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Understanding Your Natal Moon Phase · Astrology for Beginners

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SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone, welcome back to the Astrology for Beginners podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Stephanie Kate Boucher, and I am so happy to have you here.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the podcast for you if you have ever wanted to learn how to read a natal
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SPEAKER_00: chart or were kind of interested in astrology and wished that you understood more
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SPEAKER_00: about it but didn't know where to begin or it seemed too complicated and you didn't
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SPEAKER_00: have the time or the resources to invest in learning it.
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SPEAKER_00: My goal is to break things down for you episode by episode in the most simplified
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SPEAKER_00: way that I can so that you can learn to speak the language of the stars.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for learning astrology with me.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome astrology friends.
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SPEAKER_00: I am so excited about today's episode because we are going to talk about one of my
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SPEAKER_00: favorite things in astrology and that is the moon and more specifically the lunar
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SPEAKER_00: cycle and more specifically than that how the phase of the lunar cycle that the
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SPEAKER_00: moon was in when you were born and
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SPEAKER_00: impacts your life, your personality, and what it says about this unique journey that you are on.
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SPEAKER_00: Did you know that it's not just your moon sign or the house that the moon is in in
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SPEAKER_00: your chart that says something about you?
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SPEAKER_00: There are other important pieces of information about your natal moon too,
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SPEAKER_00: and the lunar phase is one of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, many of you may already know that there is such a thing as a lunar cycle.
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SPEAKER_00: A lunar cycle refers to the recurring phases of the moon as it orbits around the Earth.
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SPEAKER_00: It takes about 29.5 days for the moon to make an entire revolution around the Earth.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the fastest moving planet.
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SPEAKER_00: And yes, I know it's not technically a planet.
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SPEAKER_00: But during that time,
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SPEAKER_00: though,
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SPEAKER_00: during one cycle,
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SPEAKER_00: the moon moves through all 12 zodiac signs and it goes through eight distinct lunar phases.
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SPEAKER_00: Each phase is measured by how much of the moon is illuminated,
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SPEAKER_00: or in other words,
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SPEAKER_00: how much of it we can see.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's determined by where it is in the sky in relation to the sun,
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SPEAKER_00: because the sun is what lights up the moon.
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SPEAKER_00: So at the new moon, there is no illumination because the moon is between the earth and the sun.
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SPEAKER_00: So the side of the moon that's facing us isn't getting any of the sun's rays.
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SPEAKER_00: And so it goes dark, or at least it looks dark to us.
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SPEAKER_00: On a natal chart or any type of astrology chart, a new moon is going to be a sun-moon conjunction.
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SPEAKER_00: And a full moon occurs when the Earth is between the sun and the moon,
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SPEAKER_00: with the entire face of the moon being illuminated.
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SPEAKER_00: That in a chart is going to show up as a sun-moon opposition.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course,
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SPEAKER_00: there are the other six phases that occur on either side of these two events every
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SPEAKER_00: single month.
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SPEAKER_00: If this confuses you from a technical standpoint,
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SPEAKER_00: I suggest that you Google lunar phases and you'll see any number of charts pop up
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SPEAKER_00: that give you a visual of how this works.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of you who are familiar with the lunar cycle or the phases of the moon as it
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SPEAKER_00: relates to astrology may be thinking of the lunar cycle in terms of manifestation
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SPEAKER_00: or goal setting and things like that.
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SPEAKER_00: I do too.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact,
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SPEAKER_00: that's exactly what my moon circle on Substack is designed to help people do,
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SPEAKER_00: or it was before I temporarily paused it.
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SPEAKER_00: It will be back, though.
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SPEAKER_00: The moon circle will be back, new and improved.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's a really incredible way to apply astrology and make it work for you in everyday life.
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SPEAKER_00: I love it.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not exactly what we're going to be talking about today, though.
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SPEAKER_00: Today, we're going to go big picture and talk about what it means in your natal chart.
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SPEAKER_00: We were all born with the moon being in a particular phase, and that means something for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: your lunar phase doesn't typically show up in your standard natal chart,
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SPEAKER_00: but you can easily find out that information through any number of online moon
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SPEAKER_00: phase calculators.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, you can Google that exact phrase.
