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OPEN YOUR HEART! Fated Turning Points in Love & Creativity From August 2026 Eclipse · Cozy with the Cosmos with Astrologer Sarah Paasch

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Hello everybody, welcome back to your favorite astrology podcast
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where we light our candles, we cozy up and we talk all things
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cosmos. I'm your host, astrologer and
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coach Sarah Posh, and we are here for the total solar eclipse
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in Leo. I even wore my Lion King Leo
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shirt for you. Yes, I am totally on brand
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because this Leo eclipse, it is time to shine and I am not
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afraid of this eclipse. I feel like we are always
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spooked out when we start talking about eclipses or
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getting into eclipse season because we know eclipses, our
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eclipsing are luminaries, the lights of our sky.
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And, and there's always this kind of emphasis on shadowy
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material, others that's hidden, things becoming revealed, or
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sometimes there's things that happen and later when we look
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back, we're revealed what was actually about.
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But honestly, you guys, this eclipse, I'm excited for it.
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So I'm going to share all of my reasons why I love this eclipse,
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why I'm not afraid of it and ways that I think we can
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actually leverage it. And I'm also going to give some
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astrological data points that you can reference.
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So things that happened in the past that are connected to this
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eclipse and then also some things that are still yet to
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play out that are coming up ahead that we can kind of think
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about and maybe sit back, relax a little bit more knowing that
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we've got some time. In addition to knowing it's an
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18 month eclipse cycle and this is the first Leo eclipse in that
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cycle. There is no need to rush to any
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eclipse conclusions. And of course I'm going to share
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some of my favorite songs from our community collaborative
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playlist. We've got that new playlist that
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came out for this Lunar cycle. It is linked below this episode.
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It's a collaborative playlist. So I build the setlist and I
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share my favorite songs, but I also love when you share in the
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comments below and add any songs that you're moving to grooving
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to you feeling through this astrology through.
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So if you're into music, if you have any favorites that are
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coming up for you right now and kind of getting you through
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dancing you through this energy, then drop those in the comments
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below at any point in the episode and make sure if you
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We'd love to have you maybe turn your note on that way you don't
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ever have to miss when some of these videos come out that are
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not on our regular weekly scheduled program.
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And of course, below this episode, there's so many other
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goodies. We've got digital products, the
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links for my one-on-one astrology consultations.
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So you can check everything out again, linked below this episode
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in the episode description. With that, I think we are ready
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to dive in to let this total solar eclipse and Leo shine.
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And so this is occurring on Wednesday, August 12th.
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It is a total solar eclipse at 20° of Leo.
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It's going to be exact at 10:30, 36 AM standard Pacific Time.
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And this, like I said, is the first official eclipse in Leo in
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this eclipse series that started with that Aquarius eclipse back
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in February 2026, earlier this year.
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And it's going to be playing out through 2028.
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So we've got some time people. But this is a big event for
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these eclipses because it's a total solar eclipse, which means
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that the shadow of the moon passing directly through the
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line of our point on Earth and our view of the sun is being
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darkened, eclipsed temporarily. And so whenever we talk about
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eclipses, which by the way, if you didn't know and you'd like
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to know, there is a focus topic episode that I did it released
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it last year. It's on the channel all about
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eclipses. So if you want a nerd out on
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some of the astrology and the technical stuff that goes into
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eclipses or how to work with eclipses and maybe some of the
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other ideas of other branches of astrology like modern astrology
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and Vedic astrology, what their take is on eclipses.
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All of that is in that focus topic episode, which you can
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find on the channel. So definitely check that out.
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But for today's episode and today's eclipse, we're focusing
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on the sun being eclipsed in its home sign.
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So this is not the sun wandering through another sign getting
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eclipse, it is at home and it is being eclipsed.
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So the Sun is in a place of highest comfort, dignity and
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resourcing during this eclipse. Which to me tells us that
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there's something about this eclipse that might have to do
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with restoring personal dignity by eclipsing something that was
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actually becoming a barrier to living our most authentic
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creative lives. Leo is a fixed fire sign.
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It is the point of summer where we are all playing, getting in
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those last days before we have to go back to school.
