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Self-Trust + Responsive Presence: Don’t Brace, Just BE! Neptune Enters Aries & Mars Conjoins Pluto · Cozy with the Cosmos with Astrologer Sarah Paasch

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Hello and welcome back to our weekly astrology podcast where
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we light our candles, grab our blankets, get cozy and talk all
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things Cosmos. I'm your host astrologer and
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coach, Sarah Posh. And this week brings us to the
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first quarter lunar phase of this Capricorn new moon cycle
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where we're going to get into some big energy.
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This week we're opening the official door to Neptune and
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Aries, which is going to be a collective 14 year transit.
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We'll get into that more as we go.
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Go ahead. This first quarter moon in
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Taurus and then after Neptune enters into Aries the next day,
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Mars makes that exact conjunction to Pluto and
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Aquarius. So there's a lot of energy,
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there's a lot of life force energy, there's a lot of fire
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and passion and a lot of clarity, some no going back
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clarity that's starting to get some rocket fuel engine power
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behind taking action on the things that we've come to
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decision on the things that we've come not only into
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clarity, but we've declared our non negotiables.
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So I'm curious, how are you feeling after that Capricorn New
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moon? Have you been working on
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patterns of self trust that are encouraging you, supporting you?
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Remember that strong structure and scaffolding that we talked
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about really setting in the Capricorn new moon week?
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Now you're going to put that scaffolding to the test.
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Now you get to show just how stable your self trust is and
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did you feel that ultimatum energy that future terms non
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negotiables. I am signing this dotted line.
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Let's go in the week of that Capricorn new moon.
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Maybe you also want to comment and let me know if all of the
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SAT work, babe, are you starting to feel and see and recognize
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some results in reality? Have you felt the switch?
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Have you felt the shift? How are you feeling as we go
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into the first quarter lunar phase of this Capricorn new
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moon? I want to hear how people are
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doing and I want to hear from you.
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Comment below. Tell me your rising sign, how
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you're feeling, how you're feeling going into this next
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week that we're going to get into.
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Comment below. Let me know, let's talk about
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it. So if you haven't already, I
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encourage you to go back and watch last week's episode where
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we into all the details of the Capricorn New Moon and we talked
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about how we're setting the stage for this entire lunar
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cycle. We talked about how by the end
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of this lunar cycle, we're going to be having an entirely new
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organization of reality. And starting with this non
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negotiable, the ultimatums and future terms that we put into
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place, we seated those at the new moon.
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And this week, it's time to take those decisions, those
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intentions, those new terms and bring them into action just as
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the moon is growing in light. Now we bring our intentions, our
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clarity to life. If you haven't already, it helps
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out. All right, with that, let's go
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ahead. We're going to get into the
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astrology this week, and we're going to start by just naming
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the overall transits that are happening throughout this first
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quarter lunar phase. So let's start on Sunday,
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January 25th, when we have the Moon entering into Taurus,
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entering into that opening first quarter square.
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So a reminder that the first quarter square, this is the part
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of every lunar cycle where we have an externalization of
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effort. It's about learning through
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trial and error and putting our intentions into action.
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There's definitely going to be no shortage of courage or
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motivation to put things into action this week.
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And actually, I think that's a thing that we need to think
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about as we go forward into the transits, is what does true
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empowered action look like at this point in your trajectory,
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in your timeline, in your life? Is it possibly finally taking
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some bold action that you've been hesitating on?
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Or maybe it's less about being bold and loud and more about
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withdrawing your energy, bringing a complete stop or
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disengagement to the things that don't even deserve your energy.
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So the trial and the error, the new action or the
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externalization of intention, that doesn't necessarily mean
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that you're going to do something bold.
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It just means that you're going to prove what you intend to do,
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what you intend to create, what you intend to change, what you
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intend to embody in terms of who you are at this point and who
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you're becoming. And sometimes that means you
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withdraw, sometimes that means you disengage.
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So we'll get into more details of that.
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But holding into the backdrop of all these transits that this is
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the lunar phase that they're all happening under.
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And on Sunday, let's just make a mention that that first quarter
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moon in Taurus, it's not just squaring the sun, It's not just
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opening at this lunar cycle. It's also making an exact square
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tethering and foreshadowing together the Pluto Mars
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conjunction that's going to be happening this week.
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So there might be a trigger that's set off on Sunday with
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that Moon and Taurus that foreshadows the events that are
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yet to unfold as the week goes by.
