What if astrology isn't about being told who you are, but
instead it's a tool for becoming who you can be?
That's what we're going to talk about here on the Awake Space
Astrology Podcast today. It's the Awake Space Astrology
Podcast. I'm Lori Rivers, your host here
to help you with some inspiration to get those
aspirations out into the world. And we're beginning a whole new
journey together with episode 1 of Season 1 of Using Your
Astrology. And that's how we're taking the
Awake Space forward. And yeah, we'll talk a little
bit about what's coming up in November of 2025 at the end of
this episode. So about 30 years ago when I
started studying astrology, and I really did come to it very,
very skeptically, it landed in my lab.
Someone offered to teach me. They said my chart said I was
really well suited to be an astrologer because I'm highly
analytical. And I was like, well, yeah, I'm
a political analyst and an anthropologist.
And yes, I am analytical. And I wanted to know how they
could see that and I wanted to study it.
But the more I looked into interpretations, the more I was
bothered by the over reliance on Greco Roman myth, which I
realized, Yes, the roots of western tropical astrology lie
in the Helenus period. But I knew from my own academic
research and study that communication and language are
very much grounded in cultural viewpoints and sensitivities,
and not all communication is created equal.
I noticed that certain planets and signs were overemphasized
and other ones were kind of pushed to the side.
There was a demonization, whether it was intentional or
unintentional, and there was definitely more than a little
bit of patriarchy in the definitions.
And I questioned all of it. And if you want to know the
story of how I came up with the way I interpret astrology, which
is progressive evolutionary astrology, where we deconstruct
from duality, we deconstruct from patriarchy.
But we don't stop there. We learn to reconstruct by
understanding ourselves, our energy patterns, our mental
processes, and our emotions. And the way we do it is using
astrology because it's a great framework.
Your astrology chart shows all the potential of who you can be.
And those old interpretations can be right.
If someone is very fixed in their perceptions and they're
highly indoctrinated in their social cultural thinking, then
those interpretations will work very well for them.
But if you have a desire to heal, if you have a desire to
grow, if you have the aspiration to self actualize, self
determine and self realize, then those interpretations will only
hold you back because you're being assigned labels and labels
put you into boxes. And I don't know about you, but
I much prefer liberation over labels any day.
So we're starting this series to help you understand how human
consciousness expresses in a spectrum.
And I've been talking about that for four years on this podcast.
But I really want to ground you into this information and help
you really understand it, to help you really understand you,
not to tell you who you are or how to believe, but to give you
a framework for understanding that in your own way.
I like to create systems and I like to help people figure out
how to navigate them so they can self determine their
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Whether we're driving to work, taking the kids to school,
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parking. All right, using astrology is
all about awakening your creator consciousness and aligning with
the cosmos on purpose. So you already know I'm an
astrologer. Some of you know I'm a political
analyst. But did you know I'm a cosmic
coach also? And I've spent my entire
lifetime, even when even as a kid, studying what it means to
be fully aligned with your purpose here on the planet.
Some people call that being in soul alignment or using soul
technology. So today we're going to clean up
one of the biggest misconceptions about astrology
because pop astrology is all about shoving you in a box and
giving you a label. And you know how I feel about
that. You you heard the conversation I
had with Maverick last week. And if you didn't go listen to
that podcast. Fate is what happens when you
don't know how to use your free will.
OK, Obviously there are things that are outside of our control.
There are conditions that happen.
There are natural disasters, those political events, There's,
there's big world events. That's more like fate.
How we navigate these things is our free will, and we diminish
that free will by not knowing how to use it.
But almost no one was ever trained on how to use it.
When you understand how to be deliberate in your
consciousness, you go from living in a default setting to
being in a creator consciousness, being on purpose
in your life. All right, so every planet
signing house has a spectrum of potential.
Your consciousness expresses in a spectrum.
And by the way, every single human being bounces around every
single day. We could be reactive, we could
be responsive. If it happens and it comes out
of the blue and we we react to that, that's normal.
