1 00:00:20,190 --> 00:00:23,270 Hello and welcome to Embodied Astrology, a podcast and 2 00:00:23,270 --> 00:00:25,750 learning community where we explore the growing edges of 3 00:00:25,750 --> 00:00:29,750 astrology and its intersections with healing, arts, activism, 4 00:00:29,790 --> 00:00:31,470 relationships, and personal growth. 5 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,840 My name is Renee Sills and this is your week ahead forecast. 6 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,480 The audio that you're about to listen to is from this week's 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:41,200 Somatic Space, A weekly virtual class that Ioffer every moon 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,760 day, where we explore the astrology of the week ahead 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,680 through meditation, visualization, and gentle, 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,920 accessible movement. 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So with that, we're going to 51 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,680 take a short break for the ads and then be right back with 52 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,080 today's episode. Thank you so much for being here 53 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,760 for all of it. I wanted to start with a poem 54 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,760 written by a friend and colleague, Anna Denalo. 55 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,480 Anna is a doctor of Oriental medicine and a somatic therapist 56 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:12,160 and meditation teacher who I met in February and March. 57 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:17,960 We were part of the Oceanic Maroon States Astro Afro Futures 58 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,840 Festival in Europe University, so I shared in the chat a 59 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,040 picture that she shared with this poem. 60 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,600 I'll describe it for those who are tuning in later with the 61 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,480 recording. So this is a picture of twilight 62 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:40,000 time. Dusk and Venus has risen, so you 63 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,320 see a beautiful sky, a twilight sky. 64 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,800 It's full of blue shades. There's dark Blues and 65 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:54,960 periwinkle Blues and light Blues and some darker shadows of 66 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,480 clouds. And you can see the glowing of 67 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,040 the setting sun above the horizon line, which is pure 68 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,360 black. And in the Earth you see 69 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:11,080 outlines or silhouettes of trees and and shapes of plant life and 70 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,160 earth shapes. And then above the horizon line 71 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:20,000 in the middle of the twilight sky is the shining aura and body 72 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,760 of Venus. And so Venus is in her evening 73 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,840 star phase. She's recently become visible 74 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:31,200 again in the western sky. Maybe some of you have seen 75 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,360 Venus shortly after sunset. Venus is very visible right now, 76 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,000 as is Jupiter. So we have the presence of both 77 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,640 of the benefits in the evening sky. 78 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:48,560 So this poem was written by Anna Donalo, and it was sent with 79 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,240 this picture. You asked me to tell you a story 80 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:58,120 about my lovers. After a long day of Saturn's 81 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,960 heavy rings on my back blocking sunlight, magic requesting 82 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:09,400 stillness, fortitude, service and karmic repayment, she greets 83 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,320 me with beauty. The colors of her skin move from 84 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,400 blue to night sky, streaks of pink in her hair. 85 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,240 I immediately feel my breath change the same way. 86 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,320 It rises with pleasure and ecstasy and falls, desiring 87 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,440 another breath in. More love, more sensation, more 88 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,920 pleasure. I do not need to touch her body 89 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,120 because it already wraps me, embraces me. 90 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,440 Her orgasms bring me to tears as I sit on a stump. 91 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,480 I feel silly for trying to take her picture, knowing her body is 92 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:58,520 formless, her love is endless and the moment I see her dressed 93 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,240 in this color again, I will orgasm till it brings me to my 94 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,640 knees, until my tears flow down my face and remain in my heart. 95 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,320 This is what it is like to sleep with Venus. 96 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,480 This is what it is like for my body to sleep with a woman who 97 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:23,320 has taken shape in the form of a * That poem by Anna Dinello felt 98 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,320 like a really loving and lovely incantation. 99 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,120 And. Welcome into Taurus season. 100 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,400 Taurus season began yesterday and Taurus is a Venus ruled 101 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,800 sign. And so as we enter into the 102 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,160 season. I know there's a lot happening, 103 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:47,600 but I hope that in the midst of all of the alotness, there is 104 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:53,680 also some moments of pause that you might have with Venus and 105 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,200 with your Venusian sensibilities as we enter into this season. 