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SPEAKER_00: Or you can go to astro-seek.com and then go to the tab that says Free Horoscopes.
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SPEAKER_00: And then on the menu there, you'll click where it says Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Portrait.
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SPEAKER_00: And then finally, scroll down just a bit and click on where it says Moon Phase and Sign Calculator.
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SPEAKER_00: Or again,
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SPEAKER_00: you could just do a search and take the shortcut and then put in your birthday and
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SPEAKER_00: your time and your location and you'll get your phase.
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SPEAKER_00: You will need the most accurate birth time possible because the moon moves very
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SPEAKER_00: quickly and it can easily change phases throughout the course of a day.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, assuming you have that, we can move on.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to shift gears for just a minute before we start talking about each phase.
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SPEAKER_00: With this topic of lunar phases and,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: the lunar cycle and the phase that the moon was in when you were born and how that
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SPEAKER_00: helps shape you among the many other things in your chart that help shape you
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SPEAKER_00: because this is just one of them.
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SPEAKER_00: It helps or it can help to take a step back for a minute and just talk about the bigger picture.
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SPEAKER_00: And by the bigger picture, I mean more than just this life, this lifetime that you're having right now.
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SPEAKER_00: You might have deduced from other episodes and through other things I've said on
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SPEAKER_00: this show that I talk about reincarnation sometimes,
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SPEAKER_00: or I at least refer to the idea of it.
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SPEAKER_00: I personally don't believe that we come here just once.
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SPEAKER_00: I believe that we are here many,
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SPEAKER_00: many,
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SPEAKER_00: many times to do many,
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SPEAKER_00: many different things and experience all of the things and the different lessons
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SPEAKER_00: that humanity has to offer us.
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SPEAKER_00: And in fact, many astrologers and astrology lovers do tend to talk about things in these terms.
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SPEAKER_00: Not all of them, but quite a lot of them.
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SPEAKER_00: You certainly don't have to.
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SPEAKER_00: We all believe what we believe, and it's all okay, at least for me.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you don't like this idea,
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SPEAKER_00: then you can just take all of the traits and the personality types that I'm about
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SPEAKER_00: to talk about and just apply them to yourself right here,
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SPEAKER_00: right now.
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SPEAKER_00: No big deal.
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SPEAKER_00: But for those who want to bear with me for a moment on this,
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SPEAKER_00: there are things in your chart,
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SPEAKER_00: in all of our charts that tell us more about what we were doing before,
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SPEAKER_00: what we're here to do now,
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SPEAKER_00: and where we're hoping to go.
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SPEAKER_00: And there are all kinds of things in your chart that can tell these types of stories,
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SPEAKER_00: like your ascendant sign,
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SPEAKER_00: your nodal axis,
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SPEAKER_00: the north and south node,
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SPEAKER_00: your sun,
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SPEAKER_00: your moon sign,
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SPEAKER_00: the degrees that all of your planets are in,
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SPEAKER_00: and all kinds of things.
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SPEAKER_00: And the lunar phase, or the phase the moon was in when you were born, can be seen as one of those things.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want to consider that,
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SPEAKER_00: that we're here a whole bunch of times,
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SPEAKER_00: then it could stand to reason that when we decide to take on a certain lesson or a
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SPEAKER_00: set of lessons,
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SPEAKER_00: that you wouldn't simply aim to do it in one lifetime.
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SPEAKER_00: Like if you've never had a strong leadership lifetime,
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SPEAKER_00: for example,
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SPEAKER_00: and you want to go learn about that and figure out,
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SPEAKER_00: what makes a good leader and a bad leader,
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SPEAKER_00: and how to inspire people and how to get people to work together.
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SPEAKER_00: And you want to learn how to get really good at the whole thing.
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SPEAKER_00: You're probably not going to be able to figure all of that out in a measly 80 years or so.
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SPEAKER_00: And really a lot less because the first couple of decades of your life,
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SPEAKER_00: you're going to be very young and not in leadership positions.
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SPEAKER_00: And at the end, you may be very old and that type of thing.
