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A Lunar Eclipse in Gemini

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Today I'm taking a look at the upcoming lunar eclipse in the sign of Gemini. I talk about the nature of a lunar eclipse and what to expect from this eclipse according to your rising sign. Thank you to everyone who has supported our Kickstarter so far, if you haven't donated and picked out a reward yet, you can find more information here.

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology. And today we are going to take a look at the upcoming lunar eclipse in the sign of Gemini. I'm doing this on Friday of this week because the eclipse comes on Monday, we're going to be Sunday night into Monday morning. And we're going to be taking a look at the horoscopes for the month of December early next week. So I wanted to give people a little bit of extra time to prepare for the Eclipse and just sort of start meditating on where it might be landing in your chart especially. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to talk about the nature of the lunar eclipse. Talk a little bit about what to expect based on the configuration of your chart, according to your rising signs, we're gonna do whole sign house, roll through the will take the eclipse through the 12 houses and give you a sense of what to expect. So that's our agenda for today.

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The eclipse happens at about three in the morning or so in the Twin Cities where I'm located. You know, Monday morning early. So Sunday night into Monday morning. Now remember, eclipses don't play out right away. You're thinking about an eclipse, as the indication of like, you know, the fuse has been lit, but it's a long fuse, it can, it can kind of take three, four, even sometimes up to five or six months, because you're getting series of eclipses, not just one Eclipse, so you're getting eclipses in Gemini and opposite signs Sagittarius since last June of 2020. Now again here in the fall going into winter of 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere, then it's going to come back next spring in the Northern Hemisphere, we're going to get eclipses in the same two signs. That's a process orient oriented interpretation. So that you have to that you have to give when you're looking at eclipses for that reason. Now, there's going to be openings and there's going to be closings, the opening eclipses, the ones that plant seeds and indicate significant new chapters in your life are going to be those solar eclipses, we have one in December, we're going to be talking about lunar eclipses, the full moon represents the blossoming or the completion. Or you could say the promise, the manifestation of the promise that was made at the beginning of a cycle.

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Now, these cycles have lifespans that are very, very, very old lifetimes long. But they also sometimes pertain to very immediate things that have been happening in our lives, say in the past six months or the past year, or even longer periods of time, if you tracked. If you track the cycles going back, you know, roughly every nine years 18 years, you get eclipses in the same signs. So there's lots of different ways you can track out the narratives that are a part of these eclipses. The simplest way of for a lot of people that's going to be too complicated. So the simplest thing to do is to take a look at you know, do I have a new moon solar eclipse are a full Moon Lunar Eclipse, and which sign in house is it falling into my birth chart? Is it falling near any Natal planets that can be really important as a conjoined to a Natal planet especially. So in this case, we have a full moon, the lunar eclipse, the promise of something from the past being made manifest completing itself, resolution finality, sometimes the ending of things the breaking off or falling apart of things happen at the lunar eclipses. My first teacher described it as a door that's closing in your life, which could mean something that's ending, sometimes abruptly or in a difficult fashion in a difficult manner. But other times, other times you're going to see it as a promise fulfilled, something that's been realised or achieved.

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So those are the kinds of various symbols. Those are the various meanings that the symbol of an eclipse will usually have. Now what we want to do is look at the Eclipse and say is it closely aspecting any other planets? And by that I mean traditional, or what we call Ptolemaic aspects. And no, this eclipse is not falling, you know, super close to any particular planets, not any traditional aspects anyway. So you don't have this moon plugged really tightly into a degree based aspect with any other planet, it's about 12 degrees off from the north node, and the further it is away from the node when it perfects, I think it's, I think it's reasonable to say that it's usually a little bit weaker. So this isn't like the world's strongest Eclipse, the one that we're getting in mid December in Sagittarius. That's a lot stronger. But this one is still important, and we need to take a look at it. So what we're going to do now is I'm going to run through the 12 signs, we're going to orient this through what are called whole sign houses. And we're going to, I recommend it to get the most out of the technique that I'm using today to calculate your chart in whole sign houses. That's the kind of original house system that ancient astrologers used. And it's part of the way that I teach and practice as a sort of, called a Hellenistic astrologer. Now I've talked about that a lot about what that is before in previous videos that I've done. Now when this eclipse is where you start with Aries rising, so your chart is going to be configured by whole sign in this exact same way if you use whole sign houses and you're an Aries rising. So this is what this is the way to read this. And if you don't know I like Astro seek, I think that's a good one. Astro gold is a pretty cheap programme you can get iPad on my phone. I've solar fire, if you use a PC time passages is good kind of a beginners programme for both, I guess both Mac and PC. But at any rate.

