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The Vertex in Astrology · Astrology for Beginners

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SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone, welcome back to the Astrology for Beginners podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Stephanie Kate Boucher, and I am so happy to have you here.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the podcast for you if you have ever wanted to learn how to read a natal
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SPEAKER_00: chart or were kind of interested in astrology and wished that you understood more
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SPEAKER_00: about it but didn't know where to begin or it seemed too complicated and you didn't
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SPEAKER_00: have the time or the resources to invest in learning it.
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SPEAKER_00: My goal is to break things down for you episode by episode in the most simplified
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SPEAKER_00: way that I can so that you can learn to speak the language of the stars.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for learning astrology with me.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey friends, we are back for another all new episode of the show.
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SPEAKER_00: This one feels long overdue, doesn't it?
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SPEAKER_00: And in fact, it is long overdue.
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SPEAKER_00: I apologize for the small hiatus.
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SPEAKER_00: It was half expected, half unexpected on my part.
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SPEAKER_00: I knew going into the last couple of weeks that it would be difficult to get
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SPEAKER_00: episodes out according to our usual weekly schedule.
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SPEAKER_00: And I toyed with the idea of announcing an official break for the entire month of August.
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SPEAKER_00: I think in hindsight I probably should have,
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SPEAKER_00: but I think I was also a little bit over-optimistic about being able to keep going
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SPEAKER_00: at the regular pace despite everything I knew I would have going on in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: It might be that Sun-Jupiter conjunction I have.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Tends to make me optimistic sometimes, or a lot of the time.
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SPEAKER_00: In any case, I've been traveling for much of the last two weeks that I was away.
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SPEAKER_00: I had a ton of family stuff going on.
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SPEAKER_00: There were family events.
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SPEAKER_00: I saw relatives I haven't seen in years in some cases, like pre-COVID.
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SPEAKER_00: I...
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SPEAKER_00: had lots of work stuff going on too.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I got sick.
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SPEAKER_00: You might be able to hear it in my voice still.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm really congested right now.
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SPEAKER_00: So I apologize if I sound funny.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, this one has been a doozy, you all.
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SPEAKER_00: I
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SPEAKER_00: I'm feeling a lot better now than I did last week, for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: For sure, for sure, I'm feeling better.
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SPEAKER_00: But I haven't been this sick in quite a while.
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SPEAKER_00: So again, thank you for your patience.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not done with all of this yet.
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SPEAKER_00: There's still a little more chaos to come.
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SPEAKER_00: I have more travel coming up.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm moving my oldest child off to college in a little over a week.
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SPEAKER_00: She's going to be about 8 to 10 hours away by car.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't know right now how I feel about this.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a really mixed bag for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's going to be a lot of busyness in the next week or two,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of commotion,
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SPEAKER_00: emotions I'm sure are going to be running high on all fronts.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I've decided to be
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SPEAKER_00: really kind and patient with myself.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to just be really present for her and helpful to her as much as I can
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SPEAKER_00: or as much as she needs me to be.
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SPEAKER_00: And so for that reason,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to take one more summer break while I get this child launched and tend to
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SPEAKER_00: all of this.
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SPEAKER_00: So I will not be posting new episodes after this for the next two weeks or for the remainder of August.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I will be returning to the normal weekly posting schedule starting the first week of September.
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SPEAKER_00: which I kind of love.
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SPEAKER_00: It's kind of giving a summer vacation vibe,
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SPEAKER_00: that slower August vibe with things picking up around the time when people are
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SPEAKER_00: typically going back to school,
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SPEAKER_00: going back to work,
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SPEAKER_00: and getting ready to transition into the fall.
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SPEAKER_00: I love me a change of season.
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SPEAKER_00: But we're here today.
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SPEAKER_00: We are here today.
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SPEAKER_00: And despite these breaks,
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SPEAKER_00: despite this slower release schedule,
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SPEAKER_00: I did want to drop you a little something to work with.
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SPEAKER_00: So today we're going to be talking about the vertex in your natal chart.
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SPEAKER_00: I suspect that some of you may not know what this is yet.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you don't, you're about to find out.
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SPEAKER_00: The vertex is not a physical object.
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SPEAKER_00: We've said this before, right?
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SPEAKER_00: This is another one of those things in astrology and in your chart that isn't physical or tangible.
