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 even if this week looks a little funky on the astrology
side in the outer world, this week I'm going to help you
understand how to use this energy to propel forward.
It is possible, my friends. It got a great episode.
We're talking about the eclipse, the lunar eclipse that happens
to be the full moon. I'm going to explain a little
bit about eclipses and what they mean in the outer world versus
what they mean in your interior world.
And the two are separate. And I'm going to bang that home.
I'm talking with Eli Gomez about how to use your voice using
astrology. He is a up and coming astrologer
who really serves his college community.
But I don't care if you're older, you could benefit from
hanging out with Eli. Eli is a little ray of sunshine.
So we'll be listening to Eli. Of course, we'll do patron shout
outs and I'll also be talking about how we can use astrology
in everyday life for everything. I've I've got a bone to pick
with some people and I'm feeling a little spicy.
So grab your tea, grab your coffee, grab your matcha, carb
your iced coffee, grab your whatever, your favorite bevy.
And whether we're taking the kids to school or we're taking a
walk or we're going to work, which we will find perfect
parking, hang out with me for a while because it's an
interesting week. And of course we'll go over the
headlines. But remember, that's what we're
going to see in the news. It doesn't mean good things
can't happen for you. And we're going to talk a little
bit about how to maintain our consciousness even in the mix of
turmoil this week on the Awake Space Astrology podcast.
Man, it's really easy to go down some deep dark rabbit holes when
it comes to looking at the outer world stuff, when we look at all
the craziness that's happening out in the world.
And I released the 2025 year ahead to patrons $5 and up.
And that's yours to stream, however long you're AP train,
OK. And it it's disconcerting.
And I have to remind you, I actually changed nothing in
November when I gave the follow up on those slides.
Those slides are the original from June of 2025.
And I started writing them in May, and it was a lot to hold on
to because this is a time of massive systemic change.
We've been going through massive systemic change for probably 30
years, OK. And actually, it started in the
19th century. But I'm not going to give you a
boring history lesson, OK? And it is disconcerting to watch
everything we know be turned upside down.
Nothing is going to remain constant, my friends, over the
next several years. But that doesn't mean it's all
going to be bad. I know it looks like it right
now. I know we look at the world
crumbling around us. The Jenga tower has fallen.
But remember, Jenga towers aren't stable to start with.
That that's the thing you have to remember.
And yet each one of us can build our lives.
I see clients in my office on Zoom three days a week.
I've moved it to three days a week because I'm producing
podcasts, writing a magazine, and we're about to start some
more podcasts. I have some exciting news I want
to share a little later. And they're going to have great
times. They're building their lives
forward, and so can you. OK, I know it can be hard when
we look at social media and all the people, you know, with their
arguments and who you know. Yeah, there's a lot of
shenanigans going on. You can still build a good life.
And that's some of what I'm going to talk about today when
we talk about the eclipses and how to use that energy for you.
It's easy for me to go down those deep, dark rabbit holes
when I'm doing predictions. And I'm not just a predictive
astrologer, I'm actually a progressive evolutionary
astrologer. I focus on how to help people
grow and evolve in their own this lifetime, not having to
wait to reincarnate, but how to grow and expand in this lifetime
and live authentically. And let me tell you, with
Neptune and Aries coming up, authentic vibes are everything.
Knowing who you are, knowing what you really want, not living
a life described and defined by other people, but understanding
at the core of who you are. And we all have social, cultural
programming we have to unpack to get to that.
It's like layers on the Lotus as they unfold.
It's like a Tootsie Roll pop. How many licks does it take to
get to the inside of a Tootsie Pop 123?
No, takes a few unless you bite it right.
And we just don't get the bite through life.
But there are ways and techniques that we can use to
evolve our understanding of solve, to help actualize and
realize ourselves even in the admit in the midst of chaos.
OK, In fact, there's a lot of opportunity in the midst of
chaos and you have to develop your inner resources.
You have to take stock of who you are.
None of that imposter syndrome is going to get you through
anything. None of it.
And especially if you identify as female, especially so right
now. It's I know we've all been
trained to lean into, oh, I don't feel good enough.
I'm not strong enough, I'm not smart enough, other people know
more than me, all of that. That's not humility, that's self
sabotage. And it doesn't help us.
And this full moon in Virgo, this total eclipse of the moon,
is a great time for pruning that out and replacing it with the
knowledge of our actual skills and abilities and talents.
And don't you dare leave a comment saying you don't have
any because I will delete it, OK?
Pandering is not what I do. I'm not going to be codependent
with people. I will argue for your highest
potential, OK? Not unrealistic expectations,
not what I think you can do, but what I see in you.
And imagine what kind of world would it be if people actually
knew their value, knew their worth?
That's the world I want to live in.
That's the world I want to be in.
I don't want to be in a world where people only lean into the
oppressive thoughts that society and culture and family patterns
have placed upon them. I want to live with a bunch of
brave sons of bitches who are willing to take their lives into
their own hands and say, you know what?
I'm going to risk a failure today.
It takes a lot of courage to do that.
And that above all else, my friends, is why I will never
say, oh, the timelines changed. If I get a prediction wrong
because I am 87% accurate, that means there's 13% of the time I
am not. There could be a variety of
reasons for that. It takes guts to stand up and be
in your integrity, and other people will poke and poke and
poke and poke and poke and say you were wrong, but they never
have the balls or the uteruses to show up in their own truth
with their own integrity. And that's what I'm daring you
to grab hold of this week. I know it's something, but I
will argue for your unfoldment, for your highest expression of
self in any given moment. And some days it's the day we
scream into the void. Some days is all we can do is
get up, put our feet on the floor, go brush your teeth.
Celebrate that if that's the best you can do today.
Wahoo, my mom has this rule. She has something to do every
day and if she can do nothing else, she makes her bed.
That's how I used to know she wasn't feeling good because I'd
call and I'd say, how are you? And she goes, well, I made my
bed today. I'm like, because she's a busy
bee. You have to build your inner
resources, my friends, to make it through these very
interesting times. They are destabilizing because
there is new structure that will emerge.
And what is that structure going to look like?
Well, what are we building? Because it's a collective
effort. But we can't work in unity until
we authentically know who we are.
And we have Neptune in Aries come along at the end of the
month. Neptune is sitting at the 29th
degree of Pisces. And so delusions and illusions
are up, and a time for disillusion is up.
Divine disillusion is up, and the full Moon in Pisces is going
to divinely disillusion us even further.
Now, if you've had Pluto already crossed your Neptune, you
already know what it's to, what it's like to be divinely
disillusioned. And it's a good thing.
It's where we see the fairy tales of life aren't true.
Do you really need a knight in shining armor to pick you up and
rescue you? Do you?
Or do you need that Princess in the tower to rescue?
One of the worst movies I ever saw was the 3rd Shrek movie
because it showed an alternative reality for Fiona and where she
was this kick ass badass, you know revolutionary.
And the resolution to the film was her going back to the life
where she was under appreciated, taken for granted, and had given
her agency over to Shrek. I was pissed off.
I was like, that's a stupid message to give kids.
Why can't you be all that you can be?
Why cannot you build upon your skill sets, your natural
abilities? We're always seeking something
that's really, really hard to make it valuable when in fact,
what we can do. You see the stuff that comes
naturally and with ease and have that be valuable.
Everybody complaints about capitalism, and yet you fall
into that trap every single day by devaluing your natural
skills, talents and abilities and by refusing to even
acknowledge that you have them. No, you're not in trouble with
me. I know I can sound stern.
It is time, my friends. It is time for us to stand up in
all of our glory and release the chains of oppression that have
been going on for not 100 years or 200 years or 300 years.
Not even the advent of colonialism as we have seen it
over the last 500 years goes back to the Bronze Age.
Check out Gerda Lerner. It's women's History Month.
Gerda Lerner was the founder of the field of women's history
because it didn't exist before the 1970s.
The Creation of the Patriarchy is a fabulous book.
It was published in 1986 and I found it in my high school
library and it changed my world view and it she didn't have a
lot of answers, but she did offer a lot of questions and was
asking young women who were coming up into the sciences to
please study these things in the future.
And funny enough, the more that have, the more we have found out
that all those warriors, they weren't all men and it wasn't
just Vikings. That made sense to me.
I know what I've done to protect my children.
And I'm not a very big person. I'm Pretty Little.
I'm tall for my family. But I'm 55.
And you'll say, oh, well, that's you, Lori.
I've heard that my whole life. Well, that's you, Lori.
You're special. No, I'm not.
I'm human. I am human.
You are human. We have these abilities and
everybody has different abilities.
I am not good at everything and I bring people together with me
who are good at things I am not. Some of that is physical
limitation, my eyesight. So I bring in people who have
better vision to catch the things I miss.
But I lean into my knowledge, I lean into my strengths, and so
should you. And contrary to what Mr. Musk
has to say about empathy, he is wrong.
Empathy is a very, very important aspect of our
personalities, but it should not be debilitating.
There's a big difference between true empathy and codependence.
True empathy does not render us paralyzed.
We should not rob people of their experiences by trying to
remove their pain. We can support them in their
journeys and stand side by side. It isn't cold to look at a
situation and understand it is not happening to you and yet
feel sympathy for those going through it and be of service to
those going through it. That's a skill, but I'm an
empath. Me too.
And with Neptune at the 29th degree of Pisces, it's very easy
to be energetically overwhelmed right now.
Very easy to be energetically overwhelmed.
I've been joking that you could wear a hematite suit of armor
and good luck. The spigot won't turn off.
Not until Neptune enters Aries and then it's going to feel
really weird because that energy is going to shift gears hard.
And that happens on March 30th of 2025.
It'll be very interesting and I'll talk about that more as we
go along in the month because this week on the 13th slash
14th, we have the full moon in Virgo, which is a total lunar
eclipse with Mercury stationing retrograde.
Lucky us. And I've already been kind of
feeling the pre retrograde with some tech snafus.
They've been kind of funny. I'll give you your survival
guide. If you want the the full wine by
like Mercury through the houses, then you can check out the awake
space astrology magazine in the Patreon.
But I want you to understand it does you no favors to discount
your value, to discount your understanding of self, to
discount your ambition. Just because some person out in
the world says you're not valuable because you're this
kind of person doesn't make it true.
Since it's women hands treats my grandmother.
