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For all of it before we begin 
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I wanted to make a couple of 
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We have a monthly Members only 
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which is part of our Fire to 
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Our Tourist season session 
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preparedness. 
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the astrology of the near future
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prepare materially, physically, 
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relationally for what's to come.
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The fourth Tuesday of every 
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monthly series that explores 
Saturn and Neptune in Aries as a

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beacon call for sustainability, 
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collective power. 
This series strengthens and 

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evolves these practices and 
explores ways we can do so and 

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right relationship with land, 
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also countering intentional 
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On Tuesday, May 26th we have the
next edition of this series 

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coming up that will be a 
planetary and elemental ritual 

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to dispel the evil eye with 
special guests Marwa Nasser 

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Metzler and Lina Moon. 
The Evil Eye, El I am in Arabic,

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in Swana cultures and many 
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believed to be both projected 
onto someone and also received 

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through the eyes and can be the 
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In this session we'll learn 
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conjunction in Aries and their 
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the evil eye through a Swana 
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its lesser known healing 
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the series, check our show 
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Coming up on June 13th, we have 
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Astrology and Secret Third 
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Alice Barkley Cat, and Blair 
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We'll be reflecting on the 
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how to blend astrology with 
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methodologies as creative 
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to their lived experiences. 
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everything I just mentioned in 
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embodiedastrology.com. 
In this season of tourist 

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season, which we're almost at 
the end of, this is our last 

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full week of tourist season. 
I've invited some homework, some

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personal practice outside of 
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space, and that homework has 
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we've been doing in the space, a
lot of which has been around the

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immediacy of the sensing body. 
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season, we've worked with 
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The first week of tourist 
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intelligence of the mouth and 
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This is one of the places in the
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govern in medical astrology, and
if you were there, you might 

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remember if you weren't there. 
What we did is we tuned in with 

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the immediacy of the oral 
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some kind of sensory input that 
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aversion towards. 
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now. 
You can just like take a minute.

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I see someone stretching their 
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That's perfect, right? 
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your lips, stretch your jaw, 
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your mouth and your face. 
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whole long hour and a half 
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You could just do it for a 
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imagination and use the power of
contrast inside your imagination

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to call to mind something 
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Notice how your mouth and your 
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My mouth is watering even saying
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what happens. 
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I don't know if other people 
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The, the body, mind, it's a 
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There's not a separation. 
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parts, they're highly 
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tuned in with the mouth and the 
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tourist season, we worked with a
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And Pratyahara is the name of a 
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8 limbed path of Ashtanga yoga. 
And it's, it's one practice that

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And so the this one thing that 
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thing by the way, it's just one 
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withdraw our senses from the 
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And so in our second week of 
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did is we tuned in with the 
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the ears, the mouth, skin, and 
we practiced bringing a lot of 

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awareness into the place where 
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the sense gates. 
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with the sense gates in an open,
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And one of the ways I've heard 
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field of awareness. 
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our bodies and our immediate 
experience and going towards the

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objects that we're sensing, 
which is what our minds do, and 

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it's part of how we survive on 
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So for example, if I smell 
something and it's delicious, my

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mind immediately has a 
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It's like, oh, delicious. 
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delicious, then there's a story.
My mind is like cinnamon rolls, 

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right? 
And now I have my whole story 

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about cinnamon rolls, which I 
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I don't know if anybody else 
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They are my favorite baked to 
good. 

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Just to let you know that in 
case you ever want to please me,

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I'll take a cinnamon roll. 
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roll. 
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That's my preference. 
Then immediately I have a story.

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As soon as I have a preference, 
as soon as I have a story, I'm 

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involved. 
My eye feeling. 

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And as soon as my eye feeling is
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this permanence, right? 
There's this sense of I exist. 

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I'm going to survive. 
I want things. 

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I'm going to possess that 
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If I have that cinnamon roll, 
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And our minds do that 
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And I, if I smell something 
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right? 
Oh, don't like that. 

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Now I've got a whole story about
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Now I want to get away from it. 
Now I'm judging whatever made 

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that story. 
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So in the second week of tourist
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with Pratyahara and I remember 
that class. 

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At the end of it, there was this
deep feeling of calm in the 

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class. 
Does anybody remember that to be

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in the open field of awareness, 
to release our minds from 

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grasping at the objects of their
perception, brings us into such 

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a deep state of receptivity. 
And receptivity is Venusian, and

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Venus is the ruler of Taurus. 
And Venusian sensibility is all 

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about being able to receive the 
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The sense gates of the body, the
receptive intelligences of the 

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body are deeply relational. 
So Venus governs the signs 

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Taurus and Libra, right? 
And Taurus is an Earth sign. 

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It helps us to receive 
relationship with Earth, the 

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sounds and the smells and the 
textures and the environments 

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that we are part of. 
And Libra is an air sign. 

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It helps us to receive 
relationship with other 

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breathing beings. 
The give and the take of the 

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exchange. 
OK, so that's what we did in our

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second tourist season practice. 
And then last week for our third

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tourist season practice, we 
actually worked with a practice 

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suggested by Resma Menicum and 
his Vimbasi process. 

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And VIMBASSI is an acronym. 
And so he suggested that what we

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do is we attune with the times 
that we're in. 

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And he said that the times that 
we're in are full of peril and 

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full of possibility, and none of
us can know or control what will

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happen, but we can be here with 
our best selves. 

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That's what we can do. 
And so we sat with that prompt 

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and we felt it through our 
sensing bodies and then we went 

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through the Vimbasi process. 
So we noticed the vibe, the 

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energy, we noticed the images, 
what was being conjured in our 

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minds and mental associations. 
Then we noticed the meaning 

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making that happened. 
What were the stories that we 

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were telling because of that and
those first three, that's kind 

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of a breakdown in some ways of 
what happens with the pratyahara

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practice, right? 
What we did the week before, 

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what's happening in the 
environment, then immediately 

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what's happening in the mind 
because there's there's not a 

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separation, right? 
Our minds are part of the body. 

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The body is part of the 
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And then the B is the behavior. 
Who do we become? 

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So when we're telling ourselves 
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right? 
When the I feeling is online, I 

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exist and I'm smelling something
delicious, then I'm going to 

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have a behavior. 
There will be actions I take, 

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decisions I make, words I speak,
energy I exude. 

