Ay Mijita ✨ Embrace your raíces. Reclaim your esencia.
My personal journey of transformation in body, mind and spirit. Sharing life events and hard lessons learned to break free from the cultural Mexican-American limiting beliefs as first born generation in the United States. A glimpse into healing my generational wounds through holistic modalities through emotional intelligence, astrology, self care and tools learned. Join me on facing adversities of moving through to get on the other side. Inspiring others to be the best version of themselves and walking away from the perfectionism trap.
Ay Mijita ✨ Embrace your raíces. Reclaim your esencia.
Cosmic Blueprints: How Astrology and Human Design Changed My Life
Have you ever felt like you're living two lives—one to please your familia and another that's truly yours? That internal tug-of-war was my reality until I discovered two powerful tools that revolutionized my self-understanding: astrology and human design.
As a first-generation Mexicana and intuitive healer, I've spent years navigating cultural expectations while trying to honor my authentic self. The journey wasn't easy until these cosmic frameworks gave me permission to embrace all parts of who I am. Your birth chart isn't just some mystical concept—it's a profound mirror reflecting your essence through your Sun (your core identity), Moon (emotional landscape), and Rising sign (how others perceive you). When I discovered my Sagittarius Sun explained my love for adventure, my Cancer Moon illuminated my deep emotional sensitivity, and my Leo Rising revealed why people saw confidence even when I trembled inside, everything clicked.
Human Design took this understanding even deeper by mapping my energetic blueprint as a Generator. Suddenly, my pattern of burnout made sense—I was forcing initiatives rather than responding to what genuinely lit me up. Learning about the five energy types (Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors, and Reflectors) didn't box me in; it liberated me from expectations that never fit.
These tools aren't just fascinating—they're practical medicine for generational healing. When you understand your cosmic design, you release the guilt of being "too much" or "not enough." You recognize that your need for solitude isn't laziness but essential restoration. You build relationships that honor rather than deplete you. Most importantly, you give yourself permission to live authentically rather than performing to meet cultural or family expectations.
Whether you're curious about why certain relationships feel effortless while others drain you, or why traditional success paths leave you unfulfilled, your cosmic blueprint holds answers. Join me in exploring how astrology and human design can transform your relationship with yourself and create a life aligned with your true essence. Ready to discover your cosmic roadmap? Reach out—I'd love to guide you on this journey.
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Hola, mi gente hermosa, welcome back to Ay Mijita, the podcast where we dive into healing spirituality and embracing our raices while reclaiming our esencia. I'm Dora Alicia Praxedes, intuitive healer, life coach, and your cosmic guia on this journey. Today we're talking about two tools that literally changed how I see myself and the world astrology and human design. Maybe you've wondered why you feel like you're living two lives, one for your familia, otra for yourself, or why certain relationships feel easy and others like a cosmic test. Astrology y human design give us mapas, roadmaps to help us navigate life, love, work and healing from the inside out. Y déjame decirte, these tools are powerful, especially for first-gen folks like us, navigating dual cultures and generational expectations. So ponte cómodo, cómoda, grab a cabecito, un journal and let's go on this cosmic adventure juntos. Hola, hola and welcome to I. I'm Hijita, embracing your Roots. I'm your host, doralicia Praxedes, intuitive healer, life coach, mama, hija, hermana and proud first gen mexicana doing the deeper inner work to break generational cycles and reconnect with my true self. This podcast is for you. Whoever asked yourself why am I like this? Because, deep down, you know there's more to your story than just survival. Here we dive into the messy, the magical, the medicine of healing, from inner child work to energetic limpias, astrology to ancestral wisdom, human design to hard boundaries. I share my lived experiences, spiritual tools and teachable moments, all with corazón y honestidad. So grab your cafecito tecito or that bubbly drink you love and let's get into today's episode, porque tu historia, tu voz y tu healing matter. Let's start with astrology. When people ask me, ¿qué es astrología? I always say it's not about predicting the future. It's a mirror reflecting who you are at your core. Your birth chart is a snapshot of the sky when you arrived into this world. The big three are your sun, moon and rising signs. Let's dive into el sol, the sun. Your sun is like tu brillo, your life force, your essence. For me, as a Sagittarius sun, I love adventure, truth-telling and always seeking meaning and goodness. Do I love adventure For me?