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SPEAKER_00: And you might want to try doing it in lots of different settings and in different
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SPEAKER_00: scenarios and in different types of bodies with different backgrounds and
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SPEAKER_00: upbringings and different skill sets and really just hone all of the ways you can
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SPEAKER_00: do it and examine all of the different ways that leadership can look,
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SPEAKER_00: that type of thing.
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SPEAKER_00: This is just one example.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe you want to learn instead about creativity or relationships or parenting or
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SPEAKER_00: healing or mentoring or any infinite number of things that humans do.
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SPEAKER_00: So you're going to take on some endeavor from time to time,
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SPEAKER_00: some endeavor like this,
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SPEAKER_00: knowing that you'll likely have to develop it over a long,
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SPEAKER_00: long period of time.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you can identify the types of things that you're here to do right now or
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SPEAKER_00: trying to learn about right now,
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SPEAKER_00: then one of the things that the lunar cycle can show you is where it is in that
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SPEAKER_00: process that you currently are.
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SPEAKER_00: how far into that particular set of lessons are you?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a relatively small piece of information,
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SPEAKER_00: but it kind of helps define the overall mood of your life and how you look at your
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SPEAKER_00: life and how you respond to it,
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SPEAKER_00: how you're going to tackle the vision that you have for your life.
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SPEAKER_00: There's really so much you can learn about yourself from your natal moon.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, there's the sign and the house and the aspects it makes with other planets.
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SPEAKER_00: But there's really even much more.
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SPEAKER_00: And in the future,
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SPEAKER_00: we'll talk even more about the information available to you by unpacking your natal moon.
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SPEAKER_00: Today, we'll just do this, though.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, the first lunar phase, this is the start of a new lunar cycle, is the new moon phase.
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SPEAKER_00: The new moon phase occurs when the sun and the moon are conjunct.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you think of the conjunction or the place where the sun is as being,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: zero degrees of the lunar cycle,
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SPEAKER_00: then
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SPEAKER_00: The new moon occurs from the moon being about zero degrees all the way until it
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SPEAKER_00: gets about,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: 44 or 45 degrees away from the sun.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you were born under a new moon,
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SPEAKER_00: and you'll notice it because you'll,
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SPEAKER_00: like I said,
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SPEAKER_00: you'll have a sun moon conjunction in your chart.
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SPEAKER_00: you are initiating something new in this lifetime.
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SPEAKER_00: You're taking on a new lesson that you haven't looked at to a great extent before,
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SPEAKER_00: or that you haven't looked at in a particular way before or through a certain lens before.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you want to know what that set of lessons is,
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SPEAKER_00: then you can look at your needle chart in its entirety for clues.
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SPEAKER_00: Those clues will likely show up all over the place.
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SPEAKER_00: But a new moon is always about embarking on something new.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a fresh start, a new project, a new set of challenges that you've decided to take on.
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SPEAKER_00: This is often going to be a person who is really a visionary and dreaming up new
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SPEAKER_00: ways of doing things or new ways of being.
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SPEAKER_00: There can be a powerful imagination for people born under this lunar phase,
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SPEAKER_00: and they tend to have lots of ideas.
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SPEAKER_00: As well as optimism, it can really feel like the sky is the limit for a person born under a new moon.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just like any of us, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Any person when we're starting something new and exciting, there's lots of hopefulness.
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SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, we wouldn't want to do it, right?
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SPEAKER_00: But whenever you're at the beginning of something,
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SPEAKER_00: you'll also have to contend with a lot of unknowns and a lot of newness.
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SPEAKER_00: And that can lead to some trepidation or nervousness or even anxiety.
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SPEAKER_00: I have heard it said that it's not uncommon for people born under a new moon to be dealing with anxiety.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have, in fact, seen it in some charts.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: if you think about this logically or take it at face value,
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SPEAKER_00: the new moon is something,
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SPEAKER_00: as I said,
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SPEAKER_00: that you cannot see.
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SPEAKER_00: The moon is not illuminated during this phase.
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SPEAKER_00: The sky is dark.
