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293 - August's Human Design Gate Transits & Astrological Forecast · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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  Welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, the show dedicated to
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  helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to
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  flow without sacrificing results.
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  Come here to become an unshakeable human and build an unshakeable business
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  according to your human design.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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  Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everyone.
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  It is a new month.
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  Thankfully, I am not here alone like I was last month.
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  Last month it was my fault.
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  I totally had a scheduling problem.
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  And Christina couldn't join us for last month's episode, but she's back.
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  And I'm so happy you're here because this is so much more fun
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  with you than it is without you.
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  Christina Luna is our resident astrologer and my friend, and
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  Christina, welcome back to the show.
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  Oh, thank you so much, Nicole.
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  I love doing these reports with you and I especially love what you were talking
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  about the way that human design is approaching this quarter that we're in.
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  I'm so interested to hear how our perspectives overlap and how they
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  differ in this August report.
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  Yeah, when I did July's episode, and I was alone, I definitely
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  felt like something was missing.
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  There's so much more juice when we do this together, because we
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  get both of our perspectives.
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  And I always get lightbulb moments from hearing what you see, and I think
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  that it just compliments each other, and I think it really provides a much
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  higher value to all of our listeners.
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  So we're talking about the transits, both astrologically and from a human design
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  perspective, coming for us in August.
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  So this is your look ahead, people, at what we've got coming on
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  cosmically in the month of August.
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  So, Christina, I'll start with what you were just saying.
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  One of the things that I was saying to Christina before we started was
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  that there are four quarters that the human design wheel falls into.
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  So what that does is, It gives you a guide.
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  If you're born during a particular quarter, it tells you the overall
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  theme that your incarnation cross has, that your purpose has.
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  And we mentioned this in May's episode where I talked about us shifting into the
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  second quarter, which is the quarter of civilization, which is all about action.
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  It's all about implementation.
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  It's like laying the groundwork and foundation for all the thoughts
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  that we came up with, ideas that we came up with in the first quarter.
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  There's the spark in the first quarter, the second quarter is action, and
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  now this third quarter, when we hit the sixth of the month, we shift
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  into this third quarter of duality.
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  And duality is all about relationships.
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  And Christina and I both, you're September 19, I'm September
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  8, so this is like our land.
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  This is our quarter, babe.
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  We're duality people.
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  And this was a huge eye opener for me because duality
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  is all about relationships.
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  It's all about people and interpersonal relationships.
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  We're getting into all the emotional stuff is in this quarter.
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  This is all the emotional gates are part of this quarter of duality.
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  So it tells you something about the theme.
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  It's all emotion, with a touch of fear.
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  And all of that stuff that comes up for us in Virgo and Libra season.
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  And for Leo we have a mixed bag of the things that are coming here,
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  and the energies that we have.
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  But to me the quarter of duality, what it means to me and what I've
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  contemplated is it's time to take your stuff out into the world.
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  But it kicks off to me in that big Leo energy of, here I am, ta da!
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  Let everybody see who you are, I think is a big theme that can
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  get lost in here a little bit.
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  And to me, Quarter of Duality is time to take your ideas and your
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  work and what you put into action.
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  And it's time to start talking to people about it.
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  It's time to start being interpersonal with the things that you have.
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  Because that was something I had to overcome, was being very introverted
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  and let me just crawl back inside of myself and explore some more.
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  And that cracked me open when I saw quarter of duality.
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  Okay, so my purpose has something to do with relationships.
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  The relationships I've always had, but also my ability to make, hold, and nurture
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  relationships, I think, is a greater theme that we're about to enter into.
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  So, what comes up for you?
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  What do you see, or what hits you when I talk about that?
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  Does that coincide with anything that you're seeing, or with what
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  you do and what you focus on with astrology at this time of year?
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  Well, I can say that I think astrology creates quarters a little
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  bit differently than human design.
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  We would start the first quarter in Aries season and each quarter
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  consists of an initiating point, a maintaining point and a changing point.
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  And so in astrology, August and Leo season is actually the
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  middle of the second quarter.
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  It's the maintenance part of a cycle that was initiated through
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  vulnerability and emotionality.
