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Kites, Rectangles, Yods & Cradles: Aspect Patterns, Part 2 · Astrology for Beginners

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  hello everyone and welcome back to the astrology for beginners
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  podcast i'm your
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  host stephanie kate boucher and i am so glad you're here this
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  is the podcast for
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  you if you've ever been curious about astrology if you've
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  wanted to understand your
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  natal chart or make sense of what's happening in the sky but
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  maybe it's felt
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  SPEAKER_00: 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,
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  SPEAKER_00: 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, astrology friends, welcome back for an all new episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: way back when,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I do mean way back when at this point,
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  SPEAKER_00: I did an episode on aspect patterns in a natal chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of that episode,
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  I said I would come back and do a part two where we'd talk
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  about some of the more
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  SPEAKER_00: complex configurations that you can see.
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  And then I took that very long break from the podcast and that
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  episode never got made.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're back and we're finally going to finish what we started.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're continuing our conversation on aspect patterns.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so because it's a part two,
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  if you haven't listened to the first episode yet called Aspect
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  Patterns in a Natal
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  SPEAKER_00: Chart,
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  I would definitely recommend going back and starting there
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  because in that episode,
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  SPEAKER_00: we covered some of the foundational patterns like stelliums,
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  SPEAKER_00: T-squares,
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  SPEAKER_00: grand crosses,
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  SPEAKER_00: grand trines,
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  SPEAKER_00: mini trines,
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  all of which give you a really solid base for understanding
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  what we're about to
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  SPEAKER_00: talk about today.
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  Some of the ones that we're talking about today actually build
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  off of the ones we
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  SPEAKER_00: talked about before.
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  So this may not make much sense to you without having listened
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  to part one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also will say that aspect patterns,
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  SPEAKER_00: because they're very visual,
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  you have to see them at least once to understand what they look
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  like and how to
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  SPEAKER_00: spot them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've made a handout for today to help you with that.
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  It's available on my Substack page and the link to that is in
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  the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also,
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  SPEAKER_00: before I get started,
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  I do just want to remind everyone how you can find me and work
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  if you'd like to book a reading with me,
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  I do offer readings on a limited basis.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a link in the show notes for that,
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  We meet the Wednesday before each new moon to talk about the
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  SPEAKER_00: how it might impact you,
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  and how to work with the energy it's offering over the course
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  of that four-week
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  SPEAKER_00: cycle to make meaningful progress in your life.
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  This upcoming new moon is a really good one to pay attention to
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  because it's the
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  SPEAKER_00: first one of the astrological new year.
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  And it's when a lot of the energy that's been building since
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  before the eclipse
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  season starts to finally take a more definitive shape and we
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  can actually see where
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  SPEAKER_00: we're headed now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's also conjunct Chiron, the wounded healer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's going to bring up a lot of interesting stuff for people.
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  SPEAKER_00: ultimately to help us move forward into a new age and a new era.
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  SPEAKER_00: That link is in the show notes too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: just to quickly ground us as we get started,
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  SPEAKER_00: when we're talking about aspect patterns,
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  we are talking about geometric shapes that are formed in the
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  chart when multiple
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  SPEAKER_00: planets are all connected to one another through aspects.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead of looking at one line at a time,
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  SPEAKER_00: like say Venus square Uranus or something like that,
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  we're stepping back and asking what happens when all of these
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  lines start working
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  SPEAKER_00: together in a meaningful way?
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  SPEAKER_00: What kind of structure do they form?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what does that structure do energetically?
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  SPEAKER_00: Specifically,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd like to spend this episode talking about kites,
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  SPEAKER_00: mystic rectangles,
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  SPEAKER_00: yods,
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  SPEAKER_00: and cradles.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't hear about these quite as often,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that's because they don't show up quite as much,
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  SPEAKER_00: but they do show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact,
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  SPEAKER_00: as I'm recording this,
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  SPEAKER_00: I know we just had a kite configuration in the sky this week,
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  SPEAKER_00: so anyone born this week,
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  SPEAKER_00: or on a particular day at least,
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  SPEAKER_00: would have that configuration in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: their chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's start with that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's start with the kite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the kite is, well, it's pretty hard to miss.
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've given you a sample to look out in the handout for today,
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  which again is available on my Substack page and specifically on
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  the show notes page
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  SPEAKER_00: for this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: The link is again in the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as you'll see,
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  it's nearly impossible to miss these because it literally looks
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  just like a kite
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  SPEAKER_00: shape.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly, in fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it really jumps out at you when you see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You won't miss these.