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SPEAKER_00: And so when you have this lunar phase as part of your chart,
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SPEAKER_00: this can be seen as symbolic of the idea that because you're starting something new,
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SPEAKER_00: you don't really have a guiding light yet.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have a roadmap yet.
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SPEAKER_00: You're building something, but you don't know what things are going to look like.
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SPEAKER_00: You're hopeful,
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SPEAKER_00: but you don't know what the end result is actually going to be because it's a new endeavor.
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SPEAKER_00: You're just feeling your way around in the dark.
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SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, and feeling is the key word here.
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SPEAKER_00: These people tend to use their intuition a lot to guide them toward the next step
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SPEAKER_00: and the next step and the next step.
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SPEAKER_00: These are often people who you'll hear say that they followed their gut or they
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SPEAKER_00: followed their instincts because that might be their best chance of moving forward
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SPEAKER_00: without having a lot of experience behind them.
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SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of trying things to see what's going to work or not and sort of
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SPEAKER_00: working things out through trial and error and letting that influence your overall direction,
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SPEAKER_00: right,
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SPEAKER_00: this trial and error.
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SPEAKER_00: So again,
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SPEAKER_00: this is going to be someone who needs to experiment with a lot of different things
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SPEAKER_00: in life,
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SPEAKER_00: who's probably going to be kind of adventurous.
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SPEAKER_00: They will like to learn through experience and through trying things and then
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SPEAKER_00: settle into themselves more with time and age.
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SPEAKER_00: This can be a hard phase.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not easy to not know where you're going, quite know where you're going, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people may feel impatient as they find their way, or they may get a little frustrated.
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SPEAKER_00: Second phase of the lunar cycle is the waxing crescent phase.
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SPEAKER_00: And waxing, by the way, just means that the moon is building up.
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SPEAKER_00: to being full.
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SPEAKER_00: It's building up towards full illumination.
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SPEAKER_00: Waning is the other half of the cycle when you're losing light rather than gaining it.
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SPEAKER_00: So the second phase is the waxing crescent phase.
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SPEAKER_00: This phase occurs when the moon is from around 45 degrees away from the sun to
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SPEAKER_00: about 89 or 90 degrees from the sun.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you were born during this waxing crescent phase,
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SPEAKER_00: this part of the lunar cycle,
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SPEAKER_00: then you may tend to be a pretty productive person.
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SPEAKER_00: At this phase, the moon has started to become partly illuminated.
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SPEAKER_00: This is when you have that sliver, that little sliver of a moon.
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SPEAKER_00: And so with that illumination,
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SPEAKER_00: you're not feeling your way around solely on intuition and pure feeling anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: And you might be past the phase where you're experimenting with all kinds of different things.
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SPEAKER_00: you're probably a bit more certain about what the path forward is going to be,
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SPEAKER_00: or at least what you want it to be.
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SPEAKER_00: And so you may tend to be someone who is fairly focused in life and who can more
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SPEAKER_00: easily hone in on a specific goal or a set of goals and objectives.
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SPEAKER_00: These people can also be rather independent.
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SPEAKER_00: They're very curious about the world.
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SPEAKER_00: They can be a little more confident in their abilities.
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SPEAKER_00: And if they fail at something,
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SPEAKER_00: they're probably going to try again and get,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: right back up without getting too down on themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: So they're often a lot less anxious as a result of all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're also pretty resourceful.
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SPEAKER_00: People under the crescent moon phase are busy,
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SPEAKER_00: as most people who are born during the first half of the lunar cycle are.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's, again, new moon to full moon.
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SPEAKER_00: These are busy times designed to help people build upon things and create new structures.
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SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of activity,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of moving around,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of communication and networking with people and that type of thing here.
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SPEAKER_00: This phase, it's kind of like a, almost like a Gemini energy.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, it kind of reminds me a little bit of that.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, next we have the first quarter moon, the first quarter phase.
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SPEAKER_00: This occurs when the moon is 90 degrees to 134 degrees.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you look up your moon chart in the moon calculator and you see that your moon
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SPEAKER_00: is anywhere from 90 to 134 degrees,
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SPEAKER_00: it's considered a first quarter moon.
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SPEAKER_00: The first quarter moon can also be called a half moon.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of people call it a half moon.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is when it looks like a half circle.
