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Mercury’s FINAL TEST from Saturn & Neptune: Which Meaningful Narrative is Shaping your Next Chapter? · Cozy with the Cosmos with Astrologer Sarah Paasch

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  Hello and welcome back to our weekly astrology podcast where
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  we light our candles, grab our blankets, put our holiday years
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  on, our holiday cheer on, and we get cozy and talk all things
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  cosmos. I am your host, astrologer and
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  coach, Sarah Posh. And this week brings us to our
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  second week of the final lunar cycle of 2025.
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  So I'm really excited and I can't wait to meet our next
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  chart work level 1 in January 2026.
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  And I think that means it's time we're cozy.
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  Let's dive into this week's official episode.
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  We're coming into that first quarter moon in Aries and this
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  Sagittarius new moon cycle, Mercury making its way as the
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  final planet to cross through the gauntlet of the Saturn
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  Neptune squares and finally join the rest of the team Capricorn.
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  If you haven't already, I encourage you to go back and
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  watch the episode from last week where I gave an overview of this
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  Sagittarius lunar cycle. I talked about the theme of
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  resolution and gave this quote a resolution.
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  Do you know what it is? Really?
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  It's a deal that you make with the future.
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  And I also explained why this lunar cycle is really an act
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  one, which is the mutable squares to Saturn, Neptune, and
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  Pisces, and then an Act 2 where all the planets are coming in a
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  coalition into the sign of Capricorn and starting to
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  initiate into form, into reality.
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  All of the resolutions, all of the intentions, all of these
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  choices into the beginning of fruition.
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  And as a repetition of the themes that have been playing
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  out, this is nothing new. It's not bringing up anything
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  new. It's just the final layer of
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  what we've been living through. And now we have Mercury, the
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  messenger, the mind. Now, Mercury is not here this
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  week to fix the grief. It's here to observe without
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  distortion. So I was preparing for today's
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  episode and I was thinking about Mercury as this final planet,
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  this final transit in the series through these squares.
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  I had this vision come to me where it was like in a
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  sequential order, this the little mini movie, shall we call
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  it like in astrology short in my mind.
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  So it started with Mars. And Mars was basically this
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  Archer, this arrow that was shot far off into the distance.
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  It was the first thing to shoot this desire, this will, this
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  ambition to make these willful choices and have some sort of
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  self assertion and advocacy to say this is what's worth
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  fighting for. And this is where I'm ready to
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  sever or cut in order to really make that deal with the future,
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  to say this is what I'm saying yes to and there's no looking
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  back. So Mars took off.
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  The arrow was shot. Mars is the 1st planet to get
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  into Capricorn, just kind of holding down the floor waiting
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  for everybody to arrive. So then the sun shows up and the
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  sun is looking for Mars, looking for the arrow.
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  But we're in a Saturn, Neptune square, so it's really foggy in
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  this forest, you can't really see.
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  But the sun knows that the arrow was shot in a true north
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  direction. And so the sun went through
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  these squares and that felt like this inner compass upgrade that
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  was happening. So it was almost as if the sun
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  was having to go inside to reorient itself into a new sense
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  of what is true north, this coherence of where I'm going and
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  who I am. I have to come into relationship
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  with this inner compass. So there was this really cool
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  new compass that came online, this new compass of identity and
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  coherence and a sense of being ready to really show up and
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  trust that you are the person and you're ready to step into
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  the character that's going to move the plot line forward to
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  the direction that Mars already fired.
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  So the sun went through that. The sun moved forward.
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  It never looked back. It just kept following the true
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  north of this new updated inner compass.
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  And then Venus came along. And when Venus arrived, she
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  realized that those resolutions, those deals that she made with
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  the future, the non negotiables when it comes to matters of the
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  heart, when it comes to any sort of relational exchange, any sort
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  of social or romantic dynamic. When Mina's got to the place
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  where Mars and Sun left from, she realized that there's some
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  people that aren't going to make the same choice or the same
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  deals. And so she had to decide, is she
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  going to wait for the potential of those other people, maybe
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  people from her past, maybe people from her present to join
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  her? Or is she going to have to be
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  brave? Is she going to have to be bold
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  and go ahead and move forward anyways?
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  Venus was initiated into trusting that if she honors her
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  heart, if she follows her heart, and maybe initially she is a
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  little bit independent or feeling a little bit of that
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  loneliness, uncertainty, she's moving forward.
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  By the end of this last week, it's likely that those matters
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  of the heart were finalized. And regardless of who made the
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  choices or not to come with us, we went ahead and moved forward.
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  And then now Mercury shows up and Mercury is like, where is
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  everybody? It is so foggy.
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  I know Mars. I know Mars already shot that
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  arrow because I know who Mars is.
