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Understanding the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces · 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 here is to break things down in a way that's clear,
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  SPEAKER_00: grounded,
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  SPEAKER_00: and completely usable in real life so that over time,
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  SPEAKER_00: you begin to understand your own chart and the language of the stars.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for being here and sharing your time with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey everyone, welcome back.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Astrology for Beginners and we are here,
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  SPEAKER_00: as promised,
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  SPEAKER_00: to talk about the lunar eclipse in Pisces that is happening on August 28th.
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  SPEAKER_00: I kind of want to jump right in here, but before I do, I have one quick announcement.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've been listening for a while or following me on Substack,
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  SPEAKER_00: you may have noticed that I really like working with the moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love working with the lunar cycle,
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  SPEAKER_00: I host a virtual moon circle at each new moon,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I follow the moon pretty closely in my own life for all sorts of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But beyond the lunar cycle,
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  SPEAKER_00: your natal moon is also one of the most important placements in your birth chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: It tells us a lot about your emotional nature,
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  SPEAKER_00: how you instinctively respond to things,
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  SPEAKER_00: what helps you feel safe and regulated,
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  SPEAKER_00: how you experience your emotions in everyday life,
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  SPEAKER_00: and even some of the ways in which you attach to people and circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: And next month on September 22nd and 23rd,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm hosting a two-part virtual workshop with my friends over at Tending
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  SPEAKER_00: the Sacred called The Moon and Your Nervous System,
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  SPEAKER_00: Understanding Your Emotional Wiring.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this workshop,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're going to use the moon in your birth chart as a lens for understanding some
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  SPEAKER_00: of those emotional and nervous system patterns,
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  SPEAKER_00: why certain situations affect you more strongly than others,
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  SPEAKER_00: your instinctive reaction.
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  We'll talk about moon signs,
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  SPEAKER_00: house placements,
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  SPEAKER_00: and aspects,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you definitely do not need to be an astrology expert in order to join us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The whole idea is to use astrology as a tool
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  SPEAKER_00: for understanding your own emotional patterns a little more deeply and Learning how
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  SPEAKER_00: to work with them rather than against them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll put a link in the show notes for more information about that if you want
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  SPEAKER_00: to check it out or if you'd like to register.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's talk about this eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, what is happening at this eclipse?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
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  SPEAKER_00: We've heard a lot about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems like everywhere lately already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the nuts and bolts here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This lunar eclipse will happen at 4 degrees or just under 5 degrees of Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as always, a lunar eclipse is essentially just a supercharged full moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sun and the moon are exactly opposite each other in the sky,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the full moon is happening close enough to the lunar nodes to create an eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, all full moons tend to illuminate things.
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  SPEAKER_00: They take things we couldn't see before and make them visible.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that could be information,
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  SPEAKER_00: new perspectives,
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  SPEAKER_00: or circumstances that we weren't necessarily aware of up to that point.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can also take things that seemed vague or confusing
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  SPEAKER_00: and suddenly make them clearer or more definitive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Full moons are also a time of release,
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  SPEAKER_00: so they can bring culmination or completion of something that you've been working on
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  SPEAKER_00: that maybe is ready to either be put down or shared with other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so lunar eclipses do all of this too,
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  SPEAKER_00: but again,
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  SPEAKER_00: on a really supercharged level where timelines get sped up
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  SPEAKER_00: or circumstances get shaken up a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And eclipses can often be the points in our lives where we pivot in new
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  SPEAKER_00: or different directions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, there are north node eclipses and south node eclipses.
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  SPEAKER_00: The solar eclipse that we just had a couple of weeks ago in Leo was
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  SPEAKER_00: a south node eclipse, which,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: those can tend to be about releasing or letting go of what's finished or completed
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  SPEAKER_00: or no longer serving us as we move forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this particular eclipse happens near the North Node.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the North Node points towards growth,
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  SPEAKER_00: development,
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  SPEAKER_00: stepping into unfamiliar territory,
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  SPEAKER_00: and just generally the direction that we're moving toward.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the room that you step into when you walk through a doorway, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't always know what's on the other side.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though this is a full moon,
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  SPEAKER_00: which we often associate with endings or culminations,
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  SPEAKER_00: kind of like the south node,
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  SPEAKER_00: this eclipse actually has a very future-oriented quality to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So something could be reaching a turning point because we're ready to move
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  SPEAKER_00: into something new and potentially unknown.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this is true not just because it's a North Node lunar eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: but also because the rest of the chart at that time supports that hypothesis.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, let's talk about the astrological qualities of this eclipse first and most notably.
