It's you like space with Lori Rivers, and I'm here to give you
some inspiration to get those aspirations out in the world.
Remember, it's time for action. We've got Mars in Aries.
Did you feel it? Did you feel the energy change?
I feel like I'm boosted. Of course, I have Mars in
Sagittarius, so I'm like, bring it home, baby.
The training for me is happening right now.
How cool is that? How about Artemis 2?
That mission, That mission gave all of the energy I've been
talking about about what happens in the future that we get to a
Star Trek like reality. And remember, Star Trek wasn't
perfect. It wasn't a utopia.
There was an underbelly. Humans are humaning and other
aliens are aliening. Does that mean that we will have
alien disclosure? To me, that's not the point.
The point was we realized we live on a floating rock in space
and this is it. This is this is what we got.
This is our home. This is what we got.
We better damn well learn how to make things work without
annihilating each other, because that's an unacceptable use of
our consciousness. It has been part of our
evolution. It's been part of how we've
learned, but we kind of have outgrown it.
If you look at how the rest of the world, including many people
here in this country, are responding to the use of
excessive force, we're not. We're like, hey, dudes, not not
cool. And going so far as to mock
people who behave like out of control children, Although I
hate to use children as the excuse because I think are
blaming things on kids and dehumanizing children is part of
the problem. But yeah, so we're going to talk
about the moon today in general and talk about how it is an
activating force, an activating force and why I use the moon
changes as kind of my anchor point in my predictions.
As for what's going to happen in the world, well, the next week
and 1/2 is it's, it's very interesting as we move into just
before the 23rd and then the 23rd being an uncommonly good
day. And again, I'm not saying it's
it. Stop telling people I said that.
I just said it's a really good day.
Now I know you think that that would be it.
That must be what's really good. It could be a lot of things.
And there's no promises on my end.
So if people come for me, I'm just going to lose my temper.
Don't expect me to be taking the High Road when my Mars is
activated right now. But anyway, we have uncommonly
good energy for ourselves as individuals who are members of
the collective to show U for ourselves, not just for the
people we love, not sacrificing ourselves on the altar of being
a good person, but to truly show up for ourselves.
All right, get your coffee, get your tea, get your matcha, get
your Red Bull, get your H2O. And whether we're going to
taking the kids to school, going on holiday, hitting the road,
working from home, folding the laundry, doing the dishes, all
good activities to bring yourself back to yourself to
disrupt the crazy patterns in the world.
Or taking a hot girl, hot guy walk, taking the dogs to the dog
park, doing whatever we're doing, let's do it together.
The Artemis 2 mission, I think a lot of us had a hard time
keeping dry eyes as they spoke with such hope and dedication to
a better and more attuned reality.
I know there's people who don't think it was real.
It takes that kind of peak experience often to open
people's consciousness to that understanding of we are
connected to the all that is. Sometimes it happens through
traumatic events, sometimes it happens through again peak
experiences. Standing on the top of a
mountain and watching a sunrise or watching a loved one recover
from something that seemed impossible.
Those miracle moments in life I for when am not going to say it
wasn't real. I was born the day the men were
leaving the moon and coming back to earth.
I was born that day. They used to call me the Moon
Baby long before I ever thought of being an astrologer, and
raised with the enthusiasm of the space program in the 1970s,
I would spy at the stars and the moon nightly, wishing on them
with all my might. And once or twice those wishes
came true. In astrology, the Moon is an
activating force. It's the closest to Earth.
It's large to our vision, yet it's 200,000 miles away.
It is not made of green cheese. I was very disappointed by that
as a child because even as a child I like stinky cheese.
We have often relegated the moon to pure emotion and this is
moods and moodiness and too emotional and and the moon and
this moon has no feelings and this is the moon that has all
the feelings and none of that is true.
It's a very small minded point of view and it comes from a
patriarchal system that takes anything that is relegated
feminine and renders it flighty, Moody, overly emotional and not
as important as the actions we take in the world.
And that's ridiculous. Look at all the excuses and how
it's translated into day-to-day life for women to be held back
because they're too emotional, and yet a man screaming or
yelling or shutting down and giving the silent treatment
isn't seen in the same light. I bring this up in relationship
to astrology because our cultural beliefs and constructs
filter into our interpretation and that is why the moon has
been relegated to it's just emotion.
But it's so much more than that. Emotions are important and yet
we need to use emotions not as a determinist force.
I am angry, therefore I will hit someone.
I am sad, so I will make everyone else feel bad too.
I'm in pain and the whole world will know it, or I will isolate
and waste away. That is information.
Those emotions are information. Emotions are information.
Information. I'm going to say it again.
Emotions are information. They are not determinants.
And we have not been taught that one of the reasons the world is
in the problem it is in today is because, as Einstein famously
said, our technology has outstripped our humanity.
We did not learn how to communicate with one another
without violence, without manipulation, without
codependency. And I'm not blaming you or you
or you or you or the thousands of people who listen to the
show. It is a collective experience
and there have been people who have been learning how to speak
without violence, learning to communicate without
manipulation, learning to regulate and Co regulate with
each other. There's a big difference between
codependency and Co regulation. The fact that we would ever
expect a small child to regulate on their own when so few people
understand how to do it in adulthood is ridiculous.
To vilify strong feelings, strong emotions is a problem.
Big feelings happen. Some people put them into action
in productive ways. I was telling my father back in
2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Every time I got angry, I
donated to a project that was close to my heart and sometimes
it was $5, sometimes it was $10, sometimes it was $20.00.