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SPEAKER_00: It seems like we've been talking a lot lately about things in astrology that
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SPEAKER_00: influence you that are non-physical.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is yet another one of those.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a mathematical point in your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: I won't get into all of the mechanics because that's not nearly as interesting as
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SPEAKER_00: what it means,
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SPEAKER_00: at least not to me.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you are interested in that,
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SPEAKER_00: you can Google it and you can expect to see all sorts of technical words like
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SPEAKER_00: ecliptic and prime vertical and those types of things.
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SPEAKER_00: So if that's your thing, by all means, go forth and check it out.
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SPEAKER_00: But here today, we're just going to discuss the energy of it and how it may impact you.
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SPEAKER_00: Before we get into that, I want to make sure that you know how to find it in your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: It's pretty simple if you haven't looked for it already.
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SPEAKER_00: Most free online chart calculators will give it to you, and it's symbolized by the abbreviation VX.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a capital V as in victory, lowercase x. That's it.
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SPEAKER_00: Pretty easy.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's going to be found in the western hemisphere of your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the right-hand side of your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: It cannot be, mathematically speaking, on the eastern or left-hand side of your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: So look to the right.
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SPEAKER_00: Most likely, it will be either in your fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth house.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay,
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SPEAKER_00: so assuming you know where your vertex is and the sign in the house it's in and all
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SPEAKER_00: of that,
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SPEAKER_00: let's talk about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, not all astrologers or astrology lovers pay attention to the vertex.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm reasonably confident that some people ignore it.
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SPEAKER_00: But for those who do like to use it,
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SPEAKER_00: and some really,
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SPEAKER_00: really do,
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SPEAKER_00: some people love it,
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SPEAKER_00: it can be a really fascinating piece of information,
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SPEAKER_00: mostly because it has to do with a couple of things that many people really like to
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SPEAKER_00: try and find out about.
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SPEAKER_00: which are relationships and fated events or turning points that crop up in your
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SPEAKER_00: life due to some kind of destiny.
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SPEAKER_00: There's very much this idea of fate occurring when the vertex gets activated.
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SPEAKER_00: And humans being humans,
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SPEAKER_00: who doesn't want to learn more about what could be coming up for them around fate
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SPEAKER_00: and fated relationships?
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SPEAKER_00: So the vertex is in many ways considered to be similar to,
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SPEAKER_00: but maybe not as significant as or as,
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SPEAKER_00: well,
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SPEAKER_00: as constant of an influence as your descendant line.
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SPEAKER_00: Your descendant line is incredibly important, like all the angles are.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, you know, the descendant line has to do with relationships.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the relationship angle and the cusp of the seventh house and all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: It can indicate how you show up in partnerships or the types of relationships you
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SPEAKER_00: attract or all that kind of stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the descendant line.
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SPEAKER_00: The vertex is also related to relationships,
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SPEAKER_00: and it's also in the western hemisphere of your chart,
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SPEAKER_00: so that's why that comparison often gets made.
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SPEAKER_00: They are different, though.
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SPEAKER_00: The descendant line as one of your four angles tends to say more about you as a person, or...
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SPEAKER_00: your personal life experiences within the context of relationships or partnerships.
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SPEAKER_00: The vertex isn't quite that.
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SPEAKER_00: It does have to do with relationships,
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SPEAKER_00: but it's less an indicator of your personality and more of outside things.
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SPEAKER_00: outside events that could wind up happening to you or maybe for you.
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SPEAKER_00: So in other words,
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SPEAKER_00: it's less about who you are as a personality and more about what the universe could
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SPEAKER_00: be dropping into your lap.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope that makes sense.
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SPEAKER_00: It's an indicator about the type of events you can expect to crop up at some point in your life
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SPEAKER_00: or for the types of fated meetings that you might encounter,
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SPEAKER_00: or the pivotal moments that will shape your life in important ways.
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SPEAKER_00: This is kind of like the chance meeting you will have waiting in line to get coffee
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SPEAKER_00: on some random Tuesday morning that winds up altering the trajectory of your life,
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SPEAKER_00: or the airline flight that you missed,
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SPEAKER_00: but that led you...
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SPEAKER_00: getting on some other flight where you ended up sitting next to someone who helped
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SPEAKER_00: you land your next big job or who in conversation gave you that big idea or the
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SPEAKER_00: seed that turned into a big idea for your next project or something.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a feeling of fatedness tied to these things.
