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In yesterday's episode, we 
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conscious creator and how you 
can use astrology to live your 

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life on purpose. 
Today we're going to explore the

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inner planets and how they play 
a role in you understanding how 

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you're expressing your 
consciousness. 

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It's a little bit of the chicken
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You have to know a little bit 
about astrology for this to make

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sense. 
And at the same time, the 

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astrology doesn't make sense 
unless you understand a little 

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bit of yourself. 
So you get to learn about you 

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and astrology all at the same 
time here at the Awake Space 

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Astrology Podcast. 
Is C Awake Space Astrology 

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podcast. 
I'm Lori Rivers, your host here 

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to help you with some 
inspiration to get those 

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aspirations out into the world. 
Now here's the deal. 

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I am super excited about these 
daily doses of useful 

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information. 
My Capricorn 3rd house is very, 

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very pleased because knowledge 
isn't power unless you know how 

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to use it. 
And I think using astrology to 

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put a label on yourself and 
stick you into fate determinism 

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is one of the biggest wastes of 
one of the most amazing tools we

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human beings have developed for 
ourselves. 

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The planets don't do anything to
or for you, and to work with 

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them means you're really working
with yourself. 

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We're going to explore the 
planets and how we describe them

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in progressive evolutionary 
astrology. 

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Then part of progressive 
evolutionary astrology is 

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understanding how to use what 
you've got, play to your 

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strengths and understand that 
the power is in the noticing and

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the perfection is the 
correction. 

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So that's what we're talking 
about today. 

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We're going to go through the 
planets and what they mean, and 

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then each episode for the rest 
of the week we're going to go a 

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little more in depth on those 
planets. 

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These are things I've covered in
the Planet of the Month Club in 

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the past, in the awake space, 
and you can find those in the 

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Planet of the Month Club 
library. 

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I think they're available for 
individual purpose. 

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Sometimes I'm really bad about 
putting price tags on things, 

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but if you're in the astrology 
crew and you're listening to 

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this, make sure you go and check
out the library because there's 

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a wealth of information. 
I talk about how to use that 

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energy there and explore the 
different layers of 

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consciousness with the planets, 
the science, and understanding 

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the houses already. 
Let's get moving. 

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Get your tea, get your coffee, 
get your matcha, get your H2O, 

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get your Red Bull. 
Because whether we're walking 

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the dog or cuddling the kitten, 
taking the kids to school, doing

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paperwork, whatever we're doing 
driving to work, we're going to 

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do it together and get perfect 
parking. 

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All right, just to do a refresh 
and you can go back and listen 

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to yesterday's episode if you 
missed it. 

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We talked about the different 
layers of consciousness. 

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So we had an instinctive layer, 
the instinctual layer where 

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we're in fight or flight or 
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It's, it's really making sure 
that we're protecting all 

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vulnerability. 
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this consciousness when we were 
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2000s was the self protective 
when we're, you know, afraid or 

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angry or feel the need to self 
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social cultural programming, 
consciousness is our default 

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program. 
That's we've all been 

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indoctrinated by society. 
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through our families, school 
media, social TV, songs, our 

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culture, and that's our default 
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And there's nothing wrong in 
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it benefits us. 
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thinking, we just kind of stay 
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We just stay in a pattern. 
So that's why we want to learn 

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how to be more deliberate. 
I used to call deliberate 

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consciousness transcendent 
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social, cultural programming. 
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enlightenment, like, better than
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Being deliberate means aligning 
with your purpose, aligning your

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mind, your heart, your body into
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purposes better. 
It isn't necessarily about being

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more moral, OK? 
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in to their purpose or their aim
or their will, who do things 

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maybe listeners of this podcast 
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So it's more about being an on 
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choose which morality you want 
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So I want to talk to you about 
how the inner planets work with 

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you and how they express and how
you can notice what's happening 

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by paying attention to your 
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responses. 
So we're just going to run 

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through this. 
Get your notebook. 

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You're driving. 
Don't get your notebook while 

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you're driving. 
You can pause. 