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SPEAKER_00: The right side of the moon will be lit up if you live in the northern hemisphere.
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SPEAKER_00: The left side will be lit up if you live in the southern hemisphere.
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SPEAKER_00: This is an extremely energetic and dynamic lunar phase, though not necessarily an easy one.
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SPEAKER_00: And people born under this phase tend to be extremely busy throughout their lives.
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SPEAKER_00: This one is really about having tenacity.
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SPEAKER_00: This phase is essentially when the sun and the moon are square.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the first square that takes place after the new moon and before the full moon.
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SPEAKER_00: If you listen to our episodes on planetary aspects,
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SPEAKER_00: you'll remember that squares are indicators of two planets that are in conflict
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SPEAKER_00: with one another.
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SPEAKER_00: These tend to be symbolic of circumstances or parts of ourselves that are in
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SPEAKER_00: conflict and create friction or cause challenges that we have to figure out how to
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SPEAKER_00: work with and overcome.
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SPEAKER_00: So with the sun and the moon each representing different parts of ourselves, right?
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SPEAKER_00: The sun is our ego identity and the moon is our emotional landscape or our emotional needs.
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SPEAKER_00: Having these be in a square aspect with one another means that we're kind of in
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SPEAKER_00: conflict with ourselves,
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SPEAKER_00: right?
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SPEAKER_00: our conscious identity and our emotional needs aren't necessarily aligned,
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SPEAKER_00: which creates an internal struggle,
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SPEAKER_00: which of course leads to external struggles out in life generally.
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SPEAKER_00: So for example,
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SPEAKER_00: Someone with a sun-moon square or a first quarter moon could be someone who
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SPEAKER_00: sometimes doesn't really know what they want in life.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe they've been programmed by the culture or by their family early in life to
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SPEAKER_00: want a certain thing and have been taught,
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, this is the thing you should want because this is the thing that makes everyone happy.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the key to success.
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SPEAKER_00: But as it turns out, that thing may be quite different from what's actually in that person's true nature.
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SPEAKER_00: But they've been going along with their programming for so long that they don't
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SPEAKER_00: even know what they really want or what would actually make them happy anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that happens to people a lot, actually.
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SPEAKER_00: Or...
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SPEAKER_00: Or this could be someone who does know what they want,
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SPEAKER_00: but for some reason they don't feel justified in having it,
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SPEAKER_00: or they feel like they can't have it,
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SPEAKER_00: or maybe they don't think they're deserving of it for some reason.
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SPEAKER_00: That can happen too.
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SPEAKER_00: So the struggle here for some people is,
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SPEAKER_00: might be to figure out what they want and need,
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SPEAKER_00: first of all,
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SPEAKER_00: but then working to get their life more aligned on a conscious level so that their
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SPEAKER_00: inner self matches their outer,
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SPEAKER_00: more public self.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the part of this aspect that can be challenging and difficult.
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SPEAKER_00: But this can also be a very positive aspect because remember I said that it was dynamic and energetic.
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SPEAKER_00: So these tend to be people who have the ability to really push and accomplish a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember in the aspect episodes that I said that having squares...
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SPEAKER_00: or oppositions, but having hard aspects in a chart can really be quite helpful.
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SPEAKER_00: Because without them,
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SPEAKER_00: people can become too contented or too passive and not really feel the need to take
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SPEAKER_00: action on anything.
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SPEAKER_00: Because why?
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SPEAKER_00: Why would they?
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SPEAKER_00: Things feel fine the way they are.
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SPEAKER_00: So there's no real strong desire to push yourself or grow in different directions.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: Squares change that.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: They force us to take action in order to change our circumstances.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: That's where growth happens.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: And in order to take action in our lives, we need some tension somewhere.
22:49
SPEAKER_00: For example,
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SPEAKER_00: if hunger wasn't painful,
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SPEAKER_00: we might not put in the effort to go find food for ourselves or cook anything.
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SPEAKER_00: So we need some friction.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is true for people born under a first quarter moon.
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SPEAKER_00: There's plenty of friction, which means they may face more adversity than other people.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: But they're also going to be very capable of addressing whatever challenges come up
23:12
SPEAKER_00: through that adversity.
