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The Solar Eclipse in Leo · Astrology for Beginners

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone and welcome back to the Astrology for Beginners podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Stefanie Kate Boucher, and I am so glad you're here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the podcast for you if you've ever been curious about astrology,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you've wanted to understand your natal chart or make sense of what's happening in
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  SPEAKER_00: the sky,
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  SPEAKER_00: but maybe it's felt overwhelming, complicated, or hard to know where to begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goal Thank you so much for being here and sharing your time with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone and welcome back to Astrology for Beginners.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we are talking about one of the biggest astrological events of the month
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  SPEAKER_00: and probably really one of the biggest of the year because we of course are talking
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  SPEAKER_00: about the total solar eclipse in Leo coming up on August 12th.
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  SPEAKER_00: This eclipse will occur around 1.36 Eastern time
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, on the 12th, and it will be at about 20 degrees of Leo.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you have planets from like 16-ish to 24-ish degrees of fixed signs,
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  SPEAKER_00: like Taurus, Leo,
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  SPEAKER_00: Scorpio, or Aquarius, then you might feel this a little more than other people do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Although, eclipses being eclipses, anyone is really fair game.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've probably heard people say things like eclipses are wild or expect the unexpected.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I've said those things on this very show.
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  SPEAKER_00: And while there certainly can be a lot of truth to that,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think eclipse seasons are also more nuanced than we like to acknowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk again here about what eclipses are from
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  SPEAKER_00: an astrological perspective,
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  SPEAKER_00: why this one feels significant,
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  SPEAKER_00: and how you might begin working with this in your own life.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it that you need to do, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the answer,
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  SPEAKER_00: of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: with an eclipse is not much,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we're going to get into that more specifically as the show goes on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we get to all of that I'd like to remind you all that
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now, before we talk about Leo, I want to zoom out just a bit here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Normally,
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  SPEAKER_00: when we talk about eclipses,
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  SPEAKER_00: We tend to think of them as isolated events or abrupt shake-ups, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what typically comes to mind when we say the word eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, in other words,
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  SPEAKER_00: an eclipse happens,
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  SPEAKER_00: something possibly very dramatic is supposed to occur,
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  SPEAKER_00: if it's going to impact you at all, if you're one of those lucky people, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then...
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  SPEAKER_00: Life moves on, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you deal with whatever new reality you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: This can happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eclipses can happen this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: They definitely can.
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  SPEAKER_00: But rather than simply always showing up as shocking events,
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  SPEAKER_00: eclipses can tend to be a little quieter than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can tend to function as chapters, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Single but important chapters that In a larger story, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: As part of a novel, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eclipses, by the way, occur in seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in eclipse season right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We typically have two eclipse seasons a year,
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  SPEAKER_00: although depending on how they hit the calendar that year, there could be three.
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  SPEAKER_00: But You get a season where there's at least one solar and at least one lunar eclipse
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  SPEAKER_00: a couple of weeks apart,
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  SPEAKER_00: and this season brings us changes or developments in some part of our lives
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  SPEAKER_00: or around some theme in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these stories can unfold over months rather than just, you know, days or hours or minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So possibly...
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  SPEAKER_00: You get an eclipse that introduces a theme into your sphere, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Often,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is around the time that the eclipses or the lunar nodes move onto a new axis in
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  SPEAKER_00: the zodiac, but it introduces a new theme that comes up for review.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then another eclipse later comes along that develops that theme further,
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  SPEAKER_00: one that progresses that theme or pushes that story forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this keeps happening with the eclipses,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: on this axis until eventually another eclipse comes along
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  SPEAKER_00: that offers some resolution or that delivers you a new perspective
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  SPEAKER_00: of some kind around that life theme that you've been working on.
