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.
All right, we have yet another interesting week ahead and every
single week is jam packed in 2025 and into 2026.
I'd love to tell you that it was going to be different, but it's
not. I had a few comments and some of
the clips that came out of the podcasts online where people
were not enjoying the hard, cold reality of what we're facing.
And that made me think that we need to have a talk about what
spirituality actually is. There is a lot of bypassing
online and one of the phrases that is most I'll used is love
and light. Love and light makes it sound
soft, sparkly. And there's this idea that if we
look at reality as it is, we're not being spiritual, we're not
being positive, we're not, we're not doing the work.
And that is actually part of the mindset that leads into the alt
right pipeline. So I thought I'd have a word
with that, give you a little history lesson and actually talk
about some esoteric principles because yes, I do mundane
astrology, but that's actually not my speciality.
I'm an esoteric astrologer. I'm an energy worker, and the
thing about that is most people aren't really interested in it
because the minute they start walking down that path, it's
uncomfortable. There's not a lot comfortable
when it comes to having to deconstruct our social and
cultural programming, deconstruct our idea of what is
good and right and true, making us the vulnerable and the victim
versus accepting our agency. That can be cold.
Waking up is just the first step.
I've said it over and over and over.
You'll wake up every single day. What do you do with your
awakeness? Because that's what matters.
So that's some of what we're going to talk about today.
Of course, I'll give you some insights on what's coming up.
You can be emotionally and psychologically prepared.
There's no intention on my part to overwhelm you or overload
you. If you start feeling overwhelmed
and overloaded, you are always able to Fast forward the audio
or the video that you're watching.
OK, some people like advance notice.
Other people would rather just not.
That's up to you. My job is to give information.
What you do with it is your job. So there's a lot up on deck.
Everybody's feeling it, yours truly included.
I've got my own transits going on, and I wrote about that in
the Patreon. I'll read you the note I wrote
everyone and we'll we'll get hoppin.
So and we're going to talk a little bit more about the moon
as well, because a lot of that bypassing and and some of that
includes how we look at feminine and masculine and spirituality
instead of looking at energy as energy is part of what leads
people down that all right pipeline.
So welcome to the whole left. I've been out left for a long
time. Give you a little little back
story on what led me to make videos on TikTok starting in
2020. All righty, get your tea, get
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Pilates, taking our hot girl, hot guy walk, whether we're
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groceries, we're going to do it together.
All right, let's get moving. So I've had the great privilege
of being involved in spiritual circles and communities since I
was a child, not just formal organized religion.
There were people who were spiritualists and belonging to
the spiritual church or spiritualist church.
There were people in my life who read tea leaves and did
divination there. There were all kinds of people
who showed up in my life and my guidance started pointing me to
books when I was a toddler. Yes, a toddler, but that's a
story for a different day. I understood from a young age
and brought my philosophy into my astrological work that being
spiritual and physical is a tandem job.
They're not separate, OK? Even though we're all taught, if
we've been well charged, that, you know, the goal is to get to
the afterlife and you want to get to the preferred afterlife.
You don't want to end up in the bad place.
And life was full of a lot of darkness.
So those beliefs that there could be love and acceptance and
forgiveness, that there was light that could shine into the
darkness, were things that gave me great hope as a child.
Of course, I wasn't raised evangelical.
And as I grew older and I grew out of that kind of theology, it
was still the understanding that we are supposed to embody our
spiritual nature. It's not about landing in the
right place once we're done. It's about crafting that in this
lifetime. In 1989, I had to take a science
course as a requirement of my degree, and it ended up being a
quantum mechanics theory class. Now, I had left the church.
I was studying comparative religions as part of my
understanding of how human beings make decisions, because
we make decisions based off our belief systems, right?
And since I was studying international relations, I
wanted to know was what was at the core of those decisions that
the decision makers were making? Well, what was their core
beliefs? I tried to get out of that class
because I thought it would be something like biology or
zoology or botany or something like that because it was called
natural sciences. And Dr. Troller, she was an
amazing one, very, very learned. Said she didn't let women out of
her classes. I was like, ah, you don't
understand. I was in a class full of
engineers and I thought, well there's goes my shot on the bell
curve. But she was willing to work with
me and I'm really glad I took that quantum mechanics theory
class even though I swear it broke my brain into a million
pieces and I did more than pass. I got an AI, was shocked, but
she worked with me to understand how energy works.
Spirit is energy that is not densified into matter.
All the quarks, all the neutrinos, all the protons,
electrons buzzing around. The more quantum mechanics
theory starts to prove things out now that scientists are
starting to finally look at consciousness and realize it has
nothing to do with the brain, that we actually do admit light
until it is extinguished upon our demise.
Oh my gosh, we actually have a whereas any clairvoyant could
have told them so. It isn't about being good, it
isn't about being bad. It's about frequency.
Where are you resonating? The alt right pipeline.
We'll talk about similar subject matters.
They'll talk about quantum mechanics, they'll talk about
resonance and vibes, and they talk about things that are
rapture adjacent, like the new earth of separating into 5D.
And it'll leave all the bad people behind, which is one of
the least spiritual concepts I can think of.
The astrology of the next 40 days or so as Mars moves through
Scorpio and will eventually make an easy connection called a
trine with Saturn in Pisces. You're going to hear a lot of
talk about 5D. You're going to talk a lot about
altered states of consciousness. You're going to hear a lot of
talk around more religious phenomenon or metaphysical
phenomenon, people having visions, people in the know more
prophecies will be talked about, things like that.
And it's that misuse of our understanding of how energy
works that leads you down the all right, because it puts you
in a space of moral superiority. It puts you in a light that
makes you above those who believe contrary to what you do.