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  And now it's my job to create this trail, this pathway that
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  can trace myself from where I started, where I come from, the
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  past, and then also the trajectory and the direction,
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  the future in which those other planets they've already moved
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  into. But now I need to integrate it
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  into my sense of understanding, my perception, my plans for the
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  future. Now it's time to create a trail,
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  a pathway, maybe even more neural pathways with Mercury in
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  stabilizing and integrating these resolutions, these
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  changes, these portals of choice into our sense of meaning,
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  understanding and perspective. And Mercury as this last
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  personal planet to move through Sagittarius before we officially
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  begin Act 2 with the Capricorn Coalition.
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  This is here to help us organize reality and really make meaning
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  and witness and observe all of the things that have happened
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  with the new orientations that we've been implementing, the new
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  resolutions, the deals, the choices of those previous
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  personal planets, and whatever Mercury our messenger, brings
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  forward, moves through, communicates, or decides in the
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  following week, it's going to come full circle.
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  The last transit that happens before the Capricorn New Moon,
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  our next new lunar cycle, is a conjunction between Mercury and
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  Mars in Capricorn. And if you don't already know,
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  this is a series of five conjunctions playing out between
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  Mercury and Mars. There's a whole video that I did
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  on this and on that timeline. So this Capricorn conjunction,
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  this closing transit of this Sagittarius lunar cycle, this is
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  also the midpoint of that Mercury Mars series.
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  So we are weaving timelines, we are converging cycles, we are
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  making moves that even if they seem a little bit subtle,
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  nuanced that important right now, these moves are going to
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  prove how much they matter as time unfolds.
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  So whatever started whatever was seated around that Sagittarius
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  new moon, this is the week to start experimenting by trial and
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  error, putting things into action, feet on the ground.
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  This is the phase of the lunar cycle where now we've got 1/4 of
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  light reflected in the moon, giving us this energy, this push
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  and courage to start putting things into action, moving from
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  an idea, an intention, maybe a wish or resolution.
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  Now we got to make it real. We got to see how it plays out
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  real time and learn as we go. And so the exact time, light and
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  dates that these Mercury transits are going to unfold
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  over this next week. Starting on Monday, December
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  29th, the Moon is going to be in Taurus.
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  And this is when Mercury in Sagittarius makes that exact
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  square to Saturn and Pisces at 26°.
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  And then, so astrology good after squares Saturn, the final
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  two days of 2025, we're going to have the moon going to Gemini,
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  ruled by Mercury going through its thing.
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  And it's going to be void, of course, for essentially 48 hours
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  until we get to Thursday, January 1st, where Mercury and
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  Sagittarius completes the exact square to Neptune and Pisces at
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  29° and then enters into Capricorn that same day, joining
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  finally the full team in Capricorn and Mercury's
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  arriving. And with the final messages
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  arriving in a way that hopefully is helpful, giving us a little
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  bit more insight, understanding, perspective before we move
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  forward. We start initiating, putting
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  things into action in Act 2 at that Cancer full moon.
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  And so framing this little storyline of Mercury's transits
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  this week, we begin with that square to Saturn, which is the
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  repetition, the theme of this sobriety of truth, coming to
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  terms with the deals that we're making, the non negotiables,
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  which mean the things that we have to be willing to sacrifice
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  and let go and make peace with wherever the cards fall in, with
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  the reality of what is no longer viable and what must be carried
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  responsibly versus what must be released.
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  This might be a moment as well, where Mercury and Saturn give us
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  this opportunity to reconceive, reframe, and really integrate
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  our understanding, our meaning, making around these sacrifices,
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  these wake up calls, sobriety checks, these choices that we've
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  been making with those squares to Saturn.
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  This is that moment to ask yourself, what kind of meaning
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  do I choose to make? Because that choice, that
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  perspective choice, it's just as Saturn important for the
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  consequences, the long term consequences and rewards that
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  are sure to come as we move forward.
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  And then Mercury progresses into the square with Neptune, which
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  reactivates and repeats, re confronts the fog of meaning and
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  unknown. And so Mercury, Neptune is
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  finalizing the discernment of what can't be known yet, our
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  relationship to holding that uncertainty and the unknown, and
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  then also what illusions might be dissolving.
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  So the disillusionment phase of the squares to Neptune, now it
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  comes into a state of deeper understanding and meaning
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  making. And at this point, there's still
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  a lot of fog. There's still so much unknown.
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  So Mercury is not here to deliver some sort of certainty,
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  but rather Mercury this week, it's asking us to tell the truth
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  without rushing to make it hopeful.
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  It's asking us to process and witness the grief without
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  defining or punctuating any specifics or details of what
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  comes next. So this week, equanimity.
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  This is our medicine. This is our helper.
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  This is Mercury's potential superpower because my intention,
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  my hope, my reason for bringing equanimity into the theme of
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  this episode is so that we can all have the ability to stay
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  honest about what's hard and what's happening without
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  becoming closed, contracted, and cynical.
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  And also to stay open about what could be possible about the
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  future, and really having faith and trust in those resolutions,
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  those choices that we've been making in the midst of so much
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  unknown, without becoming delusional, without becoming
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  totally lost in some sort of fantasyland and instead holding
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  everything all at once together. Equanimity is this quality and
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  this skill, the state of mind, of spaciousness.