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  SPEAKER_00: This can be internal reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we don't fully understand what an eclipse was about
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  SPEAKER_00: until we're looking back months later.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be all at once that everything changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, it can cause sudden developments, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We've all heard the eclipse stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do happen a lot, like someone getting a new job offer suddenly or losing a job suddenly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or it can cause more subtle changes that develop over time,
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  SPEAKER_00: like realizing that your current job role changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just isn't working well for you anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just kind of,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: that first eclipse planting that seed that grows over time,
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  SPEAKER_00: makes you aware of this level of dissatisfaction that's growing until you decide
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  SPEAKER_00: to start thinking about next steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: And eventually you start looking for a new job or a new job role and you're interviewing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then eventually you do make a career change.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it all started with that initial eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe a couple of eclipses ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: So while August 12th is certainly important,
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  SPEAKER_00: it isn't going to be the whole entire story that we're telling here either, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: This moment in time,
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  SPEAKER_00: this general time, will be part of the story, but there's lots of time left.
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  SPEAKER_00: That we're going to have with the eclipses being on this Leo-Aquarius axis for you
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  SPEAKER_00: to discern what this energy is going to bring up for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so in terms of this next eclipse on August 12th,
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  SPEAKER_00: this eclipse is a new moon solar eclipse in Leo.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then about two weeks later on August 28th,
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  SPEAKER_00: we'll experience a full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it can be helpful to think of these two eclipses this month as being in
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  SPEAKER_00: a sort of conversation with one another, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes in a single eclipse season,
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  SPEAKER_00: the first eclipse can introduce a theme or introduce an issue
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  SPEAKER_00: that is becoming important or is,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, kind of coming out of the woodworks, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or it brings up some questions about our direction in some area of our lives, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: While the second eclipse in the season gives us a little more information
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  SPEAKER_00: or moves us forward more around that issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, you do not have to feel clear about what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: By August 12th or even after August 12th.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not,
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  SPEAKER_00: it may become more clear to you what was happening once we move past
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  SPEAKER_00: the lunar eclipse later in the month.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'd encourage you simply to just pay attention during this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what begins shifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: If anything, notice what new conversations or different conversations start to emerge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what feels even just slightly different in your life right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, we're still near the beginning of this Leo Aquarius story that we're all in.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Leo Aquarius eclipse story actually began earlier this year with
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  SPEAKER_00: the first solar eclipse in Aquarius.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was February 17th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was squaring Uranus and it was a big deal for a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was very impactful.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is the first eclipse in Leo and the first eclipse on this axis to occur
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  SPEAKER_00: after the lunar nodes themselves have moved into Leo and Aquarius because
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  SPEAKER_00: that just recently happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: During the last eclipse season, they were still on the Virgo Pisces axis.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, we're still not quite done with those eclipses.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's still that lunar eclipse in Pisces on the 28th.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now the energy here,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the nodes being on this axis,
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  SPEAKER_00: it feels less like a preview of what's coming and more like we've actually just sort
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  SPEAKER_00: of stepped into this new energetic chapter on this axis.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what are we looking at with Leo Aquarius?
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, Leo and Aquarius are complementary signs.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're opposite each other on the wheel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leo speaks to the individual.
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  SPEAKER_00: So creativity, joy, leadership, having the courage to express ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Aquarius reminds us that we also belong to communities.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also belong to the collective, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not here all by ourselves, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is friendships, groups,
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  SPEAKER_00: belonging,
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  SPEAKER_00: being part of the collective, being part of something larger than ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: healthy astrology isn't ever going to really be about deciding,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: what side of the axis is better,
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  SPEAKER_00: which sign is better, choosing one over the other that you like better, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And axis is always about finding a way to balance two things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in this case,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're looking at How we become more fully ourselves while remaining connected
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  SPEAKER_00: to something larger and making an authentic contribution as our authentic selves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, there are eclipses that take place near the North Node,
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  SPEAKER_00: which tend to be future facing and which tend to move us toward new things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are eclipses that take place near the South Node,
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  SPEAKER_00: which are more rear facing or past facing,
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  SPEAKER_00: about the past, and that ask us to shed things that are no longer working.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to know which one any eclipse is,
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  SPEAKER_00: you just look,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: at the eclipse chart, at the transit chart to see what sign the nodes are in.
