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429: December Human Design & Astrology Transits w/ Christina Luna · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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Nicole Laino: Come here to become an unshakable human and build an unshakable business according to your human design.
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Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: Hello and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design, everybody.
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Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: I am here with the lovely and talented Christina Luna for our final transit episode of 2025.
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Nicole Laino: Holy cow, here we are.
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Nicole Laino: This year has just.
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Nicole Laino: The year's gone by quickly, but since September, I feel like it has been a rocket ship.
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Christina Luna: Ooh.
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Christina Luna: It definitely.
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Christina Luna: I have so many things to talk about just where December is bringing us to a fresh new shore and how it set it up.
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Christina Luna: We got set up in September.
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Nicole Laino: Yeah, we really did.
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Nicole Laino: And I want to talk about that, and I want to.
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Nicole Laino: What's your kind of, like, big thing right now?
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Nicole Laino: What are you sitting with where you're like, this is the thing that's, like, on my heart, the thing that is the one thing I can't, like, let go of or that keeps coming back for me.
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Christina Luna: For me, it feels like I am realizing that I have a brand new.
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Christina Luna: Well, I'm developing a new North Star and that my previous North Star was designed to help me heal some old wounds.
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Christina Luna: But this new North Star is developing from a place of a little bit more healed than before.
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Christina Luna: And so a lot of things are shifting in my life.
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Christina Luna: A lot of the reasons I do things, my motivations, my inner fire, it's all changing a lot because it's no longer moving toward and through healing.
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Christina Luna: It's moving toward something new that I haven't clearly defined quite yet.
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Christina Luna: It's starting to land, but I believe that's what will be developing for me in December.
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Nicole Laino: I feel like we're talking about the same thing in just a different way because I feel the same thing.
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Nicole Laino: For me, the thing that has been coming up as a theme that I keep being brought back to is the year of the snake and the nine year.
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Nicole Laino: I heard that at the beginning of the year, that nine years are a year of closing, that the snake is a year of shedding.
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Nicole Laino: And all of these kind of broader themes that have to do with these two energies colliding, these two things colliding.
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Nicole Laino: Boy, do I feel it now, where it's like I feel all the shedding that has gone on this year.
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Nicole Laino: Wow.
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Nicole Laino: Did I let go of things?
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Nicole Laino: I let go of things that I never imagined I would and let go of them.
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Nicole Laino: Sometimes things completely left my life, or sometimes it's just they changed in a really dramatic fashion, or at least to me, they did.
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Nicole Laino: Where the relationship is so different in my life and the entering a new era is what I feel happening.
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Nicole Laino: Like, there's a chapter closing, and the next chapter is.
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Nicole Laino: I feel like I'm in that holding pattern right now where it's like, I'm almost there.
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Nicole Laino: It's there.
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Nicole Laino: I had that in, like, the water season that we just had with Scorpio and all of the flooding of the water that you talked about in last month's call.
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Nicole Laino: I could feel that, like, hurry up and wait kind of energy a little bit.
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Nicole Laino: And I feel that.
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Nicole Laino: And then I got a reprieve where I started to move, and now I feel it a little bit pulling back again.
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Nicole Laino: Like, pulling back the arrow, maybe.
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Nicole Laino: And, yeah, that's theme that keeps coming back for me, is this endings and new beginnings.
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Nicole Laino: And what does it look like going forward in.
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Nicole Laino: Like, we have the Year of the Horse coming, which I guess we'll talk more about in January when it.
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Nicole Laino: We're closer to that happening.
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Nicole Laino: But.
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Nicole Laino: And I'm a horse.
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Nicole Laino: I'm a year of the Horse person.
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Nicole Laino: Are you.
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Nicole Laino: Are you a year after me?
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Christina Luna: I'm a goat.
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Nicole Laino: You're a goat.
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Nicole Laino: So you're the next one.
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Nicole Laino: So those are the things that are standing out to me.
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Nicole Laino: Like, I really feel like this is a transformative.
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Nicole Laino: This has been a transformative year.
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Christina Luna: Yes.
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Christina Luna: Okay.
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Christina Luna: So I really want to talk about Sagittarius as an archetypal temple and how it's even more relevant this year.
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Christina Luna: I. I think I've said that every single month, that this year it feels like every astrologer is saying that right now, but it's because the changeovers that we're experiencing right now, they are actually very epic.
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Christina Luna: This is a big pivot point, and we're seeing these pivots in our lives at the core because it's affecting us on a identity level.