106 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,320 Last week I began with a movement practice and then was 107 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,440 talking. But I encourage you to really 108 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,800 feel into your choice as you engage with me as the person 109 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,160 who's speaking. We're all really used to power 110 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,880 dynamics where when one person is speaking, we give them 111 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,520 attention, and that's great. That's a gift to the speaker to 112 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:25,000 have the attention, you know, really allows us to to be in 113 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,240 what we're channeling. But let's TuneIn with the ways 114 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:34,280 that we're offering attention and really think about attending 115 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:39,000 to our own body as we're also making ourselves receptive to 116 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,960 what is coming through with today's channel. 117 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,560 So before I even begin, I want to invite you just to close your 118 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,880 eyes. And if closing your eyes doesn't 119 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,120 feel good to you, then allow your gaze to fall. 120 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:04,000 Turn your attention inward, take a couple of breaths of arrival 121 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,280 and let these breaths touch your inner body in ways that bring 122 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:16,360 more attention and awareness to how you're feeling physically, 123 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:26,720 how you're feeling emotionally, how you're feeling 124 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:39,880 energetically, and then extend some curiosity into your own 125 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,400 body in the form of questions that you can ask yourself. 126 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,680 And let's start with the energetic body. 127 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,800 And as you tune in with your energetic body, you might even 128 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:00,600 imagine it. Where is your energy right now? 129 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:06,840 And your energy can include all kinds of things. 130 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,720 It definitely includes the various aspects of your 131 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:17,880 attention. So it's possible to be paying 132 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,360 attention in One Direction and also have a lot of attention 133 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:26,240 somewhere else. You might feel your energy 134 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,400 pulled towards different times or places or situations. 135 00:09:37,050 --> 00:09:40,930 And then the question that we'll pose to our energy bodies is 136 00:09:41,250 --> 00:09:42,770 where do we want to be right now? 137 00:09:46,450 --> 00:09:50,680 And if you've made the choice to be here and you want to continue 138 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:59,440 to make that choice, then see if you can invite your energy body 139 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,240 to be here. And here is your time, your 140 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:13,680 space, your location. You might imagine reaching with 141 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:17,320 your awareness and with your attention into the space above 142 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,720 and below and around in all your directions and gathering up that 143 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,840 subtle stuff of your energy and awareness. 144 00:10:35,190 --> 00:10:46,490 And just like you might with a young child in a way that helps 145 00:10:46,490 --> 00:10:51,490 them to be here, to be present, if their energy is big or 146 00:10:51,490 --> 00:10:59,720 dispersed or moving in lots of directions, see if it might feel 147 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:05,280 good to imagine holding your energy body, inviting them to 148 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:17,050 settle. And then as the energy body 149 00:11:17,290 --> 00:11:26,290 arrives, allow your breath to spread out into your belly, into 150 00:11:26,290 --> 00:11:32,440 your chest. And if you're imagining holding 151 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,960 your energy body or holding the parts of you that may have been 152 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:41,560 in all kinds of places, let's just do a little bit of 153 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:48,120 emotional body check in and let's do a little bit of a scan 154 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,960 and notice what emotions are present. 155 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,640 And our emoting bodies are deeply relational. 156 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,520 And so as you feel into your emotions, you might also be 157 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:13,120 feeling into connections with other beings. 158 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:20,200 Cross time and space. And just as we did with the 159 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,760 energy body, let's greet the emotional body, and let's 160 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:33,200 include all parts and feelings and connections that are here in 161 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,320 ways that just simply validate and affirm that they're already 162 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,160 here. So we don't need to change them, 163 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:47,040 and we also don't need to really go deeply into any narratives or 164 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,520 explorations of them. Now. 165 00:12:50,520 --> 00:13:09,360 They can all just be here. What shape or shapes does your 166 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:14,360 emotional body, your energy body want to take in your physical 167 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:20,360 body right now as you tend to your energy and emotions? 168 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:28,520 Are there physical shapes that would feel congruent, that would 169 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:36,440 feel honoring of where you're at emotionally and energetically? 170 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:47,480 And if a physical shape emerges for you as a direction to move, 171 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,480 I really want to invite you to not judge it and just go ahead 172 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,240 and try it. So if all of a sudden you're 173 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,040 like, I got to do something that I've never done before. 174 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,960 I need support of a pillow or cushion. 175 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,160 I want to put something over my eyes. 176 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:09,640 I need to touch myself in a certain way, go ahead and try. 177 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:26,190 Just do that. And as your physical body meets 178 00:14:26,190 --> 00:14:33,040 your emotional and energetic bodies, try to stay really 179 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:38,480 present with the subtlety of the emotional and energetic realms 180 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,560 and the pure sensations of the physical response. 