I was rebuilding my life. I didn't have a lot extra, but
every time I got pissed off at the administration, I would
donate money and I would say thank him.
He pissed me off again and I told my dad I need to do that
again and I know I have another project I'm going to donate
money to. I'm like, I got to have my
donation. Every time I get pissed off, I'm
going to donate to that project. Taking that anger and
transmuting it into something good.
That is the deliberate act. Now, I've talked a lot about our
consciousness over the last couple of years.
Well, actually the last as long as I've had the podcast, we have
our instinctual consciousness, which isn't worse.
We need our instinctual consciousness.
We are mammals, but when we've lived in fight or flight
consistently, we often have a lower quality of life, right?
We tend to it. That's the facts.
Been there, done that. Then we have our social cultural
programming, what I call our transactional consciousness.
OK. And this is where we do our
getting along in the world, period.
We do our getting along in the world, meaning we have a job, we
have a role or multiple roles, right?
And we make decisions based on those roles, a little bit like a
default setting. I remember when it dawned on me
that I didn't have to get up at 5, hit the commute and work for
somebody else. I was rattled by that because I
was used to that routine. And then I had to let go of the
idea of work being part of my identity because of life
circumstances. And I had to learn to understand
that what I was doing at home was work.
I just did worked on that in a hot seat in Laurie's test lab,
which is a coaching and support for people not recognizing that
what we do at home is work. And if you have to go pay for
all of that, whether it's catering, cooking, cleaning,
laundry services, child caring, event management, personal
assistant, you know, Add all that up, It's, it's, it's
valuable, but we don't see it that way because we've attached
our identity to a John that's part of the transactional or
societal beliefs. And then we go to deliberate
consciousness. I used to call it transcendent
because we're transcending the social conditioning.
But people kind of took that to mean you had to be like Buddha.
That's not what it is. It is being deliberate, like,
oh, this is my default. I need to do this other thing
right. I need to behave in a different
way. I need to choose for myself.
It can be scary to be deliberate because you're often swimming
upstream. And it isn't a rebellion.
It isn't screw down. It's normally when I get cut off
in traffic, I'm like, screw you. And that's socially acceptable.
Even though I'm in my instinctual consciousness every
all your friends are going to be like, well, yeah, you should
have flipped them off. But there might be a day where
you're like, I'm tired of being stressed out.
Well, that person decided to do something rude and I could have
had an accident, but I didn't. And you focus on what you did,
which is I stayed calm. Traffic opened up and wow, 5
miles later, that guy got pulled over.
I guess he got what was coming to him and it's OK to have a
little shot in Freda. It's not about perfection.
It's about understanding that we get to choose what we do with
the information from our emotions.
When we're overwhelmed, over stimulated, it might take a
second to adjust and it might mean mean that we need to go to
bed and wake up and start the next day deliberately.
We might go to bed deliberately. It doesn't mean you're going to
be a paragon of virtue. I think that's a very dangerous
concept. But we need examples, Laurie.
Well, yeah. Watch a human being be a human
being who's a human being on purpose.
That's what this one does. I'm a human on purpose in
purpose, being and doing at the same time with hopes, dreams,
aspirations, fears and limitations.
This is how we don't start a cult.
Somebody who empowers you back and says no, you can do this.
You can find your answers. Here's the framework to get you
started right. The Moon, not just in your Natal
chart, but as a transiting, activating force, gives you the
best predictive tool for day-to-day events I know of
because the moon is governing the day-to-day.
Those things, these guys in their power suits with their
silly little neck decorations called ties, they don't think
it's important. They see it as lowly, these
everyday things that they're probably not very good at doing
themselves and they wouldn't be able to get along very well in
the world without them. Somebody to bring you water,
someone to cook for you, someone to vacuum or clean up the mess.
Those day-to-day things that we look at as lowly and beneath us,
are they, are they lowly and beneath us or do we need that so
we don't live in a pigsty? Lowly and beneath us?
Or is that something that keeps the day-to-day functioning so
that they can do their brunch or their lunch or their power
meeting, whatever they want to call it?
The moon governs the day-to-day. If you've been with me for a
long time, you know I had a program called Living by Luna
and I learned a lot 5 years ago. It was one of my very first
Patreon tears. I learned a lot in how to
deliver the information because I was coming from it as somebody
who'd done astrology for, you know, almost 30 years back then,
like 25 years. And it was an early process I
developed. But I'm an academian, right?
And I realized that in teaching this, I needed to make it more
approachable, more relevant, not dumb it down.
I'm not insulting anyone's intelligence.
But not everybody is a geek. I know Shaka.
Shucks. Not everybody likes to build
their own computers. Not everybody likes gaming.
Not everybody likes experimental math.
Not everybody likes to do the thing.
The things I find fun, most people don't.
Some people do. I'm always excited when I meet
other people who like all the different kinds of things I do.
And so I learned to make it more approachable, More approachable.
And I just finished the manuscript on the rewrites.
There's still some of the golden original that I wrote in 2019,
and I wrote it in the traditional astrological tone by
that, you know, serious astrologers use.
And it was like as we sit upon the precipice of the greatest
change in human history since the Bronze Age.
And it is the fall of 2019 when I wrote that knowing 2020 was
going to be the start of the change of everything.
And we will continue to see everything change.
What I am excited about in that everything changing is that we
get to have a say in how things change.
Maybe not in the macro, not in the big picture, but in the
day-to-day, how we raise our children.