The demonization, the dehumanization of people, which
leads to all manner of uncomfortable and unpleasant
circumstances in this life. And that's putting it lightly.
A lot of harm is done with that kind of thinking.
I watched some very fine astrologers and energy workers
fall down the alt right pipeline and almost sanctify and deify
the person who is supposedly leading the United States.
And this was happening back in before 2016 even, you know, they
say Q Anon got started in 2017. But I was watching this forum
back in 2012 when everybody was up in arms over the Mayan
calendar and reasonable people of good heart started sliding
down. And it's easy to be frustrated
as an energy worker, as a light worker, as somebody committed to
service when you're you're faced with so many people who are
intentionally ignorant that that is difficult.
It is a difficult thing to hold your consciousness.
And because of Calvinism, especially in the United States,
because of this belief that God favors the blessed and the pure,
and God punishes or disregards those who do not make the grade,
which is contrary to any Christian message, People expect
this purity. People expect this.
People expect perfection out of teachers.
They want this shiny shoe, slick back haired, ethereal vision of
a human and overemphasize aesthetics and overemphasize
tools like candles, crystals, herbs.
You know, all of those things have uses.
I'm not saying they don't, but there's an overemphasis outside
of the development inside. Looking for the magic bullet,
looking to avoid the pain we experience, looking to avoid
reality. I know I did it too when I was
young, even though I believed we were here to spiritualize the
matter. Of course we don't like to feel
uncomfortable or sit in the pain, and I wanted Love and
Light to be fluffy just as much as the next person.
I was tired of hurting. I too sat in my pain story, the
story of my trauma, and identified with it and wanted so
many accommodations. Because the world doesn't seem
to ever stop. Does it Stop the world?
I want to get off. It's an easy thing to want and
it's natural and it's part of the process.
There are concepts, esoteric principles that get Co opted by
people who seek power or seek to manipulate groups of people to
do their bidding. And they will ping your pain,
they will hold you codependent, they will string you along, they
will demonize and vilify you if you attempt to move away, or you
think differently, or you speak differently, or you look
differently. Those are red flags.
Other red flags are an over attachment to aesthetics.
I think of what Tolkien wrote for Strider when the hobbits
didn't quite believe he was this king.
Because as much as Viggo Mortensen was hot, Strider in
the book was not. He was an ugly mug and he said
tis better to look foul and feel fair.
It is better to look vowel and feel fair.
This appearance of perfection, this denial of humanity.
The idea that being human is a punishment or a grind.
Not that it doesn't feel like it's sometimes, but this idea
that we are less than and perpetual sin is a control
mechanism. And it was a control mechanism
not designed in the 19th century, not designed in the
15th century, but it goes back to the Bronze Age.
And it takes a lot of work to deconstruct these ideas.
This idea that we are not worthy and that love excuses all.
Love is not absolution. Love is not remiss of
accountability. Just like compassion and empathy
do not mean you do not face consequence.
Sometimes letting people fail and have an experience is the
most compassionate thing you can do.
Trying to save people from themselves robs them of
experience. You, if you think you know
better, and you might, you might have more experience, you might
have more time on the planet, you might have more knowledge,
and you're like, no, no, no, don't do that.
I did that. Don't do that.
Guess what? You're robbing someone of the
opportunity to have an experience, even if it does some
harm. I'm not saying you can't offer
aid or assistance, but trying to rescue someone from themselves,
to think you know better without investigating, having
conversations, asking their point of view, asking them why
they feel the way they do, asking them what they actually
need instead of thinking you can solve their problem, That's not
love, that's control. That's needing people to fit
into your worldview of what is necessary.
That's not love. Now I'm not saying you should
let people suffer and struggle all the time.
There's a big difference. If somebody is drowning, what do
you do? You throw them a life vest,
right? But if somebody can doggy paddle
and they can swim and they're not in major danger, it's OK to
let them learn from experience. You can be a guide on the side.
That's spiritual. That's love.
Light can be piercing. Light can be blinding.
Light can shine onto the hard, cold truths and reality of what
we do to and for and at ourselves.
And it's easy to sit and ruminate in the negative.
It's easy to sit and ruminate on how we screwed up, to identify
and blame ourselves for what we do in life.
A lot of the shadow work people push online is dangerous.
It's dangerous. I've talked about that more than
once on my podcast. Shadow can only exist where
there is a light. Shadow can only exist where
there is light or you are faced with an abyss.
Light pierces the darkness, and the darkness can be frustration,
irritation, pain, and we avoid these things at all costs.
Instead of understanding and in the alt right pipeline, they'll
actually massage people's anger, their pain, their frustration,
their irritation, their trauma and make them feel anointed by
it. They brew hate disguised as
truth. In 2020, I went on to TikTok to
protest its first attempt at a ban.
Oh, what a journey it has been. I had looked into it before and
it was mostly teenagers dancing. And I was like, well, I'm not a
dancer. I don't, yeah, don't really get
it. And I was already off Facebook
because, you know, I'd pop into a few groups here and there, but
I was so frustrated with the bad astrology and how people would
argue thinking they knew. And there was some very
dangerous concepts being thrown about because people put their
faith in the astrology instead of understanding.
The astrology isn't making anything happen to you.
Astrology is a framework of understanding and it shows
possibilities and probabilities. It's not magic.
Can you do magic using your astrological understanding?
Some people can. Very few that actually works and
the reason why most people lean into magic and doing spell work
is because they feel out of control.
Not that it's wrong, but trying to manipulate a situation
instead of working with the energies that are around us to
grow, to have self understanding, to step into the
next best version of ourselves. Hopefully that lasts a lifetime.