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Aries

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So if you're an Aries rising, this is falling in your third house. Put these pieces together and it's a general formula for success in terms of understanding it. You've got completion, culmination, resolution, potentially letting go around the topics of siblings, neighbours, neighbourhood, immediate environment, short journeys, or travel. I see a lot of people for example, that swap out cars or that pay off a car or that are no longer going to take the subway to work, they're going to buy a bicycle. I mean, it could be something really simple like that about something changing in your immediate environment, something changing about how you travel, something happening with siblings. I've seen siblings getting divorced or siblings having a baby. Some culminating moment of karma that's like the the grand finale of a fireworks display, it has a little bit of that feeling. And it could have something specifically to do with siblings. The other thing that the third house can pertain to is going to be communication technology, the mind, literally the way you think and relate to the world and thought. Sometimes lunar eclipses in the third house can speak to mental or emotional challenges that a person is going through maybe temporarily. And it can also speak to the desire to learn something or getting really plugged into something that you're passionate about as a student, or teaching people other things, teaching people things that you're maybe passionate about. But behind it would be the feeling of something reaching its peak or culmination or completion. So that's if you're an Aries rising.

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Taurus

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Now let's move this forward to Taurus. If you're a Taurus rising, this is landing in your second house, so you're thinking about something coming to a natural state of completion and closure regarding money or finances, sales or transactions, agreements. second house traditionally was also a place that belong to helpers or counsellors that somehow served or you know, aided or assisted the, the native the individual, for example, your personal attorney would be the second house. So resources that you have or people that somehow help you and, and, and things that are changing in that area of life, or possibly changes around money or finances, business and investments, a totally different approach to money or finances, for example, moving to the Twin Cities, we have to change our bank account, we're going to have to do that probably in the next month. It doesn't have to be the biggest thing in the world depends is it close to a Natal planet in your chart is it very, very closely aspecting a planet in your chart? Conjoined is going to be the strongest one. So you've got financial things happening, perhaps things related to investments or business or resources that you have, buying or selling things expenditures, and income, watch for those topics to be really important.

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Gemini

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Now let's go forward to Gemini rising. If you're a Gemini rising, this is very personal. This is a very personal moment where something is coming to a state of completion or closure. in your personal life, I've seen people have surgeries, or deal with some kind of sickness that pushes them to completely change their lifestyle. I'm going to quit smoking now, for example, or I'm going to start eating different or because I had some kind of scare that that would be like the scariest level of it, but also just a sense that I'm done with something now, that's over. And now I'm starting to think about what's next. It's that sense of having personally realised or completed something, perhaps something related to health. Sometimes for the first house, when the moon eclipses in that sign, it's also about home family, and how those things are related to your identity or your mental or emotional health. So that's a few things to watch for, if you're a Gemini rising

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Cancer

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If you're a cancer rising the moons in your 12th house. So this, this is a more difficult placement for an eclipse to happen. You're thinking about things that are coming to completion, there's resolution or closure, a door that's closing that has it has a history behind it, and it's in a house that can often have to do with self undoing sickness, difficulties loss, sometimes a state of confusion, or kind of distancing oneself from the world somehow, perhaps in for spiritual or creative reasons as well. But there's something a little otherworldly about this one, and it could be a little bit more on the on the difficult or emotional side. Another thing too, that I would suggest that, you know, you have to think about health in the family, if you're a Cancer rising, you're really dialled into the Moon. This is your Ascendant ruler, right? So your health, your body, your mother, your family, children, you know, and could it be that there is a milestone that's being reached somewhere that's a little bit painful or bittersweet. But, you know, for example, you know, I've even seen like kids going off to school for the first time, my kid is leaving the house, you know, or something like that. Sometimes there's just a sense of, or I'm retiring, and I don't know what to do with myself now. So that 12th house space is interesting, because sometimes it's going to be more on the more painful, heavy side of things that are completing or culminating that are more difficult and weighty. Remember, the 12th house is called the joy of Saturn. But it's also potential for there to be a liminal space where you're confused, Where am I now what comes next, this thing is just completed, almost like postpartum depression after birthing something. So watch for those kinds of energies. I'd love to hear from my Cancer rising people about this eclipse over the next weeks, and just how you're dealing with it and what you notice, because I think it's one of the more interesting and compelling signatures since it's your ruling planet and whenever eclipses come for Cancers, I've just noticed that it's it can be really impactful.

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Leo

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So let's run it forward to Leo. If we're talking about Leo rising, then we're putting the Moon in the 11th house, that's going to be the place of friends groups, allies, benefactors, wishes, hopes and aspirations. 11th houses called the joy of Jupiter and it's a pretty uplifting house. But a lunar eclipse in this house can mean the end of certain friendships, or some kind of culminating or completion, milestone or marker in a group or an organisation internal changes in organisations that may not be entirely easy, but also the sense of completing something as a part of a team or are sometimes losing interest in something that had been a preoccupation or ambition of yours for a long time. But watch, especially for social dynamics and changes among friends and colleagues, sometimes with the sense that an expiration date has been reached.