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And there's so much associated with the sign of Leo and with
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the Sun that has to do with vitality, creativity,
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authenticity, what makes us feel most alive, what makes us feel
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the most personal joy and also personal connection to this life
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outside of those mundane things that we have to do, you know,
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like the whole like adulting things.
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And so I want to list just a few keywords associated with Leo and
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with the Sun in Leo specifically.
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And I want you to just feel into your current status of
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relationship. Are you in a situationship with
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some of these keywords and themes or do you feel deeply,
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intimately connected to them? Are you living through and from
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them? Because this eclipse might just
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be this major new beginning and turning point where you have the
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opportunity to shed the barriers to living even more fully from
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these places. For more of let's call like a
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creative spiritual radiance. So here's my Leo themes.
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Personal purpose, legacy, authentic living, creative
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self-expression, loyalty to the light within.
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So like Namaste both to you and to myself, self rulership,
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dignity of character and integrity of choices and actions
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that reflect A cohesive true self.
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So if you've watched any of the previous episodes, we did a
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series of episodes about the July Barbo's basket and every
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single Co host that came on and spoke through a different lens.
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We had the tarot human design. We had another astrologer speak
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her lens and language of the astrology for the Aquarius full
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moon horoscope episode. But every single one of those
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lenses and languages, those conversations were all saying
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the same thing, that right now, all of this astrology is begging
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for more creative risk taking, for more authentic
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self-expression, more collaboration and play, and
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really putting ourselves into more conversations or more
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circumstances. We're letting our hearts, our
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ideas, our inspirations be more visible and visibility is what
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it's all about with Leo. Not for the performance though.
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That's when we get into the shadow side of Leo and listen, I
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know as much as you know that wearing a social mask in certain
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situations, sometimes it feels necessary, but also sometimes it
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feels so life draining, Like it's almost exhausting to have
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to hide certain parts of ourselves because we're afraid
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of the impact it might have on somebody else, the reaction they
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might give us. And listen, those fears come
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from something I know for myself, there was plenty of
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feedback growing up and even going through school and high
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school and College of like the version of me that was going to
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make everybody else the happier versions of themselves.
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The truth is, my own personal experience, the more authentic
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and uninhibited I am and just being, not trying to perform,
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not trying to be the version of myself that someone may or may
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not like, not trying to read those minds.
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Those are typically the interactions and the moments
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that feel the most alive, both within me and within the
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interaction themselves, within the connections with other
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people. Because the truth is that when
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we show up that authentically, that quietly, silently gives the
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other people permission to show up as their full authentic
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selves. What would it be like if we
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lived in a world of unconditional acceptance that
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started with unconditional self acceptance?
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And so I'm going to read from my notes a couple of questions or
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reflection prompts that might help you to leave into this
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invitation in this total solar eclipse of amplifying our
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radiance of stepping into greater authenticity and visible
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self acceptance. The first one is where in your
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life is there no one left to appeal to?
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I also kind of want to add to that, where in your life life
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are you feeling exhausted by trying to appeal to somebody
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outside of yourself? And one way that I recognize
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this in my own life is when I'm in any kind of situation and I
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leave feeling empty because I didn't receive the external
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response or validation that I didn't consciously know I was
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craving going into that circumstance or interaction.
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And I'm like, oh, I was in that performance mode.
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I was deflecting the authority of what makes me feel good to
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somebody outside of myself. And that sucks.
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It's fucking exhausting. But again, if this is an
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eclipse, we could eclipse those patterns we could reveal, bring
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out of hiding those unconscious motivations that lead us to that
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draining life performance. And then the second reflection
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is the sun at home in the dark is revealing which parts we have
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learned to hide from others. And that leads into this next
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reflection prompt, which is imagining ourselves as the sun
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that shines in the sky. And at the end of the day, we
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come home to ourselves, our safe space, maybe some solitude.
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And this is kind of that moment for this eclipse.
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It's going into the dark. It's us coming homecoming home,
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unimpacted or influenced by anybody else outside of us.
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And in that solitude or that safe space, to be fully
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authentically ourselves, which parts come out of hiding 1st?