Hopefully there's no there that we end up at until we're done.
Love and light isn't a fluff ball phrase.
Love if you have struggled, suffered, been harmed.
Actually being loved. Not obsessed over, but loved.
When it hits your heart, it can be overwhelming.
It can be overfilling. I'm not saying don't shoot for
it. Don't shoot for feeling loved.
Of course go for feeling loved. But understand what love is
because it's a loaded word. One of my teachers said the term
I prefer is acceptance. Acceptance because love has so
many negative connotations and examples.
People will use codependency and say it's love.
People will yell, Don't you understand I love you while
they're yelling. If that's not love, that's
attachment, and attachment and acceptance are two different
things. We can be very attacked, but
love? Love is acceptance and to feel
accepted by whatever deity you choose to believe in by the
universe, the cosmos, and most importantly yourself.
That's a little bit like being the Grinch and having your heart
expand 10 times, not just three times, 10 times.
And light, to feel the light move through your body.
The hum and the buzz of the universe and the all that is
streaming through every song is almost impossible to maintain
that for any great length of time.
It requires an incredible amount of focus.
It could be done through active meditations when you're in the
zone, when you're gardening, when you're taking a walk, when
you can get out of your head out of this part, the frontal lobe,
and you can get out of the frontal lobe and just step back
a minute and just connect with the moment.
The light can shine through and in.
And at that point you feel connected.
You just feel connected and the pettiness of the world around
you falls away. It falls away and it's a
wonderful experience to try to recreate over time.
It doesn't have to be a one off those peak experiences that so
many people have. Like if I could just get back to
that mountaintop, if I could just feel the way I did on that
one particular day. You can recreate it consciously.
That's what's in the curriculum at the Mystery School.
Through that, ANI process ways to help develop your discipline
around recognizing your worthiness, your capabilities,
the influence you have over your own life, your connection to
yourself. Because our guidance, our
guidance is actually part of who we are.
It's not separate. It's not.
It may seem like a separate thing or being or concept, but
we are a fragment of the whole of what is.
And so everything is a reflection of us, even the parts
we don't like. The pain and the anger and the
irritation and the frustration and the apathy.
And I talked about that last week in Patreon.
That's resistance to what is, and resistance is what forces
growth. If we can move through it
through acceptance, love, radical acceptance is radical
love, and it allows people to be who they are, where they are,
and it allows us to still do things like have boundaries,
because that's loving ourselves. We're allowed to have
boundaries. We're allowed to say I prefer
this, I do not prefer that, right?
That's that's not a lack of spirituality.
This idea that we have to go to automatic forgiveness.
Oh, it's OK. That's bypassing.
If you have to subvert your well-being to make someone else
comfortable, that's not spiritual, but neither if
somebody is offering accountability yet if somebody's
saying, hey, they're trying to beat you to it, right?
Like, oh, I want to be accountable, I did, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah. That's avoidance.
That's actually not accountability.
You don't have to drag things out.
You don't have to be in a fight. You don't have to get into it
with people, but you also don't have to say, well, that's OK,
You say I, I acknowledge that. You see that.
Thank you for acknowledging and I still feel XYZ.
It is not a lack of spirituality.
It is not a lack of spirituality to be involved in politics.
It is not a lack of spirituality to be involved in your
community. Sitting isolated and shutting
out the world is not spiritual. It may be part of a spiritual
process, it may be part of your initiation at a certain level to
withdraw from the world so you can re enter.
But trying to live above the fray, you know, that's bypassing
because we are here to spiritualize matter.
And part of being a material being on this planet is there
are politics. Where two or more are gathered,
there are politics. And I'm sure you've heard the
phrase bad things happen when good people do nothing.
Bad things happen when good people do nothing.
And there are many things we can do.
Watching the news doesn't mean you're active or participating.
Watching the news just means you're being manipulated by
people who have a certain rhetoric being in the know.
Did you know this happened? Did you know?
But that doesn't do anything. You just spreading news, but
hearing something on the news and saying, what can I do about
that? Can I do anything about that
particular situation? No, but I'm really mad, OK?
It's OK to be really mad when I see things that I am not aligned
with. How can I be of support?
How can I be of service? What can I do to be a
counterbalance? See, I complained about these
all right people for a long time, right?
So go back to 2020. I go on to TikTok.
It's not just people dancing. There are people who are
spreading fake spirituality. They got really cool clothes,
they got hot makeup and they got some hot takes.
And it was BS. It was ill formed.
I'll considered and I knew where it was going and I thought woof.
And in my head echoed bad things happen because good people do
nothing. And I was like, well, I'm a well
practiced energy worker. I'm a light worker, I'm a world
server. I'm a master astrologer.
I'm going to give information for those who are willing to
receive it. I have never cared about having
a large audience. Oops, it happened.
I didn't expect that. I would have been fine with a
handful of people and a handful of people I found.
Now we have a community of thousands at the Awake Space
Patreon, both our vibing members and our supporting members.
A community of thousands of people doing their damnedest
every single day to take one more step, one more breath.
That is the goal, life, spiritualizing matter, taking it
one step at a time. Pop astrologers would have you
believe that the sun is your personality, the moon is just
your feelings. These people have no feelings.
These people have all the feelings.
That's all bullshit. It's reductionist.
It's bad astrology. They'll tell you that Venus is
just romantic love. Hell, you can read some of the
better astrology books and they still make Venus and Mars all
out about sex. And sex is something that is
there. But there's a lot more to it.
Our feelings of self worth, our feelings of value, our
understanding of what drives our desire nature.
It can go a hell of a lot deeper when it does.