As Gloria Sinem said, don't raise your daughters to be like
their fathers. Raise your sons to be like their
mothers, right? And maybe we don't want to do
that. Maybe we didn't have a good mom.
Not every mom is good. But if we're deliberate, right?
And if your dad and you're thinking I'm going to do this
differently, well, it's hard to do it differently when we're
just rebelling and doing the opposite in a reaction
formation, right? That's why I've got the
astrology of the child lectures. And yes, that sounds a lot to do
with the moon, including astrology and child development
and how the they sequence. But that's a three-part lecture.
I'm so excited about it. I caught it last year.
And so you guys will be able to get that out of the shop and do
it at your own pace. Just all good stuff.
We have to start looking at life a little differently and the
role we play in it because we are each one of us part of a
greater collective. We are not separate from the
collective. Our personal energy is impacted
by the collective energy, and yet we are transmitters as much
as we are receivers. And I say that especially as I
record this with Mars conjunct Neptune, Now is the time to
switch the frequency and to pour out the energy we want to see in
the world instead of lamenting what we lost, fearing what we
don't understand. That doesn't.
That doesn't help, doesn't mean it's not normal and natural, but
it doesn't help if we can learn to tune our energy and build
more of what we want to see in the world, maybe be a little
more generous, maybe be and, and I don't just mean with money,
but with time, with resources, learning to share a little more,
learning to care a little more, learning to appreciate the
efforts other people make. Because I think a lot of times I
know in my case, if you're really good at something, people
don't see the effort because you make a look easy, right?
They don't see the time, they don't see the energy, they don't
see the dedication and the years of practice.
They, they see you're good at it.
Now we live in an extraordinary time of change and we get to be
part of that. And that is a privilege, just
like it's a privilege to be part of spaceship Earth.
You know, I know we feel like it's a big world, but it's not.
The neck bone is connected to the shoulder bone, the hip bones
connected to the thigh bone. Everything on this planet is
interconnected. And we are children of Gaia.
We are children of the Earth. You look outside of us, people
talk about all the different life forms that are possible,
and I'm not saying they're not possible.
I mean, anything is possible, but the reality you're living
now in the body you're in now is for this moment.
The moon is an activating force, and how we wield our
consciousness determines on how we move through that energy.
I'm really excited about Living by Luna, really excited about
it. Jessica will be done with it and
I found a way that you guys will be able to order it on print, on
demand. I am not going to deal with
shipping. I do not play those games.
I do not. That is not my grind.
But I found a way to do that because it's a journaling
process and there is nothing that I know works more because
this is something I used and developed myself because I was
just starting to learn about transits, the movie, you know,
and, and transits are the moving celestial bodies and they
operate outside of the chart. And I was like, well, since I'm
at Cancer, should I look at lunar transits?
And he was like, whatever floats your boat, Ducky.
And I came up with this process and at first I saw it more
deterministic because I was in my 20s, right?
And we don't like to make decisions for ourselves.
We want sometimes to be told what to do, even if we claim we
don't. I'm an independent thinker.
I don't need to be told what to do.
And yet when we think of a deity or spirit or guidance as in
charge of us instead of a Co creative experience where we're
working with all of creation, we still make ourselves
subordinate. And when people are saying don't
be egotistical, that's not what they're talking about.
They're not saying you shouldn't be a Co creator.
When they say don't be egotistical, it says don't fight
for your survival. There's a big difference between
being an egomaniac and understanding you have a role to
play in the universe. Just understand that other
people do too and you're part of a great collective action.
But so many people feel overburdened by decision.
So many people feel overburdened and fear what happens when they
make the wrong move. Because maybe as a child they
grew up with a lot of punishment, whether it was
physical and corporal punishment or somebody just had a
manipulative parent who would say, I'm disappointed in you,
you made a choice. We have so weaponized that
language and it doesn't help anyone, it doesn't help you, it
doesn't help your kids, it doesn't help me, it doesn't help
my kids. None of that language is useful
or constructive. When we understand that we are
Co creating with our guidance, our higher self, our soul self,
our source self, our creator, whatever you want to name it,
then that agency and ability to make a decision no longer
becomes an ego triggering event. Because sometimes we feel like
we're going to die if we make the wrong decision.
And sometimes we do die. What if we make the wrong
decision? What's over that hip?
I was talking to a friend the other day and they feel
overburdened with decisions because they had always had help
in making those decisions or got to defer those decisions to a
spouse and the idea of having it all on their shoulders feels
like an immense amount of pressure.
And when I left my second marriage I felt exactly like
that. Oh my God, it's all on me.
What if I screw it up? What if I screw it up even
though that particular person I had left had screwed it up
plenty when I either deferred to them, deferred my agency to
theirs, because we all do it. Because guess what?
If you don't make the decision, you get to blame the other guy.
And you got to be really honest with yourself to say that.
And I remember I was driving down Hwy. 101 through Oregon
into the redwoods in California, one of my favorite drives.
And I remember having this oh shit moment, Like if I screwed
up the car, it was on me. There was no one else.
I can say, well, why didn't you get the oil change?
Why do I have to do it all the time?
Guess what? I get to do it all the time now.
Guess whose job it is? Guess whose job it is to, you
know, go to the grocery store? Guess whose job it is to take
care of daily living things? Guess whose job it is in their
business to make all those decisions?
I don't get to blame anybody. Buck stops here and it can be
overwhelming, especially when you love to tell people what
they're doing wrong or doing right.
And I will say that was less of an issue for me.
I was not a nitpicker or control freak in that way.