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Christina Luna: And when you change something at an identity level, not only changes how we think of ourselves and the character we're playing in our life, but also our values and the way we believe and how we nourish ourselves, what we create in the world.
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Christina Luna: Like, everything changes when we change our relationship to our identity.
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Christina Luna: And because we have these large cycles moving into Aries, we've got the Saturn, we've got the Neptune.
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Christina Luna: A lot of planets are actually changing signs in 2026 because they're all changing signs.
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Christina Luna: We are shoring up and moving into a whole new way of identifying with ourselves and the role we play in our relationships and the world at large.
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Christina Luna: And so this moment we're in right now, it's kind of like we took the fall season, we took the fall quarter.
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Christina Luna: We looked at our life very analytically in Virgo season.
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Christina Luna: We made some mental adjustments.
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Christina Luna: We shifted our approach in October.
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Christina Luna: We went into the deep grotto of our heart.
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Christina Luna: We went into some deeper wounds.
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Christina Luna: We went into some strong feelings.
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Christina Luna: And I'm gonna pause there.
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Christina Luna: I'm just gonna say, whatever themes were during your month of November with all those water trines, I want you to know that was kind of the preview to where all of the Mercury retrogrades will be next year.
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Christina Luna: Mercury will retrograde in Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio, and we'll have a Venus retrograde in Scorpio next year.
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Christina Luna: So the Scorpio part of our world and the watery elements of our personality and our life, they're going to continue going through an adjustment next year as the rest of our life changes.
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Christina Luna: And so we're still in this moment where adjusting the weight that we have one foot, we're adjusting it onto this new step so that we can actually remove a foot from the old world and put it into the new world.
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Christina Luna: And the weight of that is going to be influenced by the weight of our emotional attachments, the.
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Christina Luna: Our faith, our relationship to uncertainty, to flow, to surrender, to vulnerability, watery things.
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Christina Luna: And so now that we're in Sagittarius, hopefully we found the deepest temple of our heart.
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Christina Luna: And hopefully during this Sagittarius season, we can adjust our North Star to a new why for our existence.
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Nicole Laino: Why?
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Christina Luna: Sagittarius answers the question why?
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Christina Luna: So now we're adjusting that why.
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Nicole Laino: So tell everybody a little bit more about the essence of a Sagittarian or the Sagittarius vibe.
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Nicole Laino: So you're saying, like, Sagittarius answers the question or asks the question why?
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Nicole Laino: And is able to answer it.
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Nicole Laino: What else can we expect?
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Nicole Laino: So we come out of Scorpio.
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Nicole Laino: We come out of all of this watery energy.
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Nicole Laino: We just had the flood.
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Nicole Laino: We just have all of this energy coming in and stirring up our emotions, getting us to feel everything.
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Nicole Laino: And is Sagittarius then meant to fire the shot, so to speak, where it's like, now there's a movement towards something new of transformation?
7:54
Christina Luna: I have two brief stories to talk about.
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Christina Luna: Sagittarius energy.
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Christina Luna: I wish I could say it was that simple, but it's actually a little More complex than that.
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Christina Luna: The first story is there was a movie back in the 80s called Abyss, and there was a character named Virgil.
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Christina Luna: They were discovering strange phenomenon on their underwater sea lab, and Virgil decided to track this thing down into the abyss.
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Christina Luna: And it was very dangerous.
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Christina Luna: And so he goes down the pressure.
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Christina Luna: It's like this huge dramatic scene when he gets to the bottom of the abyss, which, as the viewer, we don't know if this is a dream.
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Christina Luna: We don't know if this is real.
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Christina Luna: We'd like to think that Virgil's having an experience down in the bottom of the abyss, but we don't know with certainty.
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Christina Luna: It's like he died, or he, at least the reality that he used to live in has died.
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Christina Luna: And he comes to this place that baffles his mind.
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Christina Luna: He doesn't even know what he's looking at.
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Christina Luna: And this truce is something that now takes him all the way back to the surface of the real world again.
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Christina Luna: So Sagittarius season is like finding the crazy epiphany truth, Finding the kernel or the valuable thing that changes everything for you.
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Christina Luna: It's fire that moves, but it moves you because it comes from within.
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Christina Luna: It comes from the depths.
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Christina Luna: It comes from the dark.
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Christina Luna: It's a light you find inside of you.
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Christina Luna: You know, if you think about life in the Northern hemisphere, the light begins to go away in September.