I spent my entire career as an astrologer over the last 30
years to develop progressive interpretation, trying to remove
as much patriarchy as I could because that is something that
it is a constant work in progress and that's something
I'm going to be doing in October.
I've wanted to write these books, but I don't, I don't have
time. There's a lot of stuff going on.
I'm juggling a lot of balls. So one of the things I'm going
to do with astrology crew is I'm going to, I'm going to do
planets in aspect first and we'll go just as many times as I
can meet up. I'll do a Zoom webinar and we'll
use the transcripts. I do better when I have an
audience. It's a it's a little harder to
teach when I don't have other bodies energetically available.
So that's something we're going to do.
But yeah, the alt right pipeline uses divisive spiritual tactics
and rhetoric. OK it demonizing people.
I can tell you there are people I don't want to hang out with,
but I understand they are human. I understand I only see one
aspect of them. If they are a public figure, I
don't have to like them, I don't have to like their energy, but I
can understand they play a role. The people I resist the most, in
fact the any of us resist the most, our mastery partners.
They help us master our consciousness if we choose to
accept that mission. If that person's actions, words
and deeds are distracting me from my work in the world, then
I have work to do on me. You can't blame other people for
your consciousness. You govern your consciousness,
no one else. You, you have the agency.
And that's what I'm here to teach is if you only knew how
precious you were. If you only understood the
depths of the love available to you, which can be really hard to
accept how loved you are. If you only knew what was
available to you. If you could take a moment and
just a moment, and let go of needing to prove yourself, of
needing to do something to feel worthy.
If you only could for a moment, just a moment.
Recognize how everything will conspire to bring you peace and
ease if you allow it in, regardless of circumstances.
And it doesn't mean having a bad day makes you bad, suffering,
irritation or anger or pain. We are human.
These are human experiences and they can be the catalyst for
great connection with our higher selves, our connection to the
All That Is, our God, our Goddess, wherever, whatever you
believe it can be. Shying away from the pain,
shying away from the anger, shying away from the irritation,
shying away from reality is not spiritual.
That's bypassing La La, la, la, la.
We don't want to do that. That is not useful.
What is useful is to lean in, see it for what it is, and say,
I see that. I accept that it is, doesn't
mean you're condoning it. I can see that for what it is.
What can I do in my moment, in my present reality to do
something of service, whether it's donating to something,
offering your time, showing up. People have been saying they
feel lonely. They found great community in
the awake space, but they feel lonely in their physical
location. And I said, go to the library,
go to library. There might be groups we meet at
the local library. Go to the library.
At least the people there can read.
Is that snarky? Yeah.
Is it OK to be snarky and spiritual?
Yeah, it can be. Even if they can't read, they
have an interest. They have an interest in
knowledge, they have an interest in learning, they have an
interest in understanding. They have an interest in the
arts. They have an interest.
We don't need to be in groupthink, but if we can meet
with like hearted people, shared interests, we got a shot.
All right, that's my sermon. That's my sermon.
All right, all right, coming up next, we're going to do some
Petron shout outs because we got a whole bunch of new patrons.
Thank you so much. Without Petrons, we don't have a
podcast. We are 100% listener supported
and I for went and very, very proud of that.
I almost forgot to read to you the note I put up in Patreon
called Knowledge is Not Power using it as it's available to
all patrons both vibing and supporting.
That's free and paid. We'll do patron shout outs after
this. Knowledge is not power.
Using it as I have written and said many times.
Astrologers are not immune to transits.
What I mean by that is that regardless of how much time,
study and practice you have as an astrologer, you are still
faced with life. The UPS, the downs, the doorways
through which you can choose or not to walk through, and the
chasms you look at and wonder how you'll ever get across.
Right now I'm experiencing a couple of different transits
that are rather raw, and they're not horribly long.
It's not like a Pluto transit that can feel like it takes
forever to get through. However, they are intense and
useful. Knowledge is not power.
I don't know who made that axiom up, but let me tell you from a
life well lived that knowledge means nothing unless you apply
it. Knowing and applying are two
separate subjects and that's where wisdom comes into play.
When to take action, when to retreat, when to get to the
bottom of things and when to step back and process.
When to go it alone and when to reach out for support.
These are all things we have to examine that combine knowledge
with wisdom. Knowing and doing are two
separate things. Recently, a few people have been
asking me how I shoulder the burden of knowing what's to
come. The short answer is it is heavy,
sometimes extraordinarily so. The long answer I have
cultivated a lifetime of skills to support myself, and one of
those is knowing when to get professional support when things
are simply too heavy. Another short answer.
I see the what, what, not the how.
I don't get all the details, I get the big picture, the themes
when it comes to world events. How do I deal with it?
Well, I might scream and pull out my hair if I get asked one
more time. When is it getting better?
My answer? When we make it better.
When each of us does enough work that we're less self absorbed.
When each of us realizes that we are a microcosm of the macrocosm
and that our individual consciousness does contribute to
the collective, and that even the smallest of shifts can make
a great contribution. We each need to relieve
ourselves of things like learned helplessness, attachment to our
pain story, and learn to address our resistance, seek
self-awareness and our contribution to the collective.
We each need to work on our individual locus of control and
understand what we can and must do for ourselves and when we
must join together with other. As someone who has faced great
obstacles in life from an early age, I can tell you that putting
your focus on the discomfort, the ugly called cold hard
reality is going to make things more difficult because it's this
focus that reminds us of what power we do not have.
Instead, turning our attention to the things we can take care
of, the parts of life we do control, using our creative
energy in ways that help enliven or inspire us, is how we make it
through the difficult times. October isn't going to be an
easy month. The bright side and Silver
Linings are for each one of us to find using our agency.