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Virgo

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Now, let's run it forward to Virgo, Virgo in the first house. Some of these are simpler to explain than others because that some houses are just a little bit more straightforward. Others are a little trickier to you know, expound upon. The 10th house transit if you're a Virgo rising, the lunar eclipse is going to fall into the 10th house, which is a place of work. It's also a place of vocation, public reputation, your relationship with the world that you live in outside your the doors of your own home so to speak. This can mean that you're reaching a place of maturation, Completion, even success in the workplace. But, frankly, it can also mean that you're losing a job or changing jobs or that the management is changing, or that you know, something is reaching a state of completion, it's not necessarily easy, it's a foreshadowing, that there's going to be deeper, longer term process of change happening in the workplace, and say, the next six months or so. So that's something to watch for, if you're a Virgo rising. I also like the idea of lunar eclipses in the 10th house can change the public face or appearance of something in your life. And that can be something to watch for as well, since it's a very public place.

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Libra

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Alright, let's go forward to Libra rising, we're putting the lunar eclipse in Gemini in your ninth house, which is the place of the higher mind, learning universities religion travel to foreign places, it's a place related to the law and legal system. So you know, if you're a Libra, who's going through any kind of legal conflict, this might be a signal that you that that's coming to a close could be a sign that you're deciding, you don't want to go to school anymore, that you're going to change schools or that you're reaching the end of a programme or a training and that you're going to get your certificate. So you think of culminating or completing moments, a teacher dying or passing away or a mentor, no longer being part of your life, we're finishing some kind of mentorship process or apprenticeship. You also think about the handing of the baton from teacher to student in a kind of generational turnover of wisdom and ideas. This is also a transit that has to do with a change in our faith and our beliefs and our ideas, a kind of a paradigm change that's happening right now for you. And it could take a little bit to realise what that means, or to fully understand the ramifications of it.

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Scorpio

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Let's put Scorpio on the ascendant, plugging the moon into the eighth house. This is a such a mysterious house. There's so much here that has to do with karmic weights that we are either in the process of shedding or accruing. Karmic weights, or debts that we owe other people that are getting paid off, or that people owe us something and it's coming to us somehow, or that we are accruing different kinds of debts or potentially future penalties or entanglements. So it's not really a bad house, but it's definitely not a good house, right? Because there's there's always this kind of energy of potential future entanglement and consequence that comes with the eighth. The other thing though, is that when deaths are lifted, it can be so deeply transformational, sometimes a little traumatic as well. That's why the houses related to death as well as the fear of the future. So watch for deeper burdens to be lifted, or sometimes, especially with a Mercury ruled sign for a Scorpio the truth to come out somehow and to clear level the playing field. Scorpios I'm interested in your experience of this one, too, I always find lunar eclipses in the eighth house to be rather mysterious and difficult to describe or difficult to predict, I should say. So I'd love to hear some of your stories about how that goes over the next weeks and months.

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Sagittarius

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Moving along, we have Sagittarius rising, this puts the lunar eclipse into your seventh house of marriage and relationships. This is a in a broader sense, the seventh house can relate to your social, social dynamics in your life in a general sense. So there might be something changing in terms of your relationship with the world, and how you identify in the world as a social, social animal, so to speak. But there's also the obvious potential for major changes in partnerships, romantic life, sexuality, things pertaining to those topics, or possibly the life or the events that are really important that are happening in a spouse or partner's life, they don't necessarily even have to involve you. So watch for that sense of culmination and completion there in the in the house of relationships, if you're sad, rising, this is a big part. But by the way, for sad rising, it's a pretty big deal because you're going to get the solar eclipse following this in December, which means whatever is culminating in relationships is leading to a kind of personal rebirth for you later in December.

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Capricorn

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All right, now, we are moving next into Capricorn rising which places the Lunar Eclipse in the sixth house, this can be really rough for health, the health of partners, mothers, the health of family members or other people in your life. I say that because if your Capricorn rising the Moon rules your seventh house. That's another placement that I've noticed over time is very vulnerable when it comes to lunar eclipses, but not typically in your life as a Capricorn moreso in the life of somebody that you know, or someone in your family or a spouse's family member, kind of the family tree. So watch for potentially, something coming to a head around challenges or difficulties with family members, spouse, children, things like that doesn't have to be devastating or anything, but just maybe a little bit of stress or tension around that. On the other hand, if you've been working and working and working, typical sixth house activity, a lot of sacrifice blood, sweat and tears, it's going into something you might be reaching a natural state of completion or culminating in some form of recognition or advancement that you've that you've been building toward over a very long period of time. The sixth house is like a house that, like an Olympic athlete, you know, the payoff is huge, but the amount of work and discipline and training that comes first is, you know, it in some ways it far outweighs the tiny sliver of time where you're, you know, you're standing on the, on the top step of and holding the Olympic gold. So the sixth house culminating Eclipse can be good in terms of finishing something that there's been a lot of toil and and you've given a lot of yourself to, that that might be a good thing. Otherwise, you know, eclipses in the sixth house sometimes bring that that element of misfortune or or just having to grind your way through something that's a possibility to keep open to. But don't worry, it won't last forever. When you have eclipses in your sixth and the 12th it's kind of like a temporary zone of working through challenging things and finding your way back into a place where you feel centred. All of the cadent houses were thought of as worlds between worlds. So there's, there's a sense of things not being totally resolved, and this kind of dealing with things perpetually, as you have eclipses in the 6th or 12th houses. But the good news is that a lunar eclipse does tend to bring things to a state of culmination.