Even the most studied human being on the planet in spiritual
practices, if they stub their toe, will have at least an
moment, which is a reaction. OK, They course correct very
quickly, and that's what we're leaning into.
This is not about perfection. This is about learning how to
deconstruct and work in a reconstructed consciousness of
our own making so that we're better aligned with who we came
here to be and we're able to work with the cosmos.
So here's the three layers of consciousness.
We've got the instinctive that's survival driven, fear based, and
very reactive. Basically think about our limbic
system, our amygdala firing off. And then we have our social
cultural programming and that's very role based.
It's our default setting. It comes from family patterns,
educational systems, any kind of institutional understanding.
The media, be it social media, television, music.
We reinforce social and cultural narratives with one another all
the time, rather unthinkingly. OK, so it's our conditioning,
it's our programming, and that's where most people spend most of
their time in a conscious way. Now we've got our deliberate and
creator consciousness. This is when we are a aware, we
notice, oh, I was about to react or I am reacting.
Is this how I want to be? What can I do about it?
Sometimes when you're mid reaction, you can't really stop
it, but you're like, woof, man, I really, what am I going to do
next? Once this once this explosion of
energy finishes, where am I going to go with that?
It's not about judging yourself as moral or immoral or virtuous
or not virtuous or evolved or unevolved.
It's about letting letting go of all that.
It's about where to next being deliberate and being on purpose.
So astrology describes possibility and consciousness is
what shows the expression. So you'll know what you're
expressing where that's why those cookbook astrology
definitions don't always work. They're either coming from an
older version of cultural expression.
So imagine reading something from the 1970s, today, in 2025.
It's not going to make a lot of sense.
Just like the interpretations I create today to help move things
forward and progress it in, you know, 50-60 years.
Somebody's going to have to refresh those.
That's how human beings operate. We're going to take one planet
in the next segment, and we're going to break it down so you
can understand it in the three levels.
And we're going to be looking at Mars.
All right, so let's take a look at Marx.
We've got instinctive Mars. I must win or I'll die, or this
thing is coming at me. It's to the death or I need to
hide, right? Mars is the action we take in
the world. Our social, cultural Mars is I
need to win or I'll be irrelevant.
I have to prove myself. I have to acquire things.
I have to push and aggress. And then a deliberate Mars is I
align my energy to get what I need.
It's not about pushing or proving, it's about meeting
needs. And your needs could be also
supporting other people to act in service.
OK, But we don't want to. We don't want to be over
virtuous in this. This is something that I was
caution about because there's a lot of things in spiritual
literature that are a holdover from Christianity or other
institutionalized religions where you're kind of making a
deal with God or you're making a deal with the universe.
The way I look at deliberate consciousness with the Mars is
really, I'm going to take aligned action.
It's aligned with me, my values, and my path, OK, whatever that
path is. Because being deliberate doesn't
mean you're the best. It doesn't mean you're good.
You could be doing things that I don't align with that I might
consider bad, OK, But you could be aligned with your purpose.
It's about where are you tuning to and when things are in
alignment with your Mars, you don't have to.
You're not going to deplete yourself and exhaust yourself
because you're actually going to do things that energize you.
And that stuff we're going to talk about as we go along this
series. It's the same Mars.
It's different conscious expressions of it, and that's
the magic of this work because it's about moving with the
energy instead of fighting it or pushing against it.
Cause a lot of times when we think of deconstruction, we
think of a big old Wrecking Ball and we think we got to blow up
our life. But what if you don't have to?
What if you can just work incrementally inside of yourself
to understand whether you're reacting or responding and you
learn different skills and all of a sudden things just start to
change as you do. This is going to be the fun part
of exploring this series. All right, let's stop for a
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All right, let's get on to understanding how to know what
part of the spectrum you're in or expressing and and kind of
how to tell that in the P tram. We're going to do some exercises
around how to notice these things in the body and what to
do with it and how to switch it up.
