In yesterday's episode, we explored what it meant to be a
conscious creator and how you can use astrology to live your
life on purpose. Today we're going to explore the
inner planets and how they play a role in you understanding how
you're expressing your consciousness.
It's a little bit of the chicken and the egg.
You have to know a little bit about astrology for this to make
sense. And at the same time, the
astrology doesn't make sense unless you understand a little
bit of yourself. So you get to learn about you
and astrology all at the same time here at the Awake Space
Astrology Podcast. Is C 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. Now here's the deal.
I am super excited about these daily doses of useful
information. My Capricorn 3rd house is very,
very pleased because knowledge isn't power unless you know how
to use it. And I think using astrology to
put a label on yourself and stick you into fate determinism
is one of the biggest wastes of one of the most amazing tools we
human beings have developed for ourselves.
The planets don't do anything to or for you, and to work with
them means you're really working with yourself.
We're going to explore the planets and how we describe them
in progressive evolutionary astrology.
Then part of progressive evolutionary astrology is
understanding how to use what you've got, play to your
strengths and understand that the power is in the noticing and
the perfection is the correction.
So that's what we're talking about today.
We're going to go through the planets and what they mean, and
then each episode for the rest of the week we're going to go a
little more in depth on those planets.
These are things I've covered in the Planet of the Month Club in
the past, in the awake space, and you can find those in the
Planet of the Month Club library.
I think they're available for individual purpose.
Sometimes I'm really bad about putting price tags on things,
but if you're in the astrology crew and you're listening to
this, make sure you go and check out the library because there's
a wealth of information. I talk about how to use that
energy there and explore the different layers of
consciousness with the planets, the science, and understanding
the houses already. Let's get moving.
Get your tea, get your coffee, get your matcha, get your H2O,
get your Red Bull. Because whether we're walking
the dog or cuddling the kitten, taking the kids to school, doing
paperwork, whatever we're doing driving to work, we're going to
do it together and get perfect parking.
All right, just to do a refresh and you can go back and listen
to yesterday's episode if you missed it.
We talked about the different layers of consciousness.
So we had an instinctive layer, the instinctual layer where
we're in fight or flight or freeze or fine.
It's, it's really making sure that we're protecting all
vulnerability. The the old way of describing
this consciousness when we were developing it back in the mid
2000s was the self protective when we're, you know, afraid or
angry or feel the need to self defend our relational or our
social cultural programming, consciousness is our default
program. That's we've all been
indoctrinated by society. You know, we, we were trained
through our families, school media, social TV, songs, our
culture, and that's our default programming.
And there's nothing wrong in operating in any of these when
it benefits us. But when we do it without
thinking, we just kind of stay in a rut.
We just stay in a pattern. So that's why we want to learn
how to be more deliberate. I used to call deliberate
consciousness transcendent because we were transcending
social, cultural programming. But people took that to mean
enlightenment, like, better than somebody else.
And that's not the point of this.
Being deliberate means aligning with your purpose, aligning your
mind, your heart, your body into a direction that serves your
purposes better. It isn't necessarily about being
more moral, OK? There are people who can align
in to their purpose or their aim or their will, who do things
maybe listeners of this podcast wouldn't approve of.
So it's more about being an on purpose person and you can
choose which morality you want to tune into.
So I want to talk to you about how the inner planets work with
you and how they express and how you can notice what's happening
by paying attention to your body, your reactions, your
responses. So we're just going to run
through this. Get your notebook.
You're driving. Don't get your notebook while
you're driving. You can pause.
OK, You can look at the time stamps.
All right, you can come back to this.
So first of all, we want to look at this, the inner planets as a
team. A lot of times when astrology is
being taught, like we're parts of a machine, like they're
independent parts instead of a very fluid communication
structure. So the sun is our spark of life,
it's our energy levels, our physical energy levels, you
know, whether you're energized or you're depleted.
And then also our personal will. You can think of it as
willpower, but it's our personal will, our will to live.
And sometimes that is strong and sometimes not as much in every
single person's life because we have peaks and troughs of
experiences, right? Our moon is our lens of the
day-to-day experience. It's our feeling, sensing
nature. OK, just like a baby learns
about the world by putting everything in its mouth or
feeling things with its fingers. We never lose that aspect of
ourselves. It's just we refine it, we
mature it, we maybe get a little more sophisticated with it.
It is our feeling, sensing nature.
It works in tandem with Mercury and the Sun.
So the Sun is the center of our solar system.
Mercury comes up next because Mercury is the closest.
And again, I wrote about how I came to these conclusions as a
young astrologer arguing the astronomy side of astrology
because they're not divorced as subjects.
They just don't always live together.
Sometimes they go on separate vacations.
So the sun is the center. It's our sparkle life.
Without our sun, we are extinguished, right?
Then we have Mercury. Mercury is.