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I become somebody. 
When I smell Cinnabon, right? 

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Who do I become? 
I become very motivated, right? 

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Depending on how motivated I am,
I may push somebody out of the 

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way to get to the front of the 
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I may try to cajole or convince 
my significant other to go buy 

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me a cinnamon roll. 
If I'm feeling insecure and down

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on myself, I might say I can't 
have that right now. 

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You know, like, who do I become 
because of the stories that I'm 

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telling, the stories that I tell
and the being that I become has 

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nothing to do with the existence
of the cinnamon roll, you 

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understand? 
It has nothing to do with the 

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fact that I can smell it. 
So smelling and cinnamon roll 

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exist here. 
We are sensing bodies, objects 

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arising. 
But then in the relationship 

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between the sensing and the 
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We become our stories. 
Does that make sense? 

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And then after the B, then we 
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right? 
We, we affect our environment. 

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We have an emotional affect. 
So when I smell cinnamon roll 

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and I'm so happy to smell 
cinnamon roll and I have become 

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enraptured, maybe I become very 
sensual, right? 

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And my affect entices my 
significant other to feed me the

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cinnamon roll because they feel 
like something could happen 

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after, right? 
Oh, if Ren gets cinnamon roll, 

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then what? 
This is exciting. 

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That's my affect. 
Then there's sensations. 

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Sensations happen inside my 
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I smell cinnamon roll. 
My mouth waters, right? 

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I feel something gurgling in my 
tummy. 

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My whole body shifts in the 
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These are sensations. 
So the Vimbas are things that 

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are just happening. 
And then the I at the end of the

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Vimbasi process is imagination. 
So if all these things are 

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happening and we can notice 
what's happening through the 

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material body, sensing, 
perceiving, relating, then 

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what's going to happen, right? 
The the I at the end is now 

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what's going to happen? 
So we can use our imaginations 

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to kind of predict what's going 
to happen if all of these things

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are already happening. 
And then we can use our 

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discernment to decide, is that 
the thing that I want to happen?

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And if it's not, then we can 
imagine otherwise. 

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And through the imagination of 
otherwise, then we can affect 

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the felt sense. 
So I did this practice with 

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myself earlier this week because
I was noticing that I was 

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experiencing craving that 
actually was not good for me. 

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I don't know if anybody else has
ever had that happen right where

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you want something that is not 
that good for you or you're 

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wanting it in a way that's not 
that good for you. 

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And you're like, God, I'm being 
kind of obsessive. 

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I'm wanting something more than 
I actually need it. 

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I'm wanting something that I 
don't actually need. 

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Has anybody ever experienced 
that other than me? 

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OK, good. 
Phew. 

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So I did a Vimbasi process with 
myself and one of the things 

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that came forward for me was, 
you know, really how this 

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craving that I was experiencing 
was a longing to be connected 

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with something that I could 
actually produce for myself. 

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But in order for me to produce 
it for myself, it, it would 

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require some labor. 
So I wanted communion, right? 

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I, I'm like, oh, if I have this 
thing, then I'm going to feel so

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expansive. 
It's going to feel so great. 

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And I'm going to feel this sense
of communion, of being 

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satisfied, but it's temporary 
because I'm consuming something.

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And so I had this realization 
of, OK, well, if I work with my 

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practices, if I actually 
cultivate this for myself, then 

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I can have it more consistently.
And I don't need to extract from

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that thing that I want so much. 
I don't need to have a kind of 

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codependent dysfunctional 
relationship with it, but that 

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requires me to do my own work, 
which is kind of harder. 

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And it's a little bit more of a 
drag than just like taking what 

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I want, right, and that 
codependent, more consumptive 

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relationship. 
So I had to get real with myself

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about, OK, you know, can I do 
this work? 

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Because ultimately if I do the 
work, it's going to be more 

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sustainable, joyful and healthy 
for me in the long run. 

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I'm going to have more of what I
want consistently. 

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But it's going to take a little 
longer and it's going to take my

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labor. 
And I could just like have this 

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stand in right now and get a 
quick fix. 

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But then I'm going to want it 
again and again and again and 

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again. 
And I'm going to build a 

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relationship with that thing 
that ultimately is going to end 

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up being quite unsatisfying 
because that's what happens with

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extractive consumption as we 
stop really appreciating what 

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we're taking in stops having an 
effect on us. 

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Has anybody else ever had that 
realization? 

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It can come up with addictions, 
right? 

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So like, oh, I really want to 
smoke some weed, right? 

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Has anyone ever experienced an 
addiction to a substance, right?

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I really want to eat that food. 
I really want to have that 

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drink. 
You're like, oh, I feel so good 

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when I have it. 
And then you have it and maybe 

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it feels good the first time or 
five times or however many 

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times. 
But then at some point it 

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becomes kind of gross in your 
body. 

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It stops doing the thing that 
you want it to do. 

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What do we want when we want 
weed or wine or sweets, right? 

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We want a feeling of exaltation.
We want to feel connected. 

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We want to feel softened. 
We want to feel opened up. 

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We want to feel loosened up. 
We can get those feelings for 

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ourselves without the 
substances, but it requires 

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labor. 
It happens for people all the 

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time. 
With other people. 

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I really want that person. 
I want them to want me. 

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I want their attention, right? 
I want their submission. 

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I want to submit to them. 
Oh, I want this dynamic. 

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And then we become very 
codependent with people. 

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We, we kind of extract from them
and the relationship then gets 

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very distorted. 
We stopped, we stopped really 

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being in relationship with them.
Often we stop being the person 

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that they would be attracted to 
because we're so focused on 

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extracting Does that. 
Has anybody else had that 

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experience? 
Have you observed it? 

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Have you ever seen a movie where
that happens? 

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Good. 
I'm seeing some resonance in the

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chat. 
I'm seeing some nods. 

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Yeah. 
OK. 

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Where's the line or where's the 
balance? 

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Well, that's the question. 
So that is the question. 

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And that's actually what we're 
going to work with today. 

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So the, the, the question that I
have for you now is this is our 

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last full week of tourist 
season. 

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Next week we're going to have a 
little hybrid class because 

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we're moving from Taurus in a 
Gemini season. 