So one of the things you might not know about me unless you're
in the Patreon 'cause we talk a lot in live streams, is that
beyond being an astrologer, a political analyst, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, anthropologist, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, I've studied a lot of alternative healing
processes. That's what it used to be called
back in the day, alternative healing methods.
But one of those was body electronics.
It came out long before The Body Keeps the Score.
And it was founded by Doctor John Ray and I studied under
Thomas C Chavez, who studied with Doctor John Ray.
And it's a really intense process, but it really helped us
understand our bodies, how to heal from trauma, how to release
the story from our cells, and how to heal forward in life.
We used to joke that one session on the table was like 20 years
of therapy, and it really was it.
It could accelerate. It's intense though.
So one of the things when it comes to being deliberate in
your consciousness is understanding what's happening
in the body because your body doesn't lie to you.
Your brain will lie. It'll make up stories, your
heart, it'll make up stories, but your physical body, we'll
always let you know actually how you're feeling and what
consciousness you're in. So one of the ways to notice
what consciousness you're expressing in the body is to
kind of feel in. Now this is going to be
dependent on your physical abilities.
Obviously if you have neurological damage, if you have
like a immunocompromised system, you may experience things a
little differently and you also might be more instinctive or
more reactive because you're being self protective that
you're feeling vulnerable. So we don't want to look at
these as, you know, bad, meh and great.
OK, as far as the consciousness layers go, we want to look at
these as these are ways we are at.
So you want to, wherever you can feel in the body, kind of just
relax as much as you can and then feel any like, are you
tense? Are you reasonably relaxed?
If you're like me and I do a lot of work at the computer, we do
have some tension patterns, right?
That means I need to do some self-care.
I need to get a massage, I need to go do my Mani petty day, that
kind of thing, so that I'm taking care of the body or
soaking Epsom salts or work out a little more that could tell us
where we're not taking care of ourselves, right?
Our body's letting us know ow, I need to be taken care of.
That's also instinctual, right? Hey, maybe you need to exercise
your corollary. Your back hurts if you want to
have longevity, right? Because pain is a signal that
tells us something needs to change.
So I don't want you to look at these senses in the body as
good, bad, something to beat yourself up about, to have more
blame, more shame. That that's not going to help
you. OK, so it's learning how to be
an observer without judgment is is part of the trick with this
magic. And it takes time and it takes
practice. So one of the ways we break down
in like the feeling spaces is like if you feel threatened,
your instinctual, like that person's gonna hurt me or that
person's gonna take my job or that, you know, you get into
that tension. Notice how tense you get when
you're angry or afraid, right? Notice my body language as I'm
talking about it. But it could be if you feel
judged, notice the posture change.
It's a little weaker. The shoulders kind of round.
That's social cultural programming, shame, blame,
guilt, social cultural programming, shame, blame and
guilt. Very, very toxic.
They don't make us good people. Anything that makes people
afraid so they don't do something is punitive and it
really isn't teaching positive behavior right.
Doesn't mean that a little bit of shame, you know, doesn't help
correct behavior sometimes, but we don't want to live in it.
All right. And then if you feel relaxed, if
you feel at ease, if you feel flowy, if you know, think about
how when you're in the groove and you're dancing or when
you're meditating or when you're really relaxed.
Maybe you got in the tub and you're in that Epsom salts bath
and you feel the tension ease away or that feeling in a hot
tub or right after you you get out of the pool that when you
feel weightless or when you feel like an emptiness, but not in a
bad way, but in a full way, if that makes sense.
So that's one of the ways you can know.
All right, so for Patreon, we're going to have a meditation to
help you really TuneIn and kind of feel where you're at and
notice it and make decisions about where you want to feel
next and maybe learning how to release a little bit of tension
even if you don't have access to any of the things I mentioned.