I was afraid to make decisions, though.
I was scared of that because what if, what if it goes wrong?
So I started deliberately making bad decisions or what other
people thought were bad decisions.
They already thought me leaving my second marriage was a bad
decision. I was like Oh no, this is the
best decision In 2019. I needed a new car.
My car had been totaled. No, not in an accident, but it
had been totaled. And I had the settlement check
and I needed a car because I wasn't going to Uber to work
every day. And it even though my work
wasn't that far, but still I needed a car.
So I took myself to a local dealership to look for a
previously owned car and found a little Prius C I'm not going to
lie, it had the worst handling of any car I've ever driven.
But it was in my price range, and it was the one in my price
range that I felt most comfortable driving and it had a
decent safety record. I'd done my research.
I purposely did not take any of my guy friends who all knew
about cars. I was 50 years old.
I'd never done this before. I'd always deferred the decision
I made. Put a word in on a color or the
handling of the carcass skin. I like to drive, so I don't, I
don't care what brand it is. I don't care as long as it
handles well because I like to drive, you know?
Is it smooth in transition? Is it easy to park?
That's all I care about. Does get good gas mileage.
But those are the things I care about when it comes to cars.
I don't care what other people think of me as I drive my car.
I don't think oh I want AG wagon so other people are jealous.
I don't care. And if you do believe for you,
that's awesome for you. I'm just not that person.
So anyway, I decided that if I made a mistake in negotiating
the car, it was my mistake and I would own that mistake and I
would own it like a badge of honor.
Now, women traditionally get really screwed over at car
dealerships. And this young man who was
pretty much the epitome of a young Carl's car salesman, and I
took a look at the lot and I said, well, I already kind of
know what I want and this is what I can afford.
And I want you to know I do not have credit.
He's like, oh, bad credit. I'm like, no, no, I do not have
bad credit. I have no credit.
What? I've been cash basis because I
was married. He had credit.
I hated banks. I deferred, and you're like, are
you kidding? Nope.
It was living my principles. Well, one of those principles
ended up being like, cutting off my nose to spite my face.
And this kid who was truly, I mean, he was a man, but he could
have been my child, OK? He was in my youngest age group.
Spent two hours finding the best rate for me.
Look, I make a mistake. I make a mistake, I'll own it
and I, I know this will build credit.
And it did. It did.
And it was a decent car until I got my next one, which is the
one I have now that I love. And then I did take a friend to
negotiate. At the end I knew what I wanted
and it was a whole thing, the freedom I experienced when I
finally surrendered. The fear.
The fear which builds up like armor against the world and
living well. When I surrendered the fear and
embraced self accountability and said if I make a mistake I will
own that and I did. And it wasn't really a mistake.
He got me a great great interest rate that liberated.
It liberates us, the moon and our emotions, whether it's fear,
worry, doubt, insecurity, anger, jealousy, hope, liberation, the
elation, the exuberance, the joy, the love, the sorrow, the
grief. All of that is part of life and
it's information that allows us to make decisions.
But if we're deferring our decisions, if we're deferring
them to a partner, a friend, a lover, a deity, our guidance
when we separate ourselves from spirit and do not realize we are
spirit made manifest, that's ego.
Oh, I'm just too little. Something bigger than me is in
charge. No, that's your ego.
And that is your ego trying to keep you safe because it is so
big. When we look at the vastness of
all that is and the smallness of being physical on Earth, as the
Artemis crew found out, because it's overwhelming to realize the
truth of it. It's got, there's got to be
something bigger than me. I can't be this fool making all
these decisions. But what if you are Co creating
with all that is? What if you are working in
tandem with spirit because you are spirit made manifest, you
are spirit made physical and it is hard to be like a genie
shoved in a bottle with the vastness of all that is and who
you are in your Co creative nature into this little itty
bitty tiny living space. All right, I'm going to do some
community news because I got some fun updates about what's
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So got some community news that's coming up next.
All right, we've got some community news.
The memes are packed. We can post photos again.
I did not know how universal that experience was for
everybody. Some people reached out, some
people didn't. I know a lot of people know I'm
busy, but you know, if you're having problems in the community
as far as like with the technical stuff and me not
knowing, I can't reach out to support and get it fixed.
So enough people, enough people had reported to me that they
were having problems that I decided and and trust me, I have
been fighting with support for like 6 months, six months
reporting issues and they'd be like, which members?
I mean, I don't know, like 5 different people.
I don't remember who they are. Because again, when you're
running things on your own with limited help, and I do, the help
I have is amazing, amazing. Don't think I don't appreciate
it, but it's still everything else is on me.
So I'd get a hold of support and I'm like, you figure it out.
OK, that's your job. So I have now a, a Rep from
Patreon who, who is an advisor and is there to help.
And I reached out to them and I was like, look, I'm making this
feedback form and a survey to find out how many people are
having problems. And I put it up and almost 300
of you have answered, which is great.
I would love more because what Amanda at Patreon is doing is if
you are actually like, if you're locked out of your account, if
you can't get in, she's getting that to the right teams.
OK, so that's happened and I fixed the meme problem.
It wasn't support, it wasn't Patreon, it was me because I've
been waiting for them to make it so we can get our memes back as
a meme action in the awake space is pretty funny because we're a
community. We're not.
It's not just, you know, me lecturing all the time.
It is also a really fun community.
I missed all the memes. I'm not I'm my meme game is not
always the strongest, but I enjoy other people who have a
strong meme game. And so I had this epiphany like
last week was all epiphanies all over the place.