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  So, cancer season is the beginning where we feel what we deeply need in order
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  to be mortal in this life, in order to actually feel safe to explore and live.
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  And so we initiate what we need.
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  We get into Leo season, and this is where we see our life as our oyster.
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  We imagine, we play, we dream.
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  It's the space where we understand why it's worth living here.
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  Why should we stay alive?
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  What is the authentic reason that I like to be alive?
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  And so what you're talking about is this opening to relationship,
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  and Leo is actually an opening to the relationship with life itself.
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  Yes.
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  I've determined that I will be alive, and I will stay here, and I will be on this
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  planet, and I will be a mortal human.
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  And now I've got to get into the sandbox.
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  I've got to get my tools out and see how this whole thing works.
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  And so there is a lot of the laws of cause and effect that happen in Leo.
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  When I create this, this is what happens.
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  And I believe that Leo is a testing ground to help us know how we are
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  individual, and unique, and authentic, and different from everyone else.
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  How can we be in a relationship when we don't really know what makes
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  us special in that relationship?
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  And so it's a coming into our own heart, coming into our own unique
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  voice and expression so that we could individuate more fully and become even
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  more complete and whole in Virgo season.
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  And that complete and whole space is what we bring into relationship.
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  So there is a lot of preparation for relationship that I see happening.
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  I love that.
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  And from the human design perspective, coming into August, we start off in
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  Gate 33 which is the Gate of Retreat.
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  And it is all about taking in experiences and being able to
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  reflect on those experiences.
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  And through that, we share the lessons.
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  So there is this wisdom of being able to look back and reflect on everything
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  that you have experienced over, whatever period of time but just find the lessons
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  in whatever has happened, whether it has been bad, good, or anywhere in between.
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  I love that this gate of retreat, this reflection, happens right before we shift
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  into the new quarter for human design.
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  So it's our last hurrah to say, let's take a look back at everything
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  that we've done, let's reflect, and now we're shifting into this new
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  quarter of duality, and we're doing it under Gate 7, which is leadership.
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  This is a gate that is all about leadership, it's part of the
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  channel of the Alpha, which is a G Center gate, it's identity.
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  Coming home to your identity, and there is something about Gate 7
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  that says, I see the path forward.
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  I know what we need.
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  I see the path forward, not just for me, but for other people.
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  There is this sort of higher calling to it, but it is this internal knowing
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  of leading yourself and once you lead yourself, you can lead others.
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  That is that main theme of this gate.
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  So I love that we end with reflection and we start with ownership of who
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  we are and leading from that place.
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  And I always find it interesting going through the transits, because
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  you see which gates trigger you, you see what energies feel good, they
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  feel like an old friend, and some of them just feel like, I don't know,
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  we just never seem to get along.
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  So I'm looking forward to this where I can look at this and say,
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  I know I'm comfortable in retreat.
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  I know I'm comfortable in reflection.
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  That's my land.
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  I'm good there.
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  The leadership part, I'm excited to see what my energy is like when we
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  hit the gate seven to see how that leadership energy fits this year.
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  Because I feel like I'm in a really good place, so it's always interesting to me
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  to see how these themes fit as we change and we grow, or we go through things.
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  And we see how they're somehow validating something that we've gone
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  through and helping us get to that next level, or they are showing us
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  maybe where we have some work to do.
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  You nailed it.
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  definitely we're seeing where we have a little bit of work to do in August.
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  From an astrological perspective, this August is going to be a little bit
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  different astrologically than last August for a few different reasons.
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  The first reason is we're going to have a Mercury retrograde for the
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  month of August and it's going to be retrograding through the space of
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  what our heart is deeply committed to.
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  So you talked about that leadership.
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  Leadership starts with knowing what our true north core center why really is.
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  And so, when you talk about the first week being about this retreat, what I
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  see, it's a week where we enter into the space of victory after battle of
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  some kind, victory after overcoming some kind of big shift, change, or obstacle.
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  And so July had this energy to it that was like, ah, I've got to really adjust this.
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  I've got to shift this.
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  I've got to face this.
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  I've got to be honest about this.
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  I've got to face the issues in my relationships that
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  are not quite authentic.
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  And so this first week of August, we've got this victory after the
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  shift, after the change, and you called it a reflection moment.
