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December’s Saturn/Neptune Squares Mark the End of an Era: Hard Choices & Sacred Sacrifices Ahead · Cozy with the Cosmos with Astrologer Sarah Paasch

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  Hello and welcome back to the weekly Astrology Podcast where
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  we light our candles, we get cozy, and we talk all things
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  cosmos. I'm your host astrologer and
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  coach, Sarah Posh. And tonight is a little extra
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  special episode. There's so many things
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  personally happening for me right now that relate deeply to
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  this astrology. And as somebody who was born
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  with this transit, who has lived through my Saturn return, which
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  means I've lived through Saturn, returning both to Saturn and my
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  Saturn Neptune, I really cherish.
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  I cherish, I value, and I hold in deep reverence and regard the
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  reality, the hardship, the tenderness, the realness of
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  these moments, these moments of difficult choice, these moments
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  of great change, of great sacrifice, worthy sacrifice.
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  So I hope that all of you know you are not alone.
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  I give you all strength. I wish you all blessings, and
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  I'd love to hear from you in the comments.
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  Are you somebody who's born with a significant Saturn, Neptune
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  aspect in your chart? If you have no idea, linked
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  below, you could look at consultation, we could talk
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  about it. Are you just feeling this?
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  Are you feeling the weight of the moment?
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  Are you feeling the weight of not just the end of this year,
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  but the end of an era? And how are you feeling?
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  How are you feeling right now? I hope that you're not feeling
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  alone. I hope that you know that at
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  least I am with you somewhere and space and in time.
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  And I'm sending myself and you and all of us so much love, so
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  much compassion. I'm going to be delivering an
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  episode to you today that isn't about the specific transits that
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  are happening. Those have been covered in the
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  recent Gemini full moon episode, so you can check those out as
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  well as your personal rising sign horoscope and tarot card
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  reading. But today I'm going to break
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  down a series of transits that's going to be unfolding between
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  now the time basically of this Gemini full moon through
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  January. And this is a series of squares
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  between the planets and Sagittarius moving through
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  squares to Saturn and Pisces and then Neptune and Pisces.
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  In case you're somebody who doesn't listen to a lot of
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  astrology or track the transits and you're unaware, there is a
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  major conjunction happening between the planets of Saturn
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  and Neptune this February 2020. Sixth, this is a rare aspect.
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  It hasn't happened since 1989. If you were born in that
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  generation, you were born with this conjunction, including me.
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  And this is a significant transitional moment collectively
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  and personally for all of us. And right now, we are at the
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  threshold of beginning that next phase, that next cycle of Saturn
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  and Neptune. And the reason I feel called to
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  create this week's episode specifically talking about these
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  squares and about Saturn, Neptune, is because the truth of
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  the matter is that we are about to move into territory that none
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  of us have ever lived in, in this lifetime.
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  We are about to go through a major change in trajectory on
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  every level, single change. Everything is already undergoing
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  change. That's really what 2025 was
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  about. Was this like preview,
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  foreshadowing, introduction. But in 2026, we land.
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  We land fast and we land hard. And I've realized that the way
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  that the end of the year of 2025 ends is really this beautiful,
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  heavy, hard. There is a gravity, there is a
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  reality check, there is a seriousness that maybe you're
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  feeling. I know I'm feeling, and the
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  transits are going to be playing out over the next month, the
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  last month of 2025, really speak to this transit to this time.
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  And this is the time. This is the time of the end that
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  has to happen before the new beginning, any new beginning.
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  So all of these planets that are entering into the series,
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  they're not only squaring Saturn, but they're also
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  tethering together the Saturn Neptune conjunction by
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  completing their transit through Sagittarius.
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  With that here to Neptune and Pisces, Saturn Neptune is a
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  combination of choice meets sacrifice.
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  So I'm gonna go ahead and talk a little bit about these Saturn
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  Neptune squares. I'm gonna talk first about the
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  point in the cycle in which these planets are making these
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  squares. I'm also going to talk about
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  what each planet is invited to make very serious sober
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  considerations and choices and sacrifices as we go through the
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  last month, what that could all mean, and where that leaves us.
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  There's also so many things available on either my website
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  or my channel that have a lot of information for you to learn
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  about Saturn because Saturn is such a big part of this
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  conversation. So whether you check out the
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  Saturn in Aries workshop that is now available for digital
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  purchase on my website where I go into depth with Alexandra
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  Blair of Nine Lives astrology, not just about Saturn in Aries,
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  which is which is coming, but also about Saturn, Saturn
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  transits, Saturn cycles, all of those things.
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  I definitely encourage you to check that out.
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  Also the all about Malefic's with Mars and Saturn.
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  That's a great episode to get informed more deeply about
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  Saturn. And then of course, we've also
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  got registration open for the live event going over the full
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  year ahead, 2026 astrology and all of that is linked for you
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  below. With that, let's go ahead and
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  let's start with talking about Saturn.