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SPEAKER_00: It seems random, but it feels somehow like it was planned by divine consciousness.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the type of energy we're talking about.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: again,
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SPEAKER_00: because this isn't a physical object,
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SPEAKER_00: the vertex isn't just there influencing you all the time,
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SPEAKER_00: day in,
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SPEAKER_00: day out,
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SPEAKER_00: the way that your natal planets do.
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SPEAKER_00: Not typically.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not a physical object, so it doesn't emit energy the way planets do.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a sensitive point.
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SPEAKER_00: And sensitive points typically need to be activated or triggered by something else in
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SPEAKER_00: in order to become activated and do their work.
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SPEAKER_00: One way that this can happen,
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SPEAKER_00: the first way this can happen,
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SPEAKER_00: is by having a natal planet that forms an aspect with the vertex.
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SPEAKER_00: Conjunctions and oppositions I think can be especially important here,
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SPEAKER_00: although any aspect can have meaning.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think people tend to use tighter orbs for aspects with the vertex,
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SPEAKER_00: probably an orb of about two degrees or less with this one.
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SPEAKER_00: So see if your vertex makes any aspects.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you'll want to look at the planet that's aspecting it.
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SPEAKER_00: And think about the meaning and energy associated with that planet and everything it represents.
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SPEAKER_00: And then think about what the aspect is and what that aspect means.
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SPEAKER_00: Is it harmonious or not?
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SPEAKER_00: Is there a easy harmonious flow of energy or a blending of energy or not?
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SPEAKER_00: For clues about the nature of how that faded vertex energy might show up in your life to pivot you.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you can look at the sign and house that the vertex are in too.
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SPEAKER_00: Those aren't quite as important as they would be for a planet.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember that there are only a few houses that the vertex can fall into.
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SPEAKER_00: So lots of people will have their vertex in the same house as you.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not totally unique to just you.
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SPEAKER_00: But still, just about everything in astrology means something, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So it's worth a look.
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SPEAKER_00: So to get a feel for how this could work,
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SPEAKER_00: as an example,
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SPEAKER_00: let's say that you had your vertex conjunct your natal moon.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, the moon represents our emotional life and our emotional landscape.
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SPEAKER_00: It's our feelings, and it's also our spiritual life or our spiritual self.
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SPEAKER_00: So with the moon conjunct the vertex,
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SPEAKER_00: you could expect that there will be possibly a fated meeting or maybe multiple
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SPEAKER_00: fated meetings with other people across your life whom you are destined to cross
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SPEAKER_00: paths with who wind up having a profound emotional impact on you or a profound
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SPEAKER_00: impact on your emotional well-being and life.
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SPEAKER_00: It could signal a life event or a relationship that comes into your life in order
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SPEAKER_00: to lead you down a path of spiritual growth or greater intimacy or a sense of
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SPEAKER_00: devotion to someone else.
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SPEAKER_00: It could be a relationship that leads you toward a big spiritual awakening.
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SPEAKER_00: It could indicate heart connections with a person you meet that run very,
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SPEAKER_00: very deep,
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SPEAKER_00: or that feel almost spiritual somehow.
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SPEAKER_00: It can indicate a relationship that crops up that feels very nurturing to you,
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SPEAKER_00: because the moon is also about nurturing.
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SPEAKER_00: You could also reverse this.
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SPEAKER_00: In that context, you might have faded meetings where you become the caregiver, or you're
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SPEAKER_00: You become the nurturer for someone else.
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SPEAKER_00: Or it's a relationship where you're needed emotionally by the other person.
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SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you have a pattern of bringing people in who feel like they need you to
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SPEAKER_00: nurture them or need you to care for them emotionally.
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SPEAKER_00: That could be the case too.
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SPEAKER_00: The moon also represents women literally,
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SPEAKER_00: so it could represent an important or fated meeting with a woman or more than one woman.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe relationships with women become an important part of your life's path or your
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SPEAKER_00: life's work or something.
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SPEAKER_00: Astrology can be really literal like that sometimes.
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SPEAKER_00: And this could be a romantic connection, but it could just as easily be something entirely platonic.
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SPEAKER_00: Often these aren't romantic.
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SPEAKER_00: We're talking about other types of fated relationships or meetings too.
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SPEAKER_00: Another example, I'll use my own.
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SPEAKER_00: My vertex is in a tight conjunction by about one degree or less with my natal chiron.