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  It is a reflection moment.
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  We've made it through to this point of the journey.
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  We can reflect on what we learned from that sort of playful
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  battleground that we were in.
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  And as we step into the second week, that seven gate you were talking
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  about, that's about standing up for what you're passionate about.
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  So you called it a moment where you step into your leadership.
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  We are going to be realizing that a lot of our internal guiding principles,
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  or our why statements that we've made for ourself, we're going to notice
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  that a lot of those have fallen over, and there's maybe one true,
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  strong, passionate why that's left.
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  And if we could grab that one and stand in front of that one, that's what we're being
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  asked to do in the second week of August.
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  And another reason why August this year is a little bit different is both
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  the masculine and feminine principles, Venus and Mars, they're in temples.
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  Venus is in Leo, Mars is in Gemini.
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  These are both places that they retrograded in their
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  last retrograde cycle.
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  So they're not retrograde this year.
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  They're moving direct.
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  They're clear.
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  They're focused.
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  And they're coming back to this temple of the heart that they worked so hard
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  to reconstruct in their last retrograde.
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  And so it's like you built something.
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  And you worked really hard at it, and now you're coming back
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  to see if it ended up manifesting the way that the plans suggested.
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  So what is the finished product?
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  Is the Temple of the Heart the way we thought it would be
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  when we set off manifesting it a year, year and a half ago?
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  Or are there some things that we still need to adjust?
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  And how can we step into our strong leadership and advocacy for the
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  Temple of the Heart to make sure that it's done right this time.
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  That rang true on so many levels.
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  First of all, I want to say July was super crunchy for me.
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  July has been a weird month.
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  It's been fine.
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  Not mad about it.
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  Nothing went wrong, but just felt weird, and we have these months, right?
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  And usually it's confirmed in the astrology why we feel that way.
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  It feels like getting ready for something.
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  It feels like we're in that revving up phase, which sometimes
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  can feel interesting and fun.
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  This felt like, ew, crunchy to me.
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  That's the word that keeps coming up.
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  Oh, it's not smooth.
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  There's some bumps here and unexpected things.
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  But it does make me feel like good things are coming.
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  And I do have that feeling like, you're talking about Mars and Venus moving
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  direct and having this different effect on us that they're ready, I feel that.
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  And I hear that from what a lot of people are saying.
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  There's this kind of tone that I hear from a lot of people that I'm
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  talking to right now, where they're desiring for things to be more simple.
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  They feel like they've put a lot of work into their lives and aspects
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  of their lives, sometimes their businesses, and they're just like, I
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  feel like I'm ready for the fine tuning.
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  I don't want to build anymore.
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  I built, I have worked, I have crunched, I have changed, and
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  now I'm ready to start polishing.
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  As opposed to the big lift all over again.
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  And I feel that myself.
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  I feel like I'm in polishing phase.
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  I'm in that phase of fine tuning and working on things that have been built.
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  And while I'm still building, it's a very different energy to it now.
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  This is the fun stuff.
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  When it feels like it's moving and you get to optimize as opposed
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  to let me take a sledgehammer to this and rebuild the whole thing.
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  I actually recorded a 40 minute report just before this conversation, and I
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  literally talked about how a lot of content creators, entrepreneurs, people
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  that are in the field of leadership, and consciousness development, and guidance,
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  they're realizing that the work is moving from providing information, or creating
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  and cultivating those intellectual properties, or those courses, et cetera.
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  It's moving from that place to providing those resources at a more accessible
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  and sustainable price point, or resource availability so that they
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  can actually work with folks on the fine tuning things, the optimization.
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  You've completed your library.
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  Now, how do you help others to completely optimize from a higher
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  level of understanding what service they actually provide?
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  Yeah, I've noticed even myself with the way that I've fine
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  tuned offers and shifted things.
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  It is this different shift.
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  People don't need information necessarily as much.
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  We're inundated with information.
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  It's the embodiment.
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  It's the integration.
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  That's where the rubber meets the road.
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  And that's where people have real change and real impact.
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  So I think it's an exciting time and it's interesting to hear that we're
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  entering into a time where that's going to be a lot of the focus.