All right, we're going to talk about November and then we'll
close out the show. Oh boy, the November astrology,
let me tell you. So one of the reasons I really
want to teach you how to use your astrology is so you can
listen to me talk about the mundane world events without
freaking out so bad, because that goes right into your
instinctual consciousness. And I'm talking about what we're
going to hear about in the news. Some of that may impact you.
Some of it may not directly impact you, may indirectly
because some of it affects all of us in some way, right?
But some of the events don't touch us personally.
We just happen to feel personalized to them because
we're visually and audibly seeing them thrown at us on a
constant basis. So having you understand which
level of consciousness you're in and how you want to express it
can help give you more agency over how you experience life.
And to me, that's really exciting.
So let's talk about November. It's 2025.
November is going to get very hot as we move into Sagittarius
season around November 21st. OK, it just gets a little hot.
If you're a patron and you get the magazine.
I put out the sneak peek of the What's in the Headlines
predictions. Patrons get the What's in the
Headlines weekly recording, but how do you prepare?
Let's let's talk about consciously preparing for
November. Besides the physical
preparation, which is hopefully you've got things in your
pantry. We've been talking about that
for five years here. Hopefully you've got a little
bit of extra emergency cash as as you could afford.
That runs out pretty fast when you're on a tight budget.
I remember it well, OK. I've been there more than once
and not that long ago. So you know, when you're down to
checking the car for the quarters or the pennies, it's
hard. I do think SNAP benefits will
probably be released around the Taurus full moon.
I just do, if not before that because maybe trying to
influence what's happening in the elections going around.
We'll see. Don't hold me to it, but I think
with that Taurus full moon, it is likely we will see SNAP
benefits being offered. I know the judges made the
order, like do it all or do a partial this week, but I don't
think the administration is going to completely defy the
judge, mostly out of they're going to try to save face,
right? So hopefully, hopefully so if
you've been impacted by that, my God, I'm so sorry.
I have had to use SNAP benefits when my kids were little and it
was a lifesaver, literally. I know it's not always fun to
have to go get them, you know, but man, they make the
difference. So beyond all that, you guys got
to be ready for weather. We've got some big wind and
rain. I think there's going to be some
tornadoes at the end of the month.
I'm actually looking more at the Midwest and upper Midwest for
that, but it could move down towards the Southeast.
I think the Caribbean's going to get hit by another storm.
I think Mexico is going to get hit by another storm and it's
going to go up into the Southwest United States, maybe
some of California, probably Arizona and New Mexico.
I'm going to get real wet. We just have really wet weather.
The astrology of this month and I'll read from the Awake Space
Astrology magazine. You can thank our patrons at the
$15 level and up for this. I'll just read through really
what we've got going on astrologically, so you know,
some important dates. So get your pen and paper out
and we'll we'll talk about these.
November 2nd we had Venus square Jupiter, so a lot of discussion
around economy. November 3rd we got Mars train
Neptune right before it moves into Sagittarius.
This is probably going to be some big, big bod of booms and
some of that's going to be rain, like a rain bomb.
OK, We got Mars in opposition to Uranus on the 4th and Mars
moving into Sagittarius. Of course, that's what's causing
that opposition. That's big bada boom energy.
I think people are really showing up.
I think we're going to see some legal bombshells that day as
well. Globally, we've got the full
moon on November 5th and that's going to impact the economy as
well. So and I think that's the other
reason SNAP benefits are going to get released.
They're like Walmart loses a shit load of money if those
aren't there. They get like 26% of all SNAP
benefits spending. It's a lot of money.
Uranus moves back. Oh, sorry, I missed one.
November 6th. So this is just the first week.
November 6th, we've got Mars sextile Pluto.
That's a very, very energizing thing.
And I think we will see conflicts in the world expand.
So yeah, all the usual spaces. If you're in Eastern Europe,
please do take care if you are in northern South America, so
Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Honduras, Venezuela.
Looking at that, Venus moves into Scorpio that day as well.
So again, this is more about economy and resources as well.