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This is our last full week of 
tourist season. 

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So I'm wondering, has anybody 
done the homework of tourist 

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season? 
And the tourist season homework 

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was to just be out there in the 
world noticing your senses and 

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noticing what you're attracted 
to or what you feel aversion 

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from and trying to stop your 
mind from telling you the story.

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We're not getting into the 
mental story, we're just really 

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noticing the body. 
What am I attracted to? 

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What do I feel aversion from? 
What are, What are my sense 

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gates doing? 
What are my eyes doing? 

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What's my skin doing? 
What's my mouth doing? 

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Did anybody play around with 
that homework? 

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I'll share Great. 
And I guess I'll kind of add in 

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when I do it because, and this 
is kind of related to Taurus in 

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general and Taurus rules my 4th 
house. 

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And when I leave the house and 
like go somewhere, I'm really 

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becoming aware with Prachiyahara
that I immediately leave my body

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like the whole time I'm in 
relation with other people. 

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And so when I get home, usually 
what I would do is find comfort 

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in food and it would be so 
grounding and like coming back 

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to myself. 
And so I'm trying not to do 

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that, you know, because it was 
very like aggressive. 

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So what I try to do is come home
and and the the sunscapes of my 

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ears are very comforting, but 
also can again, like Take Me Out

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and get like irritated. 
So I guess what I'm noticing is 

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like the sense gates of my ears 
when I get like a, you know, 

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something that I can listen to 
without getting a narrative. 

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So like for me, it's the birds 
that really helps me come back 

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to myself in a way that's, you 
know, where I'm creating, like 

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AI don't know a comforting 
thing. 

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It's just like what we're 
supposed to do with like not 

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thinking about, you know, any 
sort of thing, but just 

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listening. 
So yeah, I found it really 

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helpful in that scenario. 
Thank you. 

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Thanks for sharing that. 
I just going to reflect back a 

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little bit what I'm hearing and 
let me know if this lands or 

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not. 
What I'm hearing is that 

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something's happening for you 
where you're able to discern 

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around a need and a desire and 
you're able to access 

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receptivity and satisfaction in 
a new way or a different way. 

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And and the habit that you have 
of maybe coming back to 

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yourself, which which we do 
through consuming, right? 

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We do through receiving, we do 
through accessing our sense 

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gates helps us come back into 
our body sometimes. 

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But that you have a maybe a more
unconscious habit that has to do

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with food that maybe isn't 
always totally receptive. 

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Like sometimes it's more. 
Actually extractive of the food.

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It's like you're pulling 
something in. 

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It's maybe not what you want to 
eat. 

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It's maybe not how you want to 
be eating, or. 

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Something. 
And so you're starting to 

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practice receiving through your 
ears and, and through this 

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relationship that you're having 
with the birds and that that's 

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helping to satisfy something and
that's doing something to your 

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nervous system, into your body 
and to your ability to be 

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present. 
Exactly. 

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Yeah. 
Yeah. 

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Cool. 
Thanks. 

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That's awesome that this 
practice is helping you 

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cultivate choice. 
And that's totally where we're 

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at, right? 
With this relationship between 

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Taurus, the season that we're 
in, and Gemini, the season that 

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we're going into. 
Because Gemini is all about 

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choices. 
Gemini's like there's all these 

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choices, right? 
I could have cinnamon rolls, I 

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could have cake, I could have 
tacos, I could have sushi. 

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You know, like what do I 
actually want? 

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And then if we're in our sensing
intelligences, if we're actually

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in our sensing inquiry and 
curiosity, that gives us the 

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ability to receive and perceive 
in ways that we're actually 

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hungry for, that are actually 
going to be satisfying rather. 

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Than just doing the thing that 
maybe is habitual or impulsive 

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and and may not be satisfying 
what we actually. 

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Want or need? 
Did anybody else do the homework

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and want to share something? 
Yeah, I've been reading Dennis 

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Cooper novels, which, like, it's
like novels that present like 

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these scenes of like, abusive 
desire and like sexual violence.

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And I think usually when I read 
something like that, like I have

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like an aversion before reading 
and I'm like, I don't know if I 

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want to go any further or 
something like that. 

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But instead like I'm kind of 
examining that like haunting 

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feeling that I get. 
And like when reading content 

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like that, like sticks with me, 
like where it's sticking like in

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my body. 
Then like being able to map what

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those like basic fears are that 
I'm feeling based on that. 

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Is it kind of a like, do I feel 
like it's something that like is

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going to follow me and I won't 
be able to like get away from it

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when I need to get away from it?
Do I feel like it's going to 

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like stay in my mind? 
And it's like, why? 

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And like, what's the danger if 
it does? 

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And then kind of trying to track
where not just kind of, I mean, 

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but also just like stories for 
stories sake versus kind of like

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stories that like an artist is 
presenting to you supposedly for

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a reason that aren't like 
involving like actual people. 

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And I think in the future, kind 
of tracking like where those 

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feelings come from and feeling 
how they like manifest and build

454
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,760
up in the body can like help 
ingest like difficult realities 

455
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,880
as well as kind of like typical 
fictions. 

456
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,240
Wow. 
Yeah, thank you. 

457
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,760
I'm going to reflect back to and
again, let me know if this 

458
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,040
doesn't land. 
What I heard and what you shared

459
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,000
is really this connection 
between Taurus and Scorpio. 

460
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,840
These are opposite signs, right?
And so they're part of a 

461
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,920
polarity that's totally part of 
each other. 

462
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,720
So in our bodies, Taurus rules 
the sense gates, the sensing 

463
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,720
body, and Scorpio rules the 
bowels and the genitals and the 

464
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,000
reproductive system. 
And very deeply, our instincts 

465
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:44,360
around desire and also fear and 
power and these kinds of things 

466
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,840
and sensuality and sexuality 
live very deeply in the Taurus 

467
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,960
Scorpio access. 
But so does fear and so does 

468
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,160
power. 
And like that could include 

469
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:02,760
power over or under, but also 
personal power and empowerment. 

470
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,120
And in what you shared, I heard 
a refrain of the previous share,

471
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,880
which is that something's 
happening that's creating your 

472
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,720
increased capacity to be in 
discernment and choice. 