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Christina Luna: It gets to its darkest point right during Sagittarius season, right before the sun begins to return.
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Christina Luna: In Capricorn season, we have to find an inner light, an inner spark, something that's real for us, that's from the inside of us, not from the outside.
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Christina Luna: And so Virgil finds this.
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Christina Luna: It shoots him back to the surface, and suddenly he's sharing this artifact with the world, and it changes the paradigm.
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Christina Luna: Ultimately, the paradigm changes during Aquarius season.
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Christina Luna: The artifact itself is Capricorn season, but Sagittarius is the discovery of it and the possibility of what could be now because of this.
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Christina Luna: And so it can move us, but it's still an internal movement, and it moves us to bring our gift to the world in a way that will leave a legacy during Capricorn season.
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Christina Luna: So we will feel stirred, we will feel that instinct.
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Christina Luna: And you know what is kind of interesting about popular culture, or at least the society we live in?
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Christina Luna: You know, we've got this archetypal flow of energy, and we get this excited, heartwarming feeling during this season.
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Christina Luna: And sometimes that fire is dampened because we leverage it into obligations or we leverage it into commercialism.
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Christina Luna: We leverage into Christmas Jingles and being busy and whatever.
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Christina Luna: Ultimately, the core of the epiphany is probably something around connection and love.
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Christina Luna: And if we can hold the kernel of that during a season where there's a lot of expectation and there's a lot of strange emotional dynamics, maybe this year we could make an adjustment to how we put that heart value first and let the other details kind of be, like, secondary.
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Christina Luna: Yeah.
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Nicole Laino: I mean, you and I were talking before we hit record, and it's sort of, as I'm listening to you, it's almost like December is like the permission to not go into massive action mode, which maybe some of us are feeling guilty for not being in action a lot.
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Nicole Laino: Like I was saying to you, I go away the first week in December, I come back, you know, we're home, like, working for, like, two weeks, and then it's holidays again.
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Nicole Laino: And I was sort of facing my Virgo.
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Nicole Laino: Ness was like, oh, I have a lot to get done.
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Nicole Laino: I gotta make a lot out of those two weeks that I have.
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Nicole Laino: And maybe I don't.
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Nicole Laino: Maybe it's actually.
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Nicole Laino: There's something incubating that.
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Nicole Laino: It's a spark that gets lit.
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Nicole Laino: It's an idea.
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Nicole Laino: And I think that kind of leads us into some of the energies that are coming into play in December, even around the sun gates that we always talk about.
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Nicole Laino: But some of the other planets as well, but these energies that come in, where maybe it's the epiphanies that are coming in, giving you a little bit more of an insight into the direction that you're going in and pointing in the direction that the action happens after the new year rings in.
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Christina Luna: You just reminded me I work with a lot of female entrepreneurs in the online space.
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Christina Luna: Like 95% of my clients.
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Christina Luna: And a lot of times my clients are very surprised when they first start working with me to understand, because they all want to work with me to figure out how to optimize their businesses, optimize the launches, optimize their timing of when they innovate their offers, and, you know, when they acquire new clients or when they nourish their old clients, blah, blah, like, fantastic that we want to talk about that because we're so impactful.
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Christina Luna: But what they're surprised about is that the spark, power, energy, the flow, the magnetism, it actually originates in our eighth house of intimacy.
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Christina Luna: It originates in the fifth house of what makes life worth living.
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Christina Luna: The fifth house and the eighth house have nothing to do with career, work, money, etc.
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Christina Luna: But they have everything to do with fueling the work that we do with fueling the energy and the transmission behind the work we do.
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Christina Luna: And the moments where you're overseas, seeing a beautiful artist express themselves, like connecting to a crowd of people, like understanding why your life is worth living, being held vulnerably by a lover, those moments of somatic presence, of excitement, of depth, of epiphany, those are the epiphanies that actually fuel the work that we do.
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Christina Luna: It's like getting to the why outcome of why we would even put ourselves into the world the way that we do.
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Christina Luna: It's not for money.
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Christina Luna: Actually, there's a reason why we put ourselves into the world that.
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Christina Luna: That has to do with believing something about humanity, believing what, you know, females are worth in their lives and their bodies, believing what humans are capable of.
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Christina Luna: And Sagittarius season is putting us back in touch with the deeper, fueling why that makes everything possible.
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Christina Luna: It makes it possible for us to speak in podcasts or put ourselves just to get out of our way, because we believe in something that's bigger than us.