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SPEAKER_00: This is an action-oriented phase, so they'll take challenges head-on.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: They tend to be very ambitious.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: They tend to be strivers who want to push the envelope and set big goals for themselves.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: And then they put in a lot of effort to try and make those goals happen.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: There's a real sense of adventure here.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: And finally, I'd also say that boredom is kind of the enemy of people born under this moon.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: These folks don't like boredom.
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SPEAKER_00: mundane sorts of things are not where it's at for them.
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SPEAKER_00: They need something interesting to do.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: And if they don't have anything interesting to do,
23:50
SPEAKER_00: they're going to have a lot of excess energy and frustration that,
23:54
SPEAKER_00: you know,
23:54
SPEAKER_00: just has nowhere to go.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: After the first quarter moon, we have the waxing gibbous phase.
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SPEAKER_00: And the waxing gibbous phase starts at 135 degrees and lasts until about 179 degrees.
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SPEAKER_00: People born under this phase are really good at strategizing.
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SPEAKER_00: They know where they want to go.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: typically,
24:19
SPEAKER_00: and what their goals are,
24:21
SPEAKER_00: and they're pretty good at figuring out which steps they need to take to get there.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: These are often people who have effective structures in place that help them stay
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SPEAKER_00: productive so they can keep moving forward.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: they don't have the same level of urgency or impatience that people born under the
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SPEAKER_00: first quarter moon have,
24:45
SPEAKER_00: because whatever they came here to work on this time around,
24:49
SPEAKER_00: they've already worked through some of the kinks of that long-term project before,
24:54
SPEAKER_00: and they've developed a good deal of confidence having been through all of that.
24:59
SPEAKER_00: So now it's going to be more about
25:01
SPEAKER_00: refining what they've been working on, making adjustments wherever and whenever they need to.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: They're pretty good at pivoting and they'll just continue on in whatever they're
25:12
SPEAKER_00: doing so that they can get the job done.
25:15
SPEAKER_00: They know they're almost at the culmination point of whatever growth work they're doing.
25:20
SPEAKER_00: And if they just stay the course, they're probably going to get there or they will get there in due time.
25:27
SPEAKER_00: And again, they've learned a lot.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: They're not at the beginning of the project.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: So they tend to be very smart and they can be very creative.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: They make really nice and much needed adjustments to things.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: And they can do this on anything that they're doing in their life, big or small, actually.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: Making little adjustments and refining things is often their forte.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: This is a really good position for healers or any type of creative person,
25:57
SPEAKER_00: but really anything that involves detail-oriented work.
26:02
SPEAKER_00: Next, we are halfway through the lunar cycle.
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SPEAKER_00: We get to the full moon,
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SPEAKER_00: and the full moon starts at 180 degrees from the sun and lasts up until about 224 degrees.
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SPEAKER_00: The full moon phase is actually a sun-moon opposition.
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SPEAKER_00: That's when we get a full moon.
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SPEAKER_00: It's halfway through the lunar cycle when the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the wheel.
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SPEAKER_00: Or the sky, I should say.
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SPEAKER_00: It's, of course, when the moon is fully illuminated and very bright.
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SPEAKER_00: It's at its brightest during this phase.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: And you can think a bit about all of the things we associate the full moon with.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of energy and a lot of intensity.
26:51
SPEAKER_00: So full moon people,
26:54
SPEAKER_00: people born under this lunar phase can often be kind of intense,
26:58
SPEAKER_00: possibly rather emotional,
27:01
SPEAKER_00: maybe,
27:02
SPEAKER_00: but they are noticeable.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: They garner attention and people tend to pay attention to them.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: And as a result of that attention, many full moon individuals wind up feeling like,
27:16
SPEAKER_00: either they are influential or that they should try to become influential in some way.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: It's also true that full moons are about culmination and release.
27:29
SPEAKER_00: So often these are people who will be putting important work out there into the world,
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SPEAKER_00: sharing what they've been working on.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a very public time.