She was a trailblazer and a pioneer when it came to working
in the world in state and county government.
And when I was in high school, I was railing against misogyny and
it things weren't fair and it wasn't equal.
And I had been shut out of a computer science class because
the teacher had said I would be a distraction.
And I didn't even know what that meant.
I'd known those guys since we were like 10 years old.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
I had no clue what it meant as a woman or young lady to be a
distraction. I was butt toothed with braces
and thick coke bottles. If you think my glasses are
thick today, man, they could not compress lenses back then.
They were glass and they were so heavy they pushed my nose down
and scar my nose. I'm like what are you talking
about? You're just, I'm one of the
guys. What are you talking about?
Which honestly, those guys would have thought that too.
Well, I found out later they didn't think that, but they were
gentlemen. Anyway.
I I was really angry because I really wanted to learn to code
more than I knew how. I knew how to code in basic, but
I knew I needed to learn more, right?
This is like 1983. And my grandma said, Lori, you
don't get equality by asking for it.
You get it by taking it. ACT equal man.
Those words have rang with me my whole life and I didn't
understand them. At 14 I was like how do I act
equal? I don't.
I don't understand this. I didn't.
I took a long time, and those words echo all the time with me.
You know, all the time she was in Aries.
She was a little, she was short, like her hair made her 5 feet
tall because she kept it floofy. But man, you didn't mess with
her. She was a powerful lady.
We have Venus in Aries retrograde, and I want to talk a
little bit more about that on the podcast today too, because I
think a lot of people don't understand that the stuff
blowing up right now isn't screwing you over.
It's opening pathways. The world is changing.
That is a fact. And it is not the first time the
world has changed. And in change is opportunity, in
crisis is opportunity. We don't help ourselves by
creating further obstacles with our mindset.
Mindset is so so important and I get that some people don't want
to see the reality of the world that is, but I can guarantee you
spirituality isn't about deluding yourselves from the
actual facts of what's going on in life.
Spirituality has nothing to do with kumbaya and living this
pious life. You're not supposed to not be in
the world. That doesn't make it spiritual.
You're not here to be disembodied and not connected.
We are all children of Gaia, every single one of us.
And what is Gaia? Gaia is Earth, we are children
of this planet and we are here for a purpose, and that purpose
isn't necessarily to lead an army or lead a charge or be the
Liberator or be the great business person or be the great
musician or actor or be famous. It can be to have a range of
experiences and it is through our perceptional perceptional
lens. It is through our perceptual
lens that we craft and shape our reality.
Change your switch up your perception and you change your
world. I didn't say it would be easy,
but with this full moon in Virgo and that eclipse, you have a
remarkable opportunity to prune away the thought forms that are
habitual. That holds you back.
The self criticism, the worry, the needing to be perfect before
you can start anything. Because the people who are
successful are always willing to risk failure.
Always willing to risk failure. They'll speak up and they're OK
with not knowing the answers. It takes courage to be
authentically yourself and not fit into the mould of someone
else's designs. It takes courage and we all have
it. Don't let the collective miasma
convince you you have none. You do You're here, you're
listening to this, you've aligned into the space.
It's what you needed to hear. You have the courage to take one
more step, one more breath and try again.
That is all that is asked of us. Railing against the what isness
of reality isn't going to change it.
Action will So let's talk about how you can use the energy of
the full moon in Virgo that happens to be a lunar eclipse to
your advantage. Eclipses can sound really scary,
especially when people are equating them from the mundane
to the personal. But you see, on the personal
level, it's a full moon on steroids.
On the mundane level, which is the outer world, it's the bigger
happenings. Things that have less agency
than you do, they can be a little bigger.
We will see natural events. In fact, science is proving that
all the time that, you know, they've just recently in the
last few years been talking about an occurrence of more
seismic activity in coordination with eclipses.
OK. And we have been seeing it's
going to be a little more seismic this week has been
pretty active so far and it's only Monday.
Notice these haven't necessarily been where people live.
These been in the middle of the ocean or somewhere remote.
It it, it's part of how the world works.
Seismic activity is disconcerting to us as human
beings and can be devastating to human beings, but it is part of
how the Earth operates on an individual level.
You have agency. So let's understand a few things
about eclipses. I wrote about this in the Awake
Space Astrology magazine's March issue, because we have two
eclipses this month. We have a total lunar eclipse
and we have a partial solar eclipse.
Now the total lunar eclipse is visible in North and South
America, across the Atlantic into Eastern Europe, a little
bit of the Levant and Western Africa.
It skips WA, OK, but the rest of Australia gets to see it, as
does parts of East Asia, OK. So it's going to be very
interesting. That's a lot of visibility.
Eclipses are only eclipses when they're visible.
That's a major rule. So all the people who make a big
deal, like if you're in LA, don't worry about that solar
eclipse that's coming up at the end of the month because it's
not visible where you live. And I will cover that couple
weeks from now, OK, if it's not visible, it is not an eclipse.
Now the total lunar eclipse is very visible in all of North and
South. Well, not all of South America,
kind of like misses Brazil and a little and a little change above
and below. I mean, the totality of it those
anyway, if I'll put them, I'll put the the map in the Patreon
post for this podcast, so which I put out publicly so you guys
can check that out. Visibility matters.
The reason why eclipses are considered malefic in
traditional astrology is because it usually meant some bad news
for leaders because there might have been big storms coming up
or there might be conflict and wars.
Nobody's happy when that happens.
It could be economic failings, crop failures, things like that,
which usually didn't happen to help an emperor or a king or a
general. On an individual level, those of
us who do not hold the CEO of a major corporation's rank, for
those of us who are not world leaders, as important as we are
as individuals, but we don't hold a role that impacts the
collective, which is the moon, OK?
The moon represents the people. And so the lunar eclipse is the
moon, OK, having a moment with the sun and it turns, it'll turn
red. And, you know, so imagine
there's no light pollution. You're in a village, there's no
electricity, and it's very dark, and you can see the Milky Way
and the moon comes out and it's blood red.
How'd that make you feel when you didn't have a scientific
explanation? You won't be like, shit's going
down. This is this is not good.
Every single culture in the world says don't go outside to
look at an eclipse. It was bad luck.
And some of that with the solar eclipse is you'll burn your
retinas so you go blind. That was really bad luck back in
the day because it was very hard to survive.
OK, it's hard enough now. Nobody accommodates provision.
Nobody. If you know you know the The
energy of an eclipse on a personal level, though, can be
absolutely empowering if you shift your mindset to it.
You got to attune your energy to it.
OK, Now what do I mean by attune your energy?
Well, that means you tune in. OK, you tune into it.
And that means you need to tune up.
It's not high vibes only. OK, you know, I don't roll that
way, but you got to tune up. You can't be thinking nobody
likes me, everybody hates me, nobody does what I say,
everybody ignores me. I might as well go eat worms and
be able to tune into the frequency you need to empower
yourself. You're not there.
Your stream of thought is in the problem thinking, not the
solution thinking. OK, so if you want to TuneIn,
you need to be like, what do what skills do I have that I
don't value enough? What are the things I say?
What are the where am I technically good at something?
But say, oh, I'm just good at that.
That's, you know, just something I do right.
Whether it is how you cook meatballs and chicken soup or
how you crochet a blanket or how you write poetry or how you do
art or how you do spreadsheets or how you organize.
Oh, I'm just good at that. That's that's nothing.
That's just something I do. Ask yourself, what it where do I
do that? Because you could prune that
thought process and then and make note of your skill set.
Virgo is the technician. It's about precision.
It's skilled, skilled labor, OK, And skilled labor can include
being really good with your hands, a plumber and
electrician, being good at handy stuff.
I had Kim on the podcast last week and she was, she learned
how to use power tools and was like, wait, why do I think I
can't use these? Of course I can.
I'm capable. Are you good at learning?
Because just because you don't know how to do something doesn't
mean you won't forever know how. Being good at learning is a
skill. Being good at listening is a
skill. Being good at translating
meaning is a skill. Writing down your special
interests and instead of letting a diagnosis of any kind define
you. And I know a lot of people get
unhappy with me when I say this, and I'm OK with that because you
see, I used to too. I always say there's five years
of my life I'd really like back because that's when I was
attached to the labels. I identified with my pain story,
I identified with, quote UN quote, my trauma.
I identified with the labels and the diagnosis and it held me
back. It was oppressive.
Not identifying with them doesn't make them go away, but
it disempowers them a little bit.
They're not running the show. Your mind isn't running you.
You run it no matter who you are, because that is how human
brains actually function. And So what if you have a busy
brain and your mind is always going off at 1,000,000 miles an
hour? Not everybody's supposed to
think about one thing at a time. Not everybody's supposed to sit
still for 8 hours a day. In fact, I will argue that is
the most toxic thing in the world.
Not everybody is supposed to sit quietly and not question.
Not everybody's meant to not fidget.
In fact, I think more of us are designed to fidget than not.
I think most people are fairly kinesthetic.
Not everybody, obviously. I urge you to find Howard
Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
I urge you because we're all smart in different ways.
It's not just about being good at writing your verbal skills,
speaking, or math. There's so many.
Some people are just naturally good at at at being outdoors.
Some people are naturally good at mechanical things.
Some people are naturally good at rhythmic movement.
Some people are naturally good at catching undercurrents and
tones. Some people are incredibly
masterful at understanding other people.
Those interpersonal skills. Some people are really good at
understanding themselves. Those are all forms of
intelligence. Some people are athletic and
some people are what we would think of traditionally
intelligent book smart. Some people are street smart.
Some people have more wisdom. You know, like I look at an
astrology chart a lot like you look at a character sheet DD,
you know, you've got your constitution score, you got your
wisdom score, your intelligence score, your Charisma score, your
strength score. And everybody's going to roll
life a little differently. If you're not counting what
you're good at, it's it's going to be problematic if you
continue to oppress yourself. And I'm not saying don't take
your mental health into account, Absolutely take your mental
health into account. But understand it does not
identify who you are. It is an aspect of self, but it
is not defining of self. It's a big difference and that
way of thinking changes it. There's no shame to our mental
health. We all have struggle, anxiety,
depression, PTSDOCDADHD. Some of that I don't consider a
problem. Some of it if it gets in the way
of living your life it does. Like it all gets lumped together
as disorders. And what makes it disorderly?