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And if we actually took the time during this eclipse to
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acknowledge those parts of ourselves and to sit with them
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in compassionate and curious conversation, we might ask them
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what fears or stories, worries from our past that they still
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believe or that they're still caring that's preventing them
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from feeling safety outside of that safe space alone or any
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comfort zone of visibility. And what would it take to
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protect that vulnerability or that scared part of ourselves in
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a new way or pattern that's actually internally resourcing
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our safety and our security. The next reflection prompt is if
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you could eclipse any life draining mask you've been
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wearing, what would it be? Can you imagine what it would be
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like to live with more freedom to be a more authentic version
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of yourself in more of life's arenas?
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Not having to hang 1 mask up for another as you leave from one
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relationship to another or one room, or roll from another like
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work or home? What if you could just be
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yourself authentically in all arenas of life?
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And with that, what is the first mask you would drop off?
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What is the one that you would get rid of first?
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What is the one that you would say yes please Eclipse I am
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ready, let it be, let it go. And so in addition to all of
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these reasons and themes that I'm bringing up surrounding this
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eclipse, astrologically, there's even more information that shows
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us this is a more binific eclipse than maybe typical.
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And the reason that is, is because we have Jupiter Co
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present the greater binific in the sign of Leo at the time of
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this eclipse, where Jupiter has a dignity of triplicity, it's
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moving into a supportive stabilizing trine.
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It's a Saturn retrograde in Aries.
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And then additionally, we've got Venus in her sign of Libra,
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dignified and domicile. I talked a lot more about all of
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the benefits in the magic of Venus and Libra during this time
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in my previous episode, so definitely check that out if you
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haven't already and you want to know more about that side of the
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equation. But basically the planets that
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want to help us and support us and do good in our lives, they
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are in places where they are resourced.
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They have access to things that can help us, and they're in
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communication, whether by being somewhere in the same house as
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the eclipse or they're just that sextile phone call friend away
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with Venus and Libra. And it doesn't just stop there.
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The other thing that's helping this eclipse so much is that our
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two Malefic's, we've got Mars in Cancer and Saturn in Aries,
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which is the place of depression or the planet's fall for both of
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our malefic. That means our malefic are not
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in places where they are resourced to do the function
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that they normally want to do, which is sometimes oftentimes
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gifting us growth through challenge and hardship, which by
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the way, I'm a malefic lover. I even did a whole focus topic
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on all about malefic, all about Saturn and Mars in astrology.
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But I don't hate the fact that they aren't implicated or highly
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involved and resourced as we're going through this total solar
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eclipse in Leo. So I think it's helpful to
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disarm a little bit of that doom and gloom to remind ourselves
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that the astrology is actually saying good things can come and
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are supporting this total solar eclipse in Leo.
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And next, I'm going to share my top three songs from the
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setlist. There's more than just these
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three, but these are my top picks for this Leo eclipse.
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And then finally, I'm going to give you a few of those Astro
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data points that I mentioned the beginning of the episode, things
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you can look back on, and also some dates to maybe jot down as
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moments in time to look forward to.
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So there's a little of a journey with these three songs that
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we're going to take you on. The first one is going to start
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a little bit softer. There's a little bit more of
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this melancholy or maybe the feeling that we get when we drop
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into the actual conversation with some of the shadow work
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around the parts that we've been hiding.
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And it's bittersweet by Arches. So let me go ahead and just read
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you at the lyrics to this song. I could show you now, but you're
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never going to see because you're watching me go up in
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smoke. I could shut it down.
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When I lose, you're going to leave, but you know that I'll
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fall out alone. There's secrets that you know
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and secrets that I hold. Take these tired wings, which by
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the way, you guys, this part is the chorus and it's like
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sobbing. I like, it's so good.
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Strike so deep. Take these tired wings Home is
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calling you to sleep, love. So bittersweet.
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All the happy tears it brings. Winter wind will fly you back to
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me. Bittersweet.
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So this is our opening. Maybe it's the good cry, the
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shadow work, the release, and we're just setting down the
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tired mass and the tired wings, calling ourselves back home.
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The next song that I've chosen. And this is really more of that
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intro moment into the cycle and the positive developments that
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I'm hoping to experience. And I'm hoping, wishing for all
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of you is This Version of You by Odessa and Julianna Barwick.