181 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:54,880 And if and when your mind comes in and it starts making a plan 182 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,360 for what you're going to do next, or it offers a critique or 183 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,320 analysis of what you're already doing, you can appreciate that 184 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:07,640 your mind is doing what minds do, and then invite it to quiet 185 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:15,200 down and rest back, making a conscious decision to prioritize 186 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,120 your felt sense, your subtle senses. 187 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,680 And we'll just be with this practice for another 2 minutes 188 00:15:25,680 --> 00:16:10,640 or so really intentionally. Letting the planning mind, the 189 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,280 critiquing mind, the analyzing mind get quiet. 190 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:28,160 Resting awareness in the subtlety of energy and feeling. 191 00:16:36,640 --> 00:17:13,160 Following your own feeling. When you have an impulse to move 192 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:20,200 or be in a certain way, if it results in a change of your 193 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:26,680 physicality, give yourself ample pause and notice. 194 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,120 What are the effects of that change. 195 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:36,040 How does it feel to actually receive your own awareness and 196 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:47,920 guidance and choice? Then let it keep evolving, Keep 197 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,960 coming back to the present moment. 198 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:57,880 What's next as energy and emotion do what they do, 199 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:10,060 Flowing, shifting, changing, inviting the physicality of your 200 00:18:10,060 --> 00:19:06,840 body to follow them. Now I'm going to offer you a 201 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:12,440 choice and a challenge. And 1st, there's the choice so 202 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,480 you can stay with where you are and what you're following and 203 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:22,960 allow your experience to remain maybe below or beyond the realms 204 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:27,640 of language, just in the feeling and sensing and being with. 205 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:38,000 If you feel compelled to make a choice for this challenge, the 206 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:44,320 challenge that I want to offer you is to make a bridge between 207 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,240 this felt sense that you're exploring and language. 208 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,720 And the question that I have for you is what are you noticing? 209 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,000 What are you noticing in your felt sense and the ways that it 210 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,240 is to respond from your physical body? 211 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,080 What are you noticing about the interplay between feeling, tone 212 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:17,760 and mental consciousness? You might be noticing how deeply 213 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,320 good this feels, and wow, it feels like it's been a long 214 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,480 time. You might be noticing that it 215 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,240 feels kind of impossible to settle in or sense or anything 216 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,760 in between. And the challenge now is to 217 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,360 offer your words to our collective space. 218 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,000 And this is just to build our collective body awareness of 219 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,880 what we're all noticing. And there's an additional 220 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:53,720 challenge of then engaging with your device, with typing, with 221 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,080 adding your felt sense into the chat. 222 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,480 And if anything comes in, I'll read it out loud and I'll only 223 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,760 say the 1st letter of your name to identify you. 224 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,640 Keep your confidentiality in the recording. 225 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,320 Now I'll begin to read what's being shared in the chat. 226 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:20,200 And so as you take in these words, there is also a challenge 227 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,440 and an invitation to be in the listening and the receiving of 228 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:33,440 information as you continue to tend your energy and emotion and 229 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:41,400 physicality, your somatic awareness, E says. 230 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,320 It feels like I want to scream, have a lot of energy to put 231 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,280 towards something that there isn't a place or direction 232 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:58,400 available to put it towards yet. F says hope, excitement, new 233 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,960 journeys, feel energized, fruits are coming. 234 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,680 Noticing resonance as words come in and meet our mirror neurons. 235 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,720 C says I'm noticing a fluid sense of expansion and 236 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,880 contraction of energy and physical body. 237 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:24,520 O says Eros, energy in connection with the earth, the 238 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:32,160 soil slow down, feel I am received and I am receiving. 239 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,320 A says my mind is pulling at what is ahead for this day, this 240 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,080 week. My body feels heavy and energy 241 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,640 is low. Being with the subtle feels like 242 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,360 a pause. It's taking a kind of energy and 243 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:52,080 also giving it transformed, she says. 244 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,520 Touch is reassuring my compulsion for control. 245 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,280 Control melts, loses its rigid identity. 246 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:05,000 Control is no longer control. Control is taking a step back 247 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,040 and witnessing, asking itself, Can I just be present? 248 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,160 Can I just grieve? I'm tired. 249 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,520 I'll just sit here. I'll just watch. 