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Christina Luna: We feel something is a birthright that's bigger than just our personal experience.
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Nicole Laino: Yeah.
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Nicole Laino: And if I think about it, like, even going back to what you were saying before about inner fire, the inner fire, that inner light, nothing has ever lit my flame.
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Nicole Laino: That's, like, just about a great launch.
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Nicole Laino: It's never about that.
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Nicole Laino: It's always about, like, the things that light my heart on fire, the things that really are, like, my why?
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Nicole Laino: If you go back to, like, that deep why again, to what you were saying before, it's these other things that make it all worthwhile.
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Nicole Laino: Like, I do the other stuff.
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Nicole Laino: So I get to fly to Copenhagen to see Radiohead.
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Nicole Laino: Like, that's why I do it.
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Nicole Laino: It's not for the launch.
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Nicole Laino: It's not for some number on the wall or something like that.
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Nicole Laino: So should we dive into the calendar and give them a little bit of some dates or some things, or, you know, what we're seeing?
15:29
Nicole Laino: What you're seeing?
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Christina Luna: Yeah, absolutely.
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Nicole Laino: So I like to start off with the sun, because the sun does tell us kind of the flavor.
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Nicole Laino: So we talk about Sagittarius as a whole just now.
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Nicole Laino: If we look at the gates, how they break up, we're kind of talking about the different flavors of the season and the first flavor, I think, which is interesting, you know, that first week, I think it's a time for us to sort of check in with our habits and with our patterns.
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Nicole Laino: Those could be internal patterns, they could be external patterns.
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Nicole Laino: What I see with this energy and People who have it is they either have a habit of setting good habits and they have like really great routines and they are really honoring their way.
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Nicole Laino: It's their way and they're flexible within that.
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Nicole Laino: However, there's also the other people that fall into bad habits, which we all know that people do that in this season, that sometimes we're drinking too much, we're out too late, we're.
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Nicole Laino: I think that this is sort of inviting us to check in with that and say, like, what are the habits, the patterns that are going to serve us throughout the month and going forward?
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Nicole Laino: But I think that's like a little check in point with that first week to say, like, what are the habits that I really want to ingrain in myself?
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Nicole Laino: You might let some of them go for the holidays, but there's also going to be some that you're like, but I'm still going to be in bed by 10 o' clock because I know that serves me and that serves me overall.
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Nicole Laino: So that was one of the keys that I had there.
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Nicole Laino: And then what are you seeing?
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Nicole Laino: What's kind of jumping out at you?
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Christina Luna: Well, I definitely feel like the first week is a week where we need to be mindful.
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Christina Luna: We have a full moon that week in Gemini, we're gonna have Mercury moving direct.
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Christina Luna: We're gonna have Saturn moving direct.
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Christina Luna: We've got Venus in Sag.
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Christina Luna: So there's gonna be this energy of wanting to move forward, wanting to move quickly, wanting to move with passion.
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Christina Luna: But we have to remember that Mercury will still be in Scorpio.
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Christina Luna: So we're still gonna be having to create boundaries with ourselves.
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Christina Luna: It's something really important to remember for a Gemini full moon is that there's a difference between what we have an opinion about, like what our personal subjective truth is and universal truth.
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Christina Luna: There's a difference there.
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Christina Luna: And if we can slow things down and try to find some coherence or some congruence with our subjective truth, our opinions and universal truths, and we realize that our passion is real.
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Christina Luna: It's.
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Christina Luna: It's important for us to want to scream from the rooftops what we believe is true.
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Christina Luna: And having a little bit of hubris.
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Christina Luna: Is that the word I'm looking for?
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Christina Luna: Having a bit of maturity, that wouldn't be hubris.
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Christina Luna: Then tell me about hubris.
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Christina Luna: Why is that word coming into my head?
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Nicole Laino: I always think hubris is sort of like an exaggeration or excessive pride or self confidence.
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Nicole Laino: Like it's like overdoing it.
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Nicole Laino: Hubris is like too much.
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Christina Luna: That's interesting.
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Christina Luna: Okay.
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Christina Luna: So I'm feeling that word landing, and I think that's what we need to temper.
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Christina Luna: Okay.
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Nicole Laino: Okay.
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Christina Luna: We need to recognize when that is activated inside of us because it can be a week where we have a lot of that with a bit of humbleness.