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OK, You can look at the time 
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All right, you can come back to 
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So first of all, we want to look
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team. 
A lot of times when astrology is

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being taught, like we're parts 
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independent parts instead of a 
very fluid communication 

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structure. 
So the sun is our spark of life,

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it's our energy levels, our 
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know, whether you're energized 
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And then also our personal will.
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willpower, but it's our personal
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And sometimes that is strong and
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single person's life because we 
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experiences, right? 
Our moon is our lens of the 

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day-to-day experience. 
It's our feeling, sensing 

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nature. 
OK, just like a baby learns 

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about the world by putting 
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feeling things with its fingers.
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ourselves. 
It's just we refine it, we 

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mature it, we maybe get a little
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It is our feeling, sensing 
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It works in tandem with Mercury 
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So the Sun is the center of our 
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Mercury comes up next because 
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And again, I wrote about how I 
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young astrologer arguing the 
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because they're not divorced as 
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They just don't always live 
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Sometimes they go on separate 
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So the sun is the center. 
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Without our sun, we are 
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Then we have Mercury. 
Mercury is. 

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It's really fascinating because 
my theory, I believe, got proved

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last year when astrophysicists 
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a stationary orbit, meaning it 
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and it does it because it 
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And I have said for 30 years, 
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together. 
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expressions. 
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Mercury is how we perceive and 
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We could do that visually 
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like interpretive dance, 
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mud and putting it on a wall. 
All of that is both perceived 

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and expressed. 
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the sun. 
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the sun is like, oh, I'm a 
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The Mercury tells Venus, hey, we
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talks to the moon. 
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Venus is our magnetic energy 
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need to fuel our Sun, right? 
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programming, that magnetic force
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attracting. 
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who've been taught that his 
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you don't have enough resources,
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afterlife a lot faster than a 
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Now, I'm not making excuses for 
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I don't think we need to have 
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That's a whole nother thing. 
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However, the thought process of 
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for our afterlife to not have 
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that teaches our Venus to say 
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comfortable in this lifetime. 
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Mercury and the Sun. 
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right, that help fuel our Sun. 
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preferences is yes, with our 
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seeing and our hearing and, and 
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But our moon, as I mentioned, 
the moon is our lens of 

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experience. 
You know, maybe you get hangry 

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when you're hungry. 
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have a hunger signal in my 
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It could be like, I'm really 
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to bite somebody's head off. 
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Right, That might be the signal.
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prefer the roast beef. 
So these guys work all together.

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We teach it separately because 
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moving system, but I've decided 
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We're going to do it here on the
podcast deeper rooted level in 

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in the Patreon. 
And again, if you are in the 

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astrology crew, you could check 
out the Planet of the Month club

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library because they do break 
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show how they work together 
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So any planet can express 
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consciousness and human beings 
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expression every single day. 
Nobody is consistent, OK? 

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Unless you totally live by 
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right? 
And then you're cheating. 

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We can have an instinctual 
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Maybe you overhear somebody 
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of the past. 
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or a wound. 
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feeling vulnerable. 
The moon is going to be like, 

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I'm vulnerable. 
I'm vulnerable and you're going 

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to like maybe lean into your 
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I feel depleted. 
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I'm not getting what I want. 
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Danger Will Robinson and then 
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We're out. 
I'm we're either escaping, 

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running away, freezing or 
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Maybe like did you just say 
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Did you just say that because 
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and now I have to fight with you
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So Mars does the action that the
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help that moon not be off 
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I told you, it all works 
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Is it making sense? 
Let me know in the comments. 

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And again, if you wanna watch 
this video with the subtitles, 

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just go to patreon.com/the Awake
Space. 

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It's a public post. 
You can comment there. 

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So there's a flow of energy and 
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the mechanics of that flow 
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This sounds really abstract 
right now, but this is exactly 

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the understanding you need to 
make the most out of. 

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Like my healing the money wound 
class using astrology, or my 

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Living by Luna process where you
learn your own rhythms for life.