250 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,720 I'll just breathe. A quiet betrayal, abandoned, 251 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,240 that lives between my temples as I witness. 252 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:27,880 I stay with my body. I am not the abandoned E. 253 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,080 Everything is textured hills and valleys, fractal. 254 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,640 Smoothness is about distance and relationality, about focus and 255 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,000 perspective. I blur the edges to be with them 256 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,480 more easily. I zoom in to investigate and 257 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,520 grow, returning to softness and distance to hold the big 258 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,960 picture. Something isn't as painful as it 259 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,280 used to be. Emotional body in transition. 260 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,960 Some wounds have healed and the lessons are being integrated. 261 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,240 My jaw feels softer now, tingling in the forehead. 262 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,680 Physical body feels held in this space, A safety and coming back 263 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:12,800 again and again. Let's digest. 264 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,840 Let's digest all of that. Let's breathe with it. 265 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,920 Let's stretch with it. Let's touch our bodies in any 266 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:26,320 way that feels integrating. That was a big full meal of 267 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,480 information that we just took in. 268 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,360 As you digest, honor yourself for arriving. 269 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:39,160 Give yourself thanks and gratitude for meeting this 270 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:45,160 challenge, the challenge of presence, the challenge of 271 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:53,760 articulating and sharing. And I want to invite you to 272 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,880 continue to meet the challenge of staying present. 273 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,920 And I'll articulate a little bit about the astrology of this 274 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,640 week. And so as I share, stay with 275 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:10,040 your body, stay with your energy and emotion and physicality, and 276 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,720 don't worry about getting all the words or getting all the 277 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,320 ideas. Let them flow into you and make 278 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,320 the meanings that are meaningful for you, which might be beyond 279 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,120 the realm of thought. The meanings that you make might 280 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:26,560 be an impulse or an urge to move or a feeling that you have that 281 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:31,760 you want to stretch into. OK, so we're entering into this 282 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,520 week of April 20th. Happy 420. 283 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,960 If that's the thing that you like to notice, we're coming out 284 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:46,800 of a really intense new moon. So there was a new moon on 285 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,720 Friday last week in the very late degrees of Aries conjunct 286 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:59,800 with the Centaur planet Chiron, and yesterday Mars and Saturn 287 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:07,160 were conjunct together in Aries. And the influences of the New 288 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,520 moon conjunct with Chiron and Mars and Saturn together all in 289 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,720 Aries in my feeling body are bringing an incredible amount of 290 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,720 weight and restriction. And I'm going to say just like 291 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:26,520 stuff like there's a lot of stuff in the feeling of what it 292 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:31,840 is to be alive in existence as an individual and as an 293 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,120 individual that is also shaped and entirely embedded inside of 294 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:41,280 relationships. So the sign Aries is about the 295 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,440 self, but there are no selves without relationship. 296 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,080 The opposite of Aries is Libra. Aries is the one. 297 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,880 Libra is the 2 on the Cardinal Cross with Aries. 298 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,000 In Libra are Cancer and Capricorn. 299 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,720 These are signs that have to do with the implicit embeddedness 300 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:08,120 that we have inside of earthly relationships, families and 301 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:11,840 lineages and bonds that are human and more than human. 302 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,560 We belong to each other. We don't exist here without 303 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,800 everything that feeds us and nourishes us and creates us and 304 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:25,160 challenges us and tends us and grows us, right. 305 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,000 So the I feeling in a lot of ways is a deluded state. 306 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,000 It's a necessary orientation to exist on planet Earth because we 307 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,840 live in differentiated bodies and we all have our different 308 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,760 needs and unique experiences, but none of us exist inside of a 309 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,040 vacuum. And we live in a world that has 310 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:53,720 been shaped so deeply by toxic individualism, by narratives 311 00:27:53,720 --> 00:28:00,520 around freedom that are completely unaccountable to 312 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:06,480 interrelationship ideas that freedom could be doing whatever 313 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,720 you want whenever you want to whoever you want, and it doesn't 314 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,240 have an impact. You don't have to deal with 315 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,760 anybody else's feelings about it or the consequences of what you 316 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,440 do. We live in a world where there's 317 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,520 a very small percentage of people that have asserted their 318 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:31,040 right to act like that, do what they want, as they want, with 319 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:37,680 whoever they want, and anybody else's feelings. 