It's the Awake Space Astrology podcast.
I'm your host, Lori Rivers, and I am here to give you some
inspiration to get those aspirations out into the world
and inspired. Hopefully you shall be with the
Leo New Moon happening on July 24th, going to be talking about
that today, changing up the format in the podcast.
I do that from time to time as we grow, as we adjust.
And so we're going to keep the episodes a little shorter and
we're going to put the meat potatoes in the patron only pod
that's available to all supporting patrons at the $5
level and up. Why?
Why not? We're going to do it because,
you know, I think here on Spotify or YouTube, people are
looking for kind of a quick jump in maximum 20-30 minutes and
we're going to try that out. So grab your coffee, get your
tea, get your matcha, get your hot cocoa because Southern
hemisphere, I think you're going to be cold, cold, cold with this
Leo New moon. Get your Uggs and your Snuggies
and your hoodies wherever you are down under.
I told you this summer would be wild and crazy and it's Mercury
retrograde. I think we already saw a few
things like Coldplay. Oh, that's a fun one.
It perfectly illustrates the energy of that new moon in Leo
coming up on the 24th of July. If you want to know the house by
house rundown, I'm doing that in Patreon, in the Patreon only
podcast. You can check that out.
And what I can really tell you, and I talked a little bit about
it on TikTok already and in my Patreon chat, I talked a lot
about this is about releasing the control of the ego.
Notice I didn't say kill the ego.
You don't want to kill it. That's a misinterpretation of
Buddhist texts. They, they don't say kill it,
they say tame it. And ego death is a lovely
dramatic phrase. And with this new moon in Lego,
and we'll probably hear it a lot.
I'm in my ego death. It can't be dramatic, having
been through a few of those and a few dark nights of the soul.
But what ego is, is the will to survive, you know?
So when we're in survival mode, we are in our ego.
When we are doing self-defense, we're in our ego.
And when we're pointing out that other people are in their ego,
we're in our ego. Because as long as we're looking
outside of ourselves and we're not looking within, then we're
in our ego because it's so much easier to protect ourselves.
Blaming everybody else that that that's an ego driven thing.
Ego doesn't mean egotistical. It doesn't mean showing up for
yourself. It doesn't mean you don't
advocate for yourself. In fact, having a healthy ego is
a good thing. We are vulnerable beings in a
physical body and if we're not learning how to use our ego
well, then we don't survive very well.
But I like to go a little bit beyond survival and I like to
thrive. Thriving is so much better.
Having done both, I I prefer the thriving.
So how do you thrive with this new moon?
Well, that's what it's about. This New moon is at 2° of Leo.
It is in opposition to Pluto and Aquarius, which is retrograde.
And we it still packs a wall up. OK, Mercury is retrograde.
So we're all going to be given a chance to assess, re evaluate
and uncover ways we are in our own way, in our ego.
And that can mean being overly attached to the idea of imposter
syndrome, overly attached to being seen as virtuous or a good
person. You know, the good girl trope or
a nice guy trope. I don't do those horrible
things. Look at me, I'm good.
I think we all do that from time to time, but that's something to
release and looking at where our social and cultural conditioning
is maybe forcing us to compromise a little too much,
forcing us to dim our light and in in our efforts to help other
people shine, that that's rude. It's rude.
We're not being as nice as we think we're being because we
don't have the trust in the people that we're with for them
to stand up in their own light. You don't have to diminish your
light to help somebody else get going.
So that's what this new moon energy is bringing.
And who's it affecting? Absolutely everybody.
You have all 12 signs in your chart.
Whether you have a placement in the house that has Leo or not,
this moon is impacting everyone. And yes, you can manifest on
this moon. I think people really don't
understand what manifest means. And I'm going to go through it
again for the 633rd time. Manifest means to reveal the
revealing happens on a full moon, the planting of the seed,
the intention is planted on the new moon.
And let me tell you this, this new moon is powerful.
It is a great way to deconstruct our attitudes to anything that
hold us back. So if you don't think you're
worthy, if you are risk avoidant, if you are working on
your different attachments right, you're not stuck.
These labels feel like a relief when you find out that you're
not crazy and it's not just you and there's other people who do
it too, it is a relief. But that's about as far as that
label should go. If you are allowing the labels
to define yourself, you're missing out.
We can work with ourselves without shutting down ourselves.
OK. There's a lot of people make a
lot of money because they ping your pain and they say, hey ADH
dear, I know you can't concentrate.
So here's here's the bad news that you get to keep believing
you. You may not have a hyper focus.