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Or my finding your psychic using
astrology, or creating 

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businesses using astrology, 
marketing using astrology. 

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You can do anything using 
astrology, but you got to know 

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how your own internal system 
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So I'm going to simplify this. 
So we've got sensing, action, 

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evaluation, interpretation, 
experience of energy, and then 

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the next move comes up. 
All right. 

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So it's continuous and fluid. 
It isn't just one thing 

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happening in a chain reaction. 
It's kind of like everything all

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at once, all of the time. 
We are multi dimensional beings.

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It's a lot easier to digest life
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As you know, time is A1 
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have the present moment. 
We're moving towards the future 

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of the past is done, but we know
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simultaneous, and so are we. 
So when we learn how to work 

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with the subtlety of our nature,
and you don't have to be a 

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genius to do it, I promise I'm 
going to teach you some physical

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tricks to tune into your body, 
especially in this week's Patron

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Only episode on recognizing 
where you're at and maybe how to

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do a little shift. 
If you're in the mystery school,

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you're already gaining these 
tools through the curriculum and

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exercises in the Discord. 
All right, so let's find out why

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it matters to look at the 
planets in this way and 

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understand it more. 
Like at the quantum level where 

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everything is moving in 
frequencies and alignment, 

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traditional interpretation in 
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box, and if you deviate from the
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with you, right? 
I know I had that experience 

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when I was reading 
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famous astrologers. 
I'd be like, but I don't operate

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that way. 
What's wrong with me? 

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I don't do that well. 
I do think differently than a 

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lot of people in my society, 
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I never behaved in the same way.
I wasn't into the same pop 

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culture things, I wasn't into 
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popular music. 
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as a teenager, I never felt like
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I knew I was different. 
I fit into a small niche of 

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academic, nerdy people, and I 
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So the generalized 
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fit. 
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also this idea that you were a 
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unlucky person. 
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people would tell me how lucky I
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behind the scenes in my life. 
And I'd be like, if you only 

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knew. 
What I knew is I made things 

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happen for myself because that 
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I created opportunity. 
I was good at seeing it and 

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taking advantage of it. 
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involved. 
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on the lookout for something 
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next space. 
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young that this destined thing, 
this chosen one, this idea of to

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be either doomed to be the 
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that was kind of crap. 
That's why I studied all the 

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things I studied moving forward.
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using this approach, then you've
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tool for helping you become a 
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you're living life and life 
isn't just happening to you. 

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It doesn't mean the nasty 
politicians won't exist. 

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It doesn't mean there won't be 
bad things that happened. 

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It doesn't mean there won't be 
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But what it will do is it will 
give you the ability to navigate

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these very changing times. 
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stressed out, but you'll be 
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of time. 
You'll be able to course correct

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to put yourself in the best 
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One of the things you're going 
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this series is we're going to 
learn how to observe our sun, 

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our energy levels. 
A lot of times when I teach 

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this, people get confused, like 
what do you mean my energy 

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levels? 
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woken up tired? 
Have you ever been up 24 hours 

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and you didn't do any drugs but 
you're still wired and you don't

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That's what I'm talking about. 

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Learning how to observe your 
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is to understand when you're 
fatigued, when your energy is 

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depleted. 
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does it and what energizes it 
and how you can actually treat 

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it like a Dynamo and build some 
energy up when you need to do 

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it. 
You want to notice your impulses

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and your reactivity. 
You can actually move off the 

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default setting. 
People say, well, I can't help 

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it. 
I always get mad when that 

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happens. 
Well, you can't help it. 

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You have to choose to help it 
and you have to know what to do 

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to help it. 
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certain reaction unless you have
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And then we want to be able to 
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with our Venus. 
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Are we missing opportunities or 
are we really in alignment with 

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our desire nature? 
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talking about being attached to 
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I'm not saying, oh, you get 
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We kind of use consumerism as a 
way to replace what we actually 

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need, which is our feeling of 
connection, the feeling of being

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held, being in relationship with
other people in healthy and 

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meaningful ways. 
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what we're magnetizing to us 
and, and is that really what we 

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want? 
That's important in in being 

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deliberate in creating our lives
and then be using Mercury to 

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quickly reframe. 
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talk and you call yourself 
dummy, dummy, dummy, or you 

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think, oh man, that was rude. 
Why did I say that? 