Speaker 1:When I graduated high school, I wanted to go on to college and fighting with like financial aid and that to get a full ride scholarship to DePaul University in downtown Chicago. That was great, but I needed to figure out how I was going to commute from Roselle, which is my hometown, to Chicago, and I would take the train in the Metro and that would be about an hour and then I would need to navigate the city another hour to get to Lincoln park. So it would take me two hours to get there every single day. And let me tell you, for the first two years of college I had no clue where the Lake was Lake Michigan. Over this course of time, later, when I learned about astrology, did I figure out. Wow, I really like this sense of not knowing and kind of venturing off and trying to figure it out and of course I would ask questions in that direction, especially if I didn't know what to do, like take the brown line to the red line, to this line. I'm surprised I didn't end up like somewhere else in the city instead of being in the classroom.
Speaker 1:Now let's move on to la luna, your moon. Your moon is tu mundo emocional, how you feel safe and nurtured. I'm a cancer moon, so I feel everything deeply, soy super maternal and my home is my sanctuary. I've always had this maternal instinct, let's say energy. When people come over, I tend to nurture and I'm just like a naturally loving person. So when people come to my house, they feel safe, they feel homey I often get that from visitors they feel at peace and I'm super apasionada, like the novelas, right, like I cry in Spanish, and I do all these things so deeply, like I feel it like to my core, and my husband always jokes that anytime I set my mind to something I'm going to get it done.
Speaker 1:Because I'm one stubborn and two, I'm just so entregada in what I do and as I'm passionate, I'm also able to pick up quickly on other people's energy. Of course, if the person is willing and open to receive, I'm able to kind of sense if there's something else going on in their life. And this is where I get my intuitive hits or my abilities to kind of tap into their spirit or master teacher's loved ones, and I'm able to kind of say something that they or master teacher's loved ones, and I'm able to kind of say something that they need. At that point in time I thought it was just like the mother touch kind of thing, but no, it's, this is beyond that. It's like knowing when your kid is kind of going through something. It's kind of like that with adults or other people. And that's where it kind of threw me off too, because I thought, oh, everybody has this ability. But I guess not, and so I often use this in my work and my coaching, and especially when I'm tapping in for Olympias, to extract any negative energies that are being carried by the person or talk through anything that they are seeing as a challenge.
Speaker 1:The last one we'll talk about is the rising sign. So your rising sign is your social mask. Cómo te ven los demás, my Leo. Rising means people see me as confident, bold, sometimes dramatic, even when por dentro I'm nervous as heck. This reminds me of a time when I was in high school and I remember it was my senior year and there was a speaker that came in to do an assembly regarding bullying and in my high school we had it split where it was freshmen and sophomore in one and then juniors and seniors in another. So juniors and seniors comprise like over a thousand kids in this assembly, plus the teachers and all the other kind of admin people.
Speaker 1:And as the person was, as the speaker was talking about bullying, I got a strong impulse and I remember I was sitting at the top of the bleachers, all the way at the top, and we were in the gym and I got this impulse to share how I was bullied, siloed, for being pregnant, and this was in front of all those students and I remember my legs were trembling as I was walking down because he had mentioned if anybody wanted to come down and speak, and I felt it's so liberating. Afterwards I did cry. I remember my throat going into a knot. A lot of people didn't even know my story but for some reason I always felt like everybody saw me, everybody knew who I was like, pointed a finger and started laughing at me, would gossip about me, but I was able to put it out there that kids are cruel and those things mark you and they can traumatize you for a whole lifetime and that, for me, gave me, I guess, my power back in that specific moment.
Speaker 1:The other thing, too, is creating this podcast. I've been at it for eight years and I'm finally able to put it out there, and it's been terrifying. I think last year I put out a trailer thinking, oh yeah, I'm going to kick it out there, and it's been terrifying. I think last year I put out a trailer thinking, oh yeah, I'm going to kick it off, but I've been delaying it because I've been so scared to put myself out there and all this stuff becoming woo woo, like it's too out there for the people that know me as a professional accountant, so I'm right there with you in this learning journey of how to embrace all parts of ourselves. So if you don't know your big three, write it down as something to look up and I'll share links down below at the show notes.