Maybe you do, but maybe you don't.
There's there's tools for that. I went through them in my summer
school with people. There's tools we can use.
Does not make you deficient to put an alarm on your phone.
In fact, if it's an efficiency tool that may help you get ahead
OK. Also, we input so much
information every single day, how the hell are you supposed to
remember all of it? Says the post Menopausal woman.
If you can remember your own name, you're doing good.
You can mostly figure out what day it is.
I think you're ahead of the game, especially with this
Mercury retrograde. So to set your intentions #1
there's never a bad new moon. There's never a bad new moon.
Say it with me. Not even an eclipse, unless it's
visible, but even then it's usually an environmental thing,
not a personal thing. There's never a bad new moon to
set intentions on. New moons are when we do it, the
fruition comes in the full moon which is 6 months later.
These are the ones that that correlate.
So you you set your intentions on July 24th and the fruition
comes in late February. OK, late February, it's a little
over six months. I talked about a certain person
with enlarged ankles who does a good impression of an Oompa
Loompa in my Patreon for the $15 level and up.
There's some reasons why I'm doing it there.
I'm not just gatekeeping to people.
I'm not just trying to get people to pay more money.
There's reasons. Some of those predictions are
there. I'm not going to give them here,
but I'm going to say this is not going to be his favorite new
moon and February is probably not going to be his favorite
either next year. And you want to know more about
that? You can check it out in the
Patreon. So what do you do?
I really want you guys to focus on your heart center, you know,
so you can do a meditation, you can listen to some Sulfagios
frequencies. You can check those out on
YouTube. They they're get ones that
resonate with the heart center. And if one doesn't sound good to
you, try another one. Try until you find the
frequency. Don't try to force the heart.
But this is a good time to heal the heart.
Because a lot of times if you've gone through stuff and trauma in
life, sometimes you you pour a lot of love out, but you have a
hard time receiving. OK, I'm going to say you're
often not pouring as much actual love as you think, because love
is with detachment. We're not attached to how people
are doing. We're not attached to their
outcomes. When you love someone, you see
them as they are without judgment.
It is acceptance. We want to do that for yourself
because if you're not accepting of yourself, you can't accept
anybody else. Leo governs the heart space.
Leo governs our ability to take risks.
Because if you're going to shine, there's usually people
out there who want to snuff that candle out waiting for other
people's approval. That's somebody, something to
let go. You don't need somebody to
recognize your talents, your ability, or listen to you.
You don't need people to agree with you.
You don't it. You are not less valid, OK?
You are not less valid if you're surrounded by people who don't
see eye to eye, don't listen, don't believe in what you want
to do that that doesn't make you less valid, OK?
And learning that is an important lesson.
You can set intentions to attract people who are like
hearted. You don't want to be with like
minded people. I say this all the time.
Like mindedness gets you kind of in a feedback loop and it can be
unhealthy. Kind of like when we lean into
our labels, you know, whether it is a trauma based disorder or an
attention disorder, whatever. We find out whether we're
menopausal, post menopausal. We can lean so hard into that
that we rob ourselves of a range of experiences.
And what is life about? A range of experiences.
And when we take life head on by wielding our consciousness, then
we don't struggle as much. It doesn't mean we don't have
obstacles, it's just you can cut through them like a hot knife
through butter. When you're wielding your
consciousness deliberately, you say, ah, ah, this thing I love
that broke. Well, now I have a chance to buy
a new thing, OK? Or well, I have the memories, I
have photographs. If it's irreplaceable, beating
yourself up for six weeks is probably going to hold you back
from a lot of opportunities. The stories we tell are
everything. So if you want to know more
about how to get through this new moon, make sure you check
out the Patron Only podcast in the Patreon.
OK, so that's for $5 members and a it is a chance to cultivate a
healthy ego. It is a chance to cultivate a
healthy ego. And that means appreciating
yourself, loving yourself as you are, not seeking approval from
outside of yourself, allowing your light to shine,
understanding that not everybody's going to like what
we have to say. Not everybody's going to like
how we do things, and that's OK. We're not here for everyone.
We're here for our range of experiences and when we come
from the heart center, everything blossoms and grows.
That is how you meet this energy.
It is such a good chance to deconstruct and disrupt the
social cultural patterns that hold us back waiting to get
picked instead of asserting ourselves.