27:39
SPEAKER_00: This is not a person who's going to be
27:41
SPEAKER_00: a wallflower or hanging back in the shadows.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: This is a very public-facing person,
27:47
SPEAKER_00: even if it's just public-facing within your own small groups or your own community.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: And it's not that other people can't do these things.
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SPEAKER_00: All of the phases can do great work and make contributions or be in the limelight sometimes.
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SPEAKER_00: Of course they can and they do.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's just that this phase is especially designed or wired to be doing that even more than most.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, as I said, it is an opposition.
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SPEAKER_00: So there's also that element of polarization,
28:17
SPEAKER_00: that push-pull dynamic we've talked about before,
28:21
SPEAKER_00: where you're trying to figure out how to create balance in your life or how to
28:25
SPEAKER_00: integrate two very different or opposing things.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: That's where the big lesson is and where the learning curve is when you're born under this moon.
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SPEAKER_00: Balance is going to be very important to them.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: So learning how to balance opposing things will be a big,
28:45
SPEAKER_00: big theme all throughout the lifetime for people born under this phase.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: That applies to yourself.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: That applies to relationships.
28:55
SPEAKER_00: It can apply to any area of life, really.
28:58
SPEAKER_00: And if you look at the houses that the sun and moon are in,
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SPEAKER_00: That will give you some clues about what it is that you specifically wanted to look
29:07
SPEAKER_00: at in terms of getting the full picture or learning how to balance certain parts of
29:13
SPEAKER_00: your life.
29:15
SPEAKER_00: After this culminating phase, this full moon phase, we now reach the disseminating phase.
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SPEAKER_00: This is also called the waning gibbous.
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SPEAKER_00: And you were born under a waning gibbous moon if your moon was between 225 degrees and 269 degrees.
29:36
SPEAKER_00: And this one,
29:36
SPEAKER_00: I really prefer to use the term disseminating moon here because this phase is all
29:43
SPEAKER_00: about sharing or distributing information and also wisdom and sharing messages with
29:52
SPEAKER_00: other people.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: Here,
29:54
SPEAKER_00: you're taking everything that you've learned through all of the other phases so far
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SPEAKER_00: when the moon was waxing or gaining light and visibility.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: You got to learn all sorts of things throughout your trial and error period,
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SPEAKER_00: your striving period,
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SPEAKER_00: your problem solving and conflict resolution.
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SPEAKER_00: You got to shine and maybe lead others during the full moon phase.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: And in this go-round,
30:21
SPEAKER_00: you're able to take all of that experience and learning and distribute that
30:27
SPEAKER_00: information far and wide so that other people can have it too and benefit from it.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: People can benefit from that knowledge.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: This is a real mission for you in your life.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: So this can be a phase where you
30:41
SPEAKER_00: someone can be really inspiring to other people in some way.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Maybe they have a spiritual message to share, or maybe it's something more practical.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's a great phase for a really highly creative person to have.
30:56
SPEAKER_00: Great if you're an artist, or great if you're another creative of some kind.
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SPEAKER_00: You may feel like you have something important to say, so you could end up in
31:07
SPEAKER_00: A field like journalism or broadcasting or speaking or writing or something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Or it's also a very service oriented moon phase because you may feel like you can help people.
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SPEAKER_00: So a lot of helping professions can come up here, too.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: It's also possible that this doesn't have to be related to profession at all.
31:30
SPEAKER_00: This might just show up for you in the way that you interact with your community or
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SPEAKER_00: your social circles or your family.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: Some people like to contribute and be a helper in a more one-on-one personal way.
31:45
SPEAKER_00: So you may be that person that always has really sage advice to give the people you love.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: Next is the third quarter moon the third quarter phase and that occurs between 270
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SPEAKER_00: degrees and 315 degrees.
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SPEAKER_00: The third quarter moon is also a half moon but the opposite side is lit up as
32:09
SPEAKER_00: compared to the first quarter moon.
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SPEAKER_00: This is another square the third quarter moon this is the second square
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SPEAKER_00: square of the cycle that occurs when the moon is waning,
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SPEAKER_00: halfway between the full moon and the next new moon or the start of the next lunar cycle.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: It's a bit similar to the first quarter moon because they're both squares,
32:34
SPEAKER_00: but they're not exactly the same.
