to be yourself while you feel like this And listen, in full transparency, things are working concurrently for me right now. I am [00:21:00] working within my energy. I am working to shift my energy. And at some points of the day, I am still in it. You know, spoiler, I don't have a beautiful ending for you where I tell you that I did these five things and now everything feels amazing.
Part of me still feels that way of like, "Ah, screw it. Burn it all down." And I'm gonna let that part of me have something to say. I'm curious about her. I'm listening. But that part of me does not get to decide that I've stopped being who I am. Because what has happened over the last few days for me, while in service, it has reminded me my energy can change, my mood can change, my circumstances can change, my confidence can change, but there are things about me that remain, and this is an energetic advantage.
[00:22:00] Sure, an energetic advantage is about knowing how to change your energy if you want to, having tools and tips and modalities to do it. But it's not always about that. Sometimes your energetic advantage can simply be knowing who you are inside all of this
And going back to her for him I'm laughing. I was like, "So wherever you are, I hope this email finds you well." How this email finds me. Let's just say if I actually knew how to create memes, I would have a million of them right about now. , But I hope this just gave you another perspective, another way to feel and to think into these concepts, because energetic advantage happens when [00:23:00] you're willing to find another way.
Because what I know for sure, and what I am learning through this entire process, is that there is always another way. There is always another choice. And by opening our mind and our hearts and our energy to see all of the options, we get a freedom because we know that we can choose, and choice and free will are at the heart of my work.
And before I go here, a reminder that you get to choose your experience in Quarter Four. What the Quarter Four Forecast does is share with you the collective themes, the energy, what you specifically have in your path and in your trajectory, so that you have time to choose, so that you know and can feel into your own being and your own energy and make that choice [00:24:00] for yourself.
Instead of getting into the energy, seeing what everybody else is doing, and following that. Because if you've learned anything from today's podcast, which I think you already knew, is that we are all unique. We are all different. And going back to the very first thing, this is so interesting I'm coming back here in this conversation.
My very first reading that I ever offered, my gosh, six years ago now, was called Step Into Your Sparkle, and on the back page, it was like a, a big report, and on the back page is like, "There is no one like you, and that is your superpower." And what a beautiful reminder to be you and see what happens from there.
All right, everyone, I'll talk to you soon.
Outro: Thanks for being here inside The Energetic Advantage. If today's episode open something for [00:25:00] you, share it, tag it, or send to the person who popped into your mind. And remember, energy first strategy second. Your advantage has always been in you. Now it's time to lead with it. See you next time.