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  SPEAKER_00: The eclipse is square, Uranus.
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  SPEAKER_00: The full moon, or rather the sun and the moon, opposition, forms a T-square with this planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a really tight square.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the time of the eclipse, the moon is between 4 to 5 degrees Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sun, of course, because it's a full moon, is exactly opposite at about 4 to 5 degrees Virgo.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Uranus is at five degrees Gemini.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is an extremely tight square.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, that opposition tension created by the full moon gets resolved by funneling
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  SPEAKER_00: that tension towards that planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you know anything about Uranus, you probably already know where I'm going with this, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uranus is associated with disruption,
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  SPEAKER_00: surprise,
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  SPEAKER_00: breakthroughs,
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  SPEAKER_00: sudden changes,
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  SPEAKER_00: and all the things that can break us out of an established pattern
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  SPEAKER_00: or some status quo.
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  SPEAKER_00: This, of course, can make us feel different ways at different times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes Uranus is very exciting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's liberating and it frees you from something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's really disruptive or even feels really jarring.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it's all of the above at the exact same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when Uranus gets involved in an eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is already by its very nature associated with periods of accelerated change
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  SPEAKER_00: and shakeups, We get an eclipse that feels particularly unpredictable.
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  SPEAKER_00: So something may not go according to plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Some life circumstance might change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something unexpected could pop up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we may just realize that the way we've been looking at something
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  SPEAKER_00: or some perspective we've been holding onto isn't working for us anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, also with this eclipse, we have to consider Mercury.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercury is also a very important part of this eclipse because at the time of
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  SPEAKER_00: the eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercury is in Virgo,
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  SPEAKER_00: tightly conjunct the sun, which means it's also directly opposite the moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Mercury will have just been Kazemi within that same day,
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  SPEAKER_00: really, meaning that it has just made an exact conjunction with the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been at the heart of the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which gives this planet maximum clarity of purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kazemi periods can bring moments of clarity around whatever planet is Kazemi.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with Mercury, it's,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: clarity around mercurial things like information,
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  SPEAKER_00: conversations, decisions, ideas, understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a moment like fumbling around in a dark room, trying to feel your way through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then someone flicks on a light switch, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be that kind of clarity about something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it can be anything, really.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there could be something around that time
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  SPEAKER_00: when something suddenly feels much less confusing or you see it kind
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  SPEAKER_00: of differently now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: because Mercury is still conjunct the Sun and the Sun is square Uranus,
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  SPEAKER_00: that means Mercury is square Uranus too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercury is...
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  SPEAKER_00: Also making an almost exact square to Uranus.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, this is sudden shifts in understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudden shifts that take place around something mercurial.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like an enlightening or important conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Getting the information from someone that you need in order to take the next step.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some piece of information that helps you finally make a decision.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some opinion that is shared with you that changes the way you see something
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  SPEAKER_00: or changes the direction you thought you'd take.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something learned that changes the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are the lines of thinking that I think that you can consider this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: So because Mercury is about our understanding of things,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's the intellect,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's our thinking and communication,
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  SPEAKER_00: it feels like something along the lines of, oh...
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't realize this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I understand now.
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  SPEAKER_00: That kind of changes things, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, it doesn't always mean that the actual circumstances have changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could mean that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it could also just mean that our perception of something changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a why didn't I see that before moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you can't really go back to the way you saw it before.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you can't unsee it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't unknow.
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  SPEAKER_00: That feels very much to me like Mercury Square Uranus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercury Square Uranus is very paradigm shifting energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It disrupts our mental frameworks.
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  SPEAKER_00: It disrupts the frameworks we use to understand our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because all of this is happening across the signs of Virgo, Pisces,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Gemini,
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  SPEAKER_00: these are all mutable signs,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's an enormous theme here around adapting to Learning to change,
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  SPEAKER_00: learning to adapt, being flexible, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We may need to pivot, change course, or just, you know, adjust what we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't get stuck on one particular way of being,
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  SPEAKER_00: one plan, one acceptable outcome alone, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not the time to stay fixed.
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  SPEAKER_00: That will only cause us frustration right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're much better served to stay fluid and,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually,
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  SPEAKER_00: if there's anything that Pisces,
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  SPEAKER_00: because this is a Pisces eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: after all, if there's anything that Pisces does extremely well, it's staying fluid.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's mutable water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that brings us back to the axis that we're actually working with
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  SPEAKER_00: for this eclipse, Virgo Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Virgo...