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And then on Monday, January 26th, we still have that Moon
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and Taurus and we have that collective mood shift, that big
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outer plane and transit Neptunes going to officially enter into
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Aries. That's going to take us into
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Tuesday, January 27th, where we have the moon entering into
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Gemini. So now it's coming into a
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supportive trying aspect to the Mars Pluto.
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And on that same day, on Tuesday the 27th, Mars exactly conjuncts
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Pluto at 3° of Aquarius. Moving forward into Thursday,
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January 29th, we have the Moon entering into Cancer Co present
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with exalted Lord Jupiter. And on this day, early in the
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day, which is probably, probably much needed after whatever went
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down in the beginning of the week, we've got Mercury making
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that conjunction to Venus at 14° of Aquarius.
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And then the moon will stay in Cancer.
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It will cross that conjunction to Jupiter through the end of
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the week leading into Saturday, January 31st, where we have the
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moon officially entering into Leo, entering into the next
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lunar phase and next week's episode where we get into the
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Leo full moon. All right, so with that, I think
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we're ready. We're ready to dive into this
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week's astrology. We're going to start by like
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giving a little bit of overall themes, the way that I'm kind of
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holding and contextualizing the energy that we're moving through
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this week. And then we'll go transit by
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transit, day by day. And we'll breakdown what this
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could mean for you and how to navigate and work with the
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transits, the energy so that you can walk away and look back and
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hopefully say, so astrology good and not in a fuck kind of way.
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So my overall theme for the energy and transits of the
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astrology of this first quarter lunar phase is this shift from a
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pattern of bracing into a pattern of responsive presence.
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I'm going to let that land for a second.
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So I don't know what you've been going through growing through
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lately, but one of the key themes that I've been working on
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personally and I've been seeing playing out in a lot of my
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friends, colleagues, clients, lives has a lot to do with
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reclaiming ownership over orientation.
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Orientation of your choices, your responses, your actions.
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The orientation moving and shifting from a response of
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external motivators or instigators into a more internal
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directed, coherent compass clarity, whatever that is.
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So the old pattern of bracing, this is an orientation around
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bracing ourselves to respond to what might or might not happen
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outside of ourselves. The new pattern is we don't have
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to brace ourselves. Instead, we can be really clear,
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embodied, centered, and we can actually just trust.
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It's like a new level of self trust and the capacity to just
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show up and be not only trusting in ourselves, but also honest
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about what's happening and how. This new inner compass, this new
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clarity and coherence, it knows how to respond.
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It knows how to move in response to that.
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Do you ever get in a conversation with somebody
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telepathically before you actually get in the conversation
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with somebody? That's bracing pattern.
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That is the bracing energy and mentality of like trying to
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support yourself through preparing yourself for what
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might or might not happen. But this new responding with
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presence, this is about trusting yourself enough, trusting your
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clarity and your orientation enough that you don't have to
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prepare, You don't need to gather information beyond just
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the presence of being there. And the second that something
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happens that you do need to respond to, that you need to
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adjust accordingly, you do so you aren't worried or
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referencing or orienting around what the other person may or may
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not feel or respond with in reaction to what you do or don't
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do. You're completely oriented.
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You're completely anchored and driven from the ability to take
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that action, make that choice, or maybe disengage by your full
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presence, by your full honest presence of what's happening,
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what works, and what doesn't work.
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So we're drawing a new line in the sand of not over
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functioning, not bracing ourselves, and not trying to
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adjust and Orient ourselves based off the inconsistent
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orientations of other people around us or their actions.
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We stay real, we stay honest, and we adjust back towards our
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path, our line, our clarity as things come up.
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And I even use this in my yoga class last week as like our
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theme and intention, this theme of consistency and
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inconsistency. I realize I've done so much work
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around being autonomous and authentic and real and honest
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and true, and yet I was still participating on this very
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nuanced level with unhealthy dynamics interpersonally around
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participating with inconsistency consistently.
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I was giving away my capacity, my power, and my honestly innate
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ability to be consistent by always consistently being
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available to adjust to inconsistency outside of myself.
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So what would it be like? You know, we say who we are, we
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say what we believe, we say our ideals, we say our truth, we say
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what matters, we say our values, we say what we want, what we
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don't want. We set our standards, our terms,
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so to speak, or non negotiables. And are we able to hold that
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consistently regardless if there's inconsistency around us?
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There's always going to be inconsistency around us.
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The world is going to get extremely more inconsistent as
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we move forward into these transits and the collective
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shifts that we can feel. Even if people weren't into
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astrology, they would know there's a lot of fucking
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inconsistency out there right now.