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Nicole Laino: I feel like, as we go into the second week as well, if I were looking at one week, and I'd say that one week where we're really going to want to hit the gas and maybe we have to pull back, it's probably going to be that second week.
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Nicole Laino: That second week we have some big energies happening.
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Nicole Laino: We've got the sun in 26, the Earth in 45, which these are big ego sent, not ego center necessarily.
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Nicole Laino: 45 sits in the throat, but they are part of the ego circuit, which is business.
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Nicole Laino: It's like, we go.
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Nicole Laino: We make it happen.
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Nicole Laino: The 26 gate wants to take action in the direction of, like, a strategy.
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Nicole Laino: It's very tactical.
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Nicole Laino: It's very much like, ooh, I know the launch strategy.
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Nicole Laino: That's going to get me the thing that I want.
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Nicole Laino: Plan it, write it out, notice it, but don't necessarily feel like you've got to make it all happen.
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Nicole Laino: Then the 14th gate is also where Mercury is 14.
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Nicole Laino: That's a Scorpio gate, of course, but it's also.
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Nicole Laino: It's this gate of power and great measure, that's what it's called, which is an interesting name.
19:41
Nicole Laino: It's a gate of luck.
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Nicole Laino: But it's also.
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Nicole Laino: This is a gate of knowing what your capacity is.
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Nicole Laino: So it's a great time to check in with yourself, to say, like, what do I need right now?
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Nicole Laino: And am I doing something because it feels like I love it?
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Nicole Laino: 14 is often a gate that is difficult for people to understand because it's so simplistic in the way that it sounds, which is like, it's basically like a do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life kind of gate.
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Nicole Laino: Like, that's what it is.
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Nicole Laino: You'll always have capacity if you love it.
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Nicole Laino: Maybe it's a time to check in with yourself, to be like, am I really speaking about the things that matter to me?
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Nicole Laino: Am I I really speaking about the things that feel connected to me?
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Nicole Laino: Or am I being purely strategic?
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Nicole Laino: Am I being purely egotistical?
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Nicole Laino: Is everything for a conversion.
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Nicole Laino: This is a conversation I have to have for myself, too.
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Nicole Laino: Like, am I sharing enough of what I truly care about, of what I really want to say?
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Nicole Laino: I think that's a time to sort of check in with that energy.
20:38
Christina Luna: That'S so appropriate for that week.
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Christina Luna: I'm noticing that this is a week typically where we come to a deeper truth within ourselves.
20:46
Christina Luna: Where we are holding.
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Christina Luna: It's like the queen of wands, like we're holding our passion.
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Christina Luna: We know that if it's true, we don't have to rush to speak it, that truths are true no matter what truths last.
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Christina Luna: We don't need to worry about the truth going away anytime soon.
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Christina Luna: And so there's a maturity in holding that energy.
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Christina Luna: It's kind of also a week where on the 8th, we've got Mars squaring Saturn, and it's a Saturn that's just moving forward.
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Christina Luna: So it's a moment where we could even be blocked.
21:18
Christina Luna: We could have this great idea.
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Christina Luna: We could want to go live.
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Christina Luna: We could want to throw something out into the world.
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Christina Luna: We're feeling a little stretched, and we're just going to do something real quick.
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Christina Luna: We probably will experience blocks.
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Christina Luna: And to your point, it's a moment to kind of step back and ask, is this really aligned with what I want to be saying?
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Christina Luna: Sometimes saying less or saying one specific truth is more powerful than just throwing a lot of energy into the system and that gives way.
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Christina Luna: Specifically, there's some slow energy during from the 14th through the 20th that's trying to like, hold this, hold it, grow it, hold it, move with intention.
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Christina Luna: So I feel like there's a lot of discipline that's coming in the month of December.
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Nicole Laino: Yes, the discipline is definitely there.
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Nicole Laino: I think then when we hit the holiday time, we have some changes.
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Nicole Laino: Like from a human design standpoint.
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Nicole Laino: Well, one, we have the solstice, where we're going to have the 10th gate, you know, around the 20th of the month.
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Nicole Laino: I always think that this is nice around Christmas, like the week leading up to Christmas.
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Nicole Laino: I always like to remind people of this that the 10th gate is going to be shining on all of us.
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Nicole Laino: And 10 and 15 are this beautiful polarity in the G center, which is all about identity.
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Nicole Laino: But these are gates of love.
22:34
Nicole Laino: This is a love for yourself to not give away yourself.
22:38
Nicole Laino: It's really about behaving authentically as you.