Is it a disorder because it's disrupting your ability to be a
cog in the wheel of a society that thinks we need to be
autonomatons, machines, robots? What if you could live your life
fundamentally authentic? It'll feel almost like
blasphemy. I know because I've built mine.
It wasn't easy, and I don't think everybody should do what I
did. I just couldn't live that way
anymore. I couldn't live compromised from
all of who I am and I certainly he was a little messy and a
little bumpy to get here. That's why I help other people
unfold themselves maybe a little more gently in chaos as
opportunity and those who can hold their consciousness as
steady as possible. And it doesn't mean you don't
slip. I cry plenty.
I look at the state of the world and I go, Oh my God, no wonder
it was murky. No wonder.
How could we conceive of such dastardliness when we know
better? And of course, it looks plain as
day in retrospect. We can look back and follow the
lines and go, oh, there it is. But hindsight is always 2020.
Shoulda woulda coulda can't live life based on that.
All we do is get to walk forward.
Even though time is non linear from a quantum perspective, in a
physical perspective the physical illusion that we live
in it is linear. We, we are born and we have an
expiration date that we don't know.
And everything else we do in between is living.
And it can be scary when things are falling apart and the things
we've relied on, the people we've relied on, the wolves
we've relied on look like they're going away.
But ask yourself what's opening up for me.
I was, I was talking to my daughter Sarah, who will be
doing more podcasts with me. It's just we're in another
shift. And she said, you know, this
person said this thing about me, and I'm like, yeah, I'm going to
turn that into real energy that works for me.
And I'm like, wow, I love that attitude.
Take that shade and turn it around.
What you throw at me, I shall transmute.
What looks like defeat shall be a victory.
The thing about Virgo energy, and as we approach this Virgo
full moon, this is something I want you to remember.
Virgo energy often looks outside of itself because you know, it's
the healer, it's it's the technician, it's looking at the
field of battle and going who can I save today?
Who can't I save? And I got to pick the people I
can save because triage is like that.
It's not super funny, OK? You have to step back and be a
little bit detached from it all, and you have to look and go, OK.
And it doesn't mean Virgos don't have compassion, by the way.
Virgos are often some of the most compassionate people I've
ever known. But they will let somebody fall
on their ass if that's what that person needs to do.
They will not rescue them necessarily from the
consequences of their actions. And that can be the most
compassionate act because being codependent with people where
you try to take responsibility for their path and their actions
can get you both hurt. Take it from a Libra man who
took a long time to learn these lessons.
We cannot take responsibility for other people's pathways.
But Virgo does this. They will project onto other
people their attention and their energy and forget about
themselves. And we all have Virgo in our
chart. We all have all 12 signs in our
chart. OK, If you don't believe me,
watch my intro to the Natal chart video on YouTube, OK?
You can also find it in my Patreon, OK, It's public, it's
free. Just watch that because you'll
figure it out. You have all 12 signs, even if
you don't have any placements there, OK?
That energy is in the chart. We all have all 12.
So just because you don't like a sign doesn't mean you don't got
that energy. And in fact, a lot of what we
don't like in others is a projection of what we don't like
in ourselves. Ouch.
But what I'm going to tell you is this Virgo full moon is going
to show us a really big mirror of where we've been putting our
energy into other people's hopes, dreams and aspirations
instead of our own. It's going to show us where we
need to prune the oppressive thoughts, where we discount our
technical abilities and skills. I was talking to my BFF Kirsten.
So Kirsten Soga, the greatest chocolatier in the world.
She is amazing. She's also a hell of a damn good
life coach and she helps me out in the mystery school, which has
a new name coming up soon. So hold on guys, there's some
cool stuff coming up for that. But she is effectively, I've
made her headmistress basically because it's a cool title.
And she's been on the journey with me for all but two years of
that process that developed, that helps people actualize and
realize and develop their projects and build their lives
in meaningful ways. But I was talking to her the
other day and she said, oh, I'm going to make this coupon.
And I was like, OK, cool. And she goes, you know what?
You taught me something really important.
And Kirsten's older than me and we came to technology at
different times of life. And way back in the 80s, you,
you could screw up a computer really easy by hitting the wrong
button. So all of you people who are
like thinking your parents are wizzies when it comes to tech,
No, no, they probably formatted their hard drive by accident.
You really could screw things up and trying to convince people
who might have lost a job or been threatened with job loss
because they formatted a hard drive, they can be traumatic.
And so I have worked with her because I was her teacher years
ago before we became friends and I was working with her
technology with technology and I was like, click around, you
can't hurt it. Click around, you can't get it
wrong. You can always undo something.
You're not able to get into the part that you can hurt things
with anymore. You're you're going to be fine.
Just click around and learn from experience.
You don't have to know it right away and it might take a second.
You just have to be a little patient.
And she's been working on her website.
And she was like, you taught me that I could just be patient
with myself and click around and I didn't have to know the answer
right away. And it was OK.
And I was like, damn, I love that I taught you that.
That is the grace you need to give yourself on anything.
Like if you're like, I'm not good at gardening.
Did you kill 10 plants? I've killed a lot more than that
in the 30 years I've been gardening a lot more.
And I killed Ivy in college. That's a talent.
I well, I didn't water it all at all.
I forgot to water it. So that'll kill a plant over
watering a coke. Plant the wrong soil.
Kill a plant, plants die. They germinate easy and it's OK.
Just 'cause you weren't born good at it doesn't mean you
can't learn the skills. I wasn't born good at astrology.
I treated it like a language because it exhibits qualities of
language and I taught myself alongside my teacher.
He was there to guide me and I studied treating it like a
language, which means I did reiterative practice, meaning I
did it over and over and over and over until I got it.
And then experience this Full moon in Virgo is powerful.
It is an opportunity to prune oppressive thoughts because when
you project your consciousness onto what the other guy is
doing, you're not looking at what you're doing.
When you're so busy in other people's business, like they're
not meeting their full potential, they're not taking
care of themselves, they're not going to therapy, They're no
have the right therapy. They are not living up to their
potential. They're not advocating for
themselves. They don't have the right job.
They're not doing their self-care, they're not eating
right, they're not blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah, blah blah
blah, blah, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah. That's none of your business.
Your business is you. It's not our job.
It is not our job to foist advice on other people.
Unsolicited advice is like one of my biggest pet peeves.
If I didn't ask for help, don't. Don't jump in.
Don't try to rescue me. I like to learn by trial and
error. I don't need to get it right the
first time. I don't care if I mispronounce a
word because I learned it through reading.
Somebody corrects me. Like OK thanks, but you said
that wrong so the fuck what? It's learning.
We're human beings, we are designed to learn.
We are not designed to be perfect.
Virtue is one of your greatest shadows.
Because if you're worried about being seen as virtuous, if
you're worried about being seen as above reproach, if you're
always afraid of what everybody else is thinking about you and
you're busy thinking about what everybody else is doing, it's
not actual virtue. Virtue is your good just to be
good. That's it.
You don't care who sees it. You don't care who notices.
You just do the right thing to do the right thing.
I mean, think about those guys who go on the street and give a
homeless person, you know, like $10,000 or get a million.
I think it's great they're helping a person, but did they
need to make a video about it and be like, oh, look at me, I'm
great. And everybody's like, Oh my God,
you're so great. That's not virtue.
That's performative. Virtue is just fucking doing it
and maybe asking the person what is it that you need and
listening to them before you say you need this because you're
going to have a better chance of them having overall long term
success by actually working with versus doing for.
I'm not saying don't help people, I'm just saying build a
relationship. Listen to their actual wants and
needs and desires because sometimes if you are over
generous or you do for somebody it can be overwhelming to them.
It's a big change and maybe you have to massage into it, right?
You have to warm up into it. The same with ourselves.
If you have oppressive thought habits where you don't think
you're good enough, you're worried about what other people
think. You feel like you have to reach
these arbitrarily, you know, high standards of perfection,
that you have to be in the right relationship, that somebody's
got to be like approving of you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You may not be able to switch to.
I love myself. I'm totally all that.
I love my skills. I know I'm good at stuff and
have all the confidence in the world.
You might want to do some baby steps.
The good news is Virgo energy is about process.
It is about the step by step learning of technique, the step
by step process of doing something well.
It's about precision, and precision has to deal with
process. OK, You can leverage the energy
of this full moon that is also a lunar eclipse by noticing where
your attention is going and when you're taking it off yourself
because it's uncomfortable and it's easier to look outside of
you. It's so much easier to look at
what everybody else is fucking up instead of you.
It's so much easier to point fingers at what other people
aren't doing for themselves. Yeah, do what I say, not as I
do. Right.
I mean, and you don't need to treat it like a confessional or
a testimony. I see that a lot in spiritual
species because so many people left the evangelical movement
and and they'll come in and they're like, I have to testify,
you know, they may not say it that way, but like I have to
say, I, I got too deep into my shadow work and I got lost along
the way. Why?
As we say in the mystery school, in the ANI process, OK, the ANI
process, which helps you align and nurture so you can make an
impact. All right, the power is in the
noticing. The perfection is in the
correction. The power is in the noticing.
Oh crap. I do that.
The perfection is in the correction.
What do I want to do differently?
How can I think differently about myself if there if there
were no chains on my hands and and ankles and I was free to do
anything I wanted it, If money was no object, what would I
actually be doing with my life instead of thinking I'm stuck, I
can't go anywhere, I don't have this.
Instead of taking inventory of what is fucked up in your life,
what if you built a different inventory?
What would it like to feel confident inside of myself?
What if I have all the skills I need to take the next step?
What is my logical next step of action?
If I can't do all of what I want to do right now, what is the one
thing I can do to move me forward?
And that's not bullshit, that's just honestly how actually we we
become successful. This full moon is hitting my
Pluto and my S node. I'm I'm very fascinated to
observe what happens around it. I kind of have a feeling I know
what will happen. I have secured a place to rent
to build a studio for the awake space and I I couldn't talk
about it last week because they were having a vote on Monday and
because it's a local Business Association who's going to rent
out the building. They they have.
And it's cute little store friend.
And trust me, if you're a patron, you'll get to see all
the behind the scenes stuff as we build sets and get ready for
Lori Thinks out Loud and Miles to Success and Lori the story
lady and all the other fun podcasts.