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SPEAKER_00: Where the first quarter moon is about ambition and striving and working hard to
32:43
SPEAKER_00: overcome obstacles in order to achieve a goal.
32:47
SPEAKER_00: So in other words, outward conflict.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: The third quarter moon is more about inner conflict.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: It's less active than the first quarter moon and more reflective.
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SPEAKER_00: The kind of striving that you're doing under this phase is really about integrating
33:06
SPEAKER_00: your experiences so that you can elevate your personal growth.
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SPEAKER_00: This phase is about transformation.
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SPEAKER_00: I associate it with Scorpio energy a little bit, if that makes sense.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't totally want to assign,
33:22
SPEAKER_00: you know,
33:23
SPEAKER_00: signs to the lunar phases,
33:26
SPEAKER_00: but there are certain things in astrology that might remind you of other things.
33:31
SPEAKER_00: And this does remind me a little bit of Scorpio energy.
33:34
SPEAKER_00: These people are going to be looking really deep into themselves, feeling
33:40
SPEAKER_00: figuring stuff out, learning to reconcile all your own parts and experiences and feelings.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: And you're going to come out of all of that self-reflection transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: These can be really, really reflective folks.
33:59
SPEAKER_00: Last, we have the balsamic phase or the waning crescent.
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SPEAKER_00: Some people just call this the balsamic moon.
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SPEAKER_00: The balsamic moon happens from about 315 degrees to 360 degrees.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's full circle.
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SPEAKER_00: We're coming very close again to the new moon, the next new moon.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the last phase of the lunar cycle before beginning a new one at the next new moon.
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SPEAKER_00: If the third quarter moon reminds me just a bit of Scorpio energy,
34:33
SPEAKER_00: then this phase feels a bit Piscean to me,
34:39
SPEAKER_00: or maybe like the 12th house even in a way.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: This is a time of completion and introspection.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: There's not as much energy available here for starting new
34:51
SPEAKER_00: large-scale projects.
34:53
SPEAKER_00: So being born under this moon is often going to foster lessons around how to be
34:59
SPEAKER_00: still and trust the flow of things.
35:03
SPEAKER_00: You wanted to learn how to improve your ability to
35:07
SPEAKER_00: surrender to a higher power.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes there's even a feeling of having your life left to fate almost,
35:16
SPEAKER_00: like certain things happen that feel fated or like it just couldn't have been any
35:22
SPEAKER_00: other way.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: So it's about letting go of the need to control everything,
35:28
SPEAKER_00: learning to let go of the way that things are and how they're getting done and how
35:33
SPEAKER_00: they turn out.
35:35
SPEAKER_00: And also learning that however things turn out, it's all okay.
35:41
SPEAKER_00: There's beauty in all things.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: And wherever you go, there you are, right?
35:46
SPEAKER_00: It's very Zen, like learning how to just be instead of always doing.
35:53
SPEAKER_00: all the time.
35:54
SPEAKER_00: And that just all is in service to the idea of completing the particular cycle of
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SPEAKER_00: lessons that you're on so that you can tie up whatever loose ends are still out
36:04
SPEAKER_00: there and be ready in the future to take on a new set of lessons.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: It's a moment of stillness or relaxation in some cases before a leap forward into the unknown again.
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SPEAKER_00: People born under a balsamic moon can be incredibly intuitive or even have a
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SPEAKER_00: profound psychic ability in some cases.
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SPEAKER_00: That's often a part of oneself that can be developed if someone feels inclined to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: And it can be a pretty spiritual lifetime in many cases.
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SPEAKER_00: But much like Pisces or like the 12th house,
36:44
SPEAKER_00: the challenge here can be around feeling detached or removed from others.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: Escapism can also be a theme,
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SPEAKER_00: but you can really lean into that intuition and develop those psychic abilities if
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SPEAKER_00: you choose to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, that wraps up today's episode.
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SPEAKER_00: I am going to do more on the moon in the show in the future.
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SPEAKER_00: There's more to cover.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'd love to eventually talk about the lunar cycle again in terms of goal setting and manifestation.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for being here today.
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