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Aquarius

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Now if you're an Aquarius rising, we're going to place the lunar eclipse in your fifth house, which was called the joy of Venus in the house of good fortune. Lunar eclipses in this house will often bring about the end of some kind of tourist or romantic affair. Sometimes they bring children or pregnancy, sometimes they will bring the birth of a child or sometimes they will bring the end of something that has been frivolous or reckless or hedonistic. On the other hand, the lunar eclipse in this house can also signal things that are happening again relative to the topic of of friends and their children or family members and children. It's that Moon-fifth house combination in Gemini where you get this kind of brothers, sisters, friends, people who are really like, like folk to you, and that the topic of children in pregnancy can somehow come in in this really strong way. I've seen so many examples of this over time that are so ordinary, but it's amazing how accurate This will be my best friend had a baby or my sister's having a kid or, you know, whatever the case might be, or I've been having this love affair for a long time, lunar eclipse in the fifth house, it's over. I've been spending too much money, I just maxed out a credit card and I realised I have to stop. You know, sometimes it's the fun is over. Or it's also a signal of some major life change related to these other topics like like children, family and kids. Now, the fifth house, also a place of creativity could represent the culmination of some kind of creative endeavour, which you know, might be a good sign. If you've been working on something, this is a sign that maybe in the not too distant future, you'll be ready to complete something.

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Pisces

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Last but not least, we put Pisces on the ascendant, you're looking at the lunar eclipse in the fourth house of home and family. And this is you know, pretty basic, you're looking at combination completion resolution with anything to do with ancestry, with home with land, with family with property, with the basic resources that sort of prop you up and give you a foundational sense of safety or groundedness in the world. Also potential here to see grandparents pass away or generational turnover somehow and I'm not trying to scare anyone, it's not like it would be something completely out of the blue. Usually it's it's like my 95 year old, you know, grandpa passed or something like that. But if there were to be anything like that at all. The other thing is that the lunar eclipse in the fourth house can sometimes signal that something that has been hidden or secretive is somehow coming to the to the surface, which is kind of weird, because typically you wouldn't think of a lunar eclipse in the fourth house in relation to something being revealed. The fourth house is a place of hidden things. It was related to the occult into the study of sacred mysteries in the ancient world. When the Moon is eclipsed in this house, there's a funny way in which the alternation of light and dark with the Moon in this subterranean place will sometimes speak to things hidden and things revealed. Like I've seen people get lunar eclipses in the fourth house and find out who their father was, or contact their birth parents, or something like that. So watch for those things if you're a Pisces rising, also anything to do with home or family in a general sense, being more of a focus for you, not only now, but over the next six months as the eclipses will also come through in Gemini and Sagittarius again next spring.

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So that's what I've got for you guys today. I hope that this was useful. Let me say one or two things about Gemini. The other thing to remember about this is that, you know, the eclipse is is going to be rooted in what's happening with Mercury. Now on what's basically what we're getting is we're getting a Mercury that's in Scorpio as the eclipses taking place. That means that the Moon can't see its host isn't an aversion with its host. And then Mercury's entering into Sagittarius, where it immediately will make a bunch of antiscia. And I talked about this a few times this week. To me this is just yet another indicator that the potential for hidden plots or information that we don't see and then later have to see and deal with is going to be a part of this month. Water signs were called mute in the ancient world, which means they had a tendency towards secretiveness. Scorpio, the sign of Mars tends to be a little cloak and dagger, you've got the Moon and Mercury sign eclipsing with that Mercury under the beams and visible, and then and then in Scorpio, then going into these antiscia when it enters Sagittarius. So, you know, I get the feeling that this eclipse may also in a general sense, carry the signification of a process of information coming to light that blossoms and has this profound transformative effect, sort of like the will, and this is kind of a heavier example, but sort of like you've been talking smack about someone for a really long time. And then suddenly, you've you realise that they find out about it, and then you have to confront them, you have to deal with what you've said, you have to kind of deal with the ramifications, the consequences of your actions, which had been sort of hidden or secretive. And that causes a big shift. So that could be something like that writing under the surface of this full moon in particular, of this lunar eclipse.