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Nicole Laino: And I think that the way to really test whether you are authentically behaving is to go plop yourself in the middle of family and friends and loved ones where maybe you feel like you've had to conform.
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Nicole Laino: Some of us feel like that's the place where we are the most authentic.
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Nicole Laino: And then some of us feel like it is the place where we are the least authentic.
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Nicole Laino: And the people who Know us the least are the ones who have known us the longest.
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Nicole Laino: So it's a great time to check in with yourself about what does correct behavior feel like to you?
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Nicole Laino: And correct behavior, what it reminds us of is that correct behavior comes from loving yourself.
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Nicole Laino: That when you love yourself as you are, there is no need to please anybody because your job is only to please yourself.
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Nicole Laino: It's not about conforming to be somebody else or to be more palatable.
23:27
Nicole Laino: And then around that same time, the 23rd, we hit the.
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Nicole Laino: There'll be a nodal change.
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Nicole Laino: This is from.
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Nicole Laino: In astrology, we're still in the Pisces north node, Virgo south node.
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Nicole Laino: But in human design, we are going into the 37th gate.
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Nicole Laino: The 37th gate is where the north node will be.
23:47
Christina Luna: The.
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Nicole Laino: The south node will be in 40.
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Nicole Laino: This is going to give everybody an emotional channel for a while.
23:53
Nicole Laino: We're all going to be emotional.
23:54
Nicole Laino: We're going to have this emotional connection between our ego.
23:57
Nicole Laino: You're.
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Nicole Laino: Everybody's going to have an.
23:58
Nicole Laino: Have a defined ego during this time, and everybody's going to have a defined solar plexus.
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Nicole Laino: And this is the channel of the bargain.
24:05
Nicole Laino: This is that channel of friendship, community.
24:09
Nicole Laino: It is about loving one another, but it's also about not giving yourself away.
24:13
Nicole Laino: So again, challenging us to really ground into holding our boundaries around who we are, around how we think about ourselves, caring for others, but not giving ourselves away in that process.
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Nicole Laino: And the holidays, I think, can trigger a lot of us into maybe acting in certain ways or thinking we have to be in a particular way, particularly around this energy of I take care of you emotionally, you take care of me materially.
24:41
Nicole Laino: It's a very familial kind of energy that we're going into.
24:45
Nicole Laino: And we're going to be there for a couple of months.
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Nicole Laino: So that all kicks off right around 23rd of December.
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Nicole Laino: So we might feel a shift there where we go from having these very heady sort of nodal gates of like looking in the direction of thinking about things to maybe feeling them.
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Christina Luna: Oh, my gosh.
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Christina Luna: You triggered a couple of really important things I'd love to share.
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Christina Luna: So the energies I have for that week, the 21st through the 27th, and then the 28th, leading into the first of the year, it ran to cardinal.
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Christina Luna: Earth.
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Christina Luna: That's the beginning of Earth.
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Christina Luna: That's the manifesting generative energy of Earth.
25:21
Christina Luna: It's like a new arrow being pulled back to manifest in the Earth plane.
25:27
Christina Luna: And you were talking about how being your most authentic, being sensitive presentation, authentic.
25:34
Christina Luna: I want to Piggyback onto that and say that I tried an experiment last year.
25:39
Christina Luna: There's.
25:40
Christina Luna: I heard about these 12 holy days, and I thought, well, that's so interesting that there would be 12 holy days during this cardinal earth period of time.
25:48
Christina Luna: What happens on those 12 holy days, which supposedly start on the 25th of December.
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Christina Luna: So that would be the first day that we notice that the sun is still in the sky.
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Christina Luna: It's beginning to stay longer.
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Christina Luna: So on the solstice, it's the shortest day.
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Christina Luna: And then by the 25th, it looks like the sun is coming back.
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Christina Luna: So that would mark the beginning of the 12 holy days.
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Christina Luna: So last year I took note of everything that happened from the 25th all the way till the epiphany, which is on the 6th of January, which is the ending of the holy days, right?
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Christina Luna: And supposedly whatever you intend and experience on each of those days corresponds to a month of the year.
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Christina Luna: So December 25th would be January, the 26th is February, 27th is March.
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Christina Luna: So I was so present and authentic last year.
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Christina Luna: And I took notes on each of those days, of what happened during the day, how I felt.
26:47
Christina Luna: And because I set the intention, I came back to presence over and over.
26:52
Christina Luna: And I took notes in a calendar for the next year.