473
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,560
Also, we heard this in the 
previous share. 

474
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,120
So it's a different way now, or 
you're describing it in slightly

475
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,840
a different way. 
In that discernment, there's 

476
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,800
empowerment, there's your power,
and there's something that's 

477
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,520
happening there around a 
consciousness of how your power 

478
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,760
might be unconsciously taken 
from you. 

479
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,080
You might be left with a residue
of a feeling of images that are 

480
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,280
in your mind or an experience 
that maybe resonated in a 

481
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,320
particular way. 
And you're you're now building 

482
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,280
neural pathways and awareness in
yourself that you have some 

483
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,680
power over that experience. 
You have some choice there. 

484
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,640
Does that resonate for you? 
Yeah, totally. 

485
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,000
Creating choice and spaces where
usually there's like a freeze 

486
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,120
response. 
Yeah, really. 

487
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,120
That's so powerful. 
And that's actually one of the 

488
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,160
ways that somatic therapists, 
right and embodiment 

489
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,560
practitioners. 
And this has been a huge thing 

490
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,720
of Uranus and Taurus these last 
eight years or so since 2018. 

491
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,680
A lot of embodiment practices 
are developing and evolving in 

492
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,200
this language, is entering the 
zeitgeist in a huge way. 

493
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,800
But these practices are ancient,
they're timeless, and people 

494
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:37,080
have always known that the ways 
that we heal and recover from 

495
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,040
trauma and how we integrate it 
is to come back to the body and 

496
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,200
come back to our sense of choice
in the body. 

497
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,600
We've done exercises in this 
class. 

498
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,320
It's like where we focus the 
eyes or where we, you know, the 

499
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,640
pratyahara practice where we 
notice what we're sensing coming

500
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,440
into The immediacy of the 
sensing body disrupts the trauma

501
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,720
pattern of dislocation. 
It disrupts the unconscious 

502
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,240
patterning of what we do when we
are struck by something that 

503
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,720
might resonate with fear or 
create a sense of disempowerment

504
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,920
or something like that. 
So really powerful practices to 

505
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,680
be in our bodies. 
They have huge implications. 

506
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,960
I'll read this comment in the 
chat and then we'll continue. 

507
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,400
So K is saying, I also worked 
with the sense gate of my ears. 

508
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,040
I noticed a near constant 
aversion to advertisements. 

509
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,080
The sounds, the energy, a 
vibration of coercion. 

510
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,800
I feel an impulse to block it 
out, like stick my fingers in my

511
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,680
ears, and was particularly 
curious though of when I did 

512
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,440
feel attracted to a certain 
message. 

513
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,120
The mental narrative I worked 
with was what that said about me

514
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,280
and my susceptibility or my 
consumerist desire, or 

515
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,640
narratives about the big evil 
corporations tugging strings. 

516
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,440
I became curious about what my 
needs are and I found quiet or. 

517
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,840
Calm sounds like wind and birds 
or Octavia Butler audiobooks 

518
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,520
embodied astrology. 
Podcast, Awesome. 

519
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,360
So in all of these shares, what 
we're hearing is an increased 

520
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:08,680
capacity to discern and choose 
and that creates then increased 

521
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,960
capacity to act in ways that are
in alignment with our wants and 

522
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,040
our needs. 
And I'm just going to say with 

523
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,240
our well-being. 
And so here we are in the cusp 

524
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,560
of Taurus and Gemini season. 
We're moving from a earth sign 

525
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,880
season into an air sign season, 
from a resonance that's a very 

526
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,080
much about the immediacy of the 
sensing body into a resonance 

527
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,480
that's about relationality and 
exchange of information in the 

528
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,880
mind. 
OK, so we're going to do a 

529
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,680
practice today that is about 
being in the both. 

530
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,400
And, and so someone asked in the
comments like, what's the 

531
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,240
balance? 
Right? 

532
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,280
What, how, how do we balance 
this? 

533
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,880
You know, when we feel our 
cravings and when we feel our 

534
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:59,400
desires and when we notice what 
our impulses are, that can also 

535
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,920
lead to a kind of neurotic 
overthinking, right? 

536
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,280
So we we can like go really. 
Far. 

537
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,120
You know, with these types of 
practices where we're like, oh, 

538
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,200
this is all I'm sensing. 
This is all I'm sensing. 

539
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,040
And you know that the Taurian 
receptivity to sensory 

540
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,720
stimulation can go so far that 
it becomes a little immobilized.

541
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,200
There can be a way that we're so
in our awareness of what we're 

542
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,400
sensing that then it feels 
impossible to act. 

543
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,440
So Taurus is deep earth energy. 
It's deep yin energy. 

544
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,200
It's not active. 
It's it's deeply receiving. 

545
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,800
We are active beings, right? 
We have to act. 

546
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,640
We got to do things right. 
If I really want to get the 

547
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,720
thing that I want, like I was 
talking about, it requires my 

548
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,880
labor. 
We want beautiful food. 

549
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,840
We want beautiful. 
Experiences we have to relate 

550
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,760
with each other. 
We got to grow our gardens. 

551
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:59,680
So that the acting or doing and 
the being and the receiving are 

552
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,360
two sides of the same thing. 
We want to be able to do them 

553
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:07,240
both at the same time. 
And doing that is very 

554
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,120
challenging because we live in a
culture that really doesn't. 

555
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,800
Doesn't support our capacities 
to do that, so to be able to be 

556
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,520
receptive and perceptive while 
also engaged. 

557
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,840
A lot of ways is to push back 
against oppression, right? 

558
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,560
Because oppressive systems teach
us to expect what's overwhelming

559
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,159
and deadening and numbing to our
senses. 

560
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,719
And therefore they teach us to 
be extractive consumerists, 

561
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,560
right? 
They they build and breed rape 

562
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,440
culture. 
And they? 

563
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:46,920
Program us to do in ways that 
are for their productivity, 

564
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,120
right? 
So I'm. 

565
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,080
Going to do I smell the cinnamon
roll immediately I go into. 

566
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:53,639
My. 
Craving. 

567
00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,239
And then I got to buy the 
cinnamon roll. 

568
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,040
That's what Kay is. 
Sharing. 

569
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,680
Right about these messages, 
right? 