It's not egotistical to put yourself out there in spiritual
communities. It's always very fascinating
because you'll have a leader and they don't mind putting
themselves out there. But when their group starts to
put themselves out there, they'll be like, Oh no, no, no,
you're in your ego. I've seen it plenty because I've
been in the spiritual world since I was a teenager.
And they'll always check you. They'll always check you.
And I'm going to say the opposite.
I'm going to say show up, show up, shine your light, get quiet
and listen to your heart space. What is your heart space telling
you? What is your next thing?
Don't go out to save other people.
Don't go out to try to wake everybody else.
That's your that's your ego needing everybody to be in
agreement so you feel safe. How can you release your
attachment to people needing to be a certain way for you to feel
safe? How can you feel safe inside
yourself? Those are all really good
questions to sit and contemplate and maybe journal about.
OK, O journal about how can I feel safe inside of myself?
How can I take a risk? And not just any risk, a risk to
you. You know, whether it's making a
TikTok or going into a new story you haven't been in, going to a
community event you've never been to, introducing yourself to
people, writing that blog post. Start the book, seek out an
agent, start the side hustle, apply for a new job.
How can you do those things and feel safe inside yourself and
turn that anxiety into maybe anticipation?
OK, let's do some patron shout outs.
And then I'm going to round up the episode with a few of the
things I think we need to look out for this week.
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the content that comes up as we move forward.
I'm bringing back some longer patron podcasts and in August
we're we're going to beef up some astrology education and I'm
really excited about it. So the summer program I'm
teaching people how to use their astrology and in August we're
going to get you aware of your astrology.
So if you've been wanting to learn about astrology, so we're
going to have some beginning reference material come in, some
little videos to help you out. And if you're in the astrology
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I'm building up some aspects information.
If you've been wanting to know more about aspects in the
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we're bringing. They're super excited.
All right, Cosmic currents is what I'm going to call it.
What do you expect kind of this week energy wise?
What are what does the big picture energy look like and
what can you do about that and how can you use it?
All right, this is the Cosmic Currents segment.
This is where it what it's replacing what's in the
headlines here on the podcast. I want to give you an energy
update and how you can use it. If you want to stay up to date
with my predictions, you can head over to the Awake Space
Patreon. These are already in the Awake
Space Astrology magazine that comes out every single month and
you can find that in the magazine collection.
And I also read the audio scopes as well as these predictions
that go out. So you can check that out in the
Patreon. I've just put the segment up as
a normal like I would normally do.
I'll put that up for $5 and up as part of the patron only
podcast. All righty.
So what can you expect with the energy this week?
Well, it's pretty interesting. So before a new moon we get a
little crunchy because we got a release before we can plant the
seeds. Because as you head towards the
new moon, we're looking at fresh starts, fresh beginnings.
This is Leo. Now I know a lot of people rag
on Leo. It's like pick me energy and it
can be an unhealed Leo. An unhealed or unaware Leo can
be very much a pick me. It can be somebody who is very
insecure and insecurity can come out as a braggart.
Insecurity can come out as the cowardly lion.
I get it. A lot of Leo rising clients and
Leo moon clients, much more so than Leo Suns.
Because the sun is our energy levels.
It's not our personality. That's, that's not what that is,
but it is our energy levels, our animating force.
It's what makes us, us as an animated being, right.
But the rising and the moon and Venus and there are a lot of
unhealed or wounded people who will shrink back and feel like
imposters because maybe they had a highly critical person in in
their life as a child or a spouse, or they've been through
an abusive situation. And, and anybody can go through
that, not just Leo's. It's not just Leo energy because
we all have Leo in our birth chart.
For me, Leo straddles the 9th and the 10th house and this new
moon is happening in my 9th. And remember, I'm going through
how to deal with the energy in the houses in the patron only
podcast. However, want to hold back.
If you haven't been listened to, you could be like, nobody cares
anyway, why should I even speak up?
I've tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and I feel
like Cassandra, right? Anybody resonate with that?
Let me know in the comments. This new moon is a good time to
let that go. And how do we let that go?
Well, nobody listened to me before, but that doesn't mean
they won't now. If I don't shine my light, how
can anybody see it? And sure, I'm not for everybody,
but there's got to be somebody out there who wants to hear what
I have to say or enjoys the same things I do.
Like if you really love to dance and somebody looked at you and
said, wow, you're a shitty dancer and you stop dancing
because they did that, you let them oppress you.
OK. People don't like the style of
music you sing or play? Well, then you're not for them.
You know, if, if somebody's only into industrial Armageddon style
music and you're playing jazz, like jazz flute and they don't
like it, well, they're not your audience.