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  Is that's actually what the energy is guiding us to?
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  Is this fine tuning?
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  Is this shift where it's doing less but better?
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  The other overview I would like to say about August is, if we sent out
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  an arrow of initiation to manifest something from an emotional space in
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  cancer season, that arrow is going to fly through the temple of the fiery heart.
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  And lots and lots of things are going to burn off in the month of August.
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  Especially having most of the planets retrograde, including Mercury.
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  We're going to have this moment where we've got to imagine that there's
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  this rocket and pieces of the rocket that fueled the rocket have to fall
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  off of the rocket and burn off.
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  And so we can expect that a lot of things we thought we were passionate about
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  in the past, they're just burning off.
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  And as it burns off, it clarifies the one single point of impact that we really,
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  really, really hope to make in our life.
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  That really means the most to us.
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  And I believe that point of impact will land on solid earth, solid proof, solid,
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  tangible, optics, numbers, finances, etc.
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  It's gonna land around the 19th and 20th.
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  It's gonna land right there in this place of reality.
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  And once it lands, there's gonna be a plume of smoke or dust.
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  And it's gonna be a moment where we're like, where did it land?
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  And then you know in movies how archetypally you get that scene with
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  all the dust and you're just watching expectantly, you're going to start
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  seeing this main character, or this main theme, or this main point of
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  impact emerge through the smoke and there'll be all this celebration by
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  the end of the month where we're like,
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  dun.
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  The hero walk.
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  That's right.
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  That resonates so, so deeply.
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  And I love the analogy and the visual of the rocket ship.
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  Because to me what was coming through was, you needed all of these pieces
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  to make it out of the atmosphere, but once you get out there, you no longer
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  need them and they'll hold you back.
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  They need to fall off so that you can complete the mission.
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  And that is, I think, a really beautiful visual.
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  So thank you for giving us that beautiful imagery that can help
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  people understand these concepts that can feel a little out there and
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  ground them in something that's real.
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  What are you carrying that maybe got you here, but it won't get you there.
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  What needs to fall away?
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  We often think about what we need to add, what we need to change, but so
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  much of it is falling away and shifting.
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  And you said somewhere around like the 19th, 20th of the month
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  was when this is happening.
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  So that's gate 29.
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  Gate 29 in human design is the gate of perseverance, but this
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  gate is so interesting because it's called the abysmal in the I Ching.
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  Which this is a gate that I have in two prominent positions in my chart.
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  And when I heard the abysmal I was like, oh god.
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  Another horrible, rough gate to have to deal with.
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  Another shadowy gross energy.
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  But actually, it's one of my favorites and it's so empowering to me now because the
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  way that it's described in the I Ching is, it's a design of succeeding where others
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  fail or failing where others succeed.
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  Everything is to have or to have not.
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  It's a duality.
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  It's this binary of you either are succeeding where others fail, so you are
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  able to persevere through everything or you are failing where others succeed.
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  And I definitely lived the failing where others succeeded in a lot of ways.
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  And what it all comes down to, it's not just the fates are either
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  guiding you to succeeding or failure.
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  It's about the choices that you make, about committing your energy to only
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  the things that really, truly matter.
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  It's a sacral gate, so everything with the sacral has an underlying theme of don't do
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  it out of obligation, don't do it because you should, don't do it because you've
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  always done it this way, and we just have to be in perpetual motion with things.
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  If your energy changes about something, you get to say no.
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  You get to take it from a yes to a no.
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  You get to let things fall away.
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  You get to decide moment to moment what commitments you're making with
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  your energy and when you're doing that and you're doing it from a
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  place of alignment and truth, then you will succeed where others fail.
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  You'll be able to see the right things through to the end, but you can't do
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  that if you're trying to do everything, is a big underlying theme of this.
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  So I think it's interesting and also of course that it's happening at the same
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  time because we are talking about very much the same things, different ways.
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  Astrology and human design, it's all very intrinsically connected.
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  We just speak about different systems, talking about the same thing.
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  And then we shift over and then we get into intimacy after that.
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  And I think the gate of intimacy is an interesting one.
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  We're ending the month with this one.