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Christina Luna: So in January, I took notes on 25 December.
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Christina Luna: On the 1st page of February, I took notes for the 26th.
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Christina Luna: And so I started my days exactly how I'd want to spend an entire month.
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Christina Luna: So how do I want the month of February to feel?
27:12
Christina Luna: How do I want the month of March to feel?
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Christina Luna: And as those days progressed, I noticed, good gosh, you know, I'm really paying attention.
27:21
Christina Luna: I'm really noticing how things go.
27:24
Christina Luna: And so I kept like a time tally and everything.
27:27
Christina Luna: Then for the whole year, I let the experiment run.
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Christina Luna: And what I found was very interesting is I had a big conflict right in the middle of Christmas Day.
27:38
Christina Luna: It kind of stood out.
27:38
Christina Luna: On the very first day of tracking, during the middle of January, around the 15th, had a really big conflict with the same person.
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Christina Luna: And it tracked the entire year.
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Christina Luna: It tracked so clearly.
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Christina Luna: And so this authenticity that you're talking about, imagine on an extra level, what if you were creating from authenticity with your intention, with your presence?
28:03
Christina Luna: What if everything that you paid attention to and you focused on, you really created space for and gave yourself permission for?
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Christina Luna: What if it actually had a correlation for the entire next year?
28:15
Christina Luna: And my experiment, I do experiments like this, like, regularly.
28:19
Christina Luna: But this one, I'm talking about it now because I can a hundred percent validate that it worked for me.
28:25
Christina Luna: I don't know if it's because I'm a manifesting generator.
28:28
Christina Luna: I don't know if it's because when I'm excited about things, I believe them and then they come true.
28:33
Christina Luna: Like, I'm not really sure if my formula makes this work better for me, but because it's coming up and because we're in that season of giving that presence to our lives, I thought I would share it.
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Nicole Laino: I love your experiments.
28:46
Nicole Laino: I wrote it down because I'm going to do it.
28:48
Nicole Laino: I'll have to remind myself I'm going to put it in my calendar so I don't forget.
28:51
Nicole Laino: But I love these experiments because whether they quote, unquote, work or not, like as expected or as explained, they tune you in.
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Nicole Laino: And I don't think that it's ever a bad exercise to be intentionally tuning in and paying attention to the energy that we're in, what we're feeling and what's going on, and then tracking that always.
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Nicole Laino: So I think that like all of these are worthy exercises.
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Nicole Laino: But I love this idea of particularly during that week, which is it's sort of this.
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Nicole Laino: It's the time before everything starts.
29:23
Nicole Laino: You know, we all get this sort of like little break.
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Nicole Laino: We're waiting for the next thing, we're waiting for the new year, we're waiting for the clock to strike midnight and then tell us that the new game has started, whatever that might be for us.
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Nicole Laino: I think it's a really fun thing to check in with yourself on your way to that.
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Nicole Laino: And I love the idea, like whether it tracks this way or not, but just the idea of thinking like, I'm walking through these 12 days as a little like microcosm kind of way of walking through my year and how can I be more intentional about that?
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Nicole Laino: So I love that you shared that.
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Nicole Laino: Thank you.
29:58
Christina Luna: Yes, of course.
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Christina Luna: Even down to like I had my house cleaned on the day that corresponds with September.
30:04
Christina Luna: Like it was so beautiful and it tracked and I'm gonna do it again with even more intention.
30:10
Christina Luna: Cuz now I know how very real it is.
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Christina Luna: And that's what Cardinal Earth brings to us.
30:17
Christina Luna: The real tangible experience of being able to take all of our wisdom, all of our depth, all of our truth and actually make an impact and a mark on the earth.
30:28
Christina Luna: And we get to start a new calendar year during the energy of Cardinal Earth.
30:34
Christina Luna: So I kind of feel it's beautiful, even though it's not.
30:37
Christina Luna: We're celebrating like new Year vibes.
30:40
Christina Luna: Definitely isn't like, oh, there's a whole new cycle.
30:43
Christina Luna: But it is a cycle that's built on habits that we intentionally set down.
30:49
Christina Luna: And on that note, I know this is, like, peeking a little bit too far into the future.
30:55
Christina Luna: Something that has come up recently.
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Christina Luna: And I think it's because I'm doing a lot of quarterly readings for the first quarter now is Capricorn season ends around the 20th of January.
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Christina Luna: And that's oftentimes when our New Year's resolutions fail.