I want to start. No, I'm not going to stop doing
astrology. There's just other stuff I want
to do too. And plus, we'll be producing my
daughter and I'll be producing other people's podcasts as well.
So I'm bringing on astrologers to read at the awake space at
Woke astrology.com. I'm not going to quit reading,
it's just I've pared down my schedule so I can do other
things that enliven me. OK, so it's a cool story and
I'll tell you how I manifested this.
So I moved here in July to be with my parents, who are
elderly. They don't need a ton of help.
They're, they're very, very independent people.
But my brother and I were both a little concerned.
And I was like, you know, I don't want to just come out for
emergencies. And we've done so much healing
as a family. Everybody's done their work or
is doing their work right? And I was no contact for almost
20 years. I was a little bit of a hipster
before it was popular. Trust me, all of you who are
here. But it's your mom, it's your
dad, it's your parents. You should honor them.
Yeah, I know it's exhausting, but we've done the work.
And if we haven't cleaned it all the way up, it's in process.
And it was important to me. I'm a cancer.
So it's a, it's A1 Shetland pony town.
It's not even a one horse town. It's a pretty small town.
It's a pretty small place. And there's the coolest store
friends, the coolest store friends in this Wyoming town.
And I would take my hot girl away and I'd look and be like,
you know, one of those would be fun to rent.
Because I really can't take us to the next level with the awake
space sitting with my blurred background.
I can come out cooler than this. We can go to the next level.
And there's so much I want to teach.
And I know Ru Paul has said it. If you want people to take you
seriously, should probably wear a suit.
I got suits. I just don't feel like doing it
here. So I'd walk through and I, you
know, I'd walk through town and I'd, I'd go, gosh, those are so
cool. But the problem with a small,
small town like that usually to have storefront open is people
either give up or they die. And I didn't want anybody to
have to give up or die for me to find a building.
I just was like, be really nice just to have one open up and I
didn't put much more into it. It was a wouldn't that be nice?
Now, if you want to manifest stuff, you want to keep it
light. You don't want to be like, I
want this and this and then you like be meticulous in all your
details. If you're, you're so controlling
of it, you make it harder to come in.
I didn't care which building on that street.
I just want a building, you know, can I rent it?
I didn't even need the whole thing.
I was OK with a little bit, which actually kind of happened.
I got the bulk of it. But anyway, about 3 weeks ago my
parents went to a meeting and found out that it was going for
rent and it fit into the budget and I gave them a call.
Like my mom and dad found about it on a Friday night and I gave
them a call on a Monday. I saw it on the Monday and it's
perfect. It's even soundproofed, guys.
It has pegboard up on the walls. Like are you kidding?
It's crazy cool. So we'll be able to put in the
sets. It even has another separate
office space, you know, where I can film other things too, you
know, do my Tiktoks and do do all of that.
I know I haven't been on TikTok, but it's honestly been it's been
a little crazy because my mom hasn't been feeling well.
And then, you know, it's just been kind of one thing after
another and I didn't have any energy, you know, and I've had
my own stuff. In fact, I was pretty sick
Friday. I laugh now but in I was not
well and I'm just feeling better tonight.
Sunday night may have answered a question with my mom's self but
by me getting sick. But I find it really funny when
I go on to TikTok and people are like we need you, we need you
where are you? And I'm like, has anyone ever
said, hey, are you OK? How are you doing?
And nobody needs me, you need yourself.
Anyway, I think that full moon is going to be when I hear I
have the lease and I signed the lease and we get starting
started on the next project. And I let go of the limiting
thoughts I've had about growing this.
And yes, I have. I know you see me as super
competent and super confident, but you have to remember I'm
always thrilled when people listen.
I'm like, really? People want to hear what I have
to say. That's crazy.
I spent a lot of years where nobody wanted to hear what I had
to say. One of the most beautiful
healing things in this whole process is I didn't expect in
this little tiny town for people to be excited about what I do
because when they asked about my podcast, I was like.
Well, the subject matter may not land great here.
You guys might not be interested in it and that's OK.
I will have others. You know, I'm not here to
evangelize my beliefs on anybody.
I just, I have a great audience and I have a wonderful
membership support. We are 100% listener supported
and I'm so proud of that. And they were like, no, what is
it about? And I said the Awakes was
Australian department, like what they make space, the strategy
podcast. It's almost like, you know, just
like bringing a slider in there. And the the young lady Roxanna,
who is the head of the Business Association, said, Oh my gosh, I
do sound bath healing and tarot. And I was like, what?
No way. And people are really open to
it. And I'm like, no way, that's
cool. So super excited to be welcomed
because where I lived for 17 years in Washington, it wasn't
very accepted. And I wasn't very accepted.
And there were a lot of reasons for that.
It was the only place I've ever lived where I wasn't welcomed.
You know, I've lived all over the world and people met me with
open arms, but that spot was a lot.
There was a lot of healing that happened there.
And because of the social isolation, you get what you get
from me because of what did I have to do?
I had time to study but have people be excited.
It was pretty cool. I'm very healing.
And remember, Virgo is the sign of healing.
We can heal wounds with this energy.
We could cut out the detritus. We can we can put a salve on the
old scars. We can give ourselves some love.
And if you've been attuned to Reiki, give yourself Reiki.
OK? I've been attuned to Reiki since
1999. And the one person we often
forget to give to is ourselves. Going to end this segment by
reading to you. The Virgo rising horoscope, I
haven't done that in a while. For a while I was reading like
the horoscope for this, the sign, even though we're in
Pisces. I think Virgo risings need to
hear this. All right, fine, Pisces.
I'll read for you too, because Pisces always feel left out.
They're like, why are we always last in this?
In the list of signs? I'm like, because it's the
alphabet. So this is the Virgo rising
horoscope. But I think everybody can
resonate to a certain degree with this because we all have
Virgo in our charts. And if you want to blow by blow
on what's happening with the full moon through the houses,
I'll do that for patrons in the Patreon this week.
So the title is Mind Your Beeswax sub heading is Focus on
You. You have an eagle eye and you
can see exactly what people need to be doing to get where they
can reach their full potential. You are a master planner, a
great talent scout and and an amazing strategist.
Yet there's this little detail you often overlook.
You. You're often so invested in
other people's trajectories that you lose yourself to their
hopes, dreams and visions and you forget about your own.
You get a lot out of being a helper, the go to person, the
idea person. And yet, are you where you want
to be? If yes, that's great.
However, later this year you'll thank me for this little
lecture. It's time you started working
towards your own aims. It's time you started to level
up. If the past several years
haven't hasn't driven home the importance of making sure the
brass tacks of agreements are fair to you, that you get your
due out of all the effort you put into those nearest and
dearest, then I don't know what will.
In March, you need to network with the people who are going to
support your dreams. It's time to start preparing for
something that bears fruit later.
And you'll get a taste of it in March.
And if you want to know about the full and new moon, that is
listed in the horoscopes on the sidebars, and that's in the
awake space Astrology magazine. All right, Pisces raising, I'm
not going to leave you out because it is Pisces season and
this full moon is going to be opposite.
So discretion is the better part of valor.
Selfing March finds you in a delightfully creative space.
You're able to put yourself out there with your full authority
if you let yourself. For years I've gone on about how
you are as much a transmitter as you are a receiver, because it's
true. And if you're going to transmit
against the flow of the collective, trust me, I do know
how hard that is. Because Lord have mercy do not
people do not take their energy hygiene seriously and it can be
a lot. However, you can and will make a
difference if you do what you do best and that is being your own
little bubble. Some people say it's delulu, but
it's actually one of your superpowers.
If you can hold your focus on yourself and allow yourself to
lean into the immense urge to create this month, you'll fare
better than if you try to run to everyone else's rescue.
You are not a knight in shining armor when you deplete yourself,
take on too much, or martyr yourself for other people's
benefit. Your desire to rush in to save
people who appear to be drowning often leaves your own head
underwater too long. Every lifeguard knows you have
to think of your own safety first if you're going to help
someone else. You can help yourself and maybe
one other person this month if you focus on finding your
groove. And groove you shall find if you
can switch your attention inward, you have an opportunity
to glow up. If you use your immense power to
imagine for your own benefit, it will help others in the end.
All right, that's, that's the Virgo Pisces axis.
And that's what we're looking at since we have the nodes in Virgo
and Pisces, and that's why we're having the eclipses in Virgo and
Pisces. I hope you take me at my word on
this, guys. You can use this energy to power
up. All right, let's do some patron
shout outs and then we will listen to a conversation that
Eli Gomez and I had about using your voice, using astrology, how
to find it, what to do with it. I want to thank all of our
newest patrons. Without patrons, there is no
podcast. Been doing some polls, been
doing some polls, and people have been wanting to know how to
deal with the energy. So that's what we're going to
have coming up in patron only podcasts on how to deal with the
energy. We've got our news patrons.
I always do shout outs for them. We've got Lydia, Megan, Carrie,
Rebecca, Liz, Nikki, Ali, Heather, Cherise, JJ, Astara,
Mia M, Beatrice, Elizabeth, Krista, Mary, Mariah, Anastasia,
K Sam. Snorkel up.
I guess. I love that.
Maggie, Joanna, Nicole. Space Kate.
Oh, space cadet 28, Karen Owl at the moon.
Oh, I love that name. Ramona, Melissa, Sarah or Oh no
it was Sarah. TJ Divine AF.
Laurie, Jess, Evelyn. Taylor, Jackie.
Melissa, Julia. Kelsey, Abigail.
Drennan, Ayla, Artiana Smit and Jazz Kitten Tricia Kelsey,
Tracy, Jaycee, Martha. Jennifer, Allison.
Flighty Girl. Juan, Sarah, Leah, Christine,
Catalina, Alicia, Nicole Taylor, Julia.
Babs, Julie. MC, Brit, Brit McGee, Sierra,
Jazz, Maggie Searcy's, Far Folly, Christian, Jamie Kay
Bailey, Caitlin Shreen, Jordan, Sue's and Victoria.
Big shout outs to our news patrons this week.
Let's see so many. We've got some good stuff
happening in the comments. It's been a little quiet,
probably because I've been a little quiet.
I'll come back in, I promise. Not feeling well has been a
thing. It's been wild.
But. But yeah, so big shout outs.