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  The gate of intimacy, I think, is so interesting because it's a gate
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  of sexuality, it's about romantic intimacy, it's about all of the
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  things that we think of when we traditionally think of intimacy.
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  But it's also, in Gene Keys, the city is transparency.
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  Being so honest with yourself, and so transparent.
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  with who you are, and what you're doing, and how you're approaching
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  things, that there's no bullshit.
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  It's just pure.
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  And none of the cities are easy to grasp, maybe intellectually,
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  but to actually live them.
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  We're talking about enlightenment here.
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  But the gift is intimacy, but the shadow is dishonesty.
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  And I think that as I'm looking at that one, and we've talked about this before,
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  I don't live by the transits where I'm not booking a launch, I don't do that.
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  But I do look at the chart, so I am looking at gate 33, the gate of
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  retreat at the beginning of the month.
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  I'm gonna take a day off and reflect.
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  I am going to bask in that energy a little bit and play with the theme.
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  And with 59, I have this gate in my chart.
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  It's a part of my channel of mating.
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  I have that channel, the 59-6 and to me, it's going to be about getting
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  intimate with myself and notice where am I not being fully honest with
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  what I'm doing, where am I holding on, where am I afraid to go deep?
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  And where am I maybe carrying something that is not serving
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  me, where am I wearing a mask?
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  Is there a mask that I'm wearing anywhere?
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  That's just something as far as my own personal process that I'm taking
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  into this, those are two that I'm paying attention to cause they're
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  prominent in my chart, but I think that they're also just universal energies.
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  And if we're going through this astrologically now after
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  talking to you, maybe it's time to clean house a little bit.
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  Maybe it's time to fine tune and these are doorways I could walk through as
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  far as how I'm fine tuning things.
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  Wow, I had so much personal recognition in what you just said.
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  And I also want to share a huge breakthrough that just recently happened
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  within my intimate relationship.
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  Speaking of intimacy and real transparency.
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  And I believe that this is being brought about by the fact that, astrologically,
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  we have a south node in Libra, which is asking us to release and let go of ways
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  that we've tried to balance the equation by pulling ourselves out of our center.
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  So sometimes we will pull ourselves out of our own authenticity in order to
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  create harmony within our co creations.
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  This is something when you look at human development, if we have
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  to choose between connection and authenticity with ourself, we will
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  sacrifice authenticity with ourself to ensure connection because connection
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  is what we need in order to survive.
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  And so we laid down a bunch of coping strategies, roles that we would have
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  played from that early time, and the South node in Libra is allowing us to let go
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  of those roles for greater authenticity.
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  But something really profound that's also happening is that now that this
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  point in the sky that reveals our shame, resistance, shadow, fears, Black Moon
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  Lilith, it's in Libra too right now.
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  And while she's there, she's saying, you really need to look at your
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  pattern of what you're still doing in your relationships to make them work.
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  And a new revelation I just had was, wow, I so badly would love
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  to be a good fit with my partner.
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  I so badly want to be that, that I have done somersaults in order to be a
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  good fit, and I actually might not be.
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  Because I haven't brought my full, authentic expression into this
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  relationship, I have a lingering low level anxiety that perhaps he loves the hoops
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  I jump through more than who I really am.
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  And I don't think that's really true, but the work of August is to recognize
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  any hoops that we jump through, any roles we put on, any costumes,
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  masks you call it, that we put on so that we can make something work.
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  Strip it all off, strip it down, and see if our authentic self still
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  fits and works in all the equations that we plug ourselves into.
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  This is so quarter of duality stuff.
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  This is it.
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  It's the relationships.
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  It's a relationship with self.
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  It is our interaction with people.
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  This is the theme people.
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  We're gonna be like, get comfy here.
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  And it's an opportunity to really examine this.
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  Where am I hiding from relationships?
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  Where am I changing in relationships?
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  Where am I succeeding in relationships?
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  What's working?
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  It's an opportunity to look at that.
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  And I think one of the things that I think is interesting too, I always think
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  this stuff is interesting, but we go from that gate 59 from the 23rd to the 28th,
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  we're in gate 59 and then we shift over.
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  So that's the gate of intimacy that I was just talking about.
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  And then we shift into gate 40, which is an ego center gate, which is interesting
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  because it's part of the channel of community, which is all about family,
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  relationships, friendships, marriage.