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But does that influence and direct and have power over your
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consistency? What would it be like to be
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consistently true? Would it be like to feel
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oriented towards your consistency, you're regardless
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of what's happening around you or not happening?
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And this first quarter lunar phase in this Capricorn New moon
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cycle, I mean, it's going to give us every opportunity to
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apply that lesson or to prove that we can and will remain
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consistent to ourselves, to our values, to our truth, to our
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ethics. So if the challenges come and
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they will come, babe, like this week is full.
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It is hot, it is heated. There's a lot.
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On one hand, just make sure you're taking really good care
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of yourself consistently and doing what you need to do to
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make sure that you take the pause before the response, that
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you take that moment of presence to really feel and come back to
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your clarity, to be consistent with yourself, regardless of
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what's happening outside of you or how somebody might feel in
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response to that. OK, that's enough.
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I'll get off of my pedestal. Let's go into the next transit.
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So again, that Sunday with that Taurus first quarter moon
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squaring the Mars Pluto, there might be a trigger foreshadow
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that's weaving what's about to come.
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So, you know, Taurus moon, it wants peace, it wants
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satisfaction, it wants stability and consistency.
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And when it's making that square not only to the sun but to Mars,
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Pluto, there is an undeniable disruption of peace.
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There's like this undeniable Taurus discomfort that forces
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some sort of movement, some sort of needing to address the thing
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that is totally disrupting the natural peace and harmony and
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happiness of our new standard, of the new quality of life, both
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on our own and collectively. So pay attention to Sunday.
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Pay attention to anything that triggers some heat or tension
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within your body or relationships or environment.
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And again, before taking any sort of action or reaction, this
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is the moment to take that step back into first.
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Just come into clarity. Get real with yourself like
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what's happening right now, what's not OK and what needs to
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change and then pause, wait, breathe, maybe take a bath,
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maybe put your feet on some grass.
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After you come back to that neutral place then it would be a
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place to communicate that. I would honestly wait until that
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moon is in Cancer and Mercury is conjunct Venus and Aquarius to
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actually express or communicate and extend the clarity.
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That's going to start right off the bat with the moon in Taurus
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on Sunday. All right, let's go ahead, let's
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keep going. So then on Monday, January 26th,
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the moon is still in Taurus and now we have that collective mood
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shift, Neptune entering into Aries.
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Wow, OK, I could just like literally do an entire podcast
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on this. If I had more time, energy,
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space capacity, I would I, I might, you know, we've got 14
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years in Neptune areas. So you can comment below if
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that's something you're interested in.
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And if you are, what specifically are you interested
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in hearing about learning about, talking about when it comes to
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that Neptune transit? OK, so just a reminder of our
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Neptune cycles and what we're moving out of and moving into.
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So Neptune is a 165 year cycle. So this is a once in a lifetime
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transit. The previous cycle of Neptune in
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Pisces started in April of 2011. It's coming to its final real
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completion right now on this day on January 26th.
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And Neptune did dip into Aries in 2025 S Those dates that you
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can look back to and kind of see the foreshadowing, the taste of
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what was to come was between March 30th to October 22nd, 2025
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S go back to last year between March, October.
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If you want to look specifically between, what are the major
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things between the Pisces and Aries access of your life that
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we're going through a shift of focus around the Neptune
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transfer transit. Neptune transit focus is all
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about coming back into alignment with spirit, belief,
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imagination, intuition and soul. And even if you aren't somebody
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who has a religious belief or a spiritual practice, and Neptune
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transit and activation is always going to invite you to slow
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down, to withdraw your energy and focus on the material, the
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mundane, on the things that we think matter the most when we're
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caught up in this 3D Saturn reality.
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Neptune is this planet and this transit of both forgetting and
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remembering and this cycle and continuations, repetition of the
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forgetting and the remembering, the forgetting, the remembering.
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And so it invites us, Neptune invites us to reawaken.
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Reawaken to what has true meaning, reawaken to what is
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real beyond this 3D reality, beyond this nine to five job,
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beyond this human body that we're living in now.
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And so of course that could be linked to things like
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spirituality and religion, but it doesn't have to be.
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Neptune is also the planet that has to do with image.
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And what I mean by that is the image of projection, the image
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that we want people to see. So Neptune has to do with the
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movies and commercials and glamour and glitz and plastic
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surgery. Neptune is creating some sort of
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deception of illusion, of idealism.