So it's learning to let go. That's going to be up on deck.
And you may have these things surface.
So somebody might come in and say, well, I don't like what you
did. I don't like your hair, I don't
like your makeup, I don't like your show.
You're too fat, you're too thin. They'll have all kinds of
opinions. People are going to be opining,
OK, thank them, thank them for that.
And you don't have to do it to their face.
Please don't because it could start a fight.
But inside your head, thank them.
Say thank you for the opportunity because you, that
energy is matching what I know I need to let go.
I can let go of that. They're giving you an
opportunity to practice. Everybody wants magic to totally
release, to totally release without any effort.
Nothing is without effort in this lifetime.
We are physical beings. We deal with gravity.
Walking is an effort. OK, if if you want to get to
somewhere, we cannot teleport just yet.
It would be so cool if we could, but we cannot.
So we got to walk. And that is an effort or walk at
least to the car so we can drive.
Driving might be easy for you now, but it may not have been.
It's another time, right? So this is an opportunity to let
go, and I talked about that earlier.
So what are we going to see in the news?
Well, we're probably going to see some new secrets revealed,
OK? We could see some new secrets
about people in the US administration.
These might be doozies. There might be a hacking, OK,
and it could happen around the 24th.
You know, it might have happened like the day before and stuff
gets released on the 24th. There's I'm sure some juicy,
juicy giblets coming out OK. It's not just hot tea.
We're getting some gravy, OK. We could see some issues with
monetary funds. A lot of people are asking me
about gossip and I, I don't have any good news for you on that.
I know the situation is beyond dire and I wish I had better
news. I want you to remember I have
people in my life who are very, very connected in that space.
I have beloveds and friends around that region and I have
looked and looked and looked for better news.
I'm afraid it's a catalyzing event.
It doesn't make it less difficult and it doesn't mean we
should just shut up about it. But we will also see a push back
against people who do voice compassion and empathy for
people who are facing annihilation.
You know, Now, Speaking of that, I think we may hear some push
back towards the country that's perpetuating the gross
violations of international humanitarian law and breaking
the rules of war, OK? So we may see some pushback
against that or there may be pushback against the leadership.
This new moon is setting up changes in leadership that will
be continuing to happen between this week and February.
So, you know, I know everybody wants change just like
yesterday. Change doesn't happen that way,
OK? To get to where we are at today
took 40 some years, almost 50 years.
If you think it's going to change overnight because people
just noticed because it became super obvious, that's not going
to happen, that's not going to happen.
You got to get involved. It's not enough to be aware.
It's not enough to be a keyboard warrior.
You're going to have to show up in your local spaces in that
city, county, state, etcetera, province, wherever you live.
However, you can't because not all political systems work the
same and there are places where being involved has severe
penalties. So if you live in one of those
countries where you can't just be vocal or make your opinion
known, there's other ways. Be decent to other people, be
kind, work within the rules so you don't face serious
consequence. But there's many ways to be
involved to make where you live a better place.
What else do I think we're going to see?
I think we're going to see more interesting weather.
We could see some hurricanes brewing or we could see volcanic
activity too. I think those big earthquakes
happening off the eastern coast of Russia, just north of Japan,
I think those may be also a potential volcanic event getting
ready. That area is going to continue
to be a little more active. So those are things I think
we're looking at. So this week, we also have Venus
and Mars squared. This doesn't mean it's bad for
you. In fact, this new moon is
powerful to propel you into fresh starts.
This is the time if you've been thinking about a career change,
if you've been thinking about making big changes on the inside
is great for personal and spiritual growth.
Those are all great. On the outer level, we're
probably going to see some ish. Okay, on the outer level, I
think we're going to see some ish and that ish could be
conflicts erupting again. Remember we've got Mars in
Virgo, we've got Venus in Gemini.
Still it changes into Cancer on the 30th.
The the things are probably about to get popping.
I talked about in in the Patreon, I talked about August a
little bit and I'll start talking about that next week
here on the on the podcast. I'll give you a heads up in the
patron only podcast, August is spicy.
So from now to the end of July, August, despite we're preparing
for August, the energy is building up.
You might have a few more headaches, you might have some
odd aches and pains. You might be feeling pressure.
That's all physical resistance system SIM tums to the energy
changes. So just take good care of
yourself, do your best to release the release the energy.
Just taking a quick look, let's see beyond seismic activity.
We could see some big accidents. I mean, Mercury's retrograde.
We're going to see people being outrageous.