31:08
Christina Luna: And it's because we enter into Aquarius season.
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Christina Luna: And Aquarius is about vibes, not policies.
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Christina Luna: And so we could have the best plans.
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Christina Luna: But if the vibes change, we need to be able to adjust the plans.
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Christina Luna: And because we're in an Aquarian time, maybe we can play out our Christmas season.
31:28
Christina Luna: We can play out our New Year's season based on Vibes and not on formulas.
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Christina Luna: And I think that will set us up for different ways of approaching legacy, manifestation, resolutions, et cetera.
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Nicole Laino: Yeah, I love all of that.
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Nicole Laino: I think resolutions are something that we've, a lot of us have gotten away from.
31:48
Nicole Laino: Where I look at them as intentions.
31:49
Nicole Laino: Now it's like I have strong intentions for myself, this where I want to move, because it feels more flexible to me than, like, a resolution.
31:56
Nicole Laino: Resolutions always felt very rigid to me, and I kind of broke away from that a long time ago.
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Nicole Laino: Intentions suit me much better.
32:05
Nicole Laino: So just looking at this month, I feel like we go through these waves of, like, setting those routines, having some ideas come up, really nurturing those ideas, then nurturing ourselves and settling into, like, what's authentic for us.
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Nicole Laino: And then we're kind of closing out the year.
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Nicole Laino: I always bring this up because I think that it's worth bringing up, but it's also interesting because we're going to be in this, the 58th gate.
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Nicole Laino: Mars is in it from Christmas week.
32:33
Nicole Laino: And then that week between Christmas and New Year's, both the sun and Venus are in it.
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Nicole Laino: And the 58th gate is the gate of Joy.
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Nicole Laino: And it's supposed to be a time of joy for us, right?
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Nicole Laino: The holidays, it's like this time of family.
32:45
Nicole Laino: And, you know, what brings you joy in the 58th gate?
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Nicole Laino: One of the things that it reminds us of is that the shadow is dissatisfaction.
32:54
Nicole Laino: And dissatisfaction is what blocks us from joy.
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Nicole Laino: Not being grateful for what you have.
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Nicole Laino: I think there's an invitation here.
33:01
Nicole Laino: I think at the end of the year, we sort of have this invitation anyway.
33:05
Nicole Laino: But especially just with that energy kind of being around us in these different ways, just asking us to really tune into what we're grateful for what are we satisfied with rather than what are we dissatisfied with?
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Nicole Laino: Not what has to change, because I don't like this, but what are we actively choosing because it brings us joy?
33:26
Nicole Laino: So that's kind of what I wanted to leave everybody with as far as just.
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Nicole Laino: It's a note I remind myself of every year.
33:34
Nicole Laino: And this year, we have some other things dancing with it as well.
33:37
Nicole Laino: But to me, that's what always stands out.
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Nicole Laino: It's just, can we not focus on what we want to change because we hate it, but actually, like, what do we want to create from this essence of joy?
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Nicole Laino: Like, things can get better, but we want them to be from that energy of, like, I know how I could make it better.
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Nicole Laino: You know, there's one that has judgment in it and the other that has possibility.
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Christina Luna: Beautiful.
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Nicole Laino: What are your parting words?
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Nicole Laino: Is there anything else that you want to lead everybody with or sum everything up with for 2025, for December?
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Nicole Laino: We've said a lot.
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Christina Luna: Yeah.
34:10
Christina Luna: I still come back to this place.
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Christina Luna: There's a compass inside of our hearts, and if we can get to the very deepest root of that compass, that's our task for Sagittarius season.
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Christina Luna: There's nothing else.
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Christina Luna: Like, we.
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Christina Luna: All the outside world, all the noise, all the things, they just don't matter.
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Christina Luna: They get to be fun expressions from the internal compass.
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Christina Luna: So that's what I'm caring the most about right now.
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Nicole Laino: I love that.
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Nicole Laino: And I think the message, nurture yourself.
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Nicole Laino: Like, that's permission to tap into your inner compass and to tap into what brings you joy and to tap into, like, yeah, you're gonna have plans, but there's also time to enact those plans once we switch over, and we are in Capricorn season, and the energy is supporting that.
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Nicole Laino: Christina and I will see you in a couple of days, but Christina and I will see you together next year in 2026, in January.
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Nicole Laino: My goodness.
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Nicole Laino: Happy New Year to you, my friend.
35:09
Christina Luna: Happy New Year and Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving and all the things.
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