Big shout outs to Maverick and Kim and Alicia and Eli and
everybody in the Cosmic Surfers crew.
We're going to meet this coming Saturday.
Cosmic Surfers is a closed tier, but these are these are my real
ones. These are these are my peeps.
And if I didn't mention you, you're still my peep.
All right, let's get into talking about what's in the
headlines. All right, as promised, I have
Eli Gomez with me. He is an astrologer and a mentee
of mine, rather partial to Eli. He does great things in the
world. He's got a podcast that's
rocking it. Eli, welcome back to the AWAKE
Space. How are you?
I'm. Pretty good.
So you've been working on a class you're going to be doing
this month. Let's talk I.
AM well, it's called OK. It's lived many incarnations
already and it hasn't even been just, but on the market for like
maybe a couple days, maybe maybe a week, depending on when this
comes out. And it's already gone through
three name changes. So originally it was called the
role in collective action using your astrology.
My assistant Brooklyn was like, no, that's too clunky.
We are not calling it that. And so we decided we are going
to do a poll on my Patreon. And the name that won by an
overwhelming amount was finding your voice using your astrology.
And so the theme remains the same, but that is currently the
name. It may change again, but I am
very confident that that's probably going to be the one
that's going to stay because I feel like that one has the best
rhythm to it. I love that.
So when we're talking about collective action, we live in
interesting times and we have Pluto in Aquarius, which gives
power to the people. Let's talk about it.
How? How can an astrologer assist
people in understanding their role, if any, in collective
action? Well, yeah.
So First off, nobody is a clone of anybody else.
No one is exactly the same. Nobody has the exact same
interest. No one has the exact same
childhood or ways that they were brought up.
And because we are all different and have different experiences,
we all like different things. We all want to do different
things. Our skills that we have are
going to vary depending on the person, believe it or not.
Can you believe that no one is the same?
Like, is that just like a wild thought?
We're we're not monoliths. Right.
It's it's almost like you can't. We're just it's almost like
we're not mechanical. We can't, we're not just like in
a machine out and everybody's saying it's not the Sneetches.
So what I had decided was like, hey, a lot of people are like,
hey, what if we were the Sneetches?
You know, we could just, you know, go in systems and everyone
has a star on their belly, you know?
Voila, easy as that, right? Well, because we're not all
clones. It just doesn't work that way.
And that's part of collective action.
Not everyone is going to be the people on the street with their
fists in the air. Not everyone is like that.
However, there are people who are, and I'm not negating their
importance. We do need people who are on the
streets and being out there in showing themselves in numbers.
However, we also need people who are security.
We also need people who are planners.
We also need people who are kind of behind the scenes working
with other networks of people trying to network and share
events, share information, really getting the.
Message out there the marketer. Yes.
And we also need people who are in finance who are able to help
fundraise and fund all of these events in order to show, hey,
there's this collective action event.
There is, there are these people who are wanting to resist
whatever it is that we are resisting.
And we want to show up in numbers.
And believe it or not, because we live in a capitalist society,
we need money to do that. So we need people who are
fundraisers and all of that together.
We need people who fit each one of those things.
And so there you go. Not everyone is just, you know,
a protester on the street with their sign and their garb and
everything. So this class is meant to help
empower the students to say, hey, this may be where you are
most aligned with in collective action activity.
Maybe you're not someone who likes to do finance or be behind
the scenes. Maybe you are someone who likes
to be seen make a point and you are very.
At. Your chart because your chart
clearly shows that you have authority and you claim it and
so therefore you might be someone who will benefit more by
being out there. However, Susie over here may
decide that she wants. Maybe I shouldn't use Susie
because Susie is somebody we know.
Maybe I should use? Well, we're not talking about
Susie Evolutionary. You can edit that out.
I'm like I'm. Trying to think of it, but but
Susie, Susie, Susie's done her fair share, so.
Yes, I'm, I'm sure I love Susie, She's great.
No, but let's just say Bob over here is like, hey, you know, I'm
not really someone who likes to be out there and I'm not really,
I'm what I'm really someone who likes to kind of just fit in and
be along on the side. Maybe Bob though has a lot of
experience in accounting, so therefore he might be really
good with fundraising and kind of going through and all the
legal mechanisms that may be needed for a pro testing because
you know, there's going to be law suits and all the ones that
put pressure. So they are going to need people
who are doing that. So but that is also collective
action. And so a lot of people look over
that. But this class is, it's supposed
to really be a way to show people using their astrology
what role they may be more aligned with, right?
So as as an old activist, one of the things I think is really
cool about astrology that I know you're going to show people is
how to work to find objectives to beyond the resisting, but
maybe finding solutions. Because in this era we're in,
just resisting against something may not have the results you
want to see without an underlying objective to a team.
That's something I think astrology has a lot of potential
to show people on how to come into agreement on objectives.
Is that something you're looking at?
Oh, for sure, Because just like how nobody and friend.
I know, right? Just like nobody's a clone.
No resistance method is cloned either.
And so you're going to have certain people who might want to
take collective action for school boards.
You might have people who may want to take collective action
for environmental. I don't know what is it called.
The the name is just completely leaving my brain file not found.
Environmental Protection. You know, you may have people
who want to go out there and resist Environmental Protection.
Not resistant. OK, what is going on with my
words today? It's just like.
Not advocate for it. You're excited, it's OK, we'll
smooth out as we go. But.
Yeah. So finding like your area of
interest. Right.
Yeah, there's people who are going to want to focus on
different areas and that's something that is also going to
shape the specific objectives of any collective action movement
is the people in their collective interest.
So that's something that I'm also going to be looking at as
well. And you're very excited about
this, as you should be and and very enthused, which makes for
great teaching. My question, because you
mentioned something before we started recording is what do you
have to say to people who feel like the only thing to look at
is, is the current administration and the debacles
that are going on there and feeling hopeless or feeling like
they don't have a voice or they don't have the ability to do
anything. What?
What do you say to that? Do you want me to give my woo
woo response or my overly practical response or both?
Both. Both.
OK, my overly practical advice is set the phone down, put it
away for a little bit. You know, it's, it's not
necessarily a distraction, but it can be a lot of people look
to outside themselves to satisfy certain needs that they are not
giving themselves in a moment. And so they turn to outside
events. Now that's like saying like, Oh,
well, then what do I do? You know, if I put the phone
down, I don't know what to do There's I, I, there's not
anything that I feel like I can do because I'm not constantly
getting that consumption of what it is that I've been putting my
attention to. Well, that's kind of what is
supposed to happen because it's turning into you.
What can you do? And if you're if you are often
though attached on your phone, looking at all the current news
headlines, do you feel like you need to be completely up to
date? How about take a walk in your
community, see what can be done with a smaller amount of people.
Who because? In communities like in our
neighborhoods, you know, my neighborhood only has about 50
people. You know, if I, if we wanted to
have a clean sidewalk, it really only takes maybe two of us to
really just get a shovel and do it.
It's not really as it's not as overwhelming as looking at
national events and be like, oh, look at all this, like 300
million people. And in fact, in such a million
people are doing this and the other such and such millionaire
doing this. That can be overwhelming because
humans have a very hard time with conceptualizing big
numbers. And so when you look at your
local level, when you look at your even neighborhood level and
you try and think, what can I do to better this community, which
will then help better the national community?
Because then it because national is really just, you know, a
whole bunch of smaller communities.
When you really think about it, it will make your life so much
better and so much easier because you will notice.
And you will probably find interests in doing things in
your local community that you probably wouldn't have seen if
you were just sitting through Threads or Blue Sky or Instagram
and looking at all like you have to feel like you're updated with
every little bit of information. Because in order to be prepared.
Prepared for what? Prepared for what?
Prepared for you to get for, to have some massive event that is
going to disrupt the way that you've been doing things before.
Is it prepared for like what are is really taking, taking a look
at what you are trying to be prepared for because that sense
of preparedness, there's two different types of preparedness.
There's the prepping like prepared as in like I'm going to
prep. And then there's prepared, as in
I want to be where I need to be, and how do I get there?
Where you need to be is already something that you probably have
in mind. What you're prepping for is
probably something that you are trying to look outside of
yourself to try to. You're doing what other people
tell you what you need to do. I don't know about you, but I
kind of like the other. Yeah, hearing better.
Yeah, have, yeah, I agree. There's, there's a lot of
different ways people can be involved and I think having an
astrology class around that is, is great because it gets more
than it gives people something to grab onto, even if like you
throw out. I, I, I when I teach a class
like this, I'll throw out a ton of examples, but it's more like
seeds, you know, just getting it started.
Like you may not like the 15 words I picked, but you'll find
your own word. I think it's good because I
think there's so much media assault on people to force
compliance and and kind of force agreement into apathy.
So I love that a young person such as yourself, this is like
my second interview today where I'm like, well, back in my day,
but where you're getting people fired up to understand that they
they do have a role and they can be involved in their communities
because that's where the buck stocks.
Yeah. And this is kind of showing you,
I love that, where you can also be involved too, because I know
a lot of people who want to get out there, who want to be a part
of community. They just don't know how because
they're kind of thinking, oh, well, on the news, I see this.
Well, what you're not seeing all the news is all the behind the
scenes that's going on. You're not seeing the
accountants, you're not seeing the financial, you're not seeing
the lawyers, You're not seeing well, sometimes, but you're not
always seeing them. You're mainly seeing the people.
On the street, but even like like, like, let's just say like
Mark Elias, you know, who has a really active Blue Sky account
and he's a lawyer who's putting he, he actively advertises for
writers, social media people to join the team that he's built.
He does kind of a good job of messaging those things.
Not everyone does a good job messaging the help they need,
but I've noticed he has, this is back in February when we're
recording, but there are a lot of behind the scenes like me.
I, I did one protest when I was 19 and realized that I will
never like crowds. I, I already knew I didn't like
crowds, but I did it 'cause I was impassioned for the cause
and I didn't make it to the final destination.
I decked out like about two hours in because I was like, oh,
now I didn't know anything about astrology yet.
I didn't know Scorpio rising this.
Is. That what it's supposed to be,
Yeah, but I educated people on the issue ever since.
Yeah. Everybody has a role, right?
Or like for me that you're doing that because?