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  And I'm actually going to read you a quote, one of my favorite
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  all time quotes about Saturn, and it comes from Stephen
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  Forrest, his book The Inner Sky. So I'll go ahead and take a
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  moment to read that to you. Now Forrest writes Jupiter is
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  the planet of faith, but in a sense it is Saturn that truly
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  deserves the title. Jupiter gives us the feeling of
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  faith, but often by supporting us with 1000 crutches.
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  Sure, I've got faith. Life is great.
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  Look at my bank account, my sex mate, my brand new Mercedes.
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  Saturn's approach to faith is not like that.
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  He takes away the crutches. He shows us darkness and
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  possibility, certain defeat. Then he asks, do you still have
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  faith? Again, this faith has nothing to
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  do with religion. It is faith and life in oneself,
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  in our dreams and visions and our ideals.
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  It is faith in the idea that we have a destiny, and only if
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  those visions can stand alone, unassisted in the face of
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  absolute impossibility, can we say that we truly have faith.
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  And until then, we are still riding with training wheels.
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  Thank you Steven Forest again from the inner sky.
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  On its own, I would say that I relate to sacrifice when I think
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  of Saturn on its own. Saturn is the most significant
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  planet and astrology that has to do with choice, because Saturn
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  is the ruler of our reality, of materiality, of form.
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  Our choices always with Saturn will always produce real
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  consequences and Saturn always confronts us and makes us make
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  difficult choices and says this is your choice.
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  Do you choose your consequence, your long term consequence?
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  And as we go through Saturn transits, there's different
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  phases of a Saturn transit. But at this point, these plans
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  in Sagittarius that are squaring Saturn are in what's called a
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  waning phase square. They are in the final third
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  quarter phase. They are in the final turning
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  point and a cycle of maturity, of growth, of choice and of
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  consequence. When it comes to Saturn and
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  Saturn in Pisces, each planet is going to confront this final
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  turning point, confronting Saturn, confronting difficult
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  choices, choices that require a certain level of sacrifice.
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  A waning square in any relationship to Saturn is about
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  soul integration. This is about recognizing the
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  growth and the development and the choices and the effort and
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  the time that we have put in all the way through the Saturn cycle
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  up until this point, we can not only see how far we've come, but
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  we can also see at this point what it is that has to be let go
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  that is non essential to the future, the next cycle that we
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  claim to want to begin. And the truth is that yes,
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  sometimes the benefits, Jupiter and Venus, we get a little kiss,
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  a little blessing, a little unexpected benefit gift that
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  gives us this gift of growth, of expansion, of possibility or
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  opportunity. But those things that feel like
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  luck, they don't land and stay inside of who we are and who we
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  are becoming the way that a Saturn reward does.
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  And that is because of the difficult choice that we made,
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  because of the sacrifice that we were willing to make.
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  So taking all of this into consideration, these planets in
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  these squares to Saturn, they're at a final phase, a final
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  turning point, hopefully. There's been a certain level and
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  development of maturity, of growth, of lessons learned.
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  And now there's a certain level of embodied integrity and
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  character and clarity around what it is that we desire to
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  build next, what we desire to build from, who we desire to
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  become. And on a deeper and potentially
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  more meaningful level, what it is that truly has value to who
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  we are today, who we are in this moment.
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  What it is that we truly, authentically care about, and
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  how we are choosing to show up in alignment with that.
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  How our actions, our choices, our relationships, everything.
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  And then we tie in Neptune, and Neptune is the planet that
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  dissolves and brings meaning and connects us to something outside
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  of this 3D Saturn reality. It reminds us that we are a
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  speck of dust in the entire universe, that it is an ocean,
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  not of me, but of we. We're all connected, it's all
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  interconnected. It all has meaning.
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  And the things that we put the Rose colored glasses on, the
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  mirages of projection that we create, the ideals that we
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  project onto life, ourselves, others, Neptune washes all of
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  that away. It brings us back into this
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  place of soul, into a place of remembering, of slowing down, of
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  saying this is not everything. In its essence, I think that
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  Neptune reminds us what has meaning beyond material meaning.
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  So whether you're somebody spiritual or not, whether you
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  connect Neptune to religion or not, Neptune in a Natal chart,
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  Neptune by transit, collective transit, personal transit, it's
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  meaning, it's intention is to drop you back into the
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  remembering that everything is impermanent, That at the same
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  time everything matters and nothing matters.
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  And if you're doing everything for Saturn's reality, for some
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  surface level sense of security in the material realm, some
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  sense of validation of who you are in this lifetime, in this
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  moment, but it doesn't actually mean anything to you.
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  It doesn't actually call to something deeper in your soul.
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  There's an emptiness you feel at the end of a successful day.
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  That's Neptune. That's Neptune asking you to
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  slow the fuck down and to re evaluate, to ask what matters,
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  what really matters. And we can never go through a
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  Saturn or a Neptune transit alone without a connection to
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  what matters, without a connection to sacrifice.