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So there is a collective shift in idealistic view, idealistic
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imagery of what is good, what is beautiful, what we want to
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project the plastic surgeon. Neptune is moving from Pisces,
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which was about the feeling everything dropping into all of
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the spiritual what ifs, you know, collectively.
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And now it's like this is the spiritual collective I am.
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This is moving us into an era, a 14 year collective transit where
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we're going to see a focus. We're going to see potentially a
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lot of delusion and self deception and potentially
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collective deception around some projected ideal, some rose
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colored glasses of the one leader, the one belief, the one
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right versus wrong. And so we need to be mindful of
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that, that there is a crusading energy behind Neptune and Aries.
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And there's a beautiful article that I read about the Neptune
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and Aries transits, the previous ones historically past the last
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1000 years. I am not a mundane predictive
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astrologer in that way, but I do love reading other astrologers
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works and historical events because I think it's important,
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even if you're just using it to collect data for symbolic
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interpretation and application for personal use.
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I mean, these are cycles of time.
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These are correlations of themes and actions and activities and
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events that have happened. And so we can think about
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applying those symbolically to our own lives into the Aries
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area of our chart. All right, so this is the
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collective mood shift day Monday.
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We are full on. We are not just dipping our toes
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in the Neptune in Aries water. We are jumping in cannonball
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energy into it some just overall themes for Neptune and Aries.
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We're just using some archetypal combinations keywords between
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Neptune and Aries. So there's a spiritual
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independence, there is questioning of authority,
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questioning of belief systems, There is who gets to define the
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truth and also a new independent truth.
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There is a passion of belief. There is a heightened creative
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impulse and imagination. Inspiration will spread like
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wildfire. There's also potentially a
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distortion of anger. There could be deception caused
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by an overwhelming passion or belief.
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This is going to bring up a lot around our relationship to the
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Aries archetype of I AM, of the individuation and also the
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instinct that we have. All of us have it inside of us
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to say this is what I want, this is who I am, this is what
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matters. And Neptune is going to
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challenge us to remember the we and the I am, to remember the
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cause for the fight, to remember the impact of the passion or the
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goal, the ambition. So there can be a lot of
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incredible collective shifts around self authority, around
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challenging authority that does not actually serve the good of
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all the collective which is Neptune.
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There can be a beautiful opportunity for invoking your
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willpower to create something that you care about, to fight
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for A cause, to create something real from something inside of
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yourself, from the draw of Neptunian inspiration and life
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force. And it could impact the
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collective in a really big, positive way.
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And you could overcome major fears or hesitations or previous
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blocks and procrastinations because you're attuned to that
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Neptunian. It's not just about me.
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This is for the benefit of something beyond just me.
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It's a matter of saying intact and in touch with the Y, with
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the meaning and with the we. So for now, for this episode,
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we're going to stop talking about Neptune and Aries.
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And I'm going to conclude the Monday Neptune and Aries portion
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of this episode by sharing a poem with you That came through
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to me when I opened the field for this episode, when I started
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to sit with Neptune, Neptune and Aries, and what this means for
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me and what this means for us. So this is what came through.
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Art inspires more art. Love inspires more love.
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Kindness inspires more kindness. Hate challenges kindness.
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Fear challenges love, violence challenges art.
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May all challenges strengthen our capacity to cultivate and
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inspire more art, more love and more kindness, more boldly.
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So taking that Aries Marshall archetype to the Neptunian
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octave of interconnection and for the healing and compassion
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and betterment of the collective healing and evolution, I'm
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hoping and intending to hold this intention to greet the
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distortions of fire that are sure to come with this transit
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as challenges to more deeply and more boldly bring, invoke and
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act the things I wish to see more of in the world.
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So I hope that lands in some place sweet and inspiring in
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your heart, and we'll be sure to talk about more as we go forward
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in that 14 year transit. All right, let's go ahead, let's
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move forward. We're getting to Tuesday,
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January 27th. So on this day, we're going to
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have the Moon enter into Gemini. And this is the day that Mars
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makes that exact conjunction to Pluto and Aquarius.
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Let's take a moment, let's take a pause.
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This energy, it's moving, it's moving fast.
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With that Moon in Gemini, it feels like there is an
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acceleration in momentum to the information that's coming
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through or processing. The key phrase I am going to use
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and I'm going to give to you as an invitation to use during this
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transit during this week, anything that you see online,
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anything that you read in the news, see on the news, social
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media, hear from, you know, the telephone game of getting the
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tea from somebody, whatever, like the moon in Gemini has ways
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to get us information from all different ways and places and
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people. Before you read it, listen to
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it, digest it, whatever. Put this phrase in front of it
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for my consideration and then read it.