Yeah. And like for me, I'm in Aries
rising. And so you're like, oh, you're
going to be someone who's going to be out there and you're going
to be doing, oh, to an extent, to an extent because I have that
8th house sun and moon. So it's like, I'll do it, but
I'm going to get tired real fast and then I'm going to kind of
need to do my own thing. But then I'll come back and I'll
I'll do it, but I can only do it in little fits and spurts.
And it has to be on my terms because that that's just how I
am in that's going to be something that we're going to be
looking at in the class as well is be like, hey, you know, if
you have any specific questions on your chart, like maybe we'll
look at your rising, we might look at, you know, some other
things too. Now we're really going to focus
on some certain specific areas. So I won't be doing a lot more
advanced stuff. It's a beginner class.
So that's really it'll be it'll be very simple.
It's easy to understand terms, but we'll probably look at some
Big Threes and kind of go through and figure out.
You know, I think that's really important to start with the
like, people kind of want to run into advanced astrology where
it's very heady and very intellectualized, but it doesn't
make you a very good astrologer. I love that you're putting
practicum in and getting people learning on the ground level
where they can apply it because you get the meat and the tatoes.
Right, like see, I just showed like it'll be something like
kind of like what I just did here, like, hey, I'm an Aries
rising, but I'm also an 8 LB sun and noon.
And so that's going to kind of give a little bit more quiet
overtones or more incubative overtone.
If you see my chart, you'll know what I mean by that.
But it's going to be something more like that.
We're not going to be going through, oh, your Chiron is
here, Spica is here and all the things like, no, that's going to
be something that. Unnecessary.
For for whenever I do advanced classes, we'll save that for
there, but it also is not necessary for this.
I'm going to tell you a true story though, as much as I, as
much as I only did one like March, OK.
And part of it, I quit at Hyde Park.
I was in London. It was already a long, it was
like 2 hours already. I was just like, doesn't work
for me. That 9th house sign in Mercury
in Cancer. I held a student strike on my
university campus because the food in the dining hall was crap
and it was expensive. And I convinced a bunch of rich
kids, 'cause I, I was the one that wasn't at the school, I had
to eat in the dining hall. And I managed to convince very
rich people to protest with me on this because they're like, So
what? I can eat off campus.
And I was like, they're stealing your money because they didn't
care that I couldn't. So when I tried to do the
impassioned plea, they didn't care.
So I was like, they're stealing your money.
Yeah. And you know, that's something
that I've even, that's something that I've observed on my campus
too. Now, obviously since I go to a
state school, it's not. I mean, yes, there are a lot of
people with money, but for the most part it's usual.
It's pretty local. Like we have a couple
international students, that's where it'd be one goal for
soccer and things. So we do get bring in a lot of
people from other places for that reason.
But for the most part it is local people.
And so for a lot of the people with money, I've noticed that
most of them tend to be College of Business students.
But that's something that's kind of everywhere.
And since I am a College of Business student myself, even
though I'm not rich, I will say that I still have seen a lot of
people in the College of Business know how to work around
systems. They know how to be like, hey,
I, I know that first year students are supposed to be on
campus. Well, guess what?
The College of Business, according to the statistics from
the University of Central Arkansas, is the number one
department of students who bypass that rule.
And guess what? When you don't have to do, when
you don't have to live on campus, you also don't have to
get a meal plan. So you are saving probably $7000
just by doing that so. Yeah, that's why I convinced my
parents to let me move off campus.
And that's what I'm doing, that's what I'm doing with a
friend next year is we're going to we're going to roommate and
she and I are going to find an off campus apartment because we
realized, hey, the meal plans are actually much cheaper if you
live off campus than if you live on campus.
And so, but we still wanted to do a meal plan.
Could all of our friends live on campus So it would be easier but
for our. But right we learning about to
navigate right? Yeah, but we have noticed that
because the College of Business has students who kind of know
how to work around the system, Why aren't all the other
departments doing that too? Because as much as I'm a College
of Business student, I'm also a College of Philosophy and
Religious Studies student as well.
And even though there's fewer of a, every single one of them has
stayed on campus and have the most expensive meal plan.
Why is that? Because it's the default.
So why are the College of Student or College of Business
students learning to work around the system while other people
aren't? That's kind of something that
I've noticed as well. Well, there's socioeconomic
factors, there's there's cultural factors, there's family
behaviors. And as as the the cultural
anthropologist in me wax on about that, but systemic skills
are something really to cultivate as we move forward
with Pluto and Aquarius. Because even though we're seeing
massive systems failure in some cases, but it's certainly
change. Understanding systems themselves
is what's going to build what's next, and and by studying how
you can participate in collective action you can and
learning how to pick your objectives, you then also look
at foundational systemic building.
Yes, because at the end of the day, the reason why we have
societies is because we are all collectives.
We all collectively banded together or well, maybe not we
all, but the majority of it and said, hey, we want to create
this neighborhood or we want to create this city.
Now you may be thinking, I never chose to be in the city.
I may be only 12 years old and I'm living here because my
parents did. Well, at some point somebody
somewhere said, hey, I want to be a part of this community.
Or life has LED them somehow to be a part of the community.
So that community would not be the same community if there
weren't any people, if there weren't lots of people who kind
of kind of just said, hey, I'm going to be part of this
specific city of New York or the specific city of Los Angeles,
but whatever that is for you. And that is something to keep in
mind because every single person is contributing somehow, some
way to their community. It may even.
Be by, not unintentionally. Yeah, it may even be, hey, I
don't like my community, so I'm going to stay inside and do
nothing. Well, you're still contributing
to your community that way too, because you're kind of showing
your community that you don't really want to be a part of it.
And So what do you think that's going to?
What impact that's going to leave?
Now, there are probably good reasons why some people might do
it just as much. There may be unintentional or
very intentional reasons why people do it.
But indecision is in itself a decision.
And that's something that we're going to talk about in this
class too, is being like, hey, you know, how how do we tend to
make decisions? Do we tend to make decisions
because we are just like, well, there's life has led me here, so
I guess I'll do this. Or are we going to take an
active role in decision making and own our authority and make
decisions from that place? So that's something that we'll
also be talking about. I love that those are good
skills to have regardless, you know, just daily life stuff, you
know, being an active participant in your own life.
I always enjoy hearing from you, Eli.
So when is this class going to be?
It will be March 22nd. It'll be at 1:00 PM Central
time, so that's going to be 2:00 PM Eastern.
And let me do the math. I think that's 11:00 AM eleven,
the date it will be on Zoom. There is only 75 spots and so I
am also advertising this. So make sure that you get your
spot now before they are all taken up.
So yeah, right. We'll have a link for the show
notes. That people can check.
Out and you're going to you've been talking about on your
podcast, right? Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, I saw I've been talking about this on.
Just about every episode for a little bit.
And that's how I've learned that people are actually like, oh
shit, I actually want to do this, you know, like this is
something I actually love that. And so I it's clearly a that's
great. It's clearly a problem that has.
Been a part. Of especially in the college
student world, like, you know, they're like, I don't know how,
like I'm still learning, you know, I've just now got car keys
and a job and I am just now learning, you know, where my
place is in society. And by taking this class, it
might be something that helps. So no entrepreneurship,
entrepreneurship mindset. Me is like, hey, you know, let's
let's create a solution for this.
And so I decided to do this class.
Absolutely, Absolutely. Absolutely.
It's so funny because in the 60s, long before my time, and I
only say that because my kids when they were teen, well, not
even teenagers, but what was it like in the 60s, mom?
I'm like, I was born 2 weeks before Woodstock.
I don't know what was it like being born in the 1900s, but.
Great. It was great I got to build.
My own video. Games.
Oh wow, on a cassette tape. Oh wow, in 19810?
Wow, I. Played Pong.
When it first came out, I had a speaker that was fun.
Actually it transformed my. World I was like 8.
Years old when Pong came out, I. Was like, the TV is finally
interesting. I did anyway, right?
Oh yeah, Because I didn't like watching TV.
It was passive so it was boring. But anyway, the young people
that were like in my. Parents, age group and.
Maybe just slightly older than them in the 60s, they didn't
care about their place or whatever, they just took action.
Now granted, that's kind of how we ended up here, but some of it
was good, some of it. So I find it interesting with.
Young people today going I don't.
Know, you know, whereas the youth movement in the 60s that
they didn't care, they just pushed forward.
And I look for, I look forward to seeing a middle ground with
that because I think. It doesn't all have to.
Burn. No, you don't have.
To throw the baby out when that's.
Water No. And and today I will say and.
I've been saying it for years, you need to think like the
French Resistance more than the French Revolution because people
haven't adequately studied their history because didn't really
help the average. Person back in.
The French Revolution. It it actually hurt the average
person. It built the bourgeoisie.
But my other favorite thing, History.
But I love young people stepping up to teach, to empower, to help
people evolve and grow. And I love that you're leading
that charge and how exciting. I know it's my first class too
so I'm like. Oh, you know, we'll we'll.
We'll try this. You know, I've always wanted to.
My mom used to tell me, oh, back when I was little, I always
wanted to be a teacher or a preacher.
And so in a way, I kind of get to do a little bit of.
There you go. So yeah.
Oh, that's sad. Just trying.
But teaching and. Preaching.
It's almost obvious. Mm.
Hmm. Isn't it?
It's fun I. Love watching it and I love.
Watching you grow. And you should sign up for Eli's
class because this is a great opportunity to learn about
yourself in other in other ways. The more you learn about how you
can get out into the world, the more you know you have to dive
deep inside to be the most effective you you could be in
the outer world as well and grab your power back.
So yeah. I love it.
All. Right, you guys can check the
show notes. Thank you for coming on, Eli.
We'll have you back on after you teach the class, and I want to
hear a review of how it went. Oh, yeah, of course.
And it probably won't be the only.
Time I do teach a. Class.
It may come around again in the in the near future.
I may put it on a cycle because I have gotten a lot of interest
in it and I know that I can that I can't do everyone in one
session because believe it or not, Zoom has a cap as to how
many people can join a specific meeting.
So I will definitely probably it does do multiple rounds of it,
but. For right now.
Well, it's kind of fun, I'm not going to lie.
It's fun to teach it more than once because every class is a
little different. It's different groups of people,
so you'll like that. Cool.
Thanks for being here. Yeah, thank you for having me.
the headlines this week. Remember this?
Isn't necessarily personal to you.