And I had an epiphany and I was like, what if I just delete the
chats and we start over? And so, so it worked.
And then I sent the information to tech support who now tries to
claim, oh, we fixed that for you.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, I fixed it.
So it was like clearing the cache or something, I don't
know. So anywho, meme action is back.
You can have fun in the in the chats and Oh my God, it was the
best when I was like, try, try the meme, I had Alicia try
first. We did, we did a test run and
then found out how many people couldn't even get into chats.
I had no idea about 30% of our respondents have had trouble
accessing so, but that is getting fixed.
OK. And if you personally have had a
problem with your account, please fill out the form so
Amanda can get this to the right team to get it fixed because
yeah, Amanda. And the one thing I will tell
I'm not mad at Patreon. They are the real deal as a
company goes, OK? I've worked with all of the
teams as an ambassador. I've been an ambassador with
Patreon for what, five years now from when the program first
started. I have tested a lot of new
features and I know some people don't like the new update.
It just takes time to get used to and it might have another
change, I don't know. Put your feedback in.
They appreciated it. It's gone to the product
development team, which deals with the user interface.
It's gone all, every team that needs it, from engineering to,
you know, the accounts, all, all of that to get it fixed.
Nobody's mad. We just needed to get it fixed.
There was a gap in communication, right?
And that's what do I do. I'm the communicator.
So it's fixed. And I made sure Matilda got
taken care of too. So because I'm like, she's my
colleague. She wouldn't even be here if I
hadn't said, hey, come on to Patreon, you know, hey, come on,
you know, So anyway, so that's good news.
I'm excited about that. If you're in the $15 level and
up, your special savings are up. You also got advanced, advanced
notice of ticket sales for charts and channelling, which is
a medium Matilda in my event. That happens on May 17th.
We've priced this very affordably.
So we are not discounting, but we did give our members.
For me, it's magazine subscribers and up.
I don't remember what tier hers is called, but it's a $15 tier
and up the first dibs on those tickets.
OK. And we're going to release these
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All right, let's talk about living by Luna and why life is
cyclical and how to see that for ourselves, Cycles, everything.
We say full circle a lot, and I've been having a lot of full
circle moments lately and it's kind of exciting.
It's kind of exciting to have these full circle moments years
ago, and I just said that in the break between at the end of the
last segment before the community news, I came up with
this way of looking at lunar transits because I was a
Cancerian, I was a baby astrologer, and I was like,
well, maybe I should know this because the moon rolls my sun,
OK. And so one of the things I
noticed was there was this repetition that happened month
by month. And I started being able to kind
of anticipate my ups and my downs and things like that.
And over the years, I developed more method to it because you
can observe like, and if you're not a trained observer and most
people aren't, I was a trained observer because of my academic
training, learning how to step back out of my beliefs, my
biases as much as possible. It's, it's impossible to step
out of it all and look at life and look at what was going on
and, and just writing down the information I saw.
And as a young astrologer, I made the mistakes most young
astrologers make. You know, if I saw, you know, an
eighth house transit, I'd be like, oh, no, those two days are
going to be shit. And they usually were because
that's where my consciousness was at.
And if I saw the day that, you know, I was having a first house
transit, oh, I'll have all the energy in the world.
And sometimes I did, you know, sometimes you usually do.
But there's other things that go on.
Living by Luna was one of my very first Patreon tears, and we
were using the manuscript I wrote, which was far more
academic. And in fact, good old Eli, my
mentee was saying, but it's one of the best books I've ever
read. And I said yeah.
And it's a little heady. You like it because you're a
geek like me and other people liked it, but it was harder to
grab onto. And So what I I'm always
distilling information to make it more and more practical
because knowledge isn't power unless you know what to do with
it. You can have tons of information
in your head, tons of knowledge, and if you don't know what to do
with it, it's wasted. It's just taking up space.
So I'm always like, we have this knowledge.
How do we apply it? OK.
And that's what I developed. And so it's it's I'm very
excited about it. So let's talk about the premise
of life being cyclical. Full circle, right?
Except it's more like a spiral. It's more like the Nautilus
shell. And a Nautilus is like a, a sea
creature and it's got the spiral shell.
And you'll notice in a lot of traditions, spiritual
traditions, indigenous traditions, the spiral
represents creativity. It's not a full revolution.
That's why I always say we don't want a revolution because you
end up in the same place because it just, it just goes around
full circle. Spirals advance our
understanding. So like in healing work, when we
do energy healing, when we do deep therapeutic processes, we
have a spiral of healing where we see the issue from many
different points of view within. Same with light.
Yeah, the moon changes signs every 54 hours, every
effectively 2 1/2 days on the calendar.
It might look like a three day period.
So like when you hear my predictions right, sometimes it
sounds like a 2 day period, sometimes it sounds like a three
day period, but it is always 54 hours before it changes signs
again. I talk about energy expressing
in a spectrum. So with Aries you have a
spectrum of expression. It is not always war, it is not
always aggressive, it could be assertion, it is not always
selfish, but it is self oriented.
So you have people who are selfish and do not know how to
play well with others, and you have those who understand that
they benefit by playing well with others, right?
So when we're looking at the moon's transit through the sign,
in transit just means to move, OK?
Like mass transit, right? It's moving vehicles.
You have your Natal chart and the moon and everything else as
it's transiting activates different parts of your chart.
And while that moon is activating those parts of the
chart, you're seeing different parts of life, both interior
yourself and exterior happening. That's that's the premise and
observing, learning to observe the danger zone.