It's really fascinating because my theory, I believe, got proved
last year when astrophysicists talked about Mercury not having
a stationary orbit, meaning it spins, it rotates on its axis,
and it does it because it borrows energy from Venus.
And I have said for 30 years, the Sun, Mercury and Venus work
together. They still have separate
expressions. The Sun is our energy levels.
Mercury is how we perceive and transmit information.
We could do that visually through sound, speech, movement
like interpretive dance, photography, putting our hand in
mud and putting it on a wall. All of that is both perceived
and expressed. OK, Mercury is how we signal to
the sun. Maybe we're over stimulated and
the sun is like, oh, I'm a little depleted.
The Mercury tells Venus, hey, we need to rest and Venus then
talks to the moon. We'll get to that in a minute.
Venus is our magnetic energy that helps us attract what we
need to fuel our Sun, right? But through social cultural
programming, that magnetic force could be repelling versus
attracting. So think of all the people
who've been taught that his virtuous to be poor because if
you don't have enough resources, you get to heaven in the
afterlife a lot faster than a rich person.
Now, I'm not making excuses for billionaires.
I don't think we need to have billionaires.
That's a whole nother thing. That's another show.
However, the thought process of it's better morally and better
for our afterlife to not have resources is a cultural program
that teaches our Venus to say no, no, I wouldn't want to be
comfortable in this lifetime. OK, so she signals also to
Mercury and the Sun. Our Venus has preferences,
right, that help fuel our Sun. One of the ways we notice those
preferences is yes, with our Mercury in observation, with our
seeing and our hearing and, and looking for that information.
But our moon, as I mentioned, the moon is our lens of
experience. You know, maybe you get hangry
when you're hungry. It's not just, oh, I realize I
have a hunger signal in my brain.
It could be like, I'm really cranky and crabby and I'm going
to bite somebody's head off. Oh, wait, I'm hungry.
Right, That might be the signal. And then Venus is like, well, I
prefer the roast beef. So these guys work all together.
We teach it separately because it's hard to teach it as a
moving system, but I've decided to try.
We're going to do it here on the podcast deeper rooted level in
in the Patreon. And again, if you are in the
astrology crew, you could check out the Planet of the Month club
library because they do break down the separate pieces but
show how they work together there.
So any planet can express through any layer of
consciousness and human beings are experiencing a range of
expression every single day. Nobody is consistent, OK?
Unless you totally live by yourself and have 0 irritations,
right? And then you're cheating.
We can have an instinctual reaction.
Maybe you overhear somebody saying something, it reminds you
of the past. You've held on to a resentment
or a wound. And then all of a sudden you're
feeling vulnerable. The moon is going to be like,
I'm vulnerable. I'm vulnerable and you're going
to like maybe lean into your Venus a little bit.
I feel depleted. I'm not getting what I need.
I'm not getting what I want. Your Mercury goes danger.
Danger Will Robinson and then Mars says fuck that shit.
We're out. I'm we're either escaping,
running away, freezing or fighting.
Maybe like did you just say that?
Did you just say that because somebody told me that one time
and now I have to fight with you when you're triggered.
So Mars does the action that the Sun, Mercury and Venus need to
help that moon not be off kilter.
I told you, it all works together.
Is it making sense? Let me know in the comments.
And again, if you wanna watch this video with the subtitles,
just go to patreon.com/the Awake Space.
It's a public post. You can comment there.
So there's a flow of energy and the planets are symbolic of how
the mechanics of that flow works.
This sounds really abstract right now, but this is exactly
the understanding you need to make the most out of.
Like my healing the money wound class using astrology, or my
Living by Luna process where you learn your own rhythms for life.
Or my finding your psychic using astrology, or creating
businesses using astrology, marketing using astrology.
You can do anything using astrology, but you got to know
how your own internal system works.
So I'm going to simplify this. So we've got sensing, action,
evaluation, interpretation, experience of energy, and then
the next move comes up. All right.
So it's continuous and fluid. It isn't just one thing
happening in a chain reaction. It's kind of like everything all
at once, all of the time. We are multi dimensional beings.
It's a lot easier to digest life when we look at it.
As you know, time is A1 dimensional vector and we only
have the present moment. We're moving towards the future
of the past is done, but we know that time is kind of
simultaneous, and so are we. So when we learn how to work
with the subtlety of our nature, and you don't have to be a
genius to do it, I promise I'm going to teach you some physical
tricks to tune into your body, especially in this week's Patron
Only episode on recognizing where you're at and maybe how to
do a little shift. If you're in the mystery school,
you're already gaining these tools through the curriculum and
exercises in the Discord. All right, so let's find out why
it matters to look at the planets in this way and
understand it more. Like at the quantum level where
everything is moving in frequencies and alignment,
traditional interpretation in astrology kind of puts you in a
box, and if you deviate from the box, there's something wrong
with you, right? I know I had that experience
when I was reading interpretations by kind of
famous astrologers. I'd be like, but I don't operate
that way. What's wrong with me?