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  SPEAKER_00: This particular eclipse occurs near the south node, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The south node is in Leo where this eclipse takes place.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, south node symbolism has to do with release or shedding or letting go, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about completion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about making space for new things that are coming in.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what do you typically do when you need to make space for something new?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, you often have to remove something or at least shift some things around.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like in your living room, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to get a new couch, what do you have to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, you have to get rid of some of the furniture that's already there
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  SPEAKER_00: that you don't want anymore in order to bring space.
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  SPEAKER_00: That new piece of furniture in.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't just keep stuffing the room, stuffing the room, stuffing the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: It won't be a pleasant place to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you have to do some shifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: This doesn't have to be something painful or jarring, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's be clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes release can be very subtle, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not jarring at all, necessarily.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you're letting go of an old role that you play, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have a social role that you play.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, for example,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're the person in your friend group that everyone has been overly reliant on
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  SPEAKER_00: to do all of the planning,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of the planning of the nights out or the cookouts or the weekend getaways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And everyone's just let you do it because you're really good at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you always make things come together.
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  SPEAKER_00: But maybe now you're not having fun anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's a lot of work to do all this planning, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're ready to let go of the role of being the planner for the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's an old ambition that you don't necessarily have anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've realized that what you used to want,
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe very badly, isn't really what you want anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: That ambition was for an older version of you and it's not aligned now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're tired of the way you're dating.
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  SPEAKER_00: This doesn't necessarily mean that you're never going to date anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: But maybe your relationship to dating itself changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you start doing the dating a little differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: These can be changes that are very easy to see from the outside or ones that are not
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  SPEAKER_00: so easy to see from the outside because the change was more about a shift
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  SPEAKER_00: in your attitude or a shift in your perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what is it exactly at this time in your life that you feel ready to let go of?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what would happen to you if you did let it go?
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  SPEAKER_00: What would you have room for in your life if you let this thing go?
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  SPEAKER_00: And how might that make your life feel different?
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  SPEAKER_00: Leo is one of the signs in astrology that is about joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leos are good, typically.
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  SPEAKER_00: A healthy Leo is very good at finding joy in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leo rules the things in life that make it fun to be here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things like creativity, play,
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  SPEAKER_00: free time,
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  SPEAKER_00: romance,
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  SPEAKER_00: children,
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  SPEAKER_00: the willingness to be seen like you're on stage,
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  SPEAKER_00: proudly on stage, unabashedly on stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: It rules courage, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And more specifically, the courage to express ourselves very honestly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: this makes our life so much easier and more joyful when we can just be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the thoughts that just keeps running through my head over and
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  SPEAKER_00: over every time I think about this eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it could just be me, maybe it is, but I don't think it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one of the questions that keeps running through my mind is what really makes me happy?
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like that might be where we're going with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: That sounds ridiculously simple, I realize, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But what What makes me really happy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Not what impresses people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not what I've always done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not what I'm good at or feel like I have to do because we don't want to waste talent
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  SPEAKER_00: or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not what receives the most recognition or applause or likes or whatever form
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  SPEAKER_00: of approval people might want to get.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what genuinely makes me or you feel more alive?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because over time, it's really easy for us all, especially in adulthood, to lose sight of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Often we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a way,
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  SPEAKER_00: many of us,
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  SPEAKER_00: not all, but many of us have a way of becoming wonderfully responsible adults.
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  SPEAKER_00: We...
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  SPEAKER_00: Meet our responsibilities and our obligations.
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  SPEAKER_00: We spend time, you know, working at our jobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: We care for our families.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have promises that we intend to keep, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bills that we have to pay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Houses we have to clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And somewhere along the way, we quietly lose touch with what actually makes life feel fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, an eclipse can't solve that problem overnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it can get us thinking about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it can...