Speaker 1:I have a freebie for you that we'll talk about with astrology and our human design. And remember, it's not about putting yourself in a box, it's about understanding your layers. Ahora, let's talk about human design, about understanding your layers. Ahora, let's talk about human design. Imagine if you were born con un manual that explains how your energy works. That's human design. It combines astrology, the I Ching, kabbalah, chakras and even quantum physics. It can sound overwhelming, pero, te juro, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1:There are five types in human design. Let's go through them. Manifestors are initiators. You're here to start movements, spark new ideas, pero necesitas your freedom. I worked with a coach and she was a manifester and that's where she just loved to create, put stuff out there in the world, and I just was amazed at how much creativity she had. It served her well because it was getting different business ideas like on the fly, and that's where I knew deep down in her soul she loved to create things for others and for herself. Now, generators like me are the builders. We have sustainable energy when we're doing what we are passionate about. But when we're doing lo que nos apasiona, what we are passionate about, pero cuando estamos en the wrong job or relationship, we feel frustrated. Af Generators are also the majority of all these different types.
Speaker 1:So I remember a time when I was forcing things and I burned out, and that was when I was getting my CPA. I thought I needed to follow the path into my accounting career with my degree and so at work I thought, in order to rise up to the next level, to be on that national team, I needed to go get my CPA. And I went back to school, got the MBA. So the master's in business administration and I did it didn't pan out. I went usually for the CPA. You have to study. It's four parts. You have to study about 150 hours each section, four sections, and I remember studying like 30 hours maybe for the whole thing and I got a 57. You have to have a 75 to pass and I tried twice and it's been what? 13 years in the making, yeah, I don't think it's going to happen. Spirit, god divine, called me into a very different path. So that's when I started burning out. That's when I know things are not for me. When they're not easy, when it's super frustrating for me, that's when I have to learn to stop and let it go and then maybe come back and revisit it later in my life.
Speaker 1:Now, manifesting generators are multi-talented, fast-paced. You can pivot quickly, sometimes confusing others. My dear friend, she's one that has so many projects on the burner and she loves to whip up new things, new concepts, and so it's hard for her to keep up. Like I can't keep up with her. There's just so much stuff. Every time I contact her she's working on something different and it's like what happened to the other project oh yeah, it's just there, but I want to do this and this and this, and so it's kind of like a fast-paced life for her, so kind of like a fast paced life for her. So that's when we kind of geek out on how do we kind of slow down again? But yeah, then she goes back at it. So it's great to have that perspective of hers, like being the duality of the manifesting and the generator. That's quite a lot of energy to go through.
Speaker 1:Now, this one I this next one is one that I see firsthand with my kiddos, because they're both projectors. So projectors are guides. You're not here to work your eight hours straight. You thrive on recognition. So since my kiddos are projectors, I can see the big, they can see the big picture. They are the ones, I think, in their friend group that gravitate to lead, naturally, like the parent in the group.
Speaker 1:Now our last type is reflectors. Reflectors are super rare, only one percent of the population. They're your mirrors of your environment. Often reflectors are the ones to mirror what's going on and make sense of it. They can also find through lines in the common themes, especially when we're encountering, like various times, reflectors pick up on the energy of the collective. So knowing your type gives you permission to be you. No más burnout, no más forcing what's not for you. So why does all this matter? Because knowing your blueprint can heal generations of shame, confusion and people-pleasing. Astrology and human design help you understand your gifts, release guilt for being different, build relationships that honor your truth.
Speaker 1:For me, discovering I was a generator explained why I'd work myself to exhaustion. My Cancer Moon explained why I needed quiet time. After helping clients and needing that quiet time, that's when I started setting in these tools to help me set my boundaries and choose differently. For example, at the end of the year, our company my 9 to 5, closes for about a week between Christmas and New Year's. I take time to reflect and relax. I don't try to cram anything else in there during this time, because I know the holidays and our birthday season between October and first week of January is overwhelming enough and I need that time to myself. I remember my mom would make a note of that when I lived with her, and I get it.
Speaker 1:It comes across as being lazy floja. I don't want to do anything and I don't, but that's perfectly okay. Is not doing anything? Is doing something for yourself. It's restoring. So don't feel guilty for taking time for yourself. That is an essential part of you being you and if you're good with your body, mind and spirit, you're going to be able to help out or cater to other people's needs. And I did learn that lesson the hard way and now I value that so much more.