320 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:43,040 Any impact that makes be damned doesn't matter. 321 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,080 The results of toxic individualism for all of us, 322 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:55,400 everybody, is that we don't belong, right? 323 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,640 Something in the wholeness and the complexities of who we are 324 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,960 means that we don't belong. We're not safe here. 325 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:10,280 There is a deep severing and disassociation that creates the 326 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,600 societies that we live in and that then gets coded into our 327 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,560 bodies and into our minds and into our relationships. 328 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,080 So Chiron as an influence speaks to the intergenerational 329 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:27,640 patterns of pain. And inside of these 330 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,200 intergenerational patterns are healing crises, crises of 331 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,680 healing. This is 1 of Chiron's main 332 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:39,000 themes. And so a lot of times we don't 333 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,960 know that we're resonating with injury until the parts of us 334 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:52,040 that were always weak give out. OK, so I'll offer an example for 335 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,480 myself. I have a intergenerational 336 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,560 pattern of weakness in my left foot. 337 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,600 I have a very clear, distinct memory of looking at my 338 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:07,120 grandmother standing with a kind of lot of weight in the inside 339 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,400 of her left foot. And this created a pattern 340 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,760 through her body of weakness in the left knee and a kind of 341 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,320 sunkenness in the left hip and a scoliosis in the spine. 342 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,840 And I've inherited that pattern. That's a genetic pattern for me. 343 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,000 It's not a pattern that I created. 344 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,240 It's a pattern that I inherited. As a younger person, I didn't 345 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,520 notice that pattern. I'm in my 40s now, and the 346 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,560 consequences of living on a planet with gravity and living 347 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,040 in a body that has inherited patterns in my bones means that 348 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,200 I'm starting to now feel that pattern in very different ways 349 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,760 than I ever felt it before. And how I'm feeling it is 350 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,400 through pain. And so the pain that's emerging 351 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,120 in my body is a pain that's intergenerational. 352 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,040 I did not create it. My grandmother didn't create it. 353 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:05,000 Who knows where it's from, but the crisis of my own pain is an 354 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,720 opportunity that I have to work with that pattern, right? 355 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,240 So I live in a body and at a time and in the midst of choices 356 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,160 that I've made to be someone who's interested in movement 357 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,800 repatterning. So I know that I can actually do 358 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,240 things like strengthen the intrinsic muscles of my foot and 359 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,520 wear toe spacers and not wear pointy narrow shoes, right? 360 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,760 I know that there are ways that I can work energetically and 361 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,880 emotionally with the psychosomatic inherited patterns 362 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,720 of what it means to have a collapse on my left side. 363 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,400 There's a whole world of possibility there for me to 364 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,560 explore. I will not entirely heal this 365 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,080 pattern. And if I was a person who was 366 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,840 going to have a child, and I have not made that choice, but 367 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,480 if I had, there would be a good chance that my child would 368 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,720 inherit that pattern as well, right? 369 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,480 This is deeply genetic. But if my child did inherit that 370 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,560 pattern, they would also inherit my awareness of that pattern. 371 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,360 Because if I saw that my child had that pattern, then what I 372 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,880 would do is teach them really early on how to strengthen the 373 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,320 intrinsic muscles of their foot and how to be in deep listening 374 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,960 with their left side. And we might even do things like 375 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,920 create an altar to my grandmother Clara and TuneIn 376 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,800 with her and her lineage and what she has to offer about 377 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,040 wisdom and support for the left side and the foot and the place 378 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,280 we meet the ground. So my child, hypothetically, 379 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,520 would be raised with a lot of awareness and healing gifts that 380 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:54,080 come from this pattern of pain. OK, so that's my story. 381 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:59,680 I bet you have your own anybody here who's who's sure that you 382 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,440 don't have an inherited ancestral pain pattern. 383 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,880 You're like, Nope, I missed that. 384 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,880 So I don't see anybody throwing up an emoji, don't see anyone 385 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,560 nodding. OK, so I think it's safe to say 386 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:21,600 we've all inherited pain patterns, and pain is a teacher. 