If we can do that, we can help shift things ever so slightly
into a better outcome. Right now, for me, it's intense.
The energy is sharp and heavy. I know this too shall pass.
I have resources and support. I created this life for myself
on purpose, not because of good fortune or luck, but by using
the knowledge I worked so hard to acquire over the majority of
my lifetime. It's time to be quiet for a
minute and sit with guidance. Out of that space will come the
next steps. That's how it always has been
and always will be. Sitting with guidance gets us
through. I'll let you know what comes.
So I wrote that the other night when the moon was in Scorpio
because I have been going through it and it's not because
I'm predicting. It's gotten too heavy.
Yeah, Remember I was looking at 2020 and 2025 out of out of
context and it was terrifying back in 19, you know, 97 through
about 2004. I put it down for a little bit
because I was like, this is driving me crazy.
But we have our own transits and that great in that, that grist
for the mill that that's gross. But it can be very
uncomfortable. And it's really easy to sit in
our victimhood. It's, you know, that dirty,
rotten so and so did me dirty. That person didn't give me what
I want. I'm tired of being tired, you
know? We all get stinking thinking
that goes, and it's easy to ruminate in that, but it doesn't
do us any good. We might feel temporarily
justified, but if you're starting to feel like the ick
and no amount of clearing is working, then it's probably an
idea to switch your attention. You know, and sometimes getting
physical support, not just so you can vent, but so you can
work on action items, so you can give yourself some better
resources and tools. Because we are in massive
systemic change guys. That's not going away.
And in order to meet that, we have to change from the inside
out. So one of the things I did, I
did get myself professional support.
You know, it's like, you know what?
I support a lot of people, you know, through the Patreon,
through the podcast, in, in my one on ones, in my teaching.
And it's been a while since I let myself be supported as well
by somebody with a professional skill set to do so.
And so I did that because we're not close to being done yet.
The exciting part is trading to build over the next year or so.
I know, I know you don't want to hear that and I'm not going to
talk about it too much. Don't angst over it, but having
those tools, those tools to work with in helps.
So there's that. I want to thank you and let's
enjoy some patron shout outs because without patrons, there
is no podcast. Big shout out to patrons.
We've had some pretty good live streams.
In the next segment, I'm going to talk a little bit about
what's up coming up in the magazine for October.
The magazine goes out to members at the $15 level and up.
It comes out every single month in that I write the horoscopes
and I write the weekly predictions for what's in the
headlines. So if you're in the horoscopes
or deep dive pier, you actually get my predictions first because
you get my my predictions hot off the presses on the 1st of
the month. And that's what I'm putting out
October 1st. You'll get your horoscopes and
your predictions hot off the presses.
Patrons also get special discounts.
I want to remind you that all patrons at the $5 level and up
save 40% on one hour readings with any of the astrologers at
work, astrology.com that would be Damien Shelby and Susie and
you guys also at the $15 level and up save 50% on the event on
October 11th with Matilda and I as we do charts and channeling
together looking at 2026. So there is that.
All right, let me get to the patron shout outs.
These are our newest members. OK, so you'll usually hear your
name over a couple of weeks time as the list changes.
All right, we've got Lindsay, James, Alexandria Tiramisu,
Amber, Britney, Jim, Elizabeth, Matilda, a beautiful heart.
Mostly Gemini. Claire, Jay Barrera, Nancy.
Lindsay, Michelle. Alley, Julia.
Goodwitch, Jaleel, Effie. Brinley, Jennifer.
Sassy, Frassy. 248 on a Mac Jen, Victoria.
MD Ava, Gina. Hilga, Alicia.
Soul Music Heals. Jen, Jess Sheridan, Cat Deidre,
Linda Mary ESMA, Tay Tay, Tatiana Intuitively Beth,
Elizabeth, Danny, Sarah, Emily, Val, Marzi, Stephanie, Sarah,
Rob, Nicky, Mina, Tamara or Tamara.
Patient Stone Brusa or Bruja Bruxa.
I'm not sure. Either way, let me know.
Linnea Essa Jordan, Amanda Riley, Ashley Kai, Patricia
Heist Macho Latte 5 Dream Flex Katie Shanisha Amy Marissa
Rumination Redacted. I love that username.
Kylene, Mel Joyce, Jason Nicole. I'm Amber Amanda, Flora Baker,
Non Baker, Angela, Heidi, Serena Danette, Heather Cavaldi, Megan
Maria, Jody. Amber, Gloria Page, Sarah
Caramojo, 94 SAF Jewel Sphere, Stephanie, Megan, Bernice,
Sierra, Neva, Zen, Kelsey, Shreen, Morgan and the
Ghostarian. Jessica, Maggie, Jackie.
Zorelia. Tea in the Graveyard.
Elizabeth Vale, Narcara, Chrissy, Billy, Vanessa, Jet,
Alex, Cassandra, Victoria, Laura, Hope, Jordan, Leah, Ariel
or Ariel. Megan, May Caroline, Eora.
I may be or Laura. Sorry I read that wrong.
Laura, Jen, Carmen, Alyssa Morgan Paradox Priestess, The
Heathen Aquarian Aquest, The Heathen Equestrian Just as 3
Danny, Amanda Carmen, Heather, Nick, Susan, Megumi, Joe, Joanna
or Joanna, Colleen, Christina, Roxana, G Alley, Glitch Paladin,
Natalie, Sasha Jackie Herrera Cassie, Keisha, Aaron, Jorge,
Emily, Cindy, Star, Sister Cameron and Looney Tutor.
Looney Tutor. I love that.
All right, thank you so much for being patrons without you.