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How can you introduce critical thinking into the space of
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information overload and especially emotionally charged
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information that causes overload and also an ability to just
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bypass your cognitive function ability of critical thinking and
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jump into that Neptune in Aries, Mars, Pluto, act of rage, of
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war, of retaliation and reaction.
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We're going to be tested for sure under this energy.
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And while there might be a lot of truth that comes out, there
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might be a circulation of information that is triggering
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that causes us to say something's not OK.
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There is a line being drawn in the sand.
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Anytime we get Mars, Pluto coming together, we're setting a
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new standard of our commitment and our discernment around what
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we're willing and not willing to put our energy into.
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And this is where I come back to the beginning of this episode
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where I talked about sometimes overcoming fear or enacting
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power. Personal power isn't about
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necessarily being loud or bold, it's about sometimes just
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disengaging. Sometimes disengagement and
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silence can be even more effective for actually telling
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ourselves, showing ourselves that we are the person that
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holds and has ownership over the use of our energy and our power.
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When something doesn't have power over you anymore, you're
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not in a struggle with it, you're not fighting against it.
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So this could also be on a personal level, like maybe
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you've been working through some patterns and this Mars Pluto
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conjunction brings it to a climax in a way that you decide
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to surrender to. Stop the struggle, stop fighting
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against the pattern. And what if you just met that
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pattern with complete disengagement and self trust
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that there's nothing you need to do to fix it, to change it?
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All you have to do is take that pause, take that step back and
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reorient yourself back to the new coherence and the new state
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and standard of consistency with yourself and with your future
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terms. And because this is happening in
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the sign of Aquarius, two parts to this one.
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This isn't the first time. So if you watch last week's
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episode, I talked about these conjunctions with the inner
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planets to Pluto. They're initiating the next
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phase of the Pluto and Aquarius long term transformations that
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are playing out all the way through 2044.
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And this is the one that Mars is getting.
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And Mars is a little bit special compared to the other planets
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because Mars had its first conjunction with Pluto and
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Aquarius in February of 2024. But then in 2025 Mars didn't
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have a conjunction. If you remember, hard not to
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forget Mars was in the retrograde and had the
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three-part series of Mars opposite Pluto.
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So we have gone through some sort of gauntlet on both sides
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of Pluto and Aquarius. When it comes to the Mars Pluto.
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Think back to February 2024. Where did this start?
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What opened when it comes to your energy investments, what
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you care about, what you would invest in and what you want to
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take action on, what you're driven towards creating and
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cultivating and the fears you're ready to overcome to make
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something real, to go towards your desires.
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And then think about last year. Think about how you felt that
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oppositional resistance. You felt the tension and
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polarity of something against you, working against you or
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challenging you outside of yourself.
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There was maybe a relational component that was involved in
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those Mars Pluto opposition's and you were forced to confront
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and maybe surrender your need to prove yourself in any kind of
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challenge or any kind of externalized antagonistic
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situation against what it is that you want and how you're
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trying to make that happen and where you feel stopped or who
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you feel like stopping you. Maybe you learned how to pivot
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away from what doesn't value you and put your energy in a more
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constructive direction. And now, now come back to now.
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So now we're at the next conjunction.
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Mars is sitting with Pluto after going through all of that
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initiation and challenge the last year of that Mars
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retrograde and Mars is ready. Mars is ready, he says, Pluto,
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I'm ready. Please initiate me.
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Allow me to see and choose to enter through your threshold of
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this next phase of my long term transformation when it comes to
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my use of personal will, my connection to my sense of
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personal power, my participation and what feels challenging or
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antagonistic to the things I desire to create and bring forth
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and move towards. Show me the next phase of
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growing and stepping into an even more embodied sense of
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personal power and how I navigate and participate and
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engage or disengage from those situations.
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And this is where I think the bracing pattern shifting into
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the responsive presence pattern will have the biggest
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opportunity to kind of stand out and be implemented or integrated
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and acted. Think about when you brace
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yourself, there's a part of you that's protecting yourself in
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the future because it's not fully tethered and coherent and
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connected and in trust with your personal power.
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But if you fully knew your personal power, you fully
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trusted your coherence and the consistency and the knowing that
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you're going where you're going. When something comes and
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antagonizes that something comes and baits you into feeling
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powerless or helpless or threatened in some way, you
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don't need to brace yourself to respond to that.
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You can hold yourself. You can contain your clarity.