570
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,840
Consumers messages. 
So what do I actually really 

571
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,360
want? 
How can I be in the discernment 

572
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,800
of my sensing body, get to the 
root of my needs and desires and

573
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,840
wants? 
Then what do I want to do about 

574
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,760
that? 
Sometimes it's about. 

575
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,520
A passive consumption, but a lot
of times really what I want to 

576
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,520
do is build relationship I. 
Want to build a? 

577
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:29,040
Sustainability. 
OK, so we're going to do a. 

578
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,880
Practice, and any practice that 
I ever offer is always a 

579
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,920
suggestion. 
So do what works for you. 

580
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Modify as you need. 
So the. 

581
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:55,240
Invitation now is to share. 
What was that experience like? 

582
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:57,680
Was it? 
Possible. 

583
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,480
For you to be. 
In the. 

584
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,920
Being in the sensing as you are 
also in the doing and the 

585
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,280
moving. 
Well, I'm. 

586
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,840
Feeling my heartbeat a lot, 
right? 

587
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,760
Now. 
Because I guess today's the day 

588
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,880
that I'm talking and I'm really 
happy about that. 

589
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,320
I injured myself a couple of 
months ago actually in the 

590
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:32,520
middle of my first performance 
of my one person show and my 

591
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,920
body has. 
I think it's, I think. 

592
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,840
It really was my hamstring and 
my knee affected, but of course 

593
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,600
that affected my whole body. 
And at the beginning of the 

594
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:52,640
healing process, I think I was 
able to be so still with the 

595
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:58,040
healing because I was so scared.
And it was like the stillness 

596
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,880
was coming from a place of just 
pure fear and shock of what 

597
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,520
happened to my body because I 
had never injured myself like 

598
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,720
that ever. 
And so at the beginning, I was 

599
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:12,320
able to go slow. 
But as the months have gone by, 

600
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,760
I've been able to get back into 
yoga, get back into hiking and 

601
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:23,080
walking and stretching and 
gaining mobility back. 

602
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:28,440
And it's amazing how quickly I 
go back into rolling really 

603
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:33,280
hard, walking really fast, 
trying to hike the tallest 

604
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,800
mountain I can to prove to my 
body that it's healed, it's 

605
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,920
healed right, it's healed 100% 
right. 

606
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:46,760
And it's just not yet. 
But today, coming back to just 

607
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,160
the simplicity of. 
Hovering my. 

608
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:58,920
Hands over my body and I 
literally like shivered in the 

609
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:03,120
front of my head, back of my 
back and over my right knee 

610
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,240
because I'm like, I guess those 
are the parts of my body that 

611
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:08,520
need the most help right now 
maybe. 

612
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,280
And I felt it so viscerally and 
I just had this moment of like, 

613
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:21,600
Oh my God, I am my own healer. 
And also a moment of excitement,

614
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,040
enjoying that, but also the 
moment of sadness and loss of 

615
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,280
like, why? 
Why does it always take another 

616
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,560
teacher helping me get there? 
Like, why does it always take a 

617
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,200
class or a mentor or a teacher 
helping me slow down? 

618
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,600
But I guess my natural speed is 
just to go really fast and 

619
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,200
really hard. 
But today I'm just really 

620
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,160
grateful to be reminded of the 
simplicity of like, I don't even

621
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,120
have to touch my body, so I'm 
feeling. 

622
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,920
Really good. 
There's a powerful. 

623
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:05,120
Testimony of the power of the 
mind that we just heard what I 

624
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,960
heard and. 
Please let me know if this 

625
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,240
doesn't resonate for you. 
What I heard was you. 

626
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:17,400
Talking about the power of your 
mind in multiple different ways.

627
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,280
The power of the. 
Story of the mind The narrative 

628
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,080
of the mind, The mind exerting 
and imposing itself on the body.

629
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,480
And then also the power. 
Of the mind when it's listening 

630
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,440
and in relationship with the 
body. 

631
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:40,000
Different types of power, and 1 
is a very active power and 1 is 

632
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,320
a much more receptive power. 
And that receptive? 

633
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,600
Power that power with. 
It really allows. 

634
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,960
For a healing and a well-being 
in the body and for the body to 

635
00:39:52,960 --> 00:40:00,320
be in its power. 
I also heard this question. 

636
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,520
Why does it take someone else 
reminding me? 

637
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,520
Anybody else feel that? 
Sometimes. 

638
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,760
So it's why it's why. 
There are wisdom traditions, you

639
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,240
know. 
It's why there are. 1000 year 

640
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:18,880
old. 
Traditions that keep saying the 

641
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,000
same thing in different ways. 
Is we need to be reminded? 

642
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,440
Again and again and again and 
again and again of what we 

643
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,280
already know. 
We need to be reminded. 

644
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,760
And remembered that word to 
remember, to come back of what 

645
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,920
we already know again and again 
and again and again. 

646
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,080
And that's what relationship 
does for us. 

647
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,640
That's the power of relating, is
to remember each other, to 

648
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:56,370
remind each other. 
I've seen the comments. 

649
00:40:56,370 --> 00:40:59,330
I had to stay in the subtle 
movement to follow my senses. 

650
00:40:59,330 --> 00:41:02,770
When I started larger movements,
my mind became more controlling.

651
00:41:03,410 --> 00:41:06,490
Coming back to my subtle, fluid 
inner body allowed me to listen 

652
00:41:06,490 --> 00:41:08,610
to my senses more clearly and 
gently. 

653
00:41:10,410 --> 00:41:14,010
That's right, I. 
Also felt that the larger 

654
00:41:14,010 --> 00:41:17,080
movements are often ones that 
for me at least. 

655
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,760
Feel. 
More habitual and untrained and 

656
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,880
I and sometimes my mind gets 
excited about them and I'm like,

657
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,000
oh, I know that when I do this, 
I feel this kind of way and I've

658
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,320
done this movement a million 
times, so I'm going to do it 

659
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,840
again. 
Right. 

660
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,040
And then I'm like somewhere. 
Else but then when I go into my 

661
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,480
body, my body's like, well, what
if you do this other thing and 

662
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,400
it's kind of weird and we don't 
really know what it is. 

663
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:39,560
We're just going to follow it, 
you know? 