We saw what happened in Hollywood where you had a driver
intentionally drive into a crowd.
We can see a few more of those things.
Remember people who are in their ego.
We could see some people pretending they're super
villains. We could also see people
pretending they're superheroes. Whether it's successful or not
is remains to be seen. I think we could expect some
really, really volatile weather. Remember, above all else, I'm
still most concerned with climate change, so keep your
eyes out for anything from tornadoes, cycling, storms.
That's where rain comes in and it just doesn't blow out.
We could see again, more seismic activity in and volcanic
activity in the subcontinent of India, in the Indian
subcontinent and Southeast Asia, but moving all the way up into
the North Pacific that that sector is really, really active.
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, you know, in the West Pacific, all
of that is a little, a little volatile, OK.
So especially when the moon gets to Mercury, I think we could see
some accidents, some volcanic action, some seismic activity
activity. And it it's going to be maybe a
little dramatic. And then the 24th through the
26th with that new moon, it's popping off and it's not just
little. Everybody's going to have an
opinion, OK? Even more than normal.
The hot takes are going to be scalding.
So keep your eyes open for that this week.
I'm going to end the podcast with a couple journal prompts
for you to use this week so you can navigate these very intense
changing times. This new moon in Leo gives us an
opportunity to move into fresh start energy.
It's very powerful. There's some powerful, powerful
energy here. So here are three prompts for
journaling. This way.
When I shine, blank happens or when I let myself shine, this
happens. Now if you get a negative, if
that's the first thing that pops in your head, like people make
fun of me, people are jealous, blah, blah, blah, that's a good
thing. Don't leave it at that.
If that's what pops up, then what you do is you write about
how can you release your concern?
So when people make comments that show me they're jealous, I
know blank. I know I'm doing my job.
I know that I've hit struck A chord.
I know that that's about them. That's a them problem.
And I shine Blank happens. If people make fun of you, then
what do you know? What are you going to?
What are you going to write about?
Well, then I'm not surrounded by the right people, and it's time
to find the right people. So if you like to do improv or
comedy and your friends make fun of you or they dismiss you or
they tell you you're not that funny, going to an improv group
is probably the better idea, right?
A lot of people think I'm funny. Growing up, I was told I wasn't
funny at all. And it's great when you guys
think I'm funny. But you know what made me really
know I was funny? I took an improv class and my
teacher thought I was funny. And my teacher was like a
professional comedian. And I was like, ho ho.
I made my teacher laugh. That's cool.
She's picky, right? That was years ago.
Now she's like, you're so funny. I was like, Oh no, my brother's
the funny one. And then she cracked up again
because she thought I was kidding.
And I was like, Oh no, I'm, I'm not kidding.
My brother's the funny one. There's only one funny one per
family, right? So think about it that way.
So for every negative response that pops up into your head,
find a way to disarm it, because that negative is a ticking time
bomb. I didn't say it wasn't true, but
there's a way to disarm it and move into a fresh start.
Something else you can write in your journal.
When I do blank I feel alive. When I do blank I feel alive.
What comes to your mind? What do you feel most alive now?
If you can't answer me then you need to spend the week looking
at when you feel more energized because feeling alive isn't
being a hyper hypo feeling alive as you feel connected.
It could be I was watching a video on TikTok and my friend
Rod from Alabama, who's he's running for the seat in the 5th
district. He is a joyful being.
He's a really cool guy and he cares a lot.
But he's in the middle of making a TikTok and a Hummingbird flew
up to him and he completely lost his train of thought.
You could just see the awe and wonder in his face like, oh,
whoa, a hummingbird's right here.
Something like that. Write about it.
Pay attention to when you feel most alive.
OK, The third thing, the third thing you can journal about is
appreciating yourself. What are you proud of?
Don't tell me you're not proud of anything.
What do you know you're good at? If you can't be proud, what do
you know you're good at? How can you appreciate your
physicality more, even if it doesn't always do what you want?
How can you appreciate the body you're in?
How can you appreciate your physical appearance?
So many people want to augment their appearance today to meet
some weird beauty standard. How can you just appreciate
where you're at? And if you did augment yourself
and you're happy with it, you can appreciate that too.
I have a friend who thinks her boobs all the time because she
did a boob job and she's really happy about that, and that's OK.
But how can you appreciate your physical self?
It's not vanity to understand you are a beautiful person, and
don't tell me you're not. Everybody's beautiful in their
own way, and that's how I want to leave you this week.
Let me even know what you think of the new show format.
I'm interested to hear about it.