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SPEAKER_00: Chiron, remember, is the wounded healer.
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SPEAKER_00: So this could be about several things, right?
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SPEAKER_00: It really depends on the person and you have to consider the rest of the chart.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't look at things just in isolation.
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SPEAKER_00: But for many people with this placement,
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be about people or partnerships coming in or getting dropped into
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SPEAKER_00: your life that force you to look at the Chiron wound that you have.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe the Chiron wound causes this person to choose a certain type of partner that
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SPEAKER_00: activates that original Chiron wound or something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Or there's a faded relationship that reflects that wounding back to you somehow.
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SPEAKER_00: This is often what our relationships do, right?
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SPEAKER_00: This could be more than one relationship.
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SPEAKER_00: It could be a theme in your life with this placement.
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SPEAKER_00: But this could also indicate to me that working on that Chiron wound is a part of someone's life's work.
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SPEAKER_00: Chiron is also about healing.
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SPEAKER_00: So you may be forced to look at it so that you can bring some healing to the woundedness.
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SPEAKER_00: Alternatively,
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SPEAKER_00: there might be a fated meeting that shows up in your life that is meant to lead you
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SPEAKER_00: toward doing some kind of healing work.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe this is the relationship in question.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe this is a relationship with a literal healer.
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SPEAKER_00: or a mentor, or a guru, or a therapist, or something.
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SPEAKER_00: This could also indicate that you are going to serve as a healer for others, even.
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SPEAKER_00: That others will be coming to you for healing.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're going to be the therapist, right?
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SPEAKER_00: That's just as possible.
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SPEAKER_00: So these are the themes that you would want to look for here with this one.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, just an example.
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SPEAKER_00: Conversely, we could look at something very different.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have your vertex forming in opposition with Mars,
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SPEAKER_00: this could mean you could be running into someone or possibly more than one someone
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SPEAKER_00: over a lifetime that has a profound impact on your life or your life's path because
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SPEAKER_00: they are opposing you.
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SPEAKER_00: This gives kind of a nemesis vibe, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Because Mars can be prickly and aggressive, and it's in an opposition with the vertex.
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SPEAKER_00: So this could be an oppositional type of person who might feel like they're
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SPEAKER_00: standing in the way of your goals and that you have to learn how to navigate your
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SPEAKER_00: way around,
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SPEAKER_00: probably as part of some kind of karmic lesson.
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SPEAKER_00: You would almost certainly have karma with someone like that.
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SPEAKER_00: which goes back to the idea of the vertex being a point of destiny or karma and
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SPEAKER_00: these kind of fated things happening that feel mostly out of your control.
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SPEAKER_00: They get brought to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: this is all,
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SPEAKER_00: of course,
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SPEAKER_00: in terms of your needle chart,
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SPEAKER_00: but there are other ways that the vertex can become activated.
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SPEAKER_00: Delving into these requires at least some knowledge of how to look at or use other
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SPEAKER_00: kinds of charts in astrology,
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SPEAKER_00: like transit charts or synastry charts or progress charts and those types of things.
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SPEAKER_00: We haven't covered any of that on this show yet.
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SPEAKER_00: We will, though.
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SPEAKER_00: I fully plan to talk about the different kinds of charts,
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SPEAKER_00: and I hope to start doing that pretty soon,
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SPEAKER_00: actually.
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SPEAKER_00: Knowing that we haven't done that just yet, though, I'll just glaze over it a bit today.
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SPEAKER_00: Transit charts are the next thing I would look into to see how or when your vertex
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SPEAKER_00: has been activated in the past and or how it is being activated right now or will
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SPEAKER_00: be in the future.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're not familiar with the idea of transits,
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SPEAKER_00: transits quite simply refer to what the sky looks like right now in real time.
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SPEAKER_00: Your natal chart, essentially, is just a transit chart for the moment that you were born.
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SPEAKER_00: That's where everything was in the sky the moment you were born.
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SPEAKER_00: Those were the transits for that day, time, and location.
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SPEAKER_00: But you can pull a transit chart for any day, any moment, in any location.
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SPEAKER_00: Where are all the planets right now as you're listening to this podcast?
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SPEAKER_00: Those are the current transits.
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SPEAKER_00: And the transiting planets, the planets as they are, where they are in the sky each and every day...
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SPEAKER_00: are continually interacting with your natal planets.