These are just me giving you a heads up of what I think is
going to be up and out in the world.
It is going to be a pretty spicy week.
But if you actually want the truth, I've tone these that F
down. So I, I think it, my language
might be a little understated for some of the stuff we're
going to see, especially over, you know, the 14th and 15th.
So you can expect it to be pretty spicy.
And if you're in the Washington DC area, do be advised that it
is very possible there will be provocation to cause protests to
erupt into violence, and we could see excessive use of force
or an excuse used to put in more authoritarian.
Measures. It's a.
Possibility. It's not 100%.
None of these are 100%. None of my predictions are 100%.
None. I'm 87% accurate.
I give. Predictions when I'm 80%
certain. Just because I'm 80% certain
doesn't mean it's going to be right.
That's why I don't ever claim the timeline shifted.
I mean I'm right or I'm wrong integrity.
Matters. OK, so March 9th through the.
12th The moon is. In.
Leo and it's pushing. Boundaries and it's going to
incite a little bit more than it can handle.
We can see big announcements by people of prominence or a brand
like a luxury brand, and it could be both.
So it could be celebrities, politicians, brands, board of
directors. It's just important, it's
so-called important people, people of note making
announcements or a company making an announcement.
We can see temperatures rise or fall abruptly, issues with ice
melt, melting glaciers, rising seas and currents.
We could hear about that. This is global tensions erupt in
the Straits of Taiwan and territorial waters of the
Philippines. So we could hear about that Iran
faces a crisis or announces a change in domestic policy.
So we can hear stuff out of Iran.
Sometimes we have to search for this news.
It's not always on American news.
I look at trade magazines a lot, or I look at like Reuters,
things like that. We can see issues in the Levant
that includes Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and northern
Iraq. We can see issues with US
foreign policy changing that. That would be a shock, right?
Surprise attacks on military installations, Navy ships and or
military commands. Global issues with drones,
missiles and incendiary devices. Political leaders and heads of
state under attack. Assassinations or attempts at
those. All financial markets under
strain. Violent rhetoric incites
physical violence, either resistance or acting on orders.
If that sounds familiar, hacking leaks, Ransomware attacks in
DNS, server attacks, computer systems failing, etcetera.
Terrorist attack involving vehicles and or drones, Internet
disruptions, issues with satellites, cables and
communications, issues with power supply, Transformers,
electrical grids. Anything from an accident to the
weather could cause that. That's global.
Could see big lightning or tornadoes, hail and storms that
start fires in rural areas, issues in the tech sector,
servers go down, or there's an event that takes a large company
offline. Leader deposed, removed from
office, or voted off of a boards.
That could be ACEO, celebrity, scandal, financial, or due to
hedonism. If you don't know that word that
is your vocabulary word for today, look up hedonism.
Mining accident or collapse or issue with minerals, mineral
rights and mining. Solar flare or solar storm,
typhoon, cyclones, wind, fire of all kinds, Big tornado possible.
Again, everything is global so not just in the United States
unless I say it's for the United States specifically or mention a
country specifically. March 12th through the 14th.
We have the moon in Virgo and it is tense.
Lots of casting blame, issues with services and systems of all
clients. Insurance company could make an
announcement. Issues info about policies or
closes certain branches. Healthcare under strain.
Issues with wildlife and veterinary services in rural
areas. Big rain causing large amounts
of damage on the ground, Erosion events, landslides, rock slides,
sinkholes, tornadoes, hail, snow, ice.
Big waves could also be like avalanches.
Air, water and foodborne diseases.
The measles and shingles hit the headlines already.
Maritime accidents and blocked waterways.
Issues with cruise a cruise ship or cruise ships.
This could be rough seas causing problems.
It could be people getting sick at a buffet.
It could be could be a number of things.
It doesn't mean it's a complete tragedy.
Biological and or chemical weapons used and or discovered
or discussed. This could be most likely in
Eastern Europe. Missile, drone or rocket launch
goes wrong. Potential accidents involving
faulty infrastructure, bridges, freeways, ports and docks.
Systems grind to a halt. Things have trouble working and
that includes anything from schools, states, hospitals,
governments and or mechanical any kind of system.
So of course we have the deadline for the US government
election. Violence and interference in
Europe and Australia is potential.
Expect issues with supply chain, trucking vehicles and trains.
That's global deals with negotiations go sideways, fall
apart or get delayed and that's international and domestic
political and business instability in the Middle East
and Eastern Europe. NATO and other international
organizations make announcements Offshore earthquakes over a six
point O on land cause see up to A-65 in any seismic region,
issues with the US Mexico border and then border crossings,
issues with mountains and summits.
Now, this doesn't necessarily mean there's fighting.
It could be immigration issues at all different kinds of
borders, but it could be issues with mountain climbers.
It could be, you know, flooding from glaciers.
And I'm thinking of like in the Himalayas, but it could be
something in the Alps as well, not just in the United States.
Attacks on judges and civil servants.
This could be global Immigration and Customs matters, global
rules, policies and procedures upheld and process in play.
So people are going to try to use the rules.
Basically assassination attempts global and potential disruption
or illness of a major world leader.
Don't get your hopes up, but maybe March 14th through the
17th. The moon in Libra demands, sword
in hand, that people are getting riled up and into action.
Sabotage. Issues with public
transportation on subways and trains that carry politicians
and civil servants. Big wind, temperature changes,
issues with air and ocean currents.
Air traffic disruptions due to labor strikes and contract
negotiations. Accidents on roads and in the
air due to wind, weather and mechanical failures.
Public protests continue. Issues outside of courts and
public offices. Satellites and communications
disruptions. Internet failures or technical
issues in general. Terrorist attack noted.
Violence in urban centers. It could be vehicular.
International organizations have a crisis.
We could see threats of war, threats of nukes.
Worrying words. It doesn't mean those things
will happen but people are using worrying words.
Leaks from military rogue units, militias have conflicts, global
coups and other strange events politically, financial abuse or
scandal revealed. Supreme Court or other High
Court judges or international courts in the news is global ICC
or ICJ mentioned or make declarations.
We could see a prosecutor, investigator or judge making
bold move. New information leaked about
U.S. officials and or financial matters to do with an elected
official, Public violence, mass shooting, stabbing or issue with
domestic violence. Politicians start changing their
tune. Rhetoric changes and propaganda
spins in a different direction. Issues to do with international
agreements, treaties, organizations, Commonwealth,
etcetera. That includes UN, NATO, all of
that. Air traffic disruptions, limited
airspace. This could be global and could
be for a variety of reasons. A global conflict escalates, and
that gets us up until. March. 17th and then the moon
will pop into Scorpio on the 17th, which is next Monday.
So you'll hear more about that next week.
It's going to be volatile guys. It just is this on a on a
mundane level, on on the bigger than you level, there's there's
going to be a lot that happens and this full moon could you
know since it is a lunar eclipse and it is visible.
In North and South America. We could see trade deals go
South, we could see issues. It's it's this full.
Moon eclipse is also. Happening in the 4th House of
the US Constitution. And it, it, it may be showing
where, you know, it's, it's being brutalized.
I think those of us who can see it being brutalized, but people
are going to have to admit it a little bit more.
So politicians are probably going to have to admit it.
I don't think it blows the Constitution out of the water.
I just don't it, it's an intense full moon.
You know, it's just an intense full moon.
So. We may see some.
Very. Interesting events happen,
especially in the nation's capital in the United States.
But that doesn't mean there won't be, you know, protests
going on throughout Europe, Asia.
You know, there could be political violence in other
places. We are in a time of enduring
change and and that means things are going to be messy.
Nobody wants to see it be messy. I get that.
But that doesn't mean it's going to be bad for you inherently,
OK? We have to be adaptable this
year. We have to be able.
I know many people hate the word pivot, but that's exactly what
we have to be able to do. OK, All righty.
Up next, I'm going to end you with Mercury retrograde survival
guide. How to make the most out of your
Mercury retrograde? I feel a little bit like the
leave Britney alone guy when it comes.
To Mercury because everybody blames Mercury retrograde for
absolutely freaking everything. But Mercury retrograde is really
about small annoyances. It the big stuff that goes
wrong, the big stuff that goes kablooey tends to be other
transits. OK, we just most people anyway
just know enough about astrology to be dangerous and everybody's
heard about Mercury retrograde so poor Mercury gets the blame.
I think we all need to be really, really happy that
Mercury is going retrograde because it's going to impact
decision makers and that is a saving grace.
So Mercury is is going retrograde right now is really
going to help us on the big picture because nothing is going
to work right. If an order is given, if a plan
is being divulged or whatever it, it's all going to go tits
up. OK, so, and I'm not talking
about you, you know what I'm talking about.
All right? So This is why I'm going to read
just a little bit. I'm not going to go like house
by house like I did in the magazine.
If you want to check that out, you're welcome to get the
magazine. It's it's for sale in the
Patreon. Or you can join the Patreon at
the $15 level and grab your copy.
So, but I'll read the introduction and I'll give you
the salient information. All right.
We need to be really. Really happy.
About Mercury. Retrograde this month.
Have you seen all the chaos? Have you seen the wrecking
balls? I mean, how could we miss the
Captains of Chaos in action right now?
Which is why Mercury stationing retrograde in March is a really
good thing. The fact that it's happening on
the day of the full Moon and eclipse seems a tad extra, but
it just might thwart some nasty and dastardly plans.
Mercury may just end up being that meddling kid we all need to
help Scooby in the gang stop the swamp monster.
Current events aside, Mercury retrograde is hardly ever at the
crux of the whole problem. In fact, Mercury retrograde is
about annoyances, irritations, miscommunications, and
mechanical oopsies in our individual lives.
Remember what I wrote in the Venus retrograde article?
Retrograde isn't bad. Direct isn't good.
There are accidents, pileups, mechanical issues, foibles,
printer and phone issues, hacking and communication
failures during Mercury Direct because of aspects to other
transits. So it's not all poor little
Mercury's fault when it's retrograde.
Mercury retrograde in Aries is going to make it.
Difficult for. Worrying words to go past words.
It won't mean people are, it won't mean people are aren't
fighting mad. But it's kind of like in the old
kid shows when the cartoon would pull out a gun.
I know it's not appropriate and it would shoot a bouquet of
flowers. Meaning things will not work out
the way they are intended in the outer world.