Speaker 1:Now knowing that about myself and thinking I had to give an explanation to others as to why I'm relaxing that's when I started knowing or having that, knowing that I don't need to give explanations, because I'm being me and I feel depleted. I need rest, I need to be with myself, I need that solitude time and going out for a walk, being by myself. That is super restorative for me and I would often undervalue it because I always thought I had to be busy, like I always had to get stuffed on off my task list. But carving out time for me to sit with myself or resting, having a day of rest time because I, for one, I love to hit the gym like every day if I could, but I know the body, that's not sustainable. We need to, I need to take care of my body. I. But I know the body. That's not sustainable. We need to, I need to take care of my body. It's the biggest asset I have, and so those days that I don't do anything, I feel like I'm doing so much for myself. No-transcript. Okay, let's talk practical ways to use this information in tu vida diaria.
Speaker 1:Astrology. Check the moon before big conversations. Journal about your sun and your moon conflicts. Notice Mercury retrograde patterns. So, for example, we have one coming up If you're listening to this in July, at the beginning of July, when this drops, from July 17th to August 11th, retrograde will be in Leo, potentially affecting communication technology, travel and scheduling. It's a good time for reflection, revision and revisiting past projects or relationships, and try to avoid launching any major new ventures During this Mercury retrograde season. That's when you'll start noticing the tech relationships or business being affected.
Speaker 1:This is a time where I ask all the people I'm working with to double check your emails, because sometimes emails don't send, text messages also don't get sent or there's a miscommunication. I often have this with the hubby and I are not on the same page. It makes me think of a time when I forgot to go to a parent-teacher conference because I put it on the wrong date in the calendar and it was actually the day before. So one, I showed up super late a whole day. And then two, it's like I felt really dumb because I scheduled it and I was the one putting forth all the effort to get there and I think that day I was even late to the meeting, but I didn't realize it was a whole day late. So that was kind of a funny story, showing up with the kids like, and for them to see yeah, mom screws up too. And my favorite saying is it's proving that I'm human Now going into human design in human design, using it to follow your strategy, honor your energy and rest if your chart calls for it.
Speaker 1:One thing that I rely with my human design, that I've learned, that I've incorporated into my daily routines, that changed my life since learning that I'm a generator, is when I need to make a decision. I follow my gut. Either it's a heck yes or a hell no. And of course, I love combining astrology and human design with my limpias Doing a limpia on the new moon to release old energy, or choosing a limpia herbs based on the moon sign. I really enjoy the new moon and the full moon to really lease and reflect, depending on what sign it falls under. I also pull oracle cards for clarity, cleansing my body, but also journaling and burning it when I'm letting go. It's such a ceremony and a ritual that I do Just surrendering that to divine God spirit on what is more convenient for me. I don't even know sometimes. What is more, you know what's coming up ahead, and that's where learning to trust is one of the biggest things, and learning lessons that I've had as well is to go with the flow.
Speaker 1:I often thought, oh, you have to hustle, you have to grind, you have to do all these things and it's like no life shouldn't be this hard. Instead of living with dis-ease, I'd rather live with ease, meaning things flow, things happen, synchronicities, miracles, and knowing that everything's happening for you and not against you and if you go through a little detour, it's just giving you extra wisdom, and that's kind of like the bonus right in life is to make it a little spicy, a little interesting. Now, going back to my first astrology reading, that's where I had a lot that I learned about myself. I remember there was a lot of healing in that session and I cried a lot because one of my wounds is self-abandonment and I have trouble with my second house, which we'll get into houses and everything later on in this podcast. But my second house is all about the money, the self-worth, the resources, and that's where I feel a lot of lack and scarcity. And I did grow up in that household right that we always have to hustle for the money and work super hard.