664
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,560
And then I'm like, oh, I don't 
know what it is. 

665
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,400
And so speed. 
Changes right temporality 

666
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,840
changes time completely changes 
influence affect change. 

667
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,360
Relationship. 
Changes when we're in the 

668
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,880
sensing of something, in the 
interior, internal experience of

669
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,600
something. 
It's so nice and. 

670
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,200
Quiet and calm. 
When my mind slows down, that's 

671
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,240
what I feel, yeah. 
It feels very expansive. 

672
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:10,480
Totally. 
If only this is. 

673
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,560
Something that people in 
boardrooms would do before they 

674
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,520
made international policy 
decisions. 

675
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:22,160
What a world we would live in 
when we traveled to specific 

676
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,560
parts of the body. 
I felt at ease all over and a 

677
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,160
grounded, sensual feeling. 
Make it easy to be still. 

678
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,120
When the invitation was more 
exploratory and to follow the 

679
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,480
body, I immediately wanted to 
walk around and become more 

680
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,360
expansive with my movements. 
Then my mind came in and started

681
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,160
saying make sure you stretch the
tight parts. 

682
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,680
Yes. 
And it took the fun exploration 

683
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,040
away pretty quickly. 
So that's it. 

684
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,120
That's this mental mapping that 
we do with ourselves all the 

685
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,200
time. 
And we do it. 

686
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,200
In these types of practices, but
all the time. 

687
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,600
So the first person that shared,
they were talking about this 

688
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,600
recovery from an injury, right? 
And then going back into 

689
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,640
something the the mind's like, 
well, this is what you should do

690
00:42:58,720 --> 00:42:59,680
the mind. 
Has its. 

691
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,800
Story, right? 
And the mind story is usually on

692
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,320
some bullshit. 
It's not actually with the 

693
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,880
immediacy of the experience of 
the life and the relationship 

694
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,920
and the sensing. 
It's with whatever its ideas are

695
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,640
about whatever it thinks is good
or bad, right? 

696
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,640
The mind is really good at 
making binaries. 

697
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,640
This is good, this is bad. 
I like that. 

698
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,680
I don't like that. 
Then the I feeling gets. 

699
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,960
Very strong. 
Then our egos involved and the 

700
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:32,600
fun goes away pretty quickly. 
There's also capacity for. 

701
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,400
Change with a group or multiple 
people practicing at once? 

702
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,520
Yeah. 
Not only one person reminding, 

703
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,920
but like the resonance of 
everyone who's practicing now 

704
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,040
and who's ever practiced. 
Yes. 

705
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,840
Yes, exactly that's. 
Why we have these spaces to 

706
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,000
practice together? 
We need each other. 

707
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,120
OK. 
And thanks everybody. 

708
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,320
For your sharing. 
I'll take the last 10 minutes or

709
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,840
so just to offer a little bit 
about the astrology of this 

710
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,000
week, OK? 
So take what works, leave the 

711
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,360
rest and feel free to be in your
sensing, moving body as I'm with

712
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,400
you with words. 
So we're in our last week of 

713
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,400
Taurus season, and next week 
Gemini season will begin. 

714
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,840
And this week there's this 
interesting mix of Earth and 

715
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,440
water energies and fire and air 
energies. 

716
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,720
So Taurus is an Earth energy. 
And yesterday the sun in Taurus 

717
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:26,640
was sextile, Jupiter and Cancer,
big water energy, and tomorrow 

718
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,640
Mercury will make that aspect as
well. 

719
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:30,520
So a sextile. 
Is a. 

720
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,880
Lending flowing influence, and 
Earth and water bring us down 

721
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,080
and in. 
And then on Thursday there's a 

722
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:42,800
triple conjunction of Mercury 
and the Sun and the asteroid 

723
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,920
series. 
So when? 

724
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,280
Mercury is conjunct. 
To the sun. 

725
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,240
It's a special word. 
Kazemi, my favorite astrological

726
00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:54,400
word, means to be in the heart 
of the sun, to be infused by 

727
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,360
solar presence. 
And so Mercury is moving at its 

728
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,920
fastest right now. 
It is not in its inferior 

729
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,840
conjunction, it's superior 
conjunction. 

730
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,120
It's moving direct and it's 
being. 

731
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,720
Infused. 
By solar energy. 

732
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:12,120
And this is the ability to think
forward, to strategize, to have 

733
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,640
an idea of where we want to go 
and what we're trying to do. 

734
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,120
And Ceres is there. 
Ceres is also in the heart of 

735
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,880
the Sun now. 
Some of you may. 

736
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:26,800
Know Ceres as the grain goddess 
Demeter in Greek or Hellenic 

737
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,720
myth, and there's a very famous 
story about her that has to do 

738
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:35,080
with her daughter Persephone 
being abducted by Hades, the 

739
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,520
Lord of the underworld. 
And then Ceres, the goddess of 

740
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:44,640
grain who produces life on 
Earth, goes into mourning and 

741
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,080
she's bereft at the loss of her 
daughter and when she finds out 

742
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,120
that her daughter was abducted 
by her brother. 

743
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,200
Nonetheless. 
Because the Greeks are fucking 

744
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,160
intense myth, myth, myths, 
right? 

745
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,480
Like they're always up to some 
crazy twisted shit. 

746
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,920
So the brother abducts the 
daughter, his niece, but then 

747
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,360
Ceres goes into mourning and and
then she's pissed. 

748
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,120
She's really angry about it. 
And So what she does. 

749
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,000
In her morning and in her rage 
is she leaves the heavens and 

750
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,280
she goes to earth, and she takes
the form of an old woman. 

751
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,520
She becomes very humble in her 
presentation, which is different

752
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,240
sometimes than other human forms
the gods take, which are often 

753
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:26,680
very beautiful or very strong or
something like that. 

754
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,920
She becomes very humble, that 
word humble. 

755
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,080
Or humility is to be of the 
earth. 

756
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:34,440
But then she's. 
Discovered. 

757
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,680
So it it is discovered that 
she's this goddess, and it is 

758
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:40,240
when she's discovered, she 
demands that a temple be built 

759
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:42,960
to her. 
And then she retreats into her 

760
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,000
temple, and she doesn't come 
out, and she stops growing grain

761
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,200
for human beings, which means 
that humans starve, but they 

762
00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:52,960
also stop making sacrifices to 
the gods. 