I don't do that well. I do think differently than a
lot of people in my society, right?
I never behaved in the same way. I wasn't into the same pop
culture things, I wasn't into sports, I wasn't into most
popular music. There was a period, of course,
as a teenager, I never felt like I belonged or fit in.
I knew I was different. I fit into a small niche of
academic, nerdy people, and I was OK with that.
So the generalized interpretations didn't really
fit. There was nothing wrong, but
also this idea that you were a really lucky person or an
unlucky person. I never bought that because
people would tell me how lucky I was and I knew what was going on
behind the scenes in my life. And I'd be like, if you only
knew. What I knew is I made things
happen for myself because that was my way out.
I created opportunity. I was good at seeing it and
taking advantage of it. Yes, sometimes a little luck was
involved. Most times it was always being
on the lookout for something that would help me get to the
next space. So I understood really, really
young that this destined thing, this chosen one, this idea of to
be either doomed to be the failure or the success or any of
that was kind of crap. That's why I studied all the
things I studied moving forward. So when we're looking at you
using this approach, then you've got astrology as a practical
tool for helping you become a more deliberate person where
you're living life and life isn't just happening to you.
It doesn't mean the nasty politicians won't exist.
It doesn't mean there won't be bad things that happened.
It doesn't mean there won't be bad rainstorms or, or, or, or.
But what it will do is it will give you the ability to navigate
these very changing times. It doesn't mean you won't be
stressed out, but you'll be stressed out for shorter amounts
of time. You'll be able to course correct
to put yourself in the best possible position.
One of the things you're going to learn as we go along with
this series is we're going to learn how to observe our sun,
our energy levels. A lot of times when I teach
this, people get confused, like what do you mean my energy
levels? And I'm like, have you ever
woken up tired? Have you ever been up 24 hours
and you didn't do any drugs but you're still wired and you don't
know why? That's what I'm talking about.
Learning how to observe your day-to-day, what your baseline
is to understand when you're fatigued, when your energy is
depleted. And you'll be amazed at what
does it and what energizes it and how you can actually treat
it like a Dynamo and build some energy up when you need to do
it. You want to notice your impulses
and your reactivity. You can actually move off the
default setting. People say, well, I can't help
it. I always get mad when that
happens. Well, you can't help it.
You have to choose to help it and you have to know what to do
to help it. But you're never stuck with a
certain reaction unless you have a very unique mental makeup.
And then we want to be able to look at what's happening, like
with our Venus. So are we pushing things away?
Are we missing opportunities or are we really in alignment with
our desire nature? And by desire nature, I'm not
talking about being attached to stuff.
I'm not saying, oh, you get every Louis Vuitton you want.
We kind of use consumerism as a way to replace what we actually
need, which is our feeling of connection, the feeling of being
held, being in relationship with other people in healthy and
meaningful ways. So being able to check in with
what we're magnetizing to us and, and is that really what we
want? That's important in in being
deliberate in creating our lives and then be using Mercury to
quickly reframe. So if you have negative self
talk and you call yourself dummy, dummy, dummy, or you
think, oh man, that was rude. Why did I say that?
You'd be like, well, I can't think of everything right away.
Or I didn't mean to misspeak. I didn't mean to use that word
or that language. I will make note and and maybe I
can ask that person if there's a better way to say what I wanted
to say again, instead of being mean to yourself, being like,
Oh, I know how to learn and I know how to change and I can do
that. You want to keep things more
productive. Notice I'm not saying being
overly positive, but if you're your worst critic, right when
you speak to yourself that way, you're doing yourself intrinsic
damage. Good news is you can heal that
OK using those same noticings and practices.
And again, we're going to talk about this in a lot more depth
in the Patreon, but I wanted to introduce the concept and we're
going to be going through the planets here on the Awake Space
Astrology podcast using astrology.
When you use this methodology and these understandings, it
allows you to move from reaction to deliberate choices.
You're living life as on purpose as you possibly can in any given
moment. Again, that doesn't mean you
won't react. I still do reactions.
I developed this. I still have moments where I'm
cranky and I'm angry and I'm angry and I didn't get enough
sleep. Probably not going to be as
deliberate as the days I get adequate rest and my tummy is
full and maybe haven't drunk too much coffee.
Those probably days are going to go a little better.
But I can still notice when my energy is low and go, I need a
little more energy. What can I do to energize myself
a little bit more? Not too much, but just enough to
achieve what I need to achieve today.
And when you light it up? And you're operating with your
Mars in alignment that you're not having to push and struggle
and you can just move on about your day.
So being able to make deliberate choices, creating aligned action
and abundant attraction, and to utilize your energy in ways that
makes life a lot more fun, a lot more enjoyable, a lot more
comfortable and a lot more meaningful.