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  And I guess after recording that Gemini full moon episode of
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  recording those horoscopes, talking about these big
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  decisions, talking about the gravity at the importance of
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  slowing down and prioritizing and then actually living through
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  the moment, it just hit me on a deeper level that it's
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  important. It's important that we all take
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  into consideration that whatever choices we make right now, the
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  long term consequences will reflect the gravity of our
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  connection to what matters. What matters now, what we claim
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  matters about what comes next, about our future.
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  Every decision right now has such a gravity to it.
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  If you're going through the month of December into January,
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  if you're going through these squares of the personal planets
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  in Sagittarius to Saturn and Neptune, and you don't feel like
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  you're sacrificing anything, you don't feel like you're making
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  any tough decisions or letting go, Say no in a way that brings
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  all of your shit up. All of the part of you that
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  doesn't want to grow up, doesn't want to show up, doesn't want to
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  give it up. Of course it doesn't want to
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  give it up. That's not the point.
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  You don't have to give it up. By the way, This comes back to
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  choice. And I guess because maybe I'm
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  born with it. Saturn up to conjunction.
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  Maybe it's a Gemini film, or maybe it's just the reality that
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  if you're somebody, you're anybody who wants to live with
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  any sense of purpose, of meaning, value, of integrity.
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  If you want to wake up, live a successful day, and at the end
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  of the day feel full, then right now, this is your moment to
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  overcome the resistance to letting something old go, to
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  letting yourself grow up, letting yourself make valuable,
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  conscious, intentional sacrifices and trust, trust they
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  will be rewarded. All the choices will be
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  rewarded. But you get to choose.
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  We all get to choose. So for now, let's just keep all
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  of this in mind, this invitation of letting go, of integration,
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  of coming into a alignment of choice, action and meaning,
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  purpose, and future potential creation.
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  All right, so we're going to start with the sacrifice with
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  Mars. Mars and Sagittarius is going to
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  square Saturn in Pisces at 25° on Monday, December 8th.
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  And then it's going to square and Neptune in Pisces at 29° on
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  Sunday, December 14th. With Mars.
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  We want to think about this waning square, this threshold of
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  what was, what is, and what could be or will be around the
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  sacrifice related to action, ambition, and fight.
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  What is worth fighting for? What is it that you care so
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  deeply about? You're going to prioritize,
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  commit to defend, advocate for inaction.
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  Following Mars is the Sun. The Sun in Sagittarius will
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  first square Saturn in Pisces at 25° on Tuesday, December 16th,
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  and then square that Neptune in Pisces at 29° on Saturday,
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  December 20th. So what is the sacrifice of
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  self, of ego, of identity? What part of yourself must be
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  let go in order to give more value, more meaning, more
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  effort, more faith in the version of you that can only be
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  built, that can only be created, that it can only be made real if
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  you let that old part go? This is the biggest grow up and
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  show up moment in my opinion, when it comes to the Sun.
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  And then we've got Venus, Venus and Sagittarius squares Saturn
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  and Pisces the same day as the Sun square Neptune on Saturday,
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  December 20th at 26°. And then Venus squares Neptune
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  at 29° on Tuesday, December 23rd.
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  This is our sacrifice of relationship, of connection, of
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  harmony, of pleasure, of value, of beauty.
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  Venus needs to prove the future, that she wants to build the new
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  standard of reality when it comes to our partnerships, our
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  social dynamics, our friendships, how we give and
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  receive the things that bring us satisfaction and joy and
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  pleasure. And Venus will have to go
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  through that gauntlet of sacrifice, proving what truly
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  has value, letting something go after the Sun and then finally
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  Mercury. Mercury in Sagittarius will
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  square Saturn and Pisces at 26° on on Monday, December 29th and
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  then make that square to Neptune and Pisces at 29° on Thursday,
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  January 1st, the first day of the year and Mercury as this
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  final player. Crossing these thresholds of
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  sacrifice will initiate us into what we truly claim through our
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  choice, through our word and matters of perception, personal
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  perception. Are you willing to let an old
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  outgrown way, or maybe a way that keeps you stuck of seeing
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  things go in order to allow yourself to open into what else
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  might be possible that's in the line with what you really care
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  about? Also, sacrifices when it comes
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  to agreements that we make or any sacrifices when it comes to
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  the way that we utilize our voice.
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  Tonight's episode is really about just taking this moment to
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  pause, to check in, to ask yourself this Gemini Full Moon.
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  I already told you, it's no bullshit.
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  It's big decisions. It's a huge turning point.
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  It's asking you to slow down and hit the stop sign.
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  But the stop sign doesn't end with Mars.
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  It actually starts with Mars. And everything that we do or
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  don't do, that we choose or don't choose, that we say or
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  don't say, everything now will play out, will have consequence,
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  whether that's A reckoning or reward through the long term,
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  through this next Saturn, Neptune conjunction and their
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  next major beginning of a major new cycle.
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  Again, I'm Sarah Posh astrologer and coach, and thank you all so
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  much for being here. I can't wait to be with you back
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  next week when we're going to talk about the final transits of
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  this godly, never ending, seemingly Scorpio new moon cycle
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  before we get to this edge new moon cycle.