763
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,960
So Ceres. 
Is an amazing kind of resonant 

764
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,440
symbol to be feeling into in 
this time of mass labor strikes.

765
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,040
Right. 
And the politics of refusal that

766
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:14,440
we can enact when the products 
of our labor and the products of

767
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,920
our body and the ways that 
resources, including our bodily 

768
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,800
resources are being extracted 
from, are being taken into the 

769
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,600
underworld, right? 
They're being used and consumed 

770
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,760
for death. 
So Ceres stops. 

771
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,360
Growing green. 
And in that what she does is she

772
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:36,640
forces negotiation to happen. 
Zeus, the God of gods like is 

773
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,560
brought to the bartering table 
and he's like, OK, you know, we 

774
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,240
need our sacrifices. 
So he'd like, tells Hades to 

775
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:45,720
give the daughter back. 
So when Persephone comes back, 

776
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:48,240
she has become the queen of the 
underworld. 

777
00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,680
Actually, there's an empowerment
that happens for her. 

778
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,160
And there is an older story than
the Greek myth of abduction 

779
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,680
where Persephone actually hears 
the call of the dead. 

780
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,040
And she asks her mother, what am
I hearing? 

781
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,000
And Siri says, those are the 
dead. 

782
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,440
And she says, who cares for 
them? 

783
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,800
And Siri says, well, I'm 
supposed to, but I'm so busy 

784
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,080
with life that I can't really 
care for the dead. 

785
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,000
And then Persephone goes, I'm 
going to do that. 

786
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,840
And so she willingly descends 
into the underworld. 

787
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,080
And then they become partners 
and collaborators in holding the

788
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:20,160
dual parts of life and death. 
So whatever myth you want to 

789
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,600
think about, Persephone comes 
back empowered. 

790
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,920
Actually, she comes back as the 
queen of the underworld. 

791
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,400
And she's she splits her time 
between the world of the living 

792
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,360
and the world of the dead. 
And she and her mother then 

793
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,800
produce this rite of passage, 
the Alisonian Mysteries. 

794
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,120
It was an actual mystery called 
in the Hellenic Greece. 

795
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,600
It existed for over 1000 years 
and. 

796
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,760
In those. 
Rites of passage. 

797
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:45,360
We don't really know. 
What? 

798
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,480
Happens because they were a deep
mystery. 

799
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,600
People were not allowed to speak
about it and if they did, they 

800
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,960
would be killed. 
But we know that. 

801
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:59,680
Something happened in those 
mysteries, in those rights that 

802
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:04,680
involved things being done, 
things being shown and things 

803
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:09,680
being said that reminded the 
participants about the power of 

804
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:15,240
death in the underworld, and in 
that remembering what happened 

805
00:49:15,240 --> 00:49:19,440
for them as a result was a 
profound sensitivity to life. 

806
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:21,720
And so. 
The first person that. 

807
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,480
Shared actually spoke to this. 
So you talked about getting this

808
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,560
injury and the injury was so bad
that it really made you slow 

809
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,320
down and get really sensitive to
your life. 

810
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,280
And that's what happens. 
When we experience trauma and 

811
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,120
when we experience injury, when 
we experience big illness, when 

812
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,880
we experience big loss, 
hopefully it's what's. 

813
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,480
Happening. 
Now, as we're living through 

814
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:48,040
deeply genocidal times, we're 
experiencing such profound 

815
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:54,800
heartbreak, such outrageous 
atrocities, that I think one of 

816
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,640
the Silver Linings of it is that
many people are becoming a lot 

817
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,120
more sensitized to how deeply 
life needs to be cared for. 

818
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,240
So there's a. 
Triple conjunction Ceres, 

819
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:12,880
Mercury in the Sun right before 
the new Moon and the new moon is

820
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:16,200
on Saturday. 
So we have a a new moon right at

821
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,360
the very last degrees of Taurus,
and Uranus has just left Taurus.

822
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,560
It was there for eight years. 
This part of our charts has 

823
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,480
undergone a profound. 
Awakening. 

824
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,160
You might think about where is 
Taurus in your chart, what has 

825
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,960
been happening there, and the 
Taurian sensibilities of your 

826
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:35,920
body and your awareness with 
life. 

827
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,800
And how your body? 
And your awareness with life 

828
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:44,680
have also been informed by 
awareness of death, by awareness

829
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,360
of loss, by awareness of pain. 
And there might be something 

830
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,760
that's happening in your 
consciousness right now that is 

831
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:56,840
about caring for life, because 
you understand that life is not 

832
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,760
permanent. 
There might be something that's.

833
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,080
Happening inside of 
consciousness right now, that's 

834
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:10,320
about really making choices for 
what we truly want, because we 

835
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:14,360
understand that when we make 
choices for just unconscious 

836
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,720
consumption. 
That it leads. 

837
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:21,360
To a residue and a build up of 
harm and stagnancy and dis ease 

838
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,520
in the long run. 
And that might be part of what 

839
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,720
we've experienced in these last 
eight years, I don't know. 

840
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,000
So question. 
I've experienced that where 

841
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,440
Taurus lives in my chart. 
So then the end of the. 

842
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,960
Week or throughout the week? 
There's also fire and air. 

843
00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:41,960
We have Vista moving into Aries 
on Wednesday, Palaces and Aries,

844
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:47,560
two other goddess asteroids. 
Palace is sextile with Pluto and

845
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,560
Aquarius. 
Vista will be sextile with 

846
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,160
Uranus in Gemini on Saturday, 
the day of the new moon. 

847
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:58,480
Mars and Chiron are conjunct in 
Aries and then on Sunday Mercury

848
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,360
moves into Gemini and it forms 
an immediate conjunction with 

849
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,440
Uranus and Venus in Gemini's 
sextile with Chiron. 

850
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:06,760
So. 
We're coming out. 

851
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,320
Of a phase, a long phase of the 
outer planets being an Earth and

852
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,360
water. 
And we're moving into a long 

853
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,760
phase of the outer planets being
an air and fire. 