There is no podcast I told or any of the other stuff I do.
I want to thank you so much for your support.
October is a hell of a month. It starts off with a bang.
There's a lot that's going to happen.
We're going to see changes in world leadership.
Don't get your hopes up. My what's in the headline
segment is going to be up on Monday in the Patreon for $5
level and up. We'll do some deep dives
throughout the month because there's some tricky transits.
The full moon in Aries happens if you're on the West Coast of
the United States, it happens in the evening of October 6th.
Everywhere else, it's October 7th.
Of course, as I like to say, the universe is a joker.
It's pretty incendiary. We could see conflict spill out
into outright war in certain places.
We will certainly see instability, but there will also
be some killer music. There will be some outstanding
energy to grow spiritually. There will be some incredible
art. There will be people rising up
into the best of who they are. I suggest you look for those
people or be those people. It is not a month to luxuriate
inner misery, especially if you have a modicum of privilege.
I'm not talking about the people suffering bombardment.
I'm not talking about the people suffering from famine.
I'm not talking about those people.
I'm talking about the people who are not.
We can sit and luxuriate in our misery, or we can rise up into
the best of who we can be in the moment and make contribution.
October is a rough month. It just is on the outer plane.
There's going to be a lot of rhetoric, a lot of mean
spiritedness on full display by the legacy media, by people who
consider themselves in power. And there's going to be a lot of
subterfuge and sabotage in the works too.
So just when it looks like somebody's going to win their
dastardly deeds, they will have not the best luck in the world.
Look for the inventive and the creative and have a sense of
schadenfredo. OK, so it works out guys.
It's going to look gnarly before we get there.
It just is. It just is.
So there's a couple of things you can do.
You can limit your exposure to legacy media.
You can limit your exposure online and look up things that
breed creativity because this is an immensely creative time as
well. Arts, music, crafting, baking,
so many good things. Preparing for weather.
There's a lot of weather coming up in October, so be ready.
A lot of wet and some cold snaps.
We might even see some early snow, right?
Again, I'm going to cover that and what's in the headlines that
goes out to patrons at the $5 level and up every single
Monday. All right, So that's what we've
got going with that. October is intense.
You can get through it by tuning in to your creative urge.
And sometimes that's kind of hard when you're stressed out
and you're feeling anxious or depressed or worried.
Sometimes it's, it's hard because you're, you're, you can
feel like trying to be creative can be like moving upstream, but
you know, start small, like wash some dishes, you know, eat some
ice cream, play a game, you know, watch some videos with
baby animals or crafting or baking.
Find something to inspire you as we move into October, because
October is a lot. I'm going to read to you from my
2025 year ahead and then we'll move to the next segment.
And I'm going to talk a little bit more about the moon and its
use because I've got, I've got a class called Making Moves by the
Moon coming up. It's a six hour workshop, 2-3
hour sessions for people wanting to learn how to use lunar
transits to make moves in their business or their career, but
mostly business. OK, when to take your time off,
when to dig down and get into the groove of things, when to
create, when to market, when to, you know, take on clients?
What are your best days? Where's your energy at?
Learning how to recognize that, learning how to observe and
record your personal experience so you can plan forward.
This is very exciting. All right, let's let's find that
2025 year ahead. If you're a patron at the $15
level and up, you actually get the slides from my 2025 year
ahead that I did in June of 2024.
I always do it in June 1st and then I do the follow up at the
end of the year and put the astrology a little more into
context. This year I'm doing a bonus
round with Matilda Medium. Matilda.
We are doing charts and channeling, giving our forecasts
together for 2025. Incredible.
And I think I'll slide. If you're on Spotify, you'll be
able to watch the video. I'm going to slide in just a 3
minute clip of of our last event where there was over 200
predictions done in the 1st 20 minutes that came in one rapid
fire after another. OK, just insane.
So we have a predictions and proof and I'll put that in here.
You guys, if you're in the Patreon, you want to sign up
with your code. If you're at the $15 and level
and up, September 30th is the last day.
Otherwise it's full price. OK, it's worth every penny
because we're all so funny and I'm going to be giving some tips
on how to manage through the energy because I hate just
giving bad news. I hate it.
That's stressful to me. So I don't leave like to leave
people I'll equipped. All right, so here's what I
wrote back in June of. 2024 October starts with a bang.
This could be something to do with the international community
and alliances forming. Countries under strain are
Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Remember I wrote this in June of 2024.
There's a big storm in the upper Midwest.
Could be tornadoes, wind, or something really impacting the
Great Lakes. Second week of October.
Could see naval skirmishes, issues with marine transport, or
an accident with a vessel. It could be a cruise ship is
also but something big, a big boat.
Could see a very strange murder case or serial killer, which is
interesting. I'd forgotten I'd written this
and I was doing my, you know, every two day predictions that I
do for what's in the headlines based on the lunar transits.
And there's one day where I'm just like silly serial killer,
serial killer, serial killer. So that should be interesting.
Always a bundle of joy, aren't I?
Another major storm could roll in after the new moon on the
21st or 22nd. This could cause a lot of
widespread flooding in coastal areas, flooding, storm surges
and big wind. I I think Southern California
and the and the southwest may see some action on this.
Remember back in 2022 I saw a news article talking about the
potential for a mega flood in California and I looked up the
astrology of the last time what happened.
There was a big flood in 1933 I believe and then in the 1800s
was a big mega flood. It went from the Central Valley
all the way down into Southern California.
And so I looked at the astrology and it was like, oh crap, look
at that, 2025. So I have an old video of that
somewhere. But anywho that Southern
California keep your eye open for rain in late October.
Let's see around the 21st or 22nd of October.