And I'm going to talk about this in the Patron only podcast and
the Part 2 on this. The danger zone is when you use
it predictively without an understanding of growth, when
you use it to be like up, that's those are the days I have to
stay in bed. A better plan for it.
You limit yourself. You're giving it a determinist
action, just like I talked about, Like when we give our
power away because we don't want to make decisions, because we're
tired and we fear failing. We fear making a mistake.
It could be costly. It might cost us more money.
Don't you know it's a bad economy?
Instead of saying, well, if I learn from that, I can avoid
other costly mistakes later down the line.
If you only do things right, you never learn.
If you only do things the right way, you never learn.
And you live in a very narrow lane.
Life is abundant. Life is abundant.
And you're like, Oh yeah, sure, Lori, we have a shitty economy.
Yeah. Not the first one, not the first
one, not the first shitty economy.
And it is still abundant because abundance isn't just money.
Abundance isn't just what you're exchanging goods and and
services. It's not just that abundance is
is is living, appreciating the moment, taking time to look at
the sky in the cloud formations, taking a chance to feel the air
against your skin. Life is a sensual experience,
but when we're up in our head all the time and we're trying to
play it safe because we're scared, we don't really live.
We live within limitation. And yes, we have limits because
we're physical. We're not going to be able to
flap our arms and fly. But there's good things we can
do. We can find our creativity and
and how we choose to use our perceptual lens, which includes
in the Natal chart, the Moon in our sensing, feeling capacity to
observe the information we're getting.
I feel sad, I feel angry, I feel blank.
This is how I feel today. I feel hopeless.
It's information. It's information.
It is not determining the outcome unless you choose to
make it so. And in Living by Luna, there's a
whole process that helps you not make those errors as far as like
damning yourself to these six days a month are going to be
shitty for me. And these the rest of them are
going to be great or at least neutral.
It doesn't have to be that way. And I know that's a different
way of thinking about life. I know we we over focus on the
negative and the older you are with the more habits you have in
your thinking, the the more challenging it can be to shift
the perspective. But not impossible.
Not impossible. I remember back in my 30s, a
long time ago, I remember having the awareness that I wasn't
stuck, that I had to make decisions.
And some of those were awkward. I made mistakes and I was
terrified of making mistakes. I have Pluto on my S node in
Virgo. Ask me how well I managed
mistakes. Now I do so much in public that
I make mistakes all the time. Roll with it, move on, move on.
Just because some people can't move on doesn't mean I can't
move on. Because unless it puts you in
the ground, it's not a fatal error, and it's only fatal to
the physical. Energy is energy.
Our souls are energy, Our spirit is energy.
It doesn't end. Energy can neither be created
nor destroyed. Physical body is another matter.
So we probably want to do a little something about those
physicals, right? Take care of them, which, by the
way, they don't hurt as much. Wiggling my thumbs to those of
you listening a little bit. And I got a phone number for a
massage therapist locally. Trust me, I couldn't find one
within 70 miles, but somebody had an in and they gave me the
the secret knock. Don't go get one.
The moon by transit represents our cyclical life.
Now. It is not the same cycle every
single 30 day period or 29 1/2 day period.
If you want to be more exact. It's not.
It's not because the it's making contact with other things.
So when the moon goes into Aries later this week, it's going to
connect with transiting Mars. Now, we don't cover that to
start with. That's a little more advanced,
but you'll notice the changes. You'll be able to have
observable record where you can review.
I was talking with somebody who studied with me for a long time
and they're like, my God, in the last five years, I was reviewing
my notes from five years ago to where I am today.
I am nowhere near the same person in so many good ways
because I've learned to see things differently, I've learned
to observe differently. I've learned to let go of
needing something to be determinate and gave myself more
agency. That's really exciting.
I love hearing that. That's why I love to teach,
right? So.
So the biggest problem most people have is they see
themselves as meeting and requiring to be consistent.
None of us is consistent all the time.
We ebb, we flow, we are energized, we are depleted.
There are days we are just tired.
Sometimes there's weeks where we're tired or under the weather
or experiencing what feels like unnecessary obstacles.
Sometimes those are always information.
It's not a declaration of this is how it will always be.
There are questions. In fact, learning to ask
yourself questions and powerful questions not why me?
Because the answer is why not you.
OK, but what can I do with this energy that feels so slow since
I'm under the weather or not feeling well or injured?
She says with a grin. What is maybe one of the
messages I need to receive? What am I not hearing from my
guidance? What can I listen for?
Maybe I need to shut up. Maybe I need to stop asking my
guidance questions and I need to be open and receive the
information because we can. Yes, I am an astrologer.
Yes, I was born psychic and I am a well trained meta physician
magic user. It's a gaming reference and yet
I never play a magic user. Not really.
When I play, D and DI usually play a barbarian because it's
fun. People think they're supposed to
be consistent like a machine, but we're not machines.
That's one of the problems with medical science, which is now
expanding from that understanding.
But when I was growing up, we were treated like machines.
Oh, this part broke. We've got to fix that part.
Not recognizing that my wrist is connected to my neck.
There's connective tissue, right?
That's why we're just now learning about connective tissue
disorders, right? Because we were only thinking
about the individual parts instead of the integrated
system, right? Right.
So when you think you're supposed to be Steady Eddie all
the time and that you're not going to have peaks and valleys
and I there's going to be times where you're go, go, go, go, go.
And then there's going to be times where you're rest, rest,
rest, rest, rest. And then everything in the
middle where it's just neutral, like it's just a, just a day.