November 7th, we've got Uranus moving into Taurus and Venus is
square Pluto. There is probably going to be
great volatility on the stock market internationally that day,
the 9th, we got Mercury retrograde.
So you know what we're in. We're in the pre shadow.
I'll talk about that later this week.
We've got Jupiter movement retrograde on the 11th, so it
starts swinging back. If you've got Cancer
replacements, you're not losing anything.
You get a chance to pick up things you might have missed.
And the 12th we got Mercury conjunct Mars.
That's going to be a little spicy.
Could see some transportation issues with that.
November 16th, the Sun is trying Jupiter.
That could actually be a very interesting day.
That could also be big storms, lots of water.
November 17th, we've got the Sun trine Saturn and Mercury trine
Pluto. This is all about leadership,
and there could be changes with leadership on those days, and
that's global. OK, don't get your hopes up.
We have Mercury moving into Scorpio on the 18th, and then
Mercury's going to be in opposition to Uranus on the
19th. Remember, Mercury's retrograde,
so it's going from Sage back into Scorpio again that we're
going to see some seismic activity.
We could see some derailments, train derailments and issues
with subways and public transportation and logistics.
So if if you haven't gotten ready for the winter holidays, I
would and don't be ashamed to hand make gifts or give
experiences. OK, let's see, we've got the New
moon on November 19th slash 20th and it is.
It's a pretty powerful one. I've got a really good intention
setting guide for you in the magazine this month.
Let's see, we've got the Sun conjunct Mercury and Uranus sex
style Neptune on the 20th as well.
There's a lot of volatility in economies and currencies this
month, including crypto. November 21st, the Sun is
opposite Uranus, the Sun is try Neptune, and the Sun will also
move into Sagittarius. That's a very historic day.
There will be more than one historic event on that day.
Some of that could be the weather.
Some of that is going to be very political and it may impact the
United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland.
There, there's some big stuff. We could also see global
conflict kind of escalate at that point.
Am I talking global thermal nuclear war?
No, OK, that's not what I'm talking about.
But we are looking at agreements not holding or even the United
States seeing sanctions or having something come at us from
the international community. The 22nd, we have Mercury trying
Saturn, Mercury trying Jupiter. Those are other big days.
This could also be big transportation days.
This is Thanksgiving week. If I was in your physical shoes,
I really wouldn't. Unless you absolutely have to
fly that week, I wouldn't want to.
OK. There's going to be a lot of
cancellations. There's going to be a lot of
snafus. It doesn't mean there's going to
be like massive crashes. There might be a few.
I think they're mostly military, but not that that isn't tragic.
It is, but I, you know, I'm not seeing major commercial
airliners going down necessarily, but I do see
flights could be grounded. Some of that could be weather.
The Sun is sextile Pluto, which is always powerful.
There's big stuff happening on the 23rd.
The 24th Mercury is conjunct Venus.
That looks pretty decent. That could be a pretty good day.
Mark that down. Expect to have a good day on the
24th. The 26th we see Venus trying
Jupiter and Venus trying Saturn. Let me see if that's
Thanksgiving. I think it is.
No, the 27th is Thanksgiving. Saturn moves direct on the 27th.
I don't think there's going to be a very good Black Friday this
year as far as retailers go. I think we're going to see a
couple retailers go bankrupt at least by mid month, if not
before. And I think a lot of people will
be voting with their dollars and just saying, you know what,
we're going to do the holidays differently this year.
But with Saturn going direct, that means we're going to see
some structural changes in government that could lead
either to the government opening, if it hasn't already,
or it could lead to some leadership changes globally.
And then the 29th, we have Mercury stationing direct and
Venus in opposition to Uranus. There's probably going to be
some travel snafus that day and November 30th, Venus is trying
Neptune and Venus then you know, from Scorpio to Pisces, and then
it moves into Sagittarius later in the day.
It's probably some big rainstorms, snowstorms.
We could see some very interesting weather.
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