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  SPEAKER_00: Push us to move in that direction more than we had been before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I also want to mention here that just because this is a south node eclipse
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  SPEAKER_00: and south node eclipses are about letting go and it's in the sign of Leo,
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  SPEAKER_00: this doesn't mean we're supposed to be letting go of Leo to move to Aquarius, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't actually think this eclipse is about becoming less Leo, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone was just asking me this the other day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's about changing the way we use Leo energy or letting go
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  SPEAKER_00: where our relationship to Leo energy has become unhealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might be more about letting go of the shadow side of Leo for some of us or
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  SPEAKER_00: for others,
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  SPEAKER_00: looking at where we've been unwilling to step into Leo energy at all, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're letting go of using Leo energy in a way that's not authentic
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  SPEAKER_00: and doesn't serve you or others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's a difference between just expressing who you are naturally and performing
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  SPEAKER_00: a version of who you are because you think that's the version of you
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  SPEAKER_00: that earns approval or that makes you more accepted by the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a difference between creating art or something because you love to create
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  SPEAKER_00: and creating because we hope that someone else will tell us that we're talented.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not necessarily releasing Leo traits like visibility, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But we might be releasing feeling pressured to be visible, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or we might be releasing pressure to stay visible,
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe in order to prove our worthiness, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm not worthy of being here unless I prove that I'm worthy of being here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then that becomes performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, when I look at the eclipse chart itself, there are some things that really do stand out.
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  SPEAKER_00: This chart is unusually interconnected.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nearly all of the planets are talking to one another right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all aspecting each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a crazy amount of conversation happening energetically
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  SPEAKER_00: between all these planets and the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: And much of that activity happens in the fire and air signs.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, fire energy inspires us, air energy connects us and creates conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so together, these two elements create a chart that feels really interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Energized,
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  SPEAKER_00: really mentally vibrant,
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  SPEAKER_00: full of lots and lots of movement, really fast movement, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because air speeds up the spread of fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is very fast moving energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Mercury active,
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  SPEAKER_00: connecting with Uranus,
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  SPEAKER_00: Neptune, Pluto, Venus, Jupiter, everything's just in this big conversation.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so Without getting too deep into all the nuts
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  SPEAKER_00: and bolts here I think what this larger conversation suggests is that this is a time
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: for bringing in new ideas bringing in changing perspectives maybe
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: in your own life having some very impactful conversations getting information
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: that really matters somehow information that changes the course or the direction
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: of something but Just remember that eclipse season isn't about rushing
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: towards some kind of concrete certainty.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's totally okay not to know what any of this means yet if you don't.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: So what should you do?
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: Well, just observe is what I always say, right?
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're someone who likes journaling or reflecting during new moons...
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: I would suggest doing that also, right?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: And keep it really simple.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to do anything with this lunation.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Eclipses and solar eclipses,
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  SPEAKER_00: even though they are new moons,
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: aren't about setting intentions the way we think of with regular new moons.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: We don't really do so much intention setting with eclipses because
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: the energy is just too volatile and unpredictable for that.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: With eclipses, you kind of just want to ride out the energy and let it wash over you.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: The universe will show you or reveal to you what it means for you in time.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: So what you really want to do is just relax into it where you can,
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: take good care of yourself, and ride the wave.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: That being said,
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: of course you can pay attention,
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: you can observe,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can journal,
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: and you can,
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  SPEAKER_00: down the road when the dust is settled,
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Really reflect on what this time meant for you and what happened.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: But for now, we're just swimming in this energy, this Leo energy.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so you can reflect or journal and just ask yourself, what makes me happiest?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or what isn't making me happy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Where can I let go or make more space for the things that do make me happiest?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that is all for now, everyone.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to follow up,
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think,
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: with you later this month
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: to continue this eclipse season conversation once we get closer to the full moon
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  SPEAKER_00: on August 28th.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: That one,
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: I tend to think,
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: may be even more impactful,
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: although we never really can be sure with eclipses because,
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: again, they create volatile, unpredictable energy.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: But That one, that full moon eclipse, is forming a T-square to Uranus.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: That solar eclipse we had back in February also squared Uranus,
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: so there could be somewhat of a similar intensity to it,
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: although the signs are all different now.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Everything is shifted into new signs, so by no means will it be the same.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: Eclipses never are the same.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: There are no two alike.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: But again, more on that as we get closer to the end of the month.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening, everyone.
• 24:33
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• 24:49
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