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  SPEAKER_00: We just talked about, right, in our last episode, Virgo likes a plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Virgo wants to understand what's happening, exactly what's happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants the details.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants to organize all the little pieces,
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  SPEAKER_00: fix things, improve things, and know what's coming next.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, Pisces functions very differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Full moons are oppositions, so there's always this tension inherent in them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pisces is about flow, and it wants to just trust the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants to have faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants to flow with whatever is taking place,
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  SPEAKER_00: even when,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: it doesn't know with any real certainty exactly where something is going
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  SPEAKER_00: before moving toward it, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, we don't know how this is going to turn out.
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  SPEAKER_00: We actually have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, Pisces is okay with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, that's the role Pisces plays here,
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  SPEAKER_00: but if this unnerves you,
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  SPEAKER_00: because it can feel unnerving for many of us,
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  SPEAKER_00: particularly if you have a lot of fixed signs or Earth in your chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: it may help you to know that this eclipse chart also gives us
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  SPEAKER_00: a really helpful outlet here as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are things inherent in this chart that you can actually do,
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  SPEAKER_00: because what's also happening here is that the moon in Pisces is trine,
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  SPEAKER_00: Mars, and Cancer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mars gives us something to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It tells us that we can take action.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, taking action is kind of inevitable here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Mars and Cancer is forming a lovely flowing trine with the eclipse moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is so nice,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: because without Mars,
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  SPEAKER_00: this eclipse could feel potentially much more disruptive,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think, given that Uranus influence.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like having all this disruption and being like, oh, okay, now what?
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  SPEAKER_00: But Mars, this nice trine with Mars, gives us somewhere...
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  SPEAKER_00: For that energy to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know Mars likes action, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants to move.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants to do something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this isn't necessarily going to be about making some big,
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  SPEAKER_00: dramatic decision five minutes after something unexpected happens, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because Mars is in Cancer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Mars in Cancer is not nearly so impulsive as it is when it's,
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  SPEAKER_00: say, in a fire sign or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mars in Cancer wants to take more deliberate, Planned actions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you don't have to jump to respond immediately here.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, during an eclipse, it's best if you don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it does empower you to make whatever adjustments you need to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can respond thoughtfully and with care.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can handle what comes up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, okay, this is where the situation is now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can see that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now what needs to be done next, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You can feel empowered here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: another thing I think we have to discuss in relation to this eclipse is that This is
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  SPEAKER_00: the final Pisces eclipse in the series
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  SPEAKER_00: of Virgo Pisces eclipses we've been experiencing over the last couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, no eclipse is really ever a single isolated event.
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  SPEAKER_00: The nodes shift onto an axis and then we experience a series of eclipses
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  SPEAKER_00: in those two signs over about two years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So August 28th isn't just a single isolated event.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may find that you understand this eclipse a lot better if you look at the entire series.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can find Pisces in your birth chart and think
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  SPEAKER_00: about what it is that's been changing in this part of your life over the last couple
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  SPEAKER_00: of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each eclipse or eclipse season tends to shift a personal story of yours incrementally each time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of those might have felt like bigger events than others,
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  SPEAKER_00: like if you lost your job around one of them or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe they were all more subtle than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in either case,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can look at that part of your life over the last couple of years
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  SPEAKER_00: and really think about how this part of your life has evolved since September
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  SPEAKER_00: of 2024, because that's when we had the first eclipse in Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't necessarily experience just one enormous event every time an eclipse happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now as the last one of these,
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  SPEAKER_00: many of us may get the sense that this eclipse is trying to offer us some kind
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  SPEAKER_00: of resolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like something kind of wants to finish, at least for now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and that doesn't mean that this part of your life will never again experience changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, of course we know that's not true.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just that this particular storyline wants to settle down a bit for now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that you can focus on other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And probably those things will be the parts of your life that are ruled by Leo
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  SPEAKER_00: and Aquarius because that's where the nodes have now shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can pick up a new Virgo Pisces storyline in nine years or so when
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  SPEAKER_00: the nodes hit those signs again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: another thing we typically would look at for any eclipse is what planet rules it
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  SPEAKER_00: and what it is doing in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in this case, Jupiter gives us more clues here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jupiter is the traditional planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ruler of Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jupiter is currently in Leo, another thing we've talked about a lot lately.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is another thing you'll want to do
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  SPEAKER_00: for this eclipse is pull up your natal chart or your transit chart and find
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  SPEAKER_00: the house where Leo is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there may be some relationship between what's happening in the Pisces part
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  SPEAKER_00: of your chart and whatever Jupiter is currently expanding or developing in Leo.