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SPEAKER_00: Transiting planets form aspects with your natal planets.
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SPEAKER_00: So a transit chart is then two charts overlaying one another.
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SPEAKER_00: There are two rings.
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SPEAKER_00: One with your natal chart.
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SPEAKER_00: Usually the natal chart is on the inner ring.
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SPEAKER_00: And another outer ring showing you where the planets are in the sky right now.
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SPEAKER_00: And then it shows you the aspects that the transiting planets are making with your natal planets.
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SPEAKER_00: So to give you an example, as I record this, the planet Uranus is currently at 27 degrees of Taurus.
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SPEAKER_00: We all to an extent are feeling the collective energy of Uranus being in the later degrees of Taurus.
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SPEAKER_00: We all have that going on.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you have natal planets,
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SPEAKER_00: planets in your natal chart that are within a few degrees in either direction of 27
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SPEAKER_00: degrees Taurus or in the later degrees of Taurus,
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SPEAKER_00: that Uranus energy is going to be felt more strongly in your life right now than it
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SPEAKER_00: will in other people's lives because it's forming a conjunction with a natal planet.
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SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
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SPEAKER_00: I hope it does.
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SPEAKER_00: And you would read that conjunction the same as any other conjunction by blending
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SPEAKER_00: those planetary energies together.
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SPEAKER_00: The difference is that transit aspects are temporary.
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SPEAKER_00: They only last for a certain amount of time before the transiting planet moves on
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SPEAKER_00: and is no longer hanging out in that spot.
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SPEAKER_00: Then that aspect is done for a while.
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SPEAKER_00: This happens not just with conjunctions, but with any aspect.
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SPEAKER_00: So again,
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SPEAKER_00: in this example,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe transiting Uranus at 27 degrees Taurus is currently forming an opposition
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SPEAKER_00: with your natal moon that is in the later degrees of Scorpio.
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SPEAKER_00: Or it's forming a square with your natal sun in the late degrees of Leo.
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SPEAKER_00: Or it's in a trine with something in your natal chart or a sextile, right?
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SPEAKER_00: All of these things are relevant in transit charts.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want to look at your own transit chart, by the way, you can go to astro-seq.com.
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SPEAKER_00: You'll scroll just a little bit down the page to the second row, first box where it says transit chart.
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SPEAKER_00: Scroll down again there, then enter all of your birth information, just like you do for your natal chart.
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SPEAKER_00: And right below that,
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SPEAKER_00: you'll enter today's date along with the time of day you want and your current location.
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SPEAKER_00: You can do this for any day of your life that you want to look at, past, present, or future.
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SPEAKER_00: And then click Calculate Transits.
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SPEAKER_00: And what you'll see is your natal chart on the inner ring in blue and the transits
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SPEAKER_00: for that day in the outer ring in orange.
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SPEAKER_00: And all of the aspects shown in the center of the chart are aspects being made
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SPEAKER_00: between natal planets and transit planets.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what it means.
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SPEAKER_00: Now getting back to the vertex,
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SPEAKER_00: the next way your vertex can be activated is when it gets touched or aspected by a
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SPEAKER_00: transiting planet.
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SPEAKER_00: Again,
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SPEAKER_00: I would look for conjunctions and oppositions first,
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SPEAKER_00: although I wouldn't ignore any of the aspects.
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SPEAKER_00: I just think those are the strongest.
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SPEAKER_00: That's my personal opinion and observation.
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SPEAKER_00: Other people might disagree with me.
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SPEAKER_00: There are lots of people that say they have had significant pivots happen in their
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SPEAKER_00: lives during a time when their vertex got triggered or activated by a transiting planet.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think this is most likely to be true when the transiting planet in question
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SPEAKER_00: is one of the slower moving planets.
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SPEAKER_00: So those would be Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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SPEAKER_00: Because they hang out in the same spot for a longer time than the other planets.
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SPEAKER_00: So they have more time together.
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SPEAKER_00: to make an impact there.
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SPEAKER_00: The moon might only be there for a few hours, the sun or Mercury for a day.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: But in astrology,
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SPEAKER_00: the longer something hangs around in a particular location,
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SPEAKER_00: the more you're going to feel that energy.
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SPEAKER_00: So maybe try this out.
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SPEAKER_00: You can see what's happening for you right now or what's going to be coming up for
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SPEAKER_00: you in the near future.