387 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,280 Pain is a lesson, right? Pain is an opportunity for 388 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,320 awakening. We don't live on a planet 389 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,840 without pain. We live on a planet that 390 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,720 guarantees pain. This is actually what we sign up 391 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,760 for when we come to Earth. Pain, gravity, suffering and 392 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,040 death, right? That's your guarantees. 393 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,720 And then all the beauty and all the learning and all the living, 394 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,480 that's what we get to make out of it. 395 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,560 So when pain shows up, pain is a teacher. 396 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,680 And this is what Chiron is offering to us. 397 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,160 Chiron is a symbol of healing journeys and healing crises. 398 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,880 And Chiron and Aries, I'm just going to say, because Aries is a 399 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,360 symbol that associates us with individualism and also with 400 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,639 masculinity. And anybody can have 401 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,199 masculinity. You don't need to have 402 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:15,560 particular genitals to be, you know, able to express masculine 403 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,159 energy. I'm just going to offer that 404 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,840 Chiron and Aries themes might really resonate with wounds of 405 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:29,480 patriarchy, the wounds of toxic individualism, the wounds of a 406 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:35,199 kind of toxic masculinity. And inside of this larger wound 407 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:39,280 pattern that is cultural and that is systemic, there are all 408 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:44,159 the ways that we've absorbed it, all the ways that the 409 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:48,840 generational healing crises that we might be resonating with have 410 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:53,239 absorbed it. OK, I see something coming into 411 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,520 the chat. So R is saying on the flip side, 412 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,040 some of us have never embraced the power of being an 413 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,040 individual, always orienting to others needs as primary 414 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,480 priority. Also toxic to automatically 415 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,200 submit relationally. Feels like the healing available 416 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,160 is available by bringing individualism into balance on 417 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,000 the other end. Absolutely, absolutely so. 418 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,760 People pleasing and enmeshment and codependency and not being 419 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,640 able to feel ourselves as individuals is also part of 420 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,680 toxic individualism and patriarchy. 421 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:31,200 It's absolutely part of it. OK, so today as we enter into 422 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,680 this week, Mercury is now with Mars and Saturn in Aries. 423 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,880 And by the end of this week, Mercury will be squaring Jupiter 424 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,800 in Cancer. And Mercury is coming out of a 425 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,280 retrograde in February and March when it was trying to Jupiter in 426 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,120 Cancer. So I'm going to say that over 427 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,560 the last several months with Mercury's retrograde with 428 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,640 February and March, Mercury's trines to Jupiter, it happened 429 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,320 three times. We worked with it a ton in 430 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,240 somatic space. I'm just going to say, I think 431 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,760 that a lot of us have learned some new things about ourselves 432 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:08,560 and our feelings and what's actually present here and what 433 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,320 needs to be felt and what needs to be included. 434 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,480 And so over the last few months, some of some of you, maybe all 435 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,640 of you, I know I definitely have. 436 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,560 I have encountered parts of my being that I'm like, oh, OK, 437 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,640 you're here. These are intuitive parts, these 438 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,000 are emotional parts. These are pain pattern parts. 439 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,120 They're also the parts of me that are deeply healthy and 440 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,080 really need to assert themselves and come into more clarity and 441 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:41,200 and consciousness. So Mercury is the mind, Mars is 442 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,040 action, and Saturn is discipline, right? 443 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:48,640 One way we might think about working with this energy this 444 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:53,080 week is through coherence practices, through the fortitude 445 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,000 and determination that is required to bring our thoughts 446 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:04,680 and our cognizance into deeper alignment and coherence with our 447 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,640 bodies and our energy and emotions so that we can be more 448 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,400 honest and accountable and how we communicate. 449 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,880 In the beginning there was the voice. 450 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,960 What we communicate has immense power. 