854
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,960
And there's a shift 
collectively, in my opinion, of 

855
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:22,880
moving from a time when a lot of
people are in the immediacy of 

856
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,920
sensing and feeling and being 
really impacted into a time when

857
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,560
people are going to be very 
active and very quick and need 

858
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,000
to take action and need to talk 
about things and change things. 

859
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,320
Uranus. 
And Taurus. 

860
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,120
As that influence really 
produced a kind of embodied 

861
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:44,000
imagination and tangible sense 
of the possibilities of what can

862
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,720
happen when we are embodied. 
This world building feeling that

863
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,840
I think a lot of us who are 
involved in the somatic fields 

864
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,760
have started to really deepen in
what's possible. 

865
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,720
When we're feeling what's 
possible when we're present. 

866
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,520
This is a remembering of what we
already know. 

867
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,560
Now we're moving into a. 
Air and fire cycle the next 7 to

868
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,920
20 years or 18 years. 
Lots of air and fire in the 

869
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,040
outer planets. 
And this is about recreation, 

870
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,400
recreation, regeneration. 
What motivates us? 

871
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:23,400
The. 
Responses in human beings right 

872
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:27,480
now in our societies to 
extremism that we're seeing, 

873
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,440
that we're part of, that we're 
experiencing, can produce an 

874
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,000
intensity of polarization. 
One thing that's possible right 

875
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,120
now is that people really want 
to do something else. 

876
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,520
We want to feel something else, 
and part of how we're going to 

877
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,160
create something else is 
maintaining our capacity to feel

878
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:50,080
as we do. 
If we lose our capacity to feel 

879
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,120
and we just go into the doing, 
it's likely that we will 

880
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,400
recreate the patterns that we 
are habituated by and the 

881
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,800
patterns of the mind. 
So there's a challenge right now

882
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:07,480
to stay in our feeling as we 
also are doing and creating and 

883
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,160
engaging together. 
And it's a strategy, you know, 

884
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,480
of authoritarianism and 
supremacy to colonize and 

885
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,120
control our imagination. 
It's a strategy to overwhelm us 

886
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,880
with atrocities and make us 
think nothing else is possible. 

887
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,680
But when we come together. 
And embodied astrology spaces. 

888
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,680
And we feel what's possible, our
imagination start to do 

889
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,680
something else. 
And when people come together 

890
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,440
in. 
All kinds of spaces and feel 

891
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,640
what's possible. 
Imagination starts to do 

892
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:41,800
something else. 
So part of our our work right 

893
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,120
now is to stay in the sensing 
and the feeling, in the 

894
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,040
receptivity and the perception 
of what's happening as we also 

895
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,680
move into the doing and move 
into the speaking and move into 

896
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,640
the acting. 
And it is a challenge because in

897
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,440
order to create change, we have 
to actually do shit. 

898
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,360
We have to create new systems, 
we have to organize, we have to 

899
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,520
have an actual strategy. 
We can't just complain about it.

900
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,440
So there is a challenge. 
For us to be in the doing now, 

901
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:12,880
how do you want to change your 
life? 

902
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Could be personal. 
It doesn't have to be everything

903
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,640
out there for the collective all
the time. 

904
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,160
We're all part of the collective
in the ways that we're changing 

905
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,800
our personal lives. 
You want to change your life? 

906
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,880
Somehow I know it. 
I don't know how you want to 

907
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,760
change your life, but I know 
you're experiencing this 

908
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:30,080
astrology, so what's the change 
that you want? 

909
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,120
How do you stay in the? 
Feeling and the relationship of 

910
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:39,000
the change as you also start to 
enact the change. 

911
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,520
So I'll just end. 
With a a quote from the Meta 

912
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:50,040
Suta, who even as a mother 
protects with her life her 

913
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,760
child, her only child. 
So with a boundless heart, 

914
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:58,320
should one cherish all living 
beings, radiating kindness over 

915
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,680
the entire world, spreading 
upwards. 

916
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,400
To the. 
Skies and downwards to the 

917
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:07,440
depths, outwards and unbounded. 
This quality of. 

918
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,640
Relationship that we practice 
when we're in the sensing and in

919
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,720
the receiving is the quality of 
change, and that's what 

920
00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:16,840
everybody was talking about in 
your shares. 

921
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,680
When I slow down enough to 
actually feel something, I can 

922
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,760
feel that something's changing 
already. 

923
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,600
When I slow down enough to feel 
my knee and I stop imposing my 

924
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:32,200
mind upon my knee, I stop 
harming my knee and my knee 

925
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:37,600
tells me what it actually needs.
When I stop imposing my. 

926
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,600
Ideas of charity and help on 
whatever group or whatever 

927
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,520
person I think needs charity and
help. 

928
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,040
And I slow down enough to 
actually be receptive to what 

929
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,960
they're saying and what they're 
showing me. 

930
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,160
They know what they already 
need. 

931
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,680
Then we can be collaborative 
together, we can support each 

932
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,920
other, we can assist each other.
When I stop assuming I know 

933
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,440
what's. 
Best for my child and I let my 

934
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:06,320
child tell me right then my 
child gets to feel empowered, 

935
00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:08,280
then I. 
Get to feel. 

936
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:13,120
Empowered in my responsiveness 
and not weak in the attempts I'm

937
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,880
making to control them, right? 
So I'll leave it there. 

938
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,760
I hope any or all of that feels 
helpful for this week ahead. 

939
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:25,280
It's quite a powerful week of 
astrology and you know, we're 

940
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,600
living in violent and 
devastating times and it's not 

941
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,160
about to change this week. 
And the the new moon that's 

942
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:37,880
coming is conjunct the binary 
star Algol is known in across 

943
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,680
many traditions of being a. 
Very. 

944
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,720
Destructive kind. 
Of energy but destruction. 

945
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,600
Can. 
Be life giving also when we are 

946
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:52,880
allow ourselves to really feel 
the sensitivity that it produces

947
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,840
and to tune in with what our 
sensing, receiving bodies know 

948
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,720
what they need to heal. 
So let's be in our. 

949
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,320
Sensing, receiving, perceiving 
as we also are in the doing of 

950
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:08,320
our lives this week. 
And hopefully see you next. 

951
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:12,080
Week for our cuspy Taurus Gemini
dance practice.