Nothing stands out. And then we take, and I talked
about this earlier, we take the day-to-day for granted because
we only look for the big stuff. We look for the dramatic stuff.
We look for the explosions and the missiles and the conflict
and the drama. Look how many people are
invested in celebrity gossip. There's like an entire industry
around it that's not even your life that you're busy looking at
everybody else's life except your own.
Oh, this person shouldn't have done those bad things.
Agreed. Agreed, but maybe if I look at
my life I can go live it instead of passing my power over to
everything else. And part of passing my power is
passing my attention, right? When you learn how to observe
what's going on on your day-to-day, and you appreciate
those small, seemingly inconsequential things, life
gets a lot more interesting. I mean, hell, think about it.
If you bake bread and you bake bread every day for 30 days and
you pay attention to lunar transits, you could be like, Oh
my God, this time my bread turned out here, here and here.
And these are the days I did the same thing, but it didn't rise
or it was a little more dense or for some reason I had to bake it
longer. Or or or or or right thing could
go for crafting art, music, podcast recordings, coding,
computer stuff, taking the kids to school, observing traffic
patterns, you know, pardon me, This is my idea of a good time.
I I love just watching mundane life.
When I was in university, you know, a lot of my degree had a
lot of history to it. And so, you know, we're studying
the important dates in history, the treaties, the wars, the
disasters, the economic impacts, all of that.
And I'd be like, but but what happened on everyday?
What did they eat? So if the depletion of wheat
that year was bad, what what did they what else did they eat?
Sure, there was a problem, but but did they forage?
What did they forage? I mean, once you get into
history and you start looking at day-to-day life and cultural
life, you know, you Start learning things that more words
were fought over fabric. Then there were spices.
OK, we always get taught where the the words were fought over
spices, but linen was a deal. You look it up when you look at
the date day because that's where you're living.
Instead of chasing the peak experience, chasing the dopamine
head, chasing, chasing, chasing, always chasing, never there,
always chasing, never there. Life feels incomplete from that
space. But when you learn to live the
day-to-day, savor the moment, we only get so many breaths in this
life. What if we savored as many as we
could? We're not going to savor all of
them, and we're not going to be 100% conscious of everything
every day. But the more aware we can be,
and the more we learn how to tune our awareness, the more
gratifying life can be. Regardless of economy,
regardless of our economic status, regardless of our social
status, all of that is construct but the day-to-day breathing in
and out, that's the reality of being human.
The moon shows us our humanity. The moon shows us our humanity.
We live with cycles and we don't want them to be deterministic.
We just don't sometimes and you can leverage the times where
you're more decisive, you're more emotional, maybe a little
more sensitive. I wouldn't say an emotional, I'd
say sensitive. Like there's going to be days
from more sensitive. You'll find if you are still
menstruating that very much the lunar cycle and your menstrual
cycle sync up. There were studies done in the
late 70s and early 80s and I cannot remember them.
I will have to Google it. That showed about 70% of healthy
fertile uterus owners menstruated with the full moon
and ovulated with the new moon. It doesn't mean you don't have a
healthy uterus and ovulation cycle if it's switched.
It just it showed about 70 to 80% of people had their their
periods linked to the full moon. That used to be common
knowledge. People used to call it moon time
like that. That's we heard that when I was
growing up. So we have so sanitized our
society that people don't talk about these things anymore, even
in gendered quarters, right. So there might be times we want
to isolate and we avoid people in the mind.
Even an extrovert might have a quiet downtime, and there might
be times we feel more boisterous, creative, ready to
play, ready to have fun. And there's times where we're,
you know, head down these two days, my head is down, you know,
and we might see a pattern with that.
And it doesn't have to be the only way that expresses, but it
will express within a theme. All right, so I've written down
some examples in my notes, so bear with me.
So let's talk about some of the the ways this energy can express
itself. So let's say you're in a
business and you sit down to work and everything feels heavy.
Everything feels heavy. You're like slogging through and
you assume you're procrastinating.
You're beating yourself up. I'm lazy, I'm procrastinating.
It's this, it's that. But in reality, your system is
in intake mode, not output mode. Like this would be the better
time to do your research. This would be a better time to
do some organizational things. This could be more of a time to
listen, get feedback, do a survey, that kind of thing.
Versus trying to create in that energy, emotional.
You suddenly feel sensitive or reactive, like you're really,
really sensitive. Like somebody looks at you and
they say, oh, nice hair, and you think they're being sarcastic or
you say something and you state an opinion and somebody else
says, yeah, and I see it this way.
And you're like, yeah, but that's my opinion.
Well, great, that's your opinion.
The other person has an opinion too, right?
You think something is wrong with you.
Like, why am I so emotional today?
I can't stop crying. Or why am I feeling like
everybody's out to get mean today?
And. And maybe they are, but maybe
they're not. It just happens that there's
nothing wrong with you. It's maybe things are up to be
examined. It's just that part of the
cycle. And it's time to be a little
more aware of the trigger points and it's maybe a little and how
to disarm your triggers, OK, or disfuse them.
Because that's actually in our power.
It really is. I promise you, I've done it.
And then maybe on decision makings, because we talked a lot
about decision making today. Some days decisions are obvious
and you can be really decisive. Everything is clear, it's clear
cut. And then other days you might as
well be walking in a fog. You might as well be walking in
a fog. That's not inconsistency, it's
timing. Maybe it's not the day to make
decisions. Maybe you need to defer decision
making. Maybe you need more information.