Russia could intensify shelling of Ukraine and or Poland.
But it could. But it could also be under
attack from the EU and potentially see federation
members splinter out again. Wrote this in June of 2024.
October 22nd could see a power plant taken out in Europe or see
the use of irradiated weapons. Not necessarily big nuclear
bombs but maybe some tactical weapons or an EMP attack in
Europe. That is a potential Northeast
USA needs to prepare for a big storm.
A nor'easter is possible. Snow and ice could be in there,
or just heavy rain and storm surges.
And then October 29th is another day in 2025 where there could be
a mass vision like the spiritual psychosis is going to be strong.
OK, so there's that. Yeah, the church, like the Roman
Catholic Church is going to be like, yeah, that's that's not
how that works. All right, so if you want to
know what's up day-to-day and and get your bingo card ready,
check out what's in the headlines in the Patreon.
I'll link that in the show notes.
Understand that it is. It's just for the outer world.
Your inner world can be great even when you're going through
crunchy transits. So you can watch what's in the
headlines in the Patreon if you're at the $5 level and up.
If you're not, I have it. You can purchase it.
I'll put the link in the show notes.
Late May. Early June.
May early. June.
That could be the time, not necessarily steps down, but the
smoke comes out that they've picked a New Hope.
Right, May 19th. That will be a significant day I
feel like. That's a change, like a
legislation or law something. Yeah, EU.
It would be to do with any kind of agreement, trade agreement,
trading partner, alliance, coalition, a military agreement.
Kia Starmer, I think he's got some drama coming his way.
I don't think he's going just yet and I don't think that there
is going to be a new election. You're going to have to wait.
I think that there's going to either be an attack on Kier
Starmer or within the within London, there could be news
about Harry's ability to stay in the United States.
Travel in that time feels really off, whether it's Air Accidents,
whether it is trains, whether it is it's pretty much everything.
But I also think that the UK are retaliating to something that's
happening to them or happened to them.
See, Charles is looking really healthy at the moment, but I
think that when he falls, he falls.
It's going to be a very, he is never going to overcome this
cancer. It's going to follow him and I
feel that when we get into like the middle of the year, he's not
as as present as he was. Also heat.
I know June's early for the UK but it feels like there could be
some fires. There's something to do with
labor unions, trade unions. I don't know what it would be
because I'm not familiar enough with the situation.
They're whole, it feels like they're being held to ransom.
I don't know whether they're holding the government to ransom
or the rank the government are holding them to ransom, but it
feels like there's a lot of they're trying to change
something that's to do with the trade unions and that causes a
lot of physical behaviour. You may even have a run of boats
go down like there could be a problem with a.
Cruise ship in. July, August, By the end of
March, I feel like there's going to be some form of natural
disaster with water. But in the water it could be an
oil leak. A ship goes down a a tanker
leaks. But it's.
It's not all it seems, it feels like safety or something wasn't
followed. Can I just touch on Italy very
quickly because I've already talked on Rome.
Expect earthquakes in Italy and I'll love them.
And we could see some historic ruins being damaged throughout
Europe because of seismic activity.
Yeah, I love it when we sync up around the 19th of April.
Firestorms or volcanic activity to be expected could be from an
already active volcano, an underwater volcano.
And you guys may have some really freaking weird like hell
has frozen over type weather. Like when you like hell will
freeze over if this happens in Australia.
Yeah, we could have snow in Melbourne because we get snow in
Victoria, but we don't get it in the lower lying ground, but we
could get it in suburbs of Melbourne, right?
I feel like it's a weather event in Mexico.
It could be a hurricane that hits very destructive in certain
areas. At the end of March, we see
very, very stormy weather. Extreme tides could see, except
by the way, that's global, including United States.
Anyway, I have April 1st as St. Pranks go wrong.
Could see a shocking event. Surprise attacks in Asia,
potentially eastern Russia or Russia Federation issues with
rivers, riverbanks, river gorges, shipping lanes.
Early April tensions boil over with China and in the Straits of
Taiwan. It could also be a typhoon.
See, this is what concerns me is that time where April through to
the 21st, 22nd of April, that whole month feels very
explosive. The Moon in astrology governs
our day-to-day and I talked a little bit about that last week,
but I want to talk about making moves by the Moon because it's
it's going to be a really fun workshop.
And if you've got a small business, if you're a coach, a
consultant, a therapist, if you do service providing or you have
a small brick and mortar store, this is such a lifesaver.
Knowing what your lunar transits are on a personal level, you
don't have to understand a lot about astrology.
I'm going to walk you through understanding what it means when
the moon is in a sign or in moving through your Natal chart
and how to look ahead so that you can plan how you use your
energy because have you ever done it?
You schedule out some time. You're like, I've got to do an
e-mail marketing blast. I need to get out of class.
I need to get my product lunch going, I need to pay my vendors,
I need to get a hold and get my invoices covered.
All of that fun stuff. And then your day goes to hell
and nothing on your 2D list gets done.
Some of that is not understanding the energy of the
day-to-day. We're always looking out at the
big stuff, but we're not paying attention to the little stuff.
A little bit like that irritation I was talking about
earlier in the podcast. We often ignore the little
things and they add up into the big things.
Lyric transits are one of the best ways to plan ahead.
It can really help. And there's no one-size-fits-all
because everybody has their own astrology chart.
I developed this method for myself back in the 90s.
And if you listen to the Astrologers Roundtable this week
coming up, Susie asked me when did I understand how to make
astrology applicable? When did I get the idea?
And I, I answered a little bit on there, but after we'd got
done recording, I went, you know what I forgot to mention, it was
when I went to my first conference in 2001 and I was
hanging out with other astrologers and everybody was,
you know, speaking in astrological ease.