Speaker 1:And learning those wounds, learning those different things about myself based on my birth chart, has given me that information on. Okay, it's not it's me, but it's something that I can work on and I have awareness now where I know that I'm super sensitive, where I have these certain things in my chart that I can use to gauge on my journey moving forward, and that let it dictate my whole life that I can turn the ship around right, that I do have this ability to gain control back and look at it from a different perspective, especially with my human design, like once I started to see my chart that I had all these gates open, like enclosed and colored, and you know vice, you know vice versa. It really helped me understand the relationship to myself but also the relationship to others, how my throat is often blocked and with the transits, so as time goes on it does change, but you always have that main birth chart or your human design that you can always haul back on and work through. Once you understand them retrograde, or if there's some sort of planetary things happening, mostly on the negative side, that's when I really try to go inward and take that time, have that sacred space for myself to really get grounded, see what's coming up, what do I need to let go, what do I need to release and journal about it, do what I need to do for myself in that given moment, and I think that's where I honor myself. And if I could go back and give like advice to my younger self, I would say you know, these are the tools you could use and honor what's coming up for you, because it is legit.
Speaker 1:Like, if I feel sad, why am I feeling sad? And I go through the motions of asking those questions of what are we? You know what is that? Memory being brought up? My body's obviously remembering something that happened and so giving myself that space, holding myself in that love and compassion, in that bubble, in that light that this is part of this journey, as painful as it is sometimes, there's also beautiful things that happen, and so all of it is a blessing in disguise. And, of course, ending or having this gratitude practice as well of I'm so grateful for another day. I'm grateful for my life as it is, even though there was some shitty moments in my life. If it wasn't for those shitty moments, I would not be the woman I am today. If I didn't encounter those people that be positive or negative, then I wouldn't have been shaped to think the way I think, to go through life and experimenting everything and that's what I love about this human experience is every day. It's an adventure for me, especially knowing that I'm a generator and in my human design, I love all these different things, but then also, astrologically, knowing that I love that adventure, knowing that I love to nurture others. That's when I know that I am the way I am, because I have these tools to fall back on to understand that a little bit better.
Speaker 1:Now let's reflect juntos. What's your sun, moon, rising signs? Do you know your human design type? What's something you've learned about yourself today? Feel free to DM me. I love hearing your cosmic discoveries and if you're curious about your chart or to diseño humano, reach out. You can DM me at Instagram, at dpraxedes, or visit dorapraxedescom, and you can click on the work with me page, or you can send me an email at dora, at dorapraxedescom. So let's explore your cosmic blueprint and create a life aligned con tu esencia. Now I'm going to pull a card from the Work, your Light Oracle Cards from Rebecca Campbell and this was actually my first deck that I ever got and it's so beautiful and I pull the card. You're already doing it.
Speaker 1:Stop overthinking. Keep facing your true north. Do not question things so much. You're on the right path. You're on the right track. You are facing the right way. Stop overthinking. It's happening and you are closer than you think. You are exactly where you need to be and things are moving at the perfect speed. Do not rush it.
Speaker 1:Now is not the time to be impatient. Now is the time to walk steady. There is no rush. What you are building is being built. What you have planted soon will blossom. With every new day, a new brick is being laid. You have come a long way. The foundations are steady. Now all that is needed is for you to trust and keep walking forward.
Speaker 1:If a thought that things should be moving faster enters your head, that is just your ego, comparing you rising to someone else. Comparison is not your friend. Stay in your lane, water your own garden. Know that your time to bloom will come soon. Work your light. You are already doing it. Keep going and I ironically got this card last week when I was doing pulling it for myself and it's just a great reminder that you're already doing what you're supposed to be doing and just keep going right.
Speaker 1:Keep down that path and if challenges present themselves, know that it's shaping you, that it's course correcting something and it's bringing something to your awareness for you to work on Trust that you're divinely being led, that spirit is working miracles on your behalf. Universe working miracles on your behalf. Universe, god, source, whatever it is that resonates with you, make sure that you honor what's lighting you up. If, for some reason, you're feeling stuck in this moment, this stuckness, stickiness, this moment is serving you in some shape, way or form. This is, this moment, is serving you in some shape, way or form. That's where we'll dig in more in this podcast. About going back to your little child, in my example, my little dora. I do go back and visit her often, and when I started doing that work, that's when I started seeing big shifts in my life. So that will leave for another day.
Speaker 1:All right, that was the reading for this time around. What a beautiful card. And, of course, keep following that North Star of yours and, most importantly, trusting yourself. Gracias por being here for going on this cosmic journey conmigo next week. We're diving into boundaries. How to say no? That's a solid sentence, I know, sin guilt y sin losing yourself. Until then, embrace your raices, reclaim your esencia. Nos vemos pronto.