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Alright, so that's what I have for you guys today. Please feel free to share your stories and reflections and thoughts on the transits. And on this particular Eclipse, I'd really love to hear from you guys. Also, don't forget that my Kickstarter is going through the end of the year. If you haven't already, I would love your support. If you like this channel, Your support helps me do a tonne of things. And you can pick a cool reward like discounted tuition to one of my programmes or reward readings, exclusive lectures that I don't publish anywhere else. So yeah. And by the way, we will like I said, next week, we'll have horoscopes coming out. We're gonna be doing a series on Jupiter and Saturn, entering Aquarius together. So lots of good stuff to come in the next couple of weeks. All right, that's what I've got for you guys. I hope you guys have a great weekend. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.

 

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A Thanksgiving Prayer

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Happy Thanksgiving, if you're celebrating! I thought I would do something a little bit different for today, so I made a little meditation that begins with some chanting, which you can join along with, and ends in a prayer. Thank you to everyone who has supported our Kickstarter so far, if you haven't donated and picked out a reward yet, you can find more information here.

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Thanksgiving if you're celebrating, I thought I would do something a little bit different today, so I made a little meditation that you can join along with if you want, starts off with a little bit of chanting, I've put the words up on the screen so that you can chant along if you want to. I'm not the world's greatest chanter, but it's the sincerity that matters. I also put a link in the comment section so you can read the the meaning of the mantra if you if you want to do that, and then there's a little written prayer that I've made. And if you're feeling it, then hopefully, it could be your prayer to. So maybe more than anything, I'm grateful for the ability to do astrology, and I'm grateful for all of you and being able to share in this beautiful practice with all of you each and every day. So I hope you're having a good one and hope you enjoy the meditation.

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Gopala Gopala Devaki Nandana Gopala, Gopala Gopala Yashoda Nandana Gopala x 12

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All gratitude, all worship, all celebration, and all the joy of my satellite, heart, soul of my soul, and love, my love. Thank you for the life that you give this mighty, mighty creation for endless days upon endless days of truth, beauty, and unlimited goodness. For every immaculate beat of creation and for anything beautiful or true that I have ever said or heard. Thank you. Thank you for the shelter of your holiness. Thank you for speaking to me in quiet places. Thank you for making me one day at a time. A little bit more genuine, a little bit more sincere and a little bit more caring. Thank you for motivating me to care. And remember you are the heart of the mighty heavens thank you for every sacred form that you take in the centre of every last unique atom of existence. Thank you for the air that I breathe for the cold and the heat and the vastness of space or universe of universes. Thank you.

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Thank you for the everyday saints that you've put in my path for the mentors, the teachers for the shining lights that helped me to know beyond any doubt I'm walking home to thank you for being each breathtaking step for reviewing my soul one devastating an amazing day at a time. I thank you For every last failure in every last hurt me your love in me and in the world increase. I thank you for every obstacle that you have ever put in my path sincerely. And when I don't feel that way, please help me to feel that way. Because you were my love and you are my guide and you are my truth no matter what. I pray that you heal the sickness covering the world, covering our hearts. please heal us. I pray that you heal the fear covering our hearts. Heal the arrogance that blinds us from the simplest truths of love and service and devotion. I pray that you heal within our hearts the disease of impatience of selfishness, and bring us back to the sweetness of your perfect friendship. I pray that You forgive us of our intolerances, and the paranoia that lives deep inside of us, cleaning our hearts.

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The heart of the night sky, the maker of the moon, sun, and the stars help us to dance to pray to sing and to love one another. I pray that you help us to love our enemies really, and truly, to pray for those who hate us. Or those that we may feel justified to hate. Remove the poison of our self righteousness and petty competitions help us to shed the weight of power and the burden of domination. And thank you thank you whether you do anything that we ask or not. Thank you for the daily movements of the stars and the planets for the heavenly language you've left written in the sky.

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Thank you for the daily assurance that we are visitors moving through infinite sanctuaries of your perfect creation. May we be the stewards and shepherds of those who are lost and hurting? May we bring your love to all who are seeking May our example in our integrity and our stubborn insistence upon a life lived close to your heart. Speak louder than any ideas. May our love drown out our defensive philosophies. May your love consume us until we find our way home. Thank you. Thank you for this heavenly language of the stars. And for the ability to see our lives in you. If we only look up as we look out. Thank you for living within us. within every last terrible, amazing, beautiful thing. We give thanks me your love, seal this prayer and bind it in my heart forever and forever. Amen.

 

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The Astrology of December 2020

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Today I’ve posted my Astrology of the month for December 2020, which is another huge month, capping off one of the most intense years of my astrological career.

I’d also love to know how the month of November has been for you – be sure to leave a comment below!

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology. And today I'm going to take a look at the astrology of December 2020. So this is our last month of 2020. I can hardly believe it. It's been like the longest and most intense year in my 10 year career of doing astrology. And I know you all have been along for the ride as well in your own personal lives all of us. I've never also seen as many, you know, dramatic twists and turns in my clients lives. This year has just been intense, both collectively and personally as far as I can tell.