All right, we're going to do a practical exercise in the next
segment. I think I need to have a little
break and maybe refill my own cup like this time with tea.
All right to we're just going to pay attention to our sun.
We'll talk a little bit more about this tomorrow when we
start diving into the inner planets themselves.
Of course, starting with the sun or personal Dynamo.
If you're driving, you might want to wait till you're parked,
OK, and you will get perfect parking.
So first of all, pause and scan your current energy levels.
How do you feel? Are you, you know, like, and I
don't just mean like mentally or the reflexive, Oh, I'm tired,
everything's happening. No, no, actually how how does
energy in your body feel? If you take a breath and you're
like, well, I'm kind of awake. I'm I'm reasonably I'm like, I'm
not at my most energized, but I don't feel that depleted.
Now, on the other hand, you may be like every, every cell in my
body is tired. Every cell.
OK, fair enough. It's vitality or depletion
energy. Do you have the energy to do
something? It's not just about having an
awake mind, but like in your body, there's times your mind
can be really awake, but your body is really tired.
I don't know. My mind is going.
It doesn't mean like anxious thoughts, but just, you know,
maybe you could sit and write, but you couldn't take a mile
walk or something like that. So you want to observe and scan
your personal energy and notice are you energized or are you
depleted? If you're in the mystery school,
you might recognize this because we, we do an exercise like this.
So then when you think about doing a task, something you
really want to do, like maybe you really want to bake cookies,
think about it. Does it energize you or deplete
you? Are you doing it out of
obligation? Are you doing it because you
really want to make the freaking cookies feel that energy?
Don't operate for things like in your work.
You kind of have to. They pay your salary.
And if you haven't learned how to align yourself, it's probably
not a good place to practice it. OK, but think about it at home.
Maybe it's your day off and are you making cookies because you
want to make cookies or because people are bugging you to make
cookies and it's just easier to get them off your back and you
make the cookies? Which one feels which way?
Is there a tension pattern going on?
Not, not the talk going on in your head.
Just feel your body. Does your body feel like, fine,
I'll do it? Or do you feel like, Oh, yeah,
OK, I like cookies, right? How do you feel about it?
All right, once you understand how you're sensing in the body
your son, OK, Then you ask the question, well, what do I want
to do with this? Where to next?
What do I do with it? All right, now, every single sun
is going to express a little differently depending on the
sign and the house placement. And again, that is in the Planet
of the Month Club library. If you are in the astrology
crew, you get automatic access to that.
I do believe the sun video is available for purchase as well.
These are long lectures. They're very visual.
I break it down, explain the history of the astrology there,
as well as give progressive evolutionary astrological
interpretations as well, so you get a full education on it.
What's one small, deliberate thing you can do with this
understanding? Like if you notice that
something energizes you and let's say it's your day off or
you have time after work, sometimes we think and we know
the thing's going to energize. Like I don't want to go to the
gym. We have a little resistance
pattern, but if you feel into it, you're like, no, I'm only
really resistant to having to go into the locker room.
Once I get out of the locker room and I get on the machines,
I'm OK. Feel into the okayness feeling
to bolster the energy. Does that make sense?
I hope so. Let me know in the comments
because again, this is going to be daily.
I'm super excited. All right, so our next episode
we're going to be diving into the sun and talking about your
energy with the sun and understanding a little bit
deeper with that and how it works with Mercury.
OK, that's super fine. And then patrons, don't forget
your one hour companion is going to dive into mapping your
interplanetary system and practicing how to kind of like
be in charge of your own energy so that you can, you know, have
more rewarding relationships, have better communications, be
it in better employment or do better as an entrepreneur or a
creative out in the world so that you can do life on purpose.
Whether it's having better family relationships or having a
better relationship with money or whatever it is, whatever your
goals are, this framework will help you achieve the things that
matter most to you. I'm your cosmic coach, Lori
Rivers, and I want to thank you for joining me here at the Week
Space Astrology Podcast for your daily dose of how to use your
astrology. If you're not sure about how to
understand your astrology chart, check out the show notes so that
you can take advantage of my free YouTube playlist called
Beginning Astrology Tutorials. I walk you through everything
from understanding the symbols in very visual, very short, very
digestible videos, to your introduction to Natal chart,
understanding a future Saturn return, introduction to
interceptions, why they're not bad, and a couple of other
videos I think on elements, etcetera.
But anyway, these are things that can get you started.
Being a progressive evolutionary astrologer doesn't mean we don't
use proper astrological technique.
There's a difference to refreshing interpretations and
seeing the system as a framework and a tool for self development
and self actualization. But we didn't throw the baby out
with the bathwater. It's still astrology.
All right. I'm Lori Rivers.
Thank you so much for listening. If you want to watch this video,
head over to the Patreon.