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You can contain your emotional feeling and response to whatever
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happens without taking any action with actually deciding
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that you're going to wait and you're going to take action when
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you decide when you've had time to process and come into a place
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of clarity. So there's going to be
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opportunity to act out, react, get into some really intense
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potential conflict or disagreement and confrontation.
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But remember that we always have a choice.
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And especially when we're talking about Mars, it's not
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just a choice, it's also a choice.
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And and accountability, responsibility for the impact of
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how we assert our will and our energy.
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So definitely a day on that Mars, Pluto day to be mindful.
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Like how do you cushion mindfulness for yourself when
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things get heated and things get hard?
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Who are your resources? Who are your people?
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Who are the people that keep you grounded?
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What are the practices? Maybe the songs.
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I'm a music. Really, if you didn't know that
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already, now you know. But yeah, I have like certain
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artists I listen to when I need to be like chilled out just the
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same as a yoga class would do or a breath work class or group
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practice would do for me. So what is that for you?
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Think ahead, you know, plan ahead in that way of knowing.
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I have all the resources to support myself to navigate this
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with maturity and self-control and consistency and coherence.
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But I don't have to brace myself.
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I don't prepare for it in the sense of preparing for what
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might happen. It's just preparing to have
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myself resourced to be available to respond to whatever shows up
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in my highest and best. That takes us actually all the
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way into Thursday. So now we get to Thursday,
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January 29th, the Moon is going to enter into Cancer and this is
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the day that we have that Mercury Venus conjunction at 14°
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of Aquarius. So this is a perfect day for
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repair. If there was something that had
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a breakdown, a rupture through the first part of this first
33:39
quarter lunar phase, now is an opportunity to actually have
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constructive communication and conversation, Mercury Venus
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together. There's this gateway
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astrologically, this weather pattern that kind of sets this
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opportunity where it might have been difficult to hear each
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other or just truly have active listening and empathy and
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compassion without collapsing our own truth.
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We're able to hold that container of conversation that's
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safe and really harmonizing. There's like a social just
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natural harmony in the conversation where we're able to
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flow through that, even if it's difficult with a little bit more
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ease. So the words land with a little
34:23
bit more softness and the constructive feedback is
34:28
received with a little bit more ease and grace.
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There is a natural sense of critical thinking.
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There's a greater ability to reach towards understanding
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together during this Mercury, Venus conjunction day and also
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that moons and Cancer. It's with Jupiter it's
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culminating towards the Leo full moon.
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This could also be a great time if the last few days of this
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week in this part of the cycle brought a lot of shit up that
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was really triggering and brought up a lot of intense
34:57
emotions and you're feeling a incoherence or you're feeling
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pulled into old patterns and old ways of participating.
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Then if you have somebody, if you have a resource or somebody
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to reach out to, Thursday the 29th is a great day to schedule
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your therapy People, This is like put a coaching call on the
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books, even if you don't know what's going to happen.
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So again, good day. Thursday.
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We end on a little bit of a softer note in this lunar phase.
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And it can also be a highly creative day.
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So it might be a day that if you're not working something out
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in therapy or working something out in relationship repair, then
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maybe you're pouring your experiences, your feelings into
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something creative, into something that gives you a
35:43
channel in a container to release and process what's
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happened and kind of bring you to a greater state of internal
35:50
resolution and clarity. And then the moon is going to
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enter into Leo on Saturday, January 31st, and that's going
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to take us into our next week's episode.
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So we'll get into the Leo full Moon in the full Moon rising
36:03
sign horoscope episode that comes out next Thursday.
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And don't forget we do a card reading for each rising sign as
36:09
well. If you haven't already, make
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And don't forget that linked below this episode are my
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one-on-one astrology consultations as well as my
36:25
custom lunar cycle playlist for this Capricorn New Moon.
36:30
It is one of my favorite playlist I've ever made.
36:33
I was listening to it obviously for a long time before I got to
36:37
share it with you. And typically when I get to the
36:40
point I'm actually sharing it with everybody, I'm like burnt
36:42
out because I've been listening to it so much and I'm not, I
36:46
can't stop listening to it from beginning to end.
36:49
It's just such a beautiful, emotional and energetic
36:53
container for processing where I'm feeling and moving through
36:56
in these transits. So that's all linked below, as
36:59
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Otherwise, hopefully I will see all of you back here next week
37:21
for Cozy with the Cosmos, Leo Full Moon, rising sign
37:25
horoscopes and tarot card reading.
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All right, everybody, see you next week.
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