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  It is the ego center side, that channel, there's gate 37 in the emotional
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  center, and gate 40 in the ego center.
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  So if you think about a marriage of emotional support and material support.
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  It is that balance.
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  It is the channel of a bargain.
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  I do this for you, you do this for me.
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  Is that bargain really working out?
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  Are you holding up your end of the bargain?
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  So that's going to be a theme for the end of the month is going to be
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  looking at the agreements that you have in relationships in your life.
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  And I think it's interesting that it follows this gate of intimacy, which
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  is about sexuality and intimacy with yourself and intimacy with other people
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  and allowing people to get close.
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  And then Gate 40 is actually called, I think it's always very funny
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  how there's these contradictions in the way things are named.
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  Almost to let you know, don't think it's as simple as this.
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  Cause gate 40 is part of this channel of community, channel of the bargain.
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  But it's called the gate of aloneness.
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  And it is about saying I will take care of you, I will build the house, but I
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  also get to take care of myself too.
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  I get to be me.
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  I get to be alone.
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  I don't have to be with you all the time in order to
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  fulfill my half of the bargain.
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  I still get to be loved by you, but I also get to take care of
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  me, whatever that means to me.
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  So there's always this interesting path of themes that we're going through
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  and I love that it's like, let's talk about intimacy and let's get
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  into like our feels and relationships and let's get close to people.
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  And then oh, by the way, don't forget that I get to be alone.
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  That I get to be me.
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  That I still can be a good partner and be very invested in a
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  relationship, and still say I don't need to be with you all the time.
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  I don't need to give away part of myself in order to hold up my end of the bargain
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  to be a good partner to you, to anyone.
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  This is so comforting for me to hear on such a personal level.
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  So my partner and I moved in together last August while Venus was retrograding
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  through the space of the heart.
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  I hatched a big dream for my partner and I to live together.
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  And I'm the kind of person, I'm an Enneagram 5, I'm a
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  very introverted person.
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  I have a hard time living with people.
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  I need a lot of space alone.
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  But, I had this dream that I could bring my family together under one
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  roof and we could live together.
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  And I could hold my personal boundaries and I could be in the space of open
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  relationship with my partner, with my heart open to him and that it could work.
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  So I really, really put my energy and resources into
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  building this dream and I did.
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  And we moved in together in April and then we faced a lot of issues in relationship
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  that you don't face unless you actually put yourself in the place to do it.
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  You can't cram for the exam and then think that passing the exam means that you'll
• 29:49
  be able to do your practice in the world.
• 29:51
  You got to get into practice in the world in order to understand
• 29:54
  that you actually have conscious competency of what you're doing.
• 29:57
  So I get into the space, I'm living with my partner and through the month
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  of July, we both were like, whoa, we really sacrifice parts of ourselves
• 30:07
  when we're in relationship with each other, and this is not working.
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  And so we have had a conversation about living separately for the month of August.
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  What would happen if we gave ourselves a space to really individuate
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  and do our own thing in August?
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  Really feel out what it is we've lost by being together so that we can be
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  really honest coming back together at the end of the month to see if living
• 30:35
  together really can work for us.
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  And so you saying, it looks like we're going to have this gate
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  of intimacy and then we're going to have this gate of alone.
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  That's the only way that moving forward under one roof,
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  for me personally, could be.
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  There's no way that he and I can live together and not be
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  alone with ourselves as well.
• 30:55
  And so it's hopeful for me, and it also encourages me to know that I'm on the
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  right track in creating this temporary separation in order to come back
• 31:07
  together with a lot more integrity and personal wholeness for the sake of the
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  larger long term success of my family.
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  That gave me chills thinking about that.
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  Just hearing you share that.
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  Thank you for sharing that personal story.
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  Cause I do think that this helps give people context to these themes.
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  And it's just nice to hear personal stories.
• 31:29
  I think that's what makes podcasts awesome.
• 31:31
  And those two themes, it's been a huge lesson for me too, because I absolutely
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  dealt with people pleasing, and dealt with giving parts of myself away.
• 31:41
  I've been with my partner for 20 years, and he's my best friend in the world.