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I've listened to this song and actually cried as well.
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Because there's a way in which it's not just an idea of
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connecting to your future self, but when you're going through
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those moments of great transition or deep growth and
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recognition of starting to make some changes in your life or to
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make some different choices to step into a different version of
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you. The song is like what I would
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imagine playing the Symphony and orchestra, inviting me,
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encouraging me, helping me to fully step into that transition
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and transformation. So the words to this song are
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this version of you simply becomes real.
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I'd like you to imagine this version of you.
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This version of you simply becomes real.
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And you're right here with this version of you to see things as
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they really are. This version of you looking at
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you, you looking back, this version of you welcoming you,
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this version of you saying yes, I'd like you to imagine this
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version of you. I just got full body goosebumps
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and emotional even just reading you guys those lyrics and it's
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not even playing right now. But don't worry because when I
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made this set list, I listened to it plenty of times.
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I had all of my good cries. So definitely check that song
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out. It is keeper not just for this
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new moon, but maybe for the entire 18 month eclipse cycle
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happening in the sign of Leo. And then my last and final song
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gets us up, gets us moving and grooving.
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It is called Lion original mix by Pang.
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And for this song, first of all, there's a little bit of Lion
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King in it. So that's part of it and it's
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called Lion. I know unoriginal, but I'm going
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to read you the about this song from Spotify because this is the
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reason I chose this song. The Professor Plum EP featuring
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Lion was released on Pang's own label in 2014.
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The self release allowed the duo to maintain creative control and
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showcase their unique sound without external influences.
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Like need I say less EEE of everything else I was saying you
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guys. All right.
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And it goes on to say Lion cleverly samples iconic opening
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chant from the Circle of Life in The Lion King.
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This unexpected blend of deep house and a beloved Disney
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classic caught listeners off guard, offering a fresh take on
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a familiar time. So good.
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What if you could show up, kind of test this visibility, this
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new authentic self-expression in a way that you're welcoming the
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chance to catch somebody off guard and maybe introduce a new
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fresh take on a familiar association of you and your role
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in that relationship or that context.
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So it's obviously so perfect. Check it out.
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Again, all that's linked this episode.
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If you guys have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear
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your song, Rex. Drop it in the comments below
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and also fill me in. How are you guys doing?
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How are you feeling going into this eclipse?
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Are you feeling the spooky or are you feeling the stoke?
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Are you feeling ready to shine? I'd love to hear from you.
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So drop your rising sign and comment below.
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And if you have anything around 20° of Leo, then we know that
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this eclipse is likely to be a little bit more personal and
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personally activating and your storyline, your plot line of
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your Natal chart and Natal context.
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So if that's you and you're feeling any sense or need of
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further support, I definitely encourage you.
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This is a great time to invest in that one-on-one astrology
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consultation so that we can get you set up for the stage that's
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going to be playing out for this Leo eclipse all through the next
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18 months. And that kind of perfectly
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actually transitions. I'm going to give you those
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dates. Let's wrap this cosmic
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conversation by bringing it full circle.
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So whenever we look at eclipses, they're always happening in
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cycles of time. The eclipses themselves are
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going to repeat in the same areas of the sky and in our
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charts and our lives every 19 years.
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And there is a halfway point called the nodal opposition.
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To me, I really find it helpful to look at the nodal opposition
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set of eclipses as well as the original set and repeat of the
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same cycle from 19 years ago. So I'm going to go ahead and
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share those dates with you to kind of reflect on what were the
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major beginnings and major endings or major faded karmic
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turning points happening for you with those eclipses.
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And so those were happening between February of 2017 and
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they played all the way out through January of 2019.
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I've already gone ahead and made the list here with the exact
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dates and exact degree of these eclipses during that notable
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opposition cycle. So you can pause this video,
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write it down, or maybe take a screenshot if you're watching on
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your phone. And then you can also go back
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even further, like I said, to the most recent previous eclipse
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cycle correlated to the specific eclipses we're having right now
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with the South Node and Leo and N node and Aquarius.
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And so that cycle played out starting in February 2008 and
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went all the way through August 2009.