451 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,400 What we pay attention to and where our thoughts are going 452 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,240 grounds our communication. So if I live inside of a 453 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:35,800 cultural wound pattern that has me self abandoning and erasing 454 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,440 myself to be inside of relationships because I was born 455 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,240 into a body socialized female and all different kinds of 456 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:46,040 conditions have acted so that my toxic individualism story is I 457 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:51,280 don't get to exist, then I'm going to have a whole inner 458 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,400 narrative about that. That then manifests as 459 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,480 communication, right? And in my communication, I'll be 460 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,960 vague. I won't really speak to my 461 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,760 needs. I'll prioritize somebody else's 462 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,240 feelings. When it comes time for me to 463 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,720 speak my truth, I might entirely lose my words. 464 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,360 Where do I go? What happens? 465 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,800 So building coherence and integrity then for me might be 466 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,480 the discipline and the commitment of practicing, 467 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,960 noticing my energy, body and emotional field and coming into 468 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:27,800 my physicality and really slowing down to be with the 469 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:32,360 challenge of speaking from my felt sense in real time. 470 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,120 Noticing the energetic and emotional patterning that has me 471 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:42,800 spinning out and objectifying my selves and externalizing seeing 472 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,800 myself from the other person's point of view. 473 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:56,880 OK, so stories are spells, and if you speak English then you 474 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,920 you are speaking spells all the time that are spells of 475 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:03,760 colonization and patriarchy. English is a language that is 476 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,920 infused with objectification. It nounifies the world, right? 477 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,800 It is not a living language. And so much of this language is 478 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,560 actually deeply violent. So pay attention to how you're 479 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,480 crafting words and what the energetic and emotional impact 480 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,960 of those words are. Let this be a week and a rest of 481 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,880 your life and season that brings you into the felt sense of the 482 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:33,160 resonance of your words. And then do the practice that we 483 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,800 were doing already, right? How does it feel to hear and to 484 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,720 resonate with those words? This happened to me the other 485 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:44,320 day. I was telling a story about 486 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,160 mythology, and I called Zeus a son of a bitch. 487 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,640 I was like that guy. And then I said those words and 488 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,360 I was like, what are those words? 489 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,600 What is that phrase that is so deeply violent? 490 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,280 That's such a deeply misogynist phrase. 491 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,400 Why is that coming out of my mouth? 492 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:10,520 Why is that how I'm expressing my disdain and dislike for this? 493 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,320 Mythic character that's acting in a way that I deeply disagree 494 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,920 with. Why is it that when I want to 495 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,840 use an expletive, I'm often denigrating the body? 496 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:28,080 I love bodies. Why are swear words body parts 497 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,440 and most often female body parts? 498 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:36,320 What's happening with that? I want to decolonize my language 499 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,760 because when I do that, I'm going to decolonize my 500 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:47,600 consciousness. So this week also is a huge 501 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,320 movement week. It's a big week for for big 502 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:55,080 movements. OK, first on Thursday at Venus 503 00:40:55,120 --> 00:41:00,720 is at the very last degree of Taurus, Venus's home sign 29° of 504 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:04,160 Taurus. And on Thursday Venus will be 505 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,920 sextile with palace in Pisces at the very last degree of Pisces. 506 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,480 And Venus will be conjunct with Uranus, also at the very last 507 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:18,800 degree of Taurus. So Venus is again the ruler of 508 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,000 Taurus or the associated planet with Taurus. 509 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,480 And both Venus and Taurus have a lot to do with the values and 510 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,080 aesthetics. OK, so values and aesthetics 511 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,400 shape culture. What do we prize? 512 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,240 How do we define beauty? How do we define what's 513 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:39,400 valuable? And so inside of patriarchy, 514 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,000 beauty is often especially feminine. 515 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,200 Beauty is unconscious. It's disembodied, it's starving, 516 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,600 it's self harming. OK. 517 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,640 Inside of patriarchy, beauty is an absence of queerness or 518 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,240 gender fluidity. Inside of patriarchy, beauty is 519 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,920 the the type of machismo that is completely boxed in so the 520 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,840 masculine can only really express dominance. 521 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,640 And on Earth, you know, this looks like disposability 522 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,080 culture. So it's not the deep beauty of 523 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:14,000 craft or repair, but it's new cheap trash and more and more 524 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,440 and more and having more than others. 525 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,000 But we are alive at a time of shifting values and shifting 526 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,600 aesthetics. And within our lifetimes, we 527 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:29,560 have been part of values and aesthetics changing, right? 