Oh, did you see that, you know, the Saturn is trying Neptune or
did you see that, you know, Pluto is making this aspect?
And everybody would nod their head and speak astrological
ease. And I decided because my teacher
was like, your chart is 100% all about communication.
You need to focus on interpretation and like drawing
new interpretation, but building on the classical.
So learn, learn the, you know, learn what is first and then
work on improving the language. And so I, I went and I'd be
like, well, what do you think is going to happen?
Or what do you think that means for you?
And people would be like, well, you know, it's trying.
And I'd be like, yeah, how does that trying play out for you?
What do you, what do you think? Well, I can't know.
I'm like, how can you not know? You know what Saturn means and
you know what Pluto means. A trying is unrestricted energy.
So how would that play out for you?
And they wouldn't be able to speak about it in their native
tongue. OK, notice I didn't say English
because not everybody there was English was their native
language. So and astrologicalese is really
great. If people get together and they
don't have the same language, it gives us a way to speak the
notation right, just like scientific language does.
However, if you can't translate that into application, what good
does it do you, right? And back in the day, people were
so afraid to be considered fortune tellers and sooth Sayers
that they weren't willing to risk being wrong talking about
the potential that was on the horizon.
And I always thought that was silly.
I was like, if you can't learn this and use it, what's the
point? Now I understand some people not
wanting to teach certain things in a wide venue without
selecting students, you know, at workshops and things because so
many people don't listen and they only hear what they want to
hear and then they run and they spread misinformation.
And we were already seeing that happen online a lot.
I I get that. But it was just in the
day-to-day conversation with other astrologers that made me
realize people weren't doing this.
They weren't learning how to communicate it.
I've spent my life doing that. So 30 years of it.
So in making moves by the moon, one of the things I'm going to
help you do is understand how to know your natural energetical
flow, which you can really forecast fairly accurately
through themes. It's not, it's not like, oh, a
tall, dark stranger is going to walk into my building and whisk
me off my feet. You're probably not going to see
that in the chart, you know, but you might say, oh, I might meet
interesting people or that would be a good day to connect in my
relationships. This is a day I probably want to
go home early for dinner, you know, those types of things.
You can see that. OK, so that's stuff we're going
to talk about in making moves by the moon.
It saves you time, it saves you money, it saves you energy
because again, the moon rules are day-to-day.
And that's the thing nobody wants to pay attention to
because they think all these big events, you know, they're going
to be like, oh, it's the trade show that's going to make or
break my business. No, it was your day-to-day
activity that's going to make or break your business.
Your ability to make decisions, your ability to do your timing,
your systems in place, like being at a trade show is going
to make or break your business financially.
If you have a good system in place, you know, period, period.
I have another passion. It's business.
Because if the only people making money are the bad guys,
we're screwed, right? And money isn't going away.
I can tell you that from the astrology, the financial system,
even people are like crypto. Crypto still a currency.
It doesn't change a whole lot. And if you think it's going to
change the power that holds the finances, think again.
Because the institutions are well invested.
Well invested minute the whales got in.
Your premise was refuted. Period.
OK so you can. Whether it's shiny bobbles or
gold coins or paper dollars or electronic funds, it's all the
same shit. It's a transaction for an
activity or product or service. It's still a currency.
Any other argument is just fart gas.
Sorry, I'm just like, no. So we're not going to go to a
barter economy and barter isn't always the most fair because if
you don't know your value, you don't know your worth, you don't
know any of that, you're going to undersell yourself anyway.
But we don't have to grind either.
We can create systems for ourselves that work with our
natural energy levels. And so that's what I've got.
There's an add on you can sign up for if you don't feel
confident in your abilities. You can sign up with me and I
will work out a three month plan for you that gets you rolling
and we'll meet together. It's, it's not a reading per SE,
but it's working out a plan and that's a fun way to do
astrology. I like working out plans with
people. Let's see what else, what else
is up? What else?
We're going to talk about Astrology of the Child starting
October 1st. This Wednesday I have a
three-part lecture series. If you're a patron, make sure
you use your discount before September 30th for either one of
these. Understanding, you know that you
can use astrology for pretty much anything, any framework,
but you look at like a child's chart a little differently than
you do an adult's chart. Because a child's reality is
different and their job is different and their function in
the world is different. And so we look at the houses a
little differently. We look at the placements a
little differently. We talked about the development,
child development, personality development, cognitive
development, how to support children using astrology.
So all of that is up on deck this month starting October 1st
for the Astrology of the child. That's a lecture series I'm
looking very forward to giving. It's a three-part lecture series
that really kind of goes in depth into astrology and
supporting children by using it not and, and kind of what not to
do as well. I, I have done a lot of parent
child readings in my day. And the biggest mistake parents
make is they come in and was like, got this special kit and
they can put a lot of weight. Like, oh, they remember their
past lives are super magical. And I'm like, stop making it a
big deal. Don't put that on them.
That's a lot of weight. That's a lot of ways.
If you've ever been a gifted person, A gifted child, a
sensitive, energetically attuned child and you grew up with that,
your special, it's an incredible head trip to put on a kid.
And so we'll talk a little bit about, yeah, they're in tune
because they're kids. Kids are in tune.
Of course, they're they're less separated through experience on
the planet and so they are more in tune.
So listen to him, but don't give him a head trip.
I'm all about supporting children to become well-rounded,
well adjusted and understand that they have their own path
too and respecting that. All right, well, that's pretty
much what we've got for this week.
If you want to know what's in the headlines, head over to the
Patreon. You check out the show notes I'm
excited about this week and I hope you are too.