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  SPEAKER_00: That kind of tells you how you can tie the story together right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can also,
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  SPEAKER_00: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_00: look at where your natal Jupiter is in your chart because
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  SPEAKER_00: while transit Jupiter tells you about how things are coming together right now,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Jupiter in your natal chart tells you
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  SPEAKER_00: where this eclipse might be stirring up long-term things related
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  SPEAKER_00: to like overarching life lessons or tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is where I want I want to actually go ahead and give you some real life examples.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to give you a couple of examples using real charts.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them is mine, again, and one is someone else's.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you want to actually see the charts,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can go to the show notes and there are links that will take you to
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  SPEAKER_00: the Substack page for this episode where the charts will be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in my own transit chart, I'm a Libra rising, so Pisces rules my sixth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the sixth house describes work,
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  SPEAKER_00: responsibilities, routines, and basically all the workings of everyday life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I look backward across this Pisces eclipse cycle,
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  SPEAKER_00: that area of my life has changed enormously in two years' time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I'm
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  SPEAKER_00: My kids have moved out of the house,
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  SPEAKER_00: which changes the structure of my everyday life again, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: All of this started in the fall of 2024,
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  SPEAKER_00: around the time of the first Pisces eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: when my older child moved away to school.
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  SPEAKER_00: That most certainly changed day-to-day life and responsibilities,
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  SPEAKER_00: even though I still had one child left at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one leaves, and the dynamics change considerably.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the last Pisces eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: my younger one has just left,
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  SPEAKER_00: and daily life is changing on an even bigger level, a massive level, really.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so these are the two bookends of this Pisces story.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I look at Pisces in my sixth house,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to search very hard to pick on what's been happening here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's already been happening this entire time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now let's look at what else is happening in my chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a North Node eclipse, and the North Node has just moved into my fifth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fifth house rules not just developments around children, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what I've been talking about in some of my prior posts.
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  SPEAKER_00: But importantly,
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  SPEAKER_00: it also rules our creativity and the projects and the things we make and put out
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  SPEAKER_00: into the world, which I am focusing on a lot right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have my Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have my one-on-one readings and coaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is all very fifth house stuff that I'm shifting all of this new time
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  SPEAKER_00: and energy on now because my daily schedule has freed up so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, meanwhile,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we look at Jupiter, again,
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  SPEAKER_00: the traditional ruler of this eclipse,
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  SPEAKER_00: because it's the traditional ruler of Pisces,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's moving through Leo and my 11th house.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 11th house is associated with audiences,
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  SPEAKER_00: communities, networks, and our aspirations for the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all of these parts of my life right now being activated, these aren't necessarily separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: My work and everyday life are changing, sixth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as a result, I'm putting more energy into my creative work, fifth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And part of that work for me involves building an audience and reaching
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  SPEAKER_00: and really building a community of people, 11th house.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's how the sky is shaping or reflecting my current circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if we want to look To my natal chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we want to look at how this eclipse might be impacting the longer arc of my life
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  SPEAKER_00: through the lens of this natal chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: I have Jupiter conjunct my midheaven,
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  SPEAKER_00: one of the most important career points in the chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: which makes that Jupiter connection especially interesting for me,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially in the context of the other things that I just described.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like all the dots are kind of connecting here and moving me in a certain direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I want to take a look at another chart and this is also a Libra rising chart
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  SPEAKER_00: and I've done it this way before where I've used two charts with
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  SPEAKER_00: the same rising sign to kind of make a similar point and I chose this one
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  SPEAKER_00: because I think it's a really good example.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, uh,
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to look at this chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: again, it's on the Substack page linked in the show notes, or you can just listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the points kind of stand for themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm looking at the chart of a young person who has just moved away to college
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  SPEAKER_00: for the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: I know lots of young people in my life right now
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  SPEAKER_00: who are doing this very thing right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all headed out because I know lots of kids around the same age.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all headed out or have just headed out and are moving on to their next steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: But since this young person is also a Libra rising, Pisces is also activating their sixth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: But think about what the sixth house looks like in this person's life, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Going away to college.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their entire daily routine has just changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they live has changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they sleep has changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they wake up has changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they eat has changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: What they eat has changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: What they're responsible for on any given day changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they go every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people they talk to and that they're surrounded by, changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: How they manage their own time, certainly changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: What they're doing all these things without their parents involved.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, what their workload looks like, changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: College is not high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very different.