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  It's built off of something that we already talked about in the
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  other episode on
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  SPEAKER_00: aspect patterns,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is the grand trine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you remember,
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  a grand trine is three planets all connected by trines forming
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  a large triangle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what it does energetically is it creates lots of flow,
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  SPEAKER_00: lots of ease,
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  SPEAKER_00: and lots of natural talent or ability.
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  And sometimes a grand trine can create so much ease and so much
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  flow and natural
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  ability that the danger is people don't even recognize in some
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  cases that they have
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  a talent or that they are capable of doing something remarkable
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  because it's just
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  SPEAKER_00: so easy for them.
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  It comes so easily that they think,
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  you know,
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  maybe everyone is like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone's doing that.
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  It's like it's a natural human trait in their mind,
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  when in fact,
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  it's probably not.
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  So they can miss it for a long time or not take action on it
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  because there's really
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  SPEAKER_00: no friction there.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't always the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing in astrology is ever always the case, but it can be.
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  But for sure,
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  there's usually a talent of some kind,
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  even if it's not externally visible.
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  Maybe it's more about a unique thinking pattern or a high
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  degree of compassion or a
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  SPEAKER_00: healing ability or a way of communicating or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can also be very visible, but it doesn't have to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: But with kites, the kite happens sometimes.
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  when you add a fourth planet into that grand trine
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  configuration and that fourth
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  planet forms an opposition to one any one of the planets in the
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  grand trine so you
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  SPEAKER_00: have your big triangle
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  And one of those planets in that big triangle now has an
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  opposition planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so now that opposition planet creates the spine of the kite, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it also forms sextiles with the other two planets in the Grand Trine.
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  So it's opposing one of the planets in the Grand Trine and
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  forming sextiles with the other two.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know if you're not looking at anything and you've never seen this one,
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  SPEAKER_00: it probably sounds confusing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again,
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  SPEAKER_00: please go grab the handout or if you can't do that right now,
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  SPEAKER_00: even just look up kite aspect pattern and see what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not if you're driving though, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: energetically,
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  this aspect pattern is really interesting because what it does
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  is it takes that
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  SPEAKER_00: very easy flowing energy of the grand trine,
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  which as we talked about can sometimes be so easy that nothing
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  actually happens
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  SPEAKER_00: with it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and introduces a point of tension.
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  SPEAKER_00: Opposition creates tension and tension can force action.
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  So that opposition acts like a kind of anchor or a motivating
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  factor for the whole
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  SPEAKER_00: planetary configuration.
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  It gives the person something to work against or maybe rather
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  work toward.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead of the energy just circulating internally within the triangle,
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  SPEAKER_00: sort of cycling through a three-sided loop over and over and over,
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  SPEAKER_00: The kite actually gives that energy a direction to move in.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's movement and there's purpose now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And typically,
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  SPEAKER_00: that planet that's opposing one of the trine planets,
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  SPEAKER_00: that apex point,
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  SPEAKER_00: that becomes a really important focal point in the person's life.
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  It's often where the person is going to feel a push or a
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  calling to actually use
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  SPEAKER_00: the gifts of that grand trine in a tangible way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you have a kite in your chart, yes, there is talent.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is some ease to that.
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  But there's also a built-in mechanism that pushes you to do
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  something with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, next I want to talk about the Mystic Rectangle.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one looks like an envelope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people call it that.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an interesting one too.
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  People don't talk about,
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  you know,
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  Mystic Rectangles as much as some of the others I've noticed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I haven't really seen a lot of them myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you typically don't,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that's probably why you don't hear about them as much,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's still interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you have one in your chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_00: toss me a comment or a note or something,
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  because I'd love to hear how this actually is showing up for
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  you or what you've
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  SPEAKER_00: noticed.
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  SPEAKER_00: In any case, Mystic Rectangle is made up of four planets.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are rectangular in shape, as you would expect from the name.
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  And what you end up with here is a combination of opposition
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  trines and sextiles.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got two oppositions,
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  SPEAKER_00: two sets of planets that are in oppositions,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they're creating kind of an X shape.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then those planets are also connected by two trines and two sextiles,
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  SPEAKER_00: or basically,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's a rectangle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got two long sides and two shorter sides.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what, you know, forms that rectangular shape.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, hard to visualize by words alone, so please take a look at one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  what a rectangle does energetically is it creates a sort of
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  contrast between
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  SPEAKER_00: tension and ease.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you've got the two oppositions creating that cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your tension.
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  SPEAKER_00: Similar to the grand cross, you know, that's not an easy tension.
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  So it can bring discomfort and therefore awareness,
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  polarity,
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  sometimes conflict.