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SPEAKER_00: See if any planets are going to be passing over that vertex line and you can also
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SPEAKER_00: think about important events in your life from the past and try pulling up transit
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SPEAKER_00: charts for those older dates and see if there's anything going on there with that
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SPEAKER_00: vertex line.
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SPEAKER_00: It won't always be the case.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes there'll be nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of times there might be nothing, but you might be surprised what you see.
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SPEAKER_00: And finally,
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SPEAKER_00: the last way that the vertex can be activated,
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SPEAKER_00: or rather,
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SPEAKER_00: it's the last way that we're going to talk about today.
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SPEAKER_00: There are other ways, but I won't get into all of them now.
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SPEAKER_00: The next way is through synastry.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, synastry...
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SPEAKER_00: is the way that your natal chart aspects with another person's natal chart.
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SPEAKER_00: So again,
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SPEAKER_00: you can find these on astro-seq or any other online chart calculator and put in all
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SPEAKER_00: of your birth info as person A and someone else's as person B.
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SPEAKER_00: and you'll get an inner ring and an outer ring,
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SPEAKER_00: one for each person,
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SPEAKER_00: and you can see how your natal planets line up with and form aspects with this
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SPEAKER_00: other person's natal planets.
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SPEAKER_00: These charts are absolutely fascinating, and you can do it with any kind of relationship that you want.
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SPEAKER_00: family, romantic relationships, business relationships, friendships, neighbors, whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: It's fascinating and it really shows you a lot about the dynamics that are at play
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SPEAKER_00: in our relationships that really remain kind of hidden from view most of the time
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SPEAKER_00: for the average person.
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SPEAKER_00: But in the case of the vertex,
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SPEAKER_00: you would want to pay attention any time you see that another person has a natal
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SPEAKER_00: planet or planets that form aspects with your vertex.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, especially with conjunctions and oppositions.
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SPEAKER_00: If you see that, that could be a strong indicator that that person is pivotal for you somehow.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that they're going to be in your life forever and ever or anything like that.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to be very careful, I think, with that type of languaging.
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SPEAKER_00: but it does indicate a kind of fated or destined meeting, even if it's just for a little while, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe they're here to pivot you.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe they're here to teach you something or connect you with something or connect
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SPEAKER_00: you with someone,
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SPEAKER_00: or yes,
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SPEAKER_00: be in a relationship with you somehow.
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SPEAKER_00: It could mean there's a past life connection and you have karma with that person and
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SPEAKER_00: that you're coming together to resolve or work on.
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SPEAKER_00: It could be a number of different things, but this is probably not a trivial person, most likely.
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SPEAKER_00: And you'll want to look at the specific planets involved that are activating that vertex.
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SPEAKER_00: The planet doing the activating gives you more clues.
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SPEAKER_00: And you'll want to look for aspects that involve other planets too.
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SPEAKER_00: So what I mean by this is if someone's natal Venus,
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SPEAKER_00: someone else's natal Venus is conjunct your natal vertex line.
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SPEAKER_00: And then together, that Venus vertex conjunction are forming a trine with your natal Jupiter.
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SPEAKER_00: You'd want to look at that Jupiter too and the sign and house that the Jupiter is in and all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: It gets a little complicated, but hopefully...
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SPEAKER_00: You're getting to the point now where you're learning to or you're attempting to
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SPEAKER_00: start with something in one part of your chart and then follow the breadcrumb trail
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SPEAKER_00: to other parts of your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the ultimate goal here.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so...
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SPEAKER_00: I think that's all we are going to cover today about the vertex.
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SPEAKER_00: This was a nice little nutshell version of the vertex or a nice little sort of beginner's intro.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope I haven't confused you with it too thoroughly.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me know if you have questions or feel free to share any interesting
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SPEAKER_00: observations you might make about your vertex line.
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SPEAKER_00: If you discover something, I'd love to hear about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Once again,
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SPEAKER_00: I'll just remind you one more time that we're going on a two-week break or the show
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SPEAKER_00: is going on a two-week break as we wrap up summer here in the Northern Hemisphere.
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SPEAKER_00: But never fear,
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SPEAKER_00: I will be back starting the first week of September,
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SPEAKER_00: going back to our regular weekly schedule with all new episodes.
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SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, thank you so much for your patience and enjoy the remainder of your summer.
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SPEAKER_00: See you soon, everyone.