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And I just want to share personally, it's fascinating to
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me when I look to these eclipse cycles in the nodal opposition
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cycle, I can see very clearly that both of those times in my
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life and connected to these cycles of time are moments where
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I was initiated into a new version of myself by entering
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into an environment that was a completely new culture and
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making new connections. Or it was being given an
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opportunity to really live from a more fresh, creative place in
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my life, to really develop and learn more about what brings me
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joy by being around new people and in new places.
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In the 2008, 2009, I joined a sorority in undergrad, which I
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did not want to do, you guys. My mom genuinely forced me to go
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through recruitment. And of course, I became obsessed
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with it. I was totally the sorority girl.
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Don't hate me, but it was my first time being away from home,
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from all the familiar people and relationships that have always
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known me and seen me in one way only.
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And I didn't know at that time what that was going to do.
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But what it did is it totally opened me up.
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I'm being seen from totally new people and totally new
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perspectives, and they're seeing things in me that previously I
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didn't realize. I kind of had to keep hiding.
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Like I almost didn't even see them in myself until I was
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placed into this new place and new relationships.
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So that's really cool. And then the second one during
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the nodal opposition, well, what do you know?
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That's when I moved to California.
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I didn't know what I was going to do.
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I knew that I was leaving Omaha, NE for the first time and I was
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stepping away from being a pharmacist at an orthopedic
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surgery hospital, but I had no idea what I was going to do
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career wise, job wise. I was kind of on a sabbatical
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because my dad had unexpectedly passed away just before that
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move. And I was in a completely new
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place. And I remember when I got here,
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I was talking to a stranger and they were just asking.
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We were talking like, where are you from?
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And I told them. They were like, Oh my gosh, this
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is Huntington Beach at that time.
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This must be such a culture shock for you to move here from
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the Midwest, from Nebraska. And I looked around and I was
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like, well, first of all, Huntington Beach is a lot like
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Nebraska, but with the beach instead of fields.
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But also, On the contrary, it kind of was the first time my
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soul truly felt at home. I always kind of felt out of
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place in my home of origin. I was always kind of the weirdo
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in the room. Like, where did you come from?
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Sarah were actual things my family would say to me.
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And coming to California, it was like all of my weirdo homies,
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we're here waiting for me the whole time.
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And of course, as we know now, it's led to this completely
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different life plot where not only am I living somewhere that
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feels like home that I'd never known before, I'm living my
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dream, my passion. I get to be an astrologer and a
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coach. I get to share the things that
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I'm passionate about and witness the incredible insane beauty of
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humans choosing growth, choosing self acceptance, healing and joy
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through authentic living. Like helping other people
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genuinely give themselves. A chance to live that life as
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well. So I know that I might not know
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what these eclipses are going to bring or where they're going to
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take me next, but I trust, I deeply trust that I will look
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back and be grateful on them because so far it has proven to
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be this gift of introducing myself to more of myself and
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living more authentically, more joyfully, more genuinely
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connected to a personal purpose and legacy.
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So if you have anything that comes up when you look at those
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dates and you think about those times in your lives and maybe be
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some major turning points and how it relates to some of these
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Leo themes that we've been talking about in this episode.
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I would love to hear from you. Drop in the comments below,
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share with us your rising sign and your personal story and
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maybe share with us how that has you feeling, if it has you
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feeling any different when you start thinking about this
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eclipse or what this eclipse might mean or it might bring.
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I am so stoked for the most for this total solar eclipse and
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Leo. I'm hoping to see all the
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creative weirdos coming out and showing more of themselves.
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And I'm also so grateful. Thank you everybody for being a
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part of this conversation. And also, if you're subscribe to
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this channel, I appreciate you so much as being a part of this
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cozy cosmic community. And if you haven't already,
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before you head out, make sure that you subscribe and hit the
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like button before you go. Maybe you want to hype a girl
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up. If you're feeling it, feeling
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inspired, feeling me feeling this, feeling us, feeling we all
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right, you guys, that's my cue. I'm getting weird.
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So it's time to go. Peace out.
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I'll see you on the other side literally the next day, next
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Thursday for our weekly Cozy with the Cosmos episode, Cha
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Cha.