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  But unlike being trapped inside squares,
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  so there's just all these abrasive aspects,
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  right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's enveloped, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Enveloped by soft trines and sextiles.
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  which offer support and the possibility of solutions to the
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  tension of that cross.
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  So unlike something like a T-square or grand cross where the
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  tension can feel kind
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  SPEAKER_00: of overwhelming or like a constant,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: loop of frustration that just keeps going,
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  SPEAKER_00: the mystic rectangle can tend to offer a little more built-in harmony
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, yes, there are challenges here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes,
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  SPEAKER_00: there are some opposing forces in your life or within the personality,
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  but there are also some viable solutions readily available to
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  resolve them.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people kind of know how to solve problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can find ways of working with frustration.
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  They can look at their choices and make decisions and execute
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  those decisions.
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  And sometimes people with this pattern can move back and forth
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  between those
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  oppositions that are there in a way that actually leads to more
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  insight and even
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  SPEAKER_00: develop a lot of wisdom over time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying this is easy necessarily, but it's manageable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: one other thing about the mystic rectangle,
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  I've also heard it said that in a slightly more difficult
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  manifestation of this
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  SPEAKER_00: pattern,
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  you could also get a tendency to have tension on the inside
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  with a calm exterior.
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  that kind of hides discomfort really well right this is the
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  people who who are like
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  calm cool and collected you know and that's how it appears to
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  other people but on
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  the inside there's like a tornado brewing you know so people
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  may not recognize when
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  you're struggling as much because they can't see it from the
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  outside you could be
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  SPEAKER_00: reserved and maybe you don't want your inner world to be seen
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  SPEAKER_00: Kind of like you can't see what's inside of an envelope, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all sealed up and you can't see the content.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that could be true.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think the more important thing to know here,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you have this,
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  SPEAKER_00: is that the envelope is able to offer ways to problem solve.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is a pathway to relief.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a pretty resilient sort of aspect, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can hold a lot with this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's the mystic rectangle.
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  Next,
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  and this is one that people ask a lot of questions about,
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  let's talk about the Yod.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you'll hear this one referred to as the finger of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that sounds really dramatic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in some ways it kind of is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think people can fall into one of two camps here.
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  Some people really like to over romanticize this one or they
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  tend to get afraid of
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  it because there's this idea of fate that gets attached to it
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  or something
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  SPEAKER_00: unstoppable.
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  And there's a lot of debate out there about whether that's
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  actually true,
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  by the way.
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  So a Yod is formed when you have two planets that are sextile
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  to one another,
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  okay?
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  And if you look at those two sextile planets,
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  look at the midpoint of those two planets,
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  right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And there would be a third planet
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  opposing that point on the other side of the chart so to be
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  more technical about
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  this each of the sextile planets is forming a quincunx to a
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  third planet on the
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  other side of the chart so visually it looks like a long narrow
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  triangle like a
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  SPEAKER_00: finger pointing at something
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the quincunx is the really important piece here.
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  And by the way,
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  quincunxes don't always come up in charts under default
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  settings.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to make sure you're seeing them,
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  SPEAKER_00: if they're there,
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  check your settings in whatever astrology app you're using to
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  see what aspects you
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  SPEAKER_00: have showing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then check off whatever box you have that says quincunxes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Often the lines for the quincunxes are green, but not always.
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  A quincunx is two planets that are 150 degrees apart,
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  or about five signs.
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  In any case,
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  the quincunx is an aspect that signals that adjustments are
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  needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It connects signs that don't really have anything in common at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't share the same element or modality or the same polarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're about as different as you can get.
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  So these planets in the quincunx,
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  there's this feeling of misalignment between them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like things don't quite fit together naturally.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't really know how to get along.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe in your life,
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  you've met a person whose thinking and behavior and way of
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  being is so incongruent
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  with your own that you just don't really know how to have a
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  conversation that flows
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  SPEAKER_00: well.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not that you dislike them per se,
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  SPEAKER_00: you just don't really know what to do around them,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you have a yod,
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  you have this nice sextile energy that can flow between the
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  first two planets and
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is all getting funneled towards the apex planet,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the energy can't really land there very neatly.
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  So you can wind up feeling like something constantly needs to
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  be adjusted or
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  SPEAKER_00: re-examined or analyzed again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is about continual course correction,
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  SPEAKER_00: often continual course correction as you move towards a certain goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're figuring it out as you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, what's working might change all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: that apex planet,
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  SPEAKER_00: it often becomes a really sensitive point in the person's chart,
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  SPEAKER_00: like a pressure point.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can feel like a calling or a mission,
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  albeit one that you are not always quite sure how to pursue
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  because you know it
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  SPEAKER_00: won't be easy or even likely.