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You'd be like, well, I can't 
think of everything right away. 

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Or I didn't mean to misspeak. 
I didn't mean to use that word 

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or that language. 
I will make note and and maybe I

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can ask that person if there's a
better way to say what I wanted 

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to say again, instead of being 
mean to yourself, being like, 

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Oh, I know how to learn and I 
know how to change and I can do 

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that. 
You want to keep things more 

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productive. 
Notice I'm not saying being 

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overly positive, but if you're 
your worst critic, right when 

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you speak to yourself that way, 
you're doing yourself intrinsic 

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damage. 
Good news is you can heal that 

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OK using those same noticings 
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And again, we're going to talk 
about this in a lot more depth 

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in the Patreon, but I wanted to 
introduce the concept and we're 

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going to be going through the 
planets here on the Awake Space 

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Astrology podcast using 
astrology. 

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When you use this methodology 
and these understandings, it 

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allows you to move from reaction
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You're living life as on purpose
as you possibly can in any given

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moment. 
Again, that doesn't mean you 

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won't react. 
I still do reactions. 

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I developed this. 
I still have moments where I'm 

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cranky and I'm angry and I'm 
angry and I didn't get enough 

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sleep. 
Probably not going to be as 

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deliberate as the days I get 
adequate rest and my tummy is 

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full and maybe haven't drunk too
much coffee. 

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Those probably days are going to
go a little better. 

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But I can still notice when my 
energy is low and go, I need a 

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little more energy. 
What can I do to energize myself

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a little bit more? 
Not too much, but just enough to

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achieve what I need to achieve 
today. 

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And when you light it up? 
And you're operating with your 

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Mars in alignment that you're 
not having to push and struggle 

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and you can just move on about 
your day. 

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So being able to make deliberate
choices, creating aligned action

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and abundant attraction, and to 
utilize your energy in ways that

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makes life a lot more fun, a lot
more enjoyable, a lot more 

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comfortable and a lot more 
meaningful. 

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All right, we're going to do a 
practical exercise in the next 

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segment. 
I think I need to have a little 

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break and maybe refill my own 
cup like this time with tea. 

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All right to we're just going to
pay attention to our sun. 

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We'll talk a little bit more 
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start diving into the inner 
planets themselves. 

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Of course, starting with the sun
or personal Dynamo. 

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If you're driving, you might 
want to wait till you're parked,

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OK, and you will get perfect 
parking. 

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So first of all, pause and scan 
your current energy levels. 

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How do you feel? 
Are you, you know, like, and I 

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don't just mean like mentally or
the reflexive, Oh, I'm tired, 

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everything's happening. 
No, no, actually how how does 

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energy in your body feel? 
If you take a breath and you're 

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like, well, I'm kind of awake. 
I'm I'm reasonably I'm like, I'm

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not at my most energized, but I 
don't feel that depleted. 

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Now, on the other hand, you may 
be like every, every cell in my 

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body is tired. 
Every cell. 

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OK, fair enough. 
It's vitality or depletion 

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energy. 
Do you have the energy to do 

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something? 
It's not just about having an 

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awake mind, but like in your 
body, there's times your mind 

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can be really awake, but your 
body is really tired. 

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I don't know. 
My mind is going. 

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It doesn't mean like anxious 
thoughts, but just, you know, 

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maybe you could sit and write, 
but you couldn't take a mile 

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walk or something like that. 
So you want to observe and scan 

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your personal energy and notice 
are you energized or are you 

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depleted? 
If you're in the mystery school,

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you might recognize this because
we, we do an exercise like this.