528 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,480 Beauty norms are shifting, beauty norms are changing. 529 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,400 And blessings to the Queer Liberation Front, you know, for 530 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,880 doing heavy lifting on helping beauty norms change and the 531 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,600 feminists and the men who are out there claiming more of their 532 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:52,040 wholeness. On Thursday, Venus leaves Taurus 533 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,520 and moves into Gemini, and Gemini is a sign of 534 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,840 multiplicities and queerness and variety. 535 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,080 And then by Sunday, Venus will make a sextile with Neptune and 536 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:04,720 Aries. And I'm going to say that this 537 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:09,840 is great energy for helping us dream into new dreams of beauty. 538 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,680 And it's also really supportive for querying our values and 539 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,640 aesthetics, getting outside of the binaries. 540 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,440 And that includes outside of the binaries of gender norms. 541 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,280 And it also includes getting outside of the binaries of good 542 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,680 or bad or valuable or not valuable or something like that. 543 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,520 On Saturday, Uranus leaves Taurus and moves into Gemini. 544 00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,040 And that's a big deal because Uranus is an outer planet and it 545 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,760 doesn't change signs often. It entered Taurus in 2018. 546 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,680 It's basically been there since. It had a little bit of a 547 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,440 departure last year between June and October. 548 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,920 So you might consider where is Gemini or where are Taurus and 549 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,440 Gemini in your chart? What was happening for you 550 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,480 between June and October last year? 551 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:58,480 How were new changing, surprising kinds of sensations 552 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:03,160 starting to manifest? Because as Uranus shift science, 553 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:10,800 we're all in for a big change, and Venus is leading the way. 554 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,880 So Venus is with Uranus conjunct at the very last degree of 555 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,960 Taurus, and then they're both moving into Gemini. 556 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:24,120 And I'm going to read this as a symbol of changing values and 557 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,680 shifting aesthetics and conscious participation with the 558 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,640 ways that values and aesthetics can change and what that means 559 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,320 for culture and what that means for the world. 560 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,160 So let's be strategic in what we uplift to this week and in the 561 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,120 directions that we are pointing our gaze and attention and where 562 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:49,440 we're letting our senses rest. OK, So we can topple the empire, 563 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,880 y'all, fairly easily by defunding it. 564 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,440 And it eats our money. That's how it's continuing to, 565 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,240 you know, do its thing as an empire. 566 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:04,840 It's feeding on consumerism and a diluted sense of what we need 567 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,600 in order to be safe and beautiful and valuable and to 568 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,120 belong. So the revolution happens in the 569 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,640 subtle realms of our sensory preferences and the stories that 570 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,880 we're telling, as well as on the front lines of direct action. 571 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,360 But in order to take direct action, we need to have our 572 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:29,280 subtle support foundations. So we're going to get into our 573 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,440 movement practice now. And, and what we're going to 574 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,160 work with somatically this week is noticing the Taurus parts of 575 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,600 our bodies. And Taurus rules the jaw and the 576 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:46,000 mouth and the tongue. And when our tongues do anything 577 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,280 at all, it moves our spine. And we're going to work in the 578 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,480 place where Aries meets Taurus. And so Aries rules the upper 579 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,360 head and Taurus rules the lower head. 580 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,040 Aries rules from the nose up to the front of the brain and the 581 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,120 frontal lobe. And then Taurus rules the the 582 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,000 mandible and the mouth and the tongue and the base of the 583 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,960 brain. And so this feeling of I exist 584 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:16,160 is completely connected to the feeling of I need, right? 585 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,240 And this is Aries I exist and Taurus I need. 586 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,880 And those two are completely connected with Gemini, which is 587 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,520 I relate, right? I'm here as part of Mini. 588 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,440 And so we're going to work in this space to notice what 589 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,920 happens when desire leads us and also what happens when we 590 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,720 connect in with the ways that our mouths and our senses reach 591 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:42,040 towards what we're wanting or what we're attracted to. 592 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,440 It's a gift to be here with all of you. 593 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,440 Thank you for making the time and space. 594 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,440 And I'll see you next week. Bye for now.