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  SPEAKER_00: So everything about the ordinary structure of daily life is completely different all at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, this is a North Node eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, the North Node is also moving through their fifth house, just like it is mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it just so happens that this person is a collegiate athlete.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, one of the things that the fifth house describes is play, recreation, and sports.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sports fall into the fifth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sports are a fifth house thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this person is now spending a substantial portion of their everyday life,
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  SPEAKER_00: sixth house, playing a sport, fifth house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many hours a day, every day of the week are being spent on the sport.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile,
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  SPEAKER_00: on the other side of this nodal axis,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jupiter,
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  SPEAKER_00: the traditional eclipse ruler, is moving through Leo and this person's 11th house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, just like it is for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots going on here too.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of it tied together as part of the same situation instead of circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is someone who had a lot of very close,
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  SPEAKER_00: established relationships, very supportive group of friends at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the South Node is in the 11th house, so this can be about letting go, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: they haven't literally lost those friendships,
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  SPEAKER_00: but they've had to leave that community behind in terms of everyday life for now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've had to release that for now in order to lean in to that fifth house, North Node.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now they're entering an entirely new social world.
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  SPEAKER_00: That Jupiter, the Eclipse ruler, is there and wants to expand a new community.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're meeting new friends,
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  SPEAKER_00: getting to know new teammates,
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  SPEAKER_00: building a new community,
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  SPEAKER_00: finding new groups of people, expanding a new social world.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if we consider the natal chart itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: in this person's natal chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: natal Jupiter is conjunct the IC,
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  SPEAKER_00: the angle associated with home, family, roots, and our emotional foundations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the IC is most certainly being activated in real life too.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have quite literally left their home of origin and are beginning the process
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  SPEAKER_00: of putting down roots somewhere else, learning to expand somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this would naturally be a time of focusing on that basic foundation of life,
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  SPEAKER_00: your foundations,
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  SPEAKER_00: and bringing into question ideas about what does home mean to me now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Look how different these stories are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same rising sign,
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  SPEAKER_00: which means that the eclipse and the nodal axis and Jupiter are all falling into
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  SPEAKER_00: the same houses for both people, but they signal completely different circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: The symbolism does make perfect sense in both charts, but the energy is showing up differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is where astrology is so individualized and so nuanced.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't really just say that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, okay, here's a Pisces eclipse in the sixth house and immediately...
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  SPEAKER_00: Think it's going to be one specific event that's going to happen, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The house just tells us where there's a story unfolding.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not what, but where.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your actual life tells us what that story is actually going to look like in the real world.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I also want to be clear here,
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  SPEAKER_00: we still don't know exactly what this eclipse means for anyone,
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  SPEAKER_00: including either of these two charts, not just yet, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: As I'm recording this, the eclipse hasn't happened yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So these examples aren't necessarily telling us what the eclipse caused, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They could be showing us the terrain that's already being activated during this eclipse season.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can sort of see where and what this series of eclipses over the past couple
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  SPEAKER_00: of years has been working on
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  SPEAKER_00: and what stories have been unfolding already incrementally.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this next eclipse coming up may bring yet another development.
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  SPEAKER_00: Could be something sudden that shifts right away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or we may look back later and realize that its significance was part of
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  SPEAKER_00: a whole larger sequence of changes
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  SPEAKER_00: that were already underway throughout this whole general time period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, in terms of how to prepare for an eclipse, you really don't have to do anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't prepare for eclipses, not really.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just rest into them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We stay open-minded.
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  SPEAKER_00: We stay flexible.
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  SPEAKER_00: We expect the unexpected, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: We take good care of ourselves and our people, and we just let them unfold.
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  SPEAKER_00: We flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, stories unfold in their own time without being forced.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to remind myself of that all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I do so with varying degrees of success, trust me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a fair amount of Virgo in my chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So more than many of you, I still need that reminder.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you do too, I see you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that is all for now, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember that if you want to hear from me more or work with me more,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can find me on Substack or you can visit my Stand Store,
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  SPEAKER_00: both of which are linked in the notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you'd like to sign up for a moon circle or register
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  SPEAKER_00: for my September workshop called The Moon and Your Nervous System,
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: Understanding Your Emotional Wiring, those are available through the Stand Store.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's all for now, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy eclipsing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you are enjoying the start of Virgo season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care for now, and I'll see you next time.