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  But you may just feel compelled to pursue something anyway and
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  then start to get a
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  SPEAKER_00: lot of tunnel vision around it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's trial and error over and over again here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whatever's being worked on,
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  this is something that the person is meant to grow into over a
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  long time as the
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  SPEAKER_00: years go by.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what you're working on doesn't necessarily feel easy or obvious,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially early in your life.
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  there can be this sense of,
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  ugh,
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  why is this area of my life always so complicated,
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  right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But over time,
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  there is a lot of potential to really master something because
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  you've had to
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  analyze it so much and because you've had to make every
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  adjustment under the sun
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  and because you've had to think out of the box and all these
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  types of things.
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  So this person can learn how to navigate complexity in ways
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  that other people...
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  SPEAKER_00: Usually don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you can become a real expert here.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it just takes time, as mastery always does.
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  SPEAKER_00: So people,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think,
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  SPEAKER_00: tend to come here with this pattern when there's something they really,
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  really want to make sure they focus on for the lifetime and
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  know it inside and out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, last up, I want to talk about the Cradle.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one is definitely a little softer and more supportive than the Yod.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Cradle is made up of four planets.
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  This one is really hard to get without a visual,
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  by the way,
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  so please look it up.
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  What you have here is a series of sextiles and trines along
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  with one opposition across the top.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it does, in fact, look like a cradle visually.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've got a mix of ease and tension,
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  SPEAKER_00: but this one leads toward the supportive side more than the tension side.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trines and sextiles create like this container and
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  SPEAKER_00: that helps hold the energy of that opposition.
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  SPEAKER_00: So remember that cradles hold things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And specifically, they hold babies.
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  SPEAKER_00: They hold something valuable and sweet and precious.
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  So someone with this pattern may come across in real life as
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  very sweet and
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  SPEAKER_00: good-natured,
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  SPEAKER_00: almost innocent,
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  SPEAKER_00: right?
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  SPEAKER_00: This person is usually someone who seeks harmony in their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: They seek love.
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  SPEAKER_00: They like safety a lot,
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  SPEAKER_00: too,
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  even though the big ask for them in life is for them to leave
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  the cradle and go
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  SPEAKER_00: forth into the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: That can feel really hard to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of cushy there in the cradle.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is that opposition there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But instead of it being simply a push pull dynamic,
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  it can also function as sort of a wall that you put up to avoid
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  some of the less
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  SPEAKER_00: pleasant parts of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that being said,
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  people with cradle patterns have all those supportive aspects
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  there so they can
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  SPEAKER_00: have an easier time integrating that challenging opposition dynamic,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially if they're aware of it.
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  And overall,
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  they tend to find ways of navigating their challenges pretty
• 21:30
  well.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean there are no challenges.
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  SPEAKER_00: There certainly will be.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's life.
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  But it does mean that there can be a natural ability to find
• 21:39
  solutions to problems
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  SPEAKER_00: or to move towards solutions in a more graceful way.
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  Sometimes they find creative solutions to problems that other
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  people don't think of.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this can be a good aspect for healers,
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  SPEAKER_00: too,
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  SPEAKER_00: even if someone isn't healing in the obvious sense,
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  SPEAKER_00: like they're not working in health care or anything.
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  But they can still have a healing presence about them,
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  if that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that, my friends, is the cradle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as you can see with all of the aspect patterns,
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  SPEAKER_00: what we're really looking at is how different types of energy show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do want to say that no pattern is purely good or bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always say that nothing in astrology is really good or bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are pros and cons to everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are gifts and challenges inherent in everything.
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  And people can tap into either the high vibration of their
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  charts or the low
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: vibration of their charts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most of us don't do one or the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us do a little of both or a lot of both.
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  All the things in a chart come with their own dynamics and
• 22:49
  their own growth edges.
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  And again,
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  I'll also reiterate that not everyone will have aspect patterns
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  in their chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of us do, but it's also very common not to have any of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some people have more than one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people have a few.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, I think that is a good place to pause for today.
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  If you haven't already,
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  definitely,
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  I keep saying this,
• 23:16
  but grab the handout for the episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I mentioned,
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  I really do recommend looking at these shapes visually as you
• 23:21
  learn to spot them.
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  Also,
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  once again,
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  SPEAKER_00: The next one is coming up on the 15th.
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• 23:45
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• 23:47
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• 23:50
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  And the more people that find it,
• 23:54
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• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I appreciate your listenership so, so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really, really do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for spending your time with me today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that is all for now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a great week, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will see you next time.