I might set an arbitrary deadline, not even looking at my
astrology because I like to live dangerously and maybe there's a
slowdown like healing the money when my buck.
I thought I'd have it done by now, which it was written, but
we just finished second round of revisions.
OK, that's OK. I mean, the only person who's in
charge of putting it out in the world is me.
It was an arbitrary decision on the dates I wanted to have it
out and I didn't make them public because I, I had a
feeling, because I when I did look at my astrology, I was
like, it's probably going to happen more out here.
I can be frustrated with that and beat myself up with that and
that's fine. It gives me more time to get
websites finished and emails finished and all the other
things that go on with putting out information into the world.
I knew I should have living by Luna done and complete first.
Guess what's done and complete first Living by Luna.
It happened. It rolled out naturally.
Instead of beating myself up of I only have a few pages left,
why haven't I finished it? I didn't.
I just gave myself an arbitrary looking at the astrology and
arbitrary time in April to have it done.
And it's great book slash journal process with journal
pages that help walk you through.
It's a little more prescriptive than my original version, giving
you a more of a place to start instead of saying, well, just
observe. That doesn't help.
So giving you a place to start seed.
So it's important to understand you're not here to push through
your system. You know, you're not scared to
run in OverDrive. You're not here to just rot in
bed, you're here to understand your system and to work with it.
And I know, I know. It's work.
That's a reward. It's the one kind of work you
want to do. It's not a dirty 4 letter word.
It's the type of work that makes life more fulfilling.
It's why Alexa said it wasn't just her business growing 3 * 1
month and three times that the next.
That was the most rewarding part is that everything changed.
Her sense of self changed and Living by Luna has the
foundational concepts that I teach and everything else that I
do. Once you can recognize patterns,
you can do something with them, right?
Once you recognize the pattern, you can change it.
You can, you can adapt in a different way.
You adapted. Once you're not broken, you
adapted and you can adapt again, and it takes time.
In practice, you're not going to get it right the first time.
There's nothing wrong with you. I swear people are addicted to
abusing themselves. That's a strong statement, but
it's true because you may have left the origin of of oppression
long ago and then you do it to you.
Well, I should have done that better.
I was really hard on myself. I can't do this by myself.
I don't know. I you can be OK with not knowing
and not beat yourself up. I'm not making fun of you.
I'm concerned because the reason why despots and authoritarians
get away with stuff is we do half of their job for them by
thinking we're incapable, by thinking we have no power, by
assuming we're not good enough that will never make the grade
or we're we can only get just so far.
And everybody's going to have different roles to play in life.
But if you see your role as less valuable than someone else's, if
you do not see your inherent value, the fact you had a one
one in 400 trillion chance of being human, you have better
odds of winning the lottery. And actually I am.
I don't know what the exact number is, but recently I saw
that the number is actually greater than 400 trillion.
That makes you special in a vast universe.
So I'm going to just give you a little exercise to play with,
even if you're not in the Patreon.
OK, so here's what I want you to do until next week, and we'll
reconvene next week. If you're in the Patreon, your
Patreon only episode is going to go a little deeper into all of
us. But what I want you to do is I
want you to pay attention this week to when you have the most
clarity. OK?
When do you have the most clarity?
You don't even have to know where the moon's at, but just
pay attention to the days you have the most clarity.
What does it feel like? What is it?
What does your energy feel like in your body?
You know, things like that. When do you feel resistant?
Like no, I can't, I don't want to.
Screw that. Fuck that.
I don't want to. Everything sucks.
The world sucks, people suck. I don't want to get out of bed.
Don't make me. And then what?
Do you start you a little more sensitive?
Pay attention to that. Like maybe you feel a little
more emotional. Maybe you're teary.
We had a lot of tears over Artemis, but they were joyful,
they were hopeful. And I think we all had a little
bit of grief, not because they went and they came back safely,
but because it seems like it's been so long since we had such
good news collectively. By the way, there's a lot of
good things that happen every single day.
Now, here's what I want you to understand.
Do those exercises. And we reconvene next Monday.
I'm going to set some expectations.
Here's the problem. You're going to notice some of
the stuff. You're going to notice a few
things. But most times, most people only
notice a scant little bit and then they don't know what to do
with the information, right? So a lot of times people in an
observation, and trust me, I teach this all the time, people
will make an observation and consider it gospel.
They will notice a pattern and think, well, that's just how it
is. And it's not Patterns can be
disrupted, patterns can be interrupted, patterns can be
repatterned. OK, and that's the methodologies
I've created. Help disrupt a pattern and build
a new pathway around it. OK, so in the Patron only
podcast, I'm going to show you a little bit about tracking and
what it means to observe. And
so in Part 2 or the patron only episode in the awake space,
right? Or member only episode that goes
out to all supporting members $5 level and up.
We learn how to track your cycle.
OK, so really paying attention, and I'll give you some app
suggestions of how to notice where the moon's at, what the
patterns actually mean, OK, Instead of making them gospel.
And then how to start using the timing to make decisions and how
to use the energy to your advantage.
There's going to be days that are better for taking action
than others. OK, so that's up in Part 2 for
the Awake Space community, which is exciting.
I think I'm going to wrap it up because got to get this out to
everybody. The what's in the headlines will
be up tonight or Sunday night for and all through Monday for
magazine subscribers. They come out Tuesday for the
Stargazer tier, which is our $5 tier.
And I hope you have a beautiful week and that you find some
fulfillment and some awareness. And I'll talk to you next week.