And yes, it may seem like we are surrounded by clowns, I know it
already does, but they will start tripping over their feet.
That doesn't mean the chaos will end, it's just not going to land
quite the way the people want it to and things will start to
misfire and backfire on a personal level.
This means we need to be cautious in what we say and
think twice before letting our internal monologue escape.
Just saying it like it is might not land how you expect it to
and will potentially come back to bite with a little more force
than preferred. Mercury retrograde in Aries
needs means there needs to be more listening, less talking and
grandstanding, and more contemplation.
It's a time to review, revise and edit.
Look for the little details and depersonalized information
coming in your direction. You might feel a little extra
sensitive during this Mercury retrograde because it happens on
the day of the full moon, which also happens to be a lunar
eclipse. So it's going to be a day that
packs a punch energy wise. It's probably a good idea to
have devices charged, batteries at the ready, reading material
in hand and expect some weird weather as well as disruptions
to sell an Internet service. There could be action out in the
world that has us all in our fields and words may not convey
the depth of feeling. Art, photography and music might
help siphon the big fields. We can't quite find words for
this. Mercury retrograde is a great
time to inform yourself on meditation techniques or ways to
focus your thoughts. What most people don't realize
is that meditation is not always seeking to get to no mind or an
empty mental space. It can be It can be thinking a
mantra or a repetitive phrase over and over again, or setting
a timer for 5 minutes at a time to get a task done that is
repetitive, like the dishes, floors, folding laundry,
gardening, etcetera. Spreadsheets.
It's also a great time to reframe.
Really strong ideas. About what we're personally able
to do and how we can do it. Now isn't the time to perfect
techniques so much as reorganize capabilities if you think of
Mercury. Retrograde or any other kind of
retrograde as a form. Of time travel that that can
help you navigate the wibbly wobbliness of the retrograde
cycle. So remember we have this is the
cycle and it's written out in the magazine, but we have the
pre retrograde phase and it happens about two weeks before
Mercury stations. The station is when the day
before retrograde motion begins and it looks like the planet is
stationary in the sky. Then we have the retrograde
motion where it appears that Mercury is moving backwards in
the sky. It's an illusion, but it's an
illusion we live with. And then it stations again
before it moves direct and again it looks like it's stationary.
In the sky like it's. Standing still and then it moves
through the shadow phase. There's no pre shadow phase.
There's a pre retrograde phase. The shadow phase has nothing to
do with shadow work. It's all about the two week
period where Mercury moves back over the ground.
It was retrograde in. OK, so those are the facts.
That's what I wrote in the magazine.
There's, there's a breakdown on how Mercury retrograde will
impact you on a personal level and what you need to focus on.
But what I can say the biggest thing is to like, watch your
clap backs. Don't get into it with people.
It's a time to reassess things. Think about how you think about
yourself. You know, this is pairing nicely
with that full moon in Virgo. We can be really cruel to
ourselves. We can be really mean to
ourselves. And it's, it's not something to
have a badge of honor about. You know, you see so many people
like I'm so mean to myself. And then people are like, oh
man, I'm me too. And then you get a little
sympathy club going, but it doesn't move you forward, OK?
It doesn't move you forward. What moves you?
Forward is saying, oh wow, that was really mean.
How would I feel if I heard somebody else talking to
somebody I cared about? That way, you know, and it
doesn't mean you then beat yourself up because.
You bullying? Yourself.
And it'd be like, well, how could I say that different?
How could I reframe that for myself?
OK, that that's an important skill and it is going to be kind
of wild out there, but stuff. Is going to backfire.
And so it may be almost like a comedy of errors in a really
surreal and strange way. So there's that coming up, going
back to the Venus retrograde. I know, I know, I know.
A lot of people are like blaming it for the blow UPS in
friendships, relationships, etcetera.
Guys. Venus isn't causing that.
And it's not screwing with you. It's forcing you to look at
where you've grown, where things are not mutual, where things are
not in balance. And it's making you look at what
you really, really need to thrive.
Venus is about how we attract that which we need to feel
secure. And if you have friendships that
are not balanced or equal, if you have people in your life who
are not necessarily as supportive as you need support
to be, or or maybe their version of support isn't your idea of
support. I'll never forget years ago when
I was in my second marriage, I was asking for some support on a
project and and someone was foolish enough to say.
Well, I do support. You I don't tell you no.
Imagine how that. Went after that.
Did did I lose lose my temper? Yes, I did, because not saying
no was not support. First of all, you're not the
boss of me. Even if people are married,
spouses are not in charge of each other.
There's no ownership papers there.
And I was like trying to convey and speak the support I need.
And, and I was flat out told, well, I don't find what you do
interesting. You know, I'm like, but I
support you in your career. I support you in these things.
And he's like, yeah, but your stuff isn't interesting.
Mine is. And it was just like, no,
actually it's not. And that was one of the many
nails in that, the coffin of that marriage that very well
could have been. A Venus retrograde time period.
I'd, I'd have to go look, I'd have to remember the year.
Now, that's kind of an extreme example, but yeah, there was a
lot of things that got this lady to where she's at.
Understanding what support means to you, understanding what
resources you need. I know a lot of times we look at
the salary and being able to pay our rent, which, duh, that's
important. Being able to eat is nice, but I
was advising a young person. Over the weekend.
As they were looking at manifesting things and I was
like, I want you to step back from the details and I wanted
you to think about how do you want to feel?
What does freedom feel like? What's it like to be on a road
trip? You know, like at the start of
the road trip when you have the good snacks, right?
You've got the radio cranked up or your favorite songs are
playing on your favorite playlist for Rd. trips.
So yeah, what's the music? What's it like?
Do you have your windows down? You know, are you blasting?
What are you doing? You know, once you get on that
open stretch of road or you're on the S curves, how does it
feel? Right.
Don't think about where you're going.
Don't think about what you're wearing.
Don't think about What Car you're driving.
What does it feel like to be in that moment?
What does it feel like to be able to go to the grocery store
and and buy eggs without any guilt?
You know, what's it like to, you know, grab your kids a toy and
not have to think about your budget?
What's it like to be able to take time off if you're sick and
not have to worry about it? What's it like?
You know, if you want to travel, don't just think about like the
one place you want to go 'cause you might have it idealized,
right? And what's in your head might be
different from the reality. But what is it that you're
wanting from that experience? What do you do you want that
sense of caught being, you know, a little cosmopolitan, a little
sexy, a little freer, a little bohemian?
Or are you feeling like all business and capable and strong
if you're afraid? Of things, Why are you afraid of
them? If you're afraid to do things on
your own, if you're afraid to take a risk, why, Why, and what
you know even even. If something happened in the
past. Why?
What's stopping you when you look at all the reason why?
You can't. You're blocking the roads.
To why you can when you're looking.
At all the reasons why you can't you're.
Blocking the roads and the pathways for why you can.
And I know this world looks like a great old shit show.
I know there's so much going on right now.
I know that it's hard. And I know a lot of you.
I know a lot of you got hit economically recently.
I get it. I get it again I built from
nothing, nothing I understand I've lived my Pluto transit
through the 2nd house thanks and it was over 20 years.
That was fun not but it taught me to reassess.
I was never money driven in the 1st place, still I'm not, but I
also learned that I couldn't disenfranchise.
Myself and thrive. Either and experience driven.
Knowing what drives. You is important and we talk
about. That in the healing the money.
Wound class and I'm going to be putting up a little podcast with
with some little extra Benny's for the mystery school people
that come out of that class this week.
OK, so if you're in the. Mystery school tier.
Keep your eye out for a special. Presentation where I kind of
breakdown how to consider what really matters to you because
going forward, that's your route, that's your grounding,
knowing what really matters to you.
And you may think you already know, but if you haven't
deconstructed, if you haven't examined this, if you haven't
done it from a physical understanding, if it's just
mental, you're probably still in your social cultural
programming. Understanding what enlivens you
and. What doesn't is at the root of
self actualization. Understanding that and you can
start start to make other things happen and it doesn't have to
take 20 years, it can be a pretty accelerated.
Process to what? I had to go through to develop
these processes the practical application from the theories,
because theories are nothing, theories are.
Ideas until they're proven. Correct or wrong, but even then
just because it's an idea is nothing until it's put into
action. You can think of an invention,
but if you never make it, it's never done anything.
So it's just an idea. Ideas are a dime a dozen.
There's no such thing as a million idea $1,000,000 idea
until it's put into action. And and healing the money wound
isn't necessarily about money itself.
It's about self worth and value. Understanding your deservedness
and understanding what kind of resources motivate you.
But we call it money because money kind of gets those.
Things in this world, and even if capitalism as we see it, goes
away tomorrow. Money.
Will still be here, we'll still have currency until maybe Pluto
in Taurus and there was a big monetary change when Pluto.
Came in to Taurus. In the 1800s, it's when the US
started printing paper money and moved away from using metals so
that. Innovative money?
Well, we'll see another financial.
Innovation. When Pluto enters Taurus, I
won't be here to see it, and probably most of you won't
either because it happens in like, what if Pluto enters
Taurus in 2135? And it'll probably be more than
0° before those things come into play.
So we kind of have to make peace with it, understanding that even
billionaires have a money wound because they don't know how to
feel satisfied. They don't have an enough button
and that leads to gluttony. And that's.
As harmful as as having a. Mindset that that repels us from
receiving. There's a happy middle ground,
OK, there's a happy middle ground.
And this Mercury retrograde, this Venus retrograde, this
eclipse is telling us to prune the stuff.
Prune it. That isn't serving us.
You do that about you change your world my.
Friends, you don't need to change the.
World, you need to change your world, how you live in your
world, in your physical body, in your mental body, in your
emotional body. You do that and changes happen
around you. That's how you impact change.
The biggest OK, because as individuals, there are things
bigger than ourselves. We can't stop a volcano, but we
can pay attention if we live near 1 and decide how we're
going to live around that and what we're going to do about it.
Like, do we? Do we move further away?
Things like that. OK, All righty.
I hope you leave this episode understanding you are far more
valuable and capable than you think, and that you do not need
to feel doomed by anything happening this week.
You have a lot more power than you know, and that's why people
use tools of oppression to make you think differently.
I'm Lori Rivers, and I look forward to talking to you next
week when we're going to be examining some more of March
astrology happenings. See you next week.