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  And equanimity is not an indifference, it is not
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  avoidance, it is not going to a place with a lack of discernment
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  or care. Equanimity is actually the
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  application of being able to look at the entire forest, the
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  entire Sagittarius view of everything that's happening, of
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  the known, of the unknown, of the choices and the
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  consequences, and being able to not attach a sense of good or
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  bad. Being able to have an even more
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  critical, compassionate discernment to say what would it
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  be like if both grief and excitement could coexist?
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  So equity is not bypassing, it's not avoiding looking at what's
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  happening. It is not forcing faith.
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  It is not an emotional suppression.
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  Equanimity is actually letting grief be present without letting
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  it collapse us into meaning, not getting trapped into a cynical
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  cycle of worry or disappointment.
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  Equanimity is letting uncertainty exist without
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  demanding answers. It's allowing people to remain
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  in whatever reality they've chosen without labeling that as
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  right or wrong or good or bad. It's the ability to accept
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  things, accept all things as they are.
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  And so I know for myself personally, I'm going through a
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  lot of really big changes, major endings, and the endings are
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  very clear and the resolution, the choices, the intention for
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  what I'm moving towards, those non negotiables or those deals
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  that I've made with the future, that's clear.
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  However, there is so much unknown.
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  There is still so much fog about what comes next or how whatever
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  comes next comes. And that's The thing, is that
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  resolution, this deal that we make with the future, it's not
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  about knowing the outcome, it's about deciding how you're going
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  to stand while that outcome unfolds.
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  So this week, when Mercury makes those waning squares to Saturn
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  and Neptune in Pisces, as we go through this first quarter
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  phase, there might be some friction.
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  You might feel cognitively the ability to logically perceive
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  this contrast or this friction, this difference between what was
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  seeded, the resolution and your current lived reality.
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  And in this state of what could become confusion, disillusion,
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  collapsing into grief of the uncertainty instead, can you act
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  without certainty this week? Remember, this is so much bigger
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  than some previous cliche New Year's resolution.
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  This isn't a number on a scale. This isn't a number in a bank
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  account. This is about deciding how
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  you're going to stand, how you're going to continue to show
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  up as the outcome continues to unfold.
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  So this week, the test is on your mind.
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  It's on your perception and the way that you make meaning as you
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  turn this final corner, this final chapter of completion and
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  closure, moving in to the Act 2 of the Sooner cycle.
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  And then after reorganizing or resorting, kind of restructuring
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  those neural pathways and perspectives, Mercury enters
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  into Capricorn. And now we have a sense of
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  mental containment. There is a sense of clarity
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  around what structures can be built.
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  And Mercury's here to tell all the planets, listen, these are
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  going to be the plans. These are going to be the
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  possibilities. And it's not going to be
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  structures that are built from hope.
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  These are going to be structures and scaffolding, if we've been
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  doing the work that are going to be built from honesty and that
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  will naturally take us into Act 2, which will bring us into our
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  horoscope tarot card reading for the Cancer full moon that's
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  coming in next week's episode. We're going to have this
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  emotional culmination. We're going to be talking about
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  Cancer and this need for security, safety, belonging and
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  really protection. We are really getting this
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  illumination on this new definition of home base, and
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  we'll talk about the reason why Jupiter is so important during
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  this full moon and how this full moon is giving us a viewpoint
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  almost like it's giving a telescope into the unseen
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  invisible things that all of those personal planets are doing
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  across from the moon and Cancer. I'll be sure to explain what I
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  mean and where this is happening for you and how to work with it
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  in next week's episode. So if you haven't already, go
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  ahead and make sure that you like this video.
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  helpful. And hopefully, maybe, possibly,
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  potentially, if we put this equanimity into practice, into
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  work during this first quarter phase, that might be the very
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  thing that allows us to arrive to the power and the potential
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  of this Cancer full moon without emotional overwhelm.
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  And that's because we've already learned and expanded our
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  capacity to stay present with complexity.
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  I'd love to hear how you are experiencing this threshold of
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  change, these portals of choice. Comment below and let me know
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  what's helping you to move through the complexity.
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  What's helping you to hold the grief without collapsing, or to
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  hold the excitement and the hope without bypassing or getting
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  into an ungrounded state of fantasy and delusion.
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  I really love hearing from all of you and it's always so
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  helpful to know if you're feeling anything.
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  Even if you don't comment below. You are not alone.
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  I am right here, moving through this moment to moment with you.
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  It is not easy, but I really, really trust truly and I feel
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  that this is going to pay off in incredible ways that I could
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  never even imagine. I'll continue to follow my true
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  north compass, my updated solar coherence, my updated
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  resolutions. So I'll be here next week with
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  you. We'll get cozy.
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  We'll check in and we'll see how we're doing.
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  Give us some heart to heart vibes.
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  I wish I could give you a real hug.
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  It's a Cancer moon, but we'll be here.
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  wishing you the warmest, coziest, safest, most peaceful
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  holiday season, whatever it is that you do to celebrate your
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  holiday season. And I will see you in the next
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