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So then when you think about 
doing a task, something you 

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really want to do, like maybe 
you really want to bake cookies,

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think about it. 
Does it energize you or deplete 

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you? 
Are you doing it out of 

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obligation? 
Are you doing it because you 

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really want to make the freaking
cookies feel that energy? 

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Don't operate for things like in
your work. 

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You kind of have to. 
They pay your salary. 

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And if you haven't learned how 
to align yourself, it's probably

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not a good place to practice it.
OK, but think about it at home. 

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Maybe it's your day off and are 
you making cookies because you 

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want to make cookies or because 
people are bugging you to make 

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cookies and it's just easier to 
get them off your back and you 

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make the cookies? 
Which one feels which way? 

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Is there a tension pattern going
on? 

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Not, not the talk going on in 
your head. 

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Just feel your body. 
Does your body feel like, fine, 

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I'll do it? 
Or do you feel like, Oh, yeah, 

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OK, I like cookies, right? 
How do you feel about it? 

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All right, once you understand 
how you're sensing in the body 

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your son, OK, Then you ask the 
question, well, what do I want 

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to do with this? 
Where to next? 

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What do I do with it? 
All right, now, every single sun

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is going to express a little 
differently depending on the 

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sign and the house placement. 
And again, that is in the Planet

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of the Month Club library. 
If you are in the astrology 

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crew, you get automatic access 
to that. 

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I do believe the sun video is 
available for purchase as well. 

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These are long lectures. 
They're very visual. 

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I break it down, explain the 
history of the astrology there, 

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as well as give progressive 
evolutionary astrological 

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interpretations as well, so you 
get a full education on it. 

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What's one small, deliberate 
thing you can do with this 

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understanding? 
Like if you notice that 

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something energizes you and 
let's say it's your day off or 

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you have time after work, 
sometimes we think and we know 

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the thing's going to energize. 
Like I don't want to go to the 

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gym. 
We have a little resistance 

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pattern, but if you feel into 
it, you're like, no, I'm only 

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really resistant to having to go
into the locker room. 

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Once I get out of the locker 
room and I get on the machines, 

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I'm OK. 
Feel into the okayness feeling 

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to bolster the energy. 
Does that make sense? 

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I hope so. 
Let me know in the comments 

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because again, this is going to 
be daily. 

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I'm super excited. 
All right, so our next episode 

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we're going to be diving into 
the sun and talking about your 

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energy with the sun and 
understanding a little bit 

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deeper with that and how it 
works with Mercury. 

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OK, that's super fine. 
And then patrons, don't forget 

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your one hour companion is going
to dive into mapping your 

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interplanetary system and 
practicing how to kind of like 

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be in charge of your own energy 
so that you can, you know, have 

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more rewarding relationships, 
have better communications, be 

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it in better employment or do 
better as an entrepreneur or a 

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creative out in the world so 
that you can do life on purpose.

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Whether it's having better 
family relationships or having a

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better relationship with money 
or whatever it is, whatever your

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goals are, this framework will 
help you achieve the things that

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matter most to you. 
I'm your cosmic coach, Lori 

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Rivers, and I want to thank you 
for joining me here at the Week 

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Space Astrology Podcast for your
daily dose of how to use your 

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astrology. 
If you're not sure about how to 

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understand your astrology chart,
check out the show notes so that

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you can take advantage of my 
free YouTube playlist called 

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Beginning Astrology Tutorials. 
I walk you through everything 

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from understanding the symbols 
in very visual, very short, very

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digestible videos, to your 
introduction to Natal chart, 

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understanding a future Saturn 
return, introduction to 

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interceptions, why they're not 
bad, and a couple of other 

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videos I think on elements, 
etcetera. 

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But anyway, these are things 
that can get you started. 

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Being a progressive evolutionary
astrologer doesn't mean we don't

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use proper astrological 
technique. 

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There's a difference to 
refreshing interpretations and 

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seeing the system as a framework
and a tool for self development 

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and self actualization. 
But we didn't throw the baby out

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with the bathwater. 
It's still astrology. 

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All right. 
I'm Lori Rivers. 

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Thank you so much for listening.
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