• 31:46
  But when you're with someone from the time you're like 24 years old, there's
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  a lot of growth in there, which we both champion for each other outwardly.
• 31:58
  However, I had to ask myself, not how does he hold me back, how do I
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  hold myself back from sharing certain things about me or stepping into other
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  areas of my life because that's not who I was when we found each other?
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  So that personal integrity and being able to have myself outside of this
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  relationship, this is a lifelong thing for me, half of my life I have been with him.
• 32:24
  And so these are themes that I very much feel connected to, and to that, I love how
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  you guys have approached this, that you have the maturity and the openness in your
• 32:33
  relationship to even have a conversation like that, let's experiment with this,
• 32:37
  let's give ourselves a month to go explore ourselves so that we can come back to this
• 32:41
  and find wholeness in this relationship, or at least know what we're dealing with.
• 32:46
  Yeah, and I think that a lot of our relationships are so foundational.
• 32:52
  The relationship with ourself is the first foundation.
• 32:55
  Well, we could argue a relationship with soul is the first relationship, then
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  the one with our living self, and then the one in our intimate relationships.
• 33:05
  And that paves the way for the relationship we have with our larger
• 33:09
  community, and the world at large.
• 33:12
  And what I actually think is happening right now is we're being given this
• 33:16
  opportunity before Pluto fully enters into Aquarius in November, before we
• 33:21
  really step into the larger world picture.
• 33:25
  We're given this little space of time to really shore up each one of
• 33:29
  those foundational spaces to make sure that it can really hold us.
• 33:33
  It feels secure.
• 33:35
  We can really feel that we understand, and we're connected in these fundamental
• 33:40
  foundational spaces so that as we step and expand into the larger
• 33:45
  relationship with humanity, we know that we have that foundation in place.
• 33:51
  I feel all of this and I can't wait to start talking about the stuff that's
• 33:55
  coming for the rest of the year, which we'll get into in the coming months,
• 33:58
  we'll be talking about these other big astrological moments that are going to be
• 34:02
  coming, these events that are going to be coming for us because it's a big change.
• 34:06
  We got a little taste of it at beginning of the year, but now we're going
• 34:09
  to get the full effect in November?
• 34:11
  November 17th is when it finally, for the last time, enters into Aquarius stay.
• 34:17
  That will be a shift, because none of us know what that's really
• 34:21
  going to be like, because no one's ever experienced it before, right?
• 34:25
  Well, I am so grateful to you for being here, and for doing this with me
• 34:30
  because like I said, it's a whole lot more fun and more interesting, and more
• 34:33
  colorful, and more full when you're here, so thank you so much for being here.
• 34:37
  You mentioned the report that you put together, that video,
• 34:41
  where can they find that?
• 34:43
  Cause we'll put the link in the show notes for them, so if
• 34:45
  anybody wants to go and grab that.
• 34:47
  Perfect.
• 34:48
  Yeah, I recorded something.
• 34:49
  I go through the detailed dates that these big dilation moments are coming
• 34:55
  and the contraction moments and how they all relate to each other.
• 34:59
  It's about 40 minutes long and it's really detailed and it covers the entire quarter.
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  They can find that on my YouTube station, which is LunaScope.
• 35:08
  Also on my Instagram, I'll be posting, which is @lunation.Live.
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  I appreciate you linking to
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  Absolutely.
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  And all you have to do, actually, you can DM me Christina on Instagram and
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  the bot will automatically send you Christina's links, but you can shoot on
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  down to the show notes and we'll have all of that linked up for you so you don't
• 35:28
  have to remember the names of anything.
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  We'll just magically take you over there with the beauty of the internet
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  and fabulous links that you could just click and be transported someplace else.
• 35:36
  Christina, thank you for sharing your wisdom and your story with us.
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  I appreciate you.
• 35:41
  Thank you for being here again, my friend.
• 35:43
  Oh, thank you so much.
• 35:44
  I cannot wait till time.
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  Me neither.
• 35:46
  I love these episodes.
• 35:47
  I'm always excited when I see them come up on my calendar.
• 35:49
  I'm like, it's time to do an episode with Christina again.
• 35:51
  It's nice to not be here alone.
• 35:53
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