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So we're going to take a look at the last month of the year, there's a lot of things happening this month. We've got an eclipse we've got Jupiter and Saturn conjoining. in Aquarius, we have a bunch of little known antiscia aspects that are happening, which you probably heard me talk about very recently. We have Mars squaring Pluto again. So it's just it's full on, there's actually a bunch of aspect with Neptune this month as well. So it should be pretty fascinating.

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Before I get into it, I just want to remind everybody that my Kickstarter is running between now and New Year's Eve. We are trying to beat last year's goal of 691 backers 690 backers, were at 180, today about three or four days in so we're doing really well we're off to a great start. But I still need your support. So if you haven't shipped in already, I'd really appreciate it. If you appreciate this channel, if you watch it regularly, semi regularly, you share it, the insights stick with you, you learn new things, I put a tonne of heart and soul into this. This occupies a majority of my day, every single day, preparing for creating these. And if you want to learn more about the process that I take to create all this content, if you go to my Kickstarter, you can also watch a video and I kind of show you everything that goes into it as well. So and when you donate, you can pick up a bunch of different rewards, there are exclusive readings and lectures and things like that. There's also over 50% off to all of my online courses for 2021. So if you were thinking, hey, I want to take Acyuta's class in the spring or maybe next fall. Either way, you can use the reward to attend one of my ancient astrology for the modern mystic online training programmes or my year to or advanced horary programmes. So check all of that out. I really appreciate your support. The link is in the comments section if you if you need to find it there. Okay, so all that being said, what's the real time clock and take a look at what's going on.

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So we're gonna go day by day through the month. And as always, I highlight the transits that I think are going to be the most impactful. I don't necessarily cover every single transit. If there's one I missed that you feel like is really important, I'd love to hear your interpretation, feel free to leave it in the comments section. Let's go ahead, I've got December 1st pulled up here. And the thing that I want to draw our attention to is between the first and the sixth, you're going to see mercury going through a series of antiscia to Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto. So let's just move this forward just a touch so we get Mercury into Sagittarius. Now here's what here's an if you don't know what antiscia are, earlier this week I did a video on antiscia with the sun. So you if you go to the video that says "The Sun forming Antiscia to Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto", watch that video I explain what an ticia is so that you can understand it.

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Anyway, here is Mercury entering Sagittarius on December 1st going into the sign of Jupiter in Sagittarius where Mercury's in its detriment so it's now getting into the beams of the Sun into the combustion zone getting pretty close to that. So Mercury is getting a little bit weaker. And Mercury is now in the hands of Jupiter who is still in his fall. And Mercury is going into the secretive antiscion conjunction with Saturn, and then Jupiter. And then Pluto. And this trifecta of aspects is happening between the 1st and the 6th of the month. So what what could you anticipate from this? Well, one thing when it comes to Mercury and antiscia, is that it heightens that sense of something secretive. We have Mercury invisible behind the beams under the beams of the Sun. Mercury is the planet that dips and dives in and out of invisibility in the underworld, you know more than any other planet. Along with the moon, which is always goes through a dark phase once a month, but Mercury changes from visible to invisible evening star to morning star and back really frequently. And Mercury can be Hermes can be very sneaky, and is has a way of moving through, you know, places that are seen and unseen. You think, for example, about the simple feature of gossip. How many times a day do we talk about someone or something that isn't present before us. The effects of the words that we say when someone or something isn't present around us don't always appear to us right away. But anybody who survived grade school, junior high high school knows that words that you say when people aren't there in front of you have a way of getting misconstrued, misinterpreted, the gossip goes around, and it does have a consequence. I'm just using that as a metaphor, you could say or kind of an analogy, to what happens of when Mercury's in these antiscia.

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Mercury as a planet of invisibility might be bringing things together that we don't see right away. And I would anticipate even given that the antiscia aren't a typical aspect, that they're not visible re connecting the planets. In fact, in traditional astrology, these signs are in aversion to one another. And yet these connections are being made, while Mercury's under the beams of the Sun. I would anticipate that things are, it's possible that things are going to be glossed over or that we're going to try to hide things. Or that things that are discovered are not necessarily going to be spoken about until later. Now, this could, you know, mean a whole bunch of different things. For example, let's just say that you're looking over a contract, you take a look at the contract, and you don't really read it carefully. Right? So this would be kind of glossing over something. And then later, suddenly, you get to crossing the T's and dotting the I's and actually signing off on the thing, and you notice it, and then everything changes because suddenly you notice something that before was hidden or that you weren't paying attention to or you're somehow glossing over. The bottom line of Mercury Saturn could be in at least the first couple of days of December could have to do with really looking at things that are hard bottom lines that somehow have been invisible to us or that we've been missing somehow. Or it could be that there's impediments that are coming up or, you know, harder truths that we're having to meet and recognise, and maybe there's a history there, maybe there's some level of denial or secretiveness. That's just something to keep your eye on in the early stages of the month. The one that I'm more concerned about, though, is the conversation that Mercury is going to have with Jupiter.

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Mercury in its in Jupiter's power and Jupiter being in its fall sandwiched between Saturn and Pluto. That's rough, because you've got a Mercury that's being burnt up in its detriment in Jupiter's sign and Jupiter's a little bit messed up. So I would think of, for example, the potential for something really overstated or exaggerated, something pompous or puffed up to occur, or for information to get exaggerated or inflated to some epic proportions. Those are all a messed up Mercury in the hands of a messed up Jupiter, some some information communication idea gets compounded, right, by the way that Jupiter tends to make things a lot bigger, and not in such a great way when it's in the sign of its fall. And also because Mercury is going to move through the antiscion with Pluto. There's something really subterranean about all of this. For example, one of the things that you you think about is let's say that somebody comes to assess a problem, like a contractor comes to take a look at a problem and they say, yeah, it's gonna be easy to fix, it'll cost you this much money. They come back and then they take a look at again, and all of a sudden they say, Oh, actually, there's all of these other problems and it's going to be a lot more money and suddenly something has been revealed and it's a lot bigger of an issue than you thought it was going to be.

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Those would all be real possibilities. As would the potential that that contractor is somehow being dishonest and making up or inflating the nature of what's been found. I have mechanics in my family so I mean no disrespect to mechanics but you have probably had a mechanic at some point that has found ways of charging you more for something that you went in to fix that was quite simple. I need a new battery or, you know what I mean? Something and all of a sudden, they're like, Oh, you need a new engine? And you're like, Wait, what? So watch for that kind of dynamics. Also the potential here for people to get really zealous about things. Because a little bit of a burnt up Mercury, early inflamed in a fire sign with fallen Jupiter with Pluto and Saturn, I think about disinformation and propaganda. And I think about people potentially getting really rigid and dogmatic or zealous about things, at least for a little temporary period of time as Mercury is going through these, these antiscia. So those are some of the things that come to mind. The other thing is that you could just think generally Mercury stuff might get a little bit jacked up mercury stuff could include communication, technology, speech, learning, writing, you know, anything related to bartering, or trading or anything where there's kind of exchange of goods, services, ideas, you know, you want to be careful around this time. This would be not a good time, for example, to get into a legal fight with somebody, it's not a good like inception, I'll look for the start of a legal battle, I wouldn't like this chart very much, and people could also tend to, you know, bring like trumped up charges or something like that, where there's a way of trying to get something done by by hurling a lot at somebody. And sometimes, you know, when we, when we overwhelm somebody with something, or so many things all at once, they're likely to give in and give us at least something that we want, because they're overwhelmed by so many things at once. So getting overwhelmed and feeling like you're in a compromised position, because you're just trying to get out of overwhelm. And you end up kind of giving too much. That would be something else that I would watch for around this.

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You just are looking for a way out, you want to get something done. So you're willing to make some kind of compromise because the heat's on, you know what I mean? So watch for that around the first week of the month. Now during this time. The other reason that I think we have to be very careful about some elements of secretiveness, shadyness, coercion, manipulation, etc, is because on December 5th, we're also going to see a debilitated Venus in a trine with Neptune. Now, Venus, Neptune, trines aren't the worst thing in the world. You think it kind of has a seductive, romantic, it's sort of sublime, Venus, Neptune. It's an aura of enthusiasm and theose the God within there's a feeling of being seduced by spirits and by moods and atmospheres and it's a really romantic kind of transit but because you have Venus debilitated in a Mars ruled sign, Venus in Scorpio, one of the things that can happen to venus in scorpio, especially because look what's happening. Mars is getting into it with Pluto. That's Venus' host. Venus in Mars' sign is not in her comfort zone. When you then have Mars moving into the square with Pluto, you think about people trying to get things done in ways that are very coercive and manipulative. But also, the underlying motivation is strength, power, domination, competition, there's hostility underneath the surface, but Venus, Neptune might bring that across in a way that's pretty seductive. So that's something to keep your eye on. And it's happening at the same time that Mercury is going through the antiscia with these three planets. So the remember antiscia have, have always had an aura of things happening underneath the surface. Sometimes it's unconscious or unseen or invisible. So there's a lot of that at the beginning of the month that I'm really just keeping my eye on.

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Now, what is this followed up by again, on the 9th you get another Neptune aspect. Now this is just after the Venus Neptune Trine is separating. But you have Mars increasing, getting closer to the square to Pluto. Now Mars Pluto is really explosive and cathartic, but it has a lot to do with will and dominance and competition and things like that. And the Sun is going through a square to Neptune. Mercury is going to do the square to Neptune as well and the square from Mercury to Neptune comes in around December 13. So, you know, from the 9th to the 13th, there's two more pretty powerful aspects from the Sun and Mercury to Neptune. So you have the same thing happening. Again, I don't mean to paint Neptune is just this totally deceptive planet. But given the fact that Mars is applying to Pluto, that Venus is in Scorpio, you just get the feeling of being really careful about how you're trying to go about getting things done this month, because the temptation to do things in a more underhanded, covert secretive manner, or to try to get away with things or to look one way on the surface. But your motivations or intentions are different behind the surface, or below the surface. That's all I think it's really important to stay aware of that as a possibility this month. now, we will get out of the weeds because there's some really big changes that happen later in the month that are going to shift the dynamic of the whole month entirely, especially Jupiter and Saturn leaving Capricorn.

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But up until this point, it to me it looks a lot like there are going to be difficult choices and compromises and we may not feel clear or there we may not have all the information, or we may feel like people or situations are, are maybe trying to take advantage of us or we could fall prey to trying to cut corners that are really important not to cut for the sake of integrity and karma in the long run. So anyway, now the Sun square Neptune. Another nice thing about this is that we are starting to get a new vision. And there is this sense of mean here we have, you know, the Sun coming across the south node, it's about to form an eclipse with the South node. And it's in Jupiter sign and Jupiter is about to switch dignity. To me, this also speaks to a new vision and a new level of inspiring insight, you think kind of the miraculous epiphany, you think of like a person being pulled out of the water after they're baptised with the sun Neptune and just, it's like I'm reborn, and there's a sense of healing and clarity and inspiration and even that sense of heroic or divine calling or mission, get those feelings from the Sun, Neptune and Mercury Neptune is also can be very otherworldly.

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I remember, some years ago, and Robert Schmidt, who I consider to be one of my teachers in this lifetime. He passed away and I was there when he passed away I was I spent a little bit of time in the hospital room when when he was there. And Mercury was squaring Neptune. And it was the passage of this great teacher, and he had spent a lot of his life talking about Hermes/Mercury, so there was Mercury squaring Neptune and he was, you know, in another state of consciousness, you know, on, you know, basically getting ready to leave his body. Weirdly enough, there were so many like, epiphanies and aha moments that that I had, because I was sitting there watching a teacher that was very dear to me on a number of different reasons. I just really loved his mind, especially and, and there he was, you know, leaving his body. So sometimes there's also going to be some sense of the dissolution of something or someone the passing of something or someone. And then the inspiration that floods in. Let me carry on a legacy, let me the baton is being passed from one person to another or one generation to another. And the sense of this being a divine moment, that starts to clear the clouds of haze and confusion. It's not so important what happened in the past or how it happened or why it happened. Or if we have been hurt or betrayed or misled or deceived. This could also be a clarifying moment where we suddenly say, it doesn't matter because this has been clarifying somehow, that confusion is now leading to some sense of faith.

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In what comes next, and some sense of divine order in all of this in all of the confusion, and, you know, in potential lack of clarity that the earlier transits in the month that I've talked about show this transit can also suddenly peel the clouds back in the Sun is coming through, which is a weird thing about the sun and Neptune in general, because a lot of people think sun Neptune, they can think of, you know, heroic delusions of grandeur. And that can be a thing too. But there's also a weird way in which Sun Neptune has to do with the disillusionment, and at the same time, some sense of divine inspiration. So now let's go forward a little bit further in the month. And let's get to go to the 14th. And this is what I'm talking about, right? Because there's more evidence to the same point, which is that you have a solar eclipse coming through on December 14 in Sagittarius. Now, why is that so remarkable? Because it's in Jupiter sign. It's in Jupiter's power, right. So it's a lot. It's very Jupiter's in its fall. But what is Jupiter about to do? So Saturn enters Aquarius, on the 16th. And then Jupiter is going to follow on the 19th.

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Now that's important for a number of different reasons. First of all, Jupiter Saturn conjunctions are somewhat rare, they only happen, you know, every 20 years, the synodic cycle is like 20 years. It's also unique because it takes a long time. I'm going to I'm doing a separate video series on Jupiter Saturn. So this is just sort of a sneak peek. But it takes a long time for Saturn and Jupiter's conjunctions to change elemental families. They're just moving into the air signs. And, and that's a big deal. That shifts the mood significantly of the times that we're living in Jupiter, Saturn are like markers of major collective in generational changes. Okay, so now the reason that I'm saying that this is a big deal, is because here you have a solar eclipse in Jupiter sign, which means Jupiter is toning it. And it's not just any Jupiter, it's a fallen Jupiter that is suddenly about to sort of rise out of the ashes of poor dignity and conjoin Saturn in the sign of the waterbearer, an air sign and a sign that suggests a big lift for Jupiter. And this is coming as the Sun is also cazimi with Mercury, right around the winter solstice, December 21. The Winter Solstice comes in, and Jupiter and Saturn get together.

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Meanwhile, there's a celebratory feeling in the air. Because just prior to this, Venus, Goddess of good fortune, pops into Jupiter's sign in Sagittarius, just as there could joining and changing signs. So you have and then what is in what is she doing just as she enters hitting antiscia with these planets again. So that's really interesting because you have this planet that's associated with good fortune, just after a solar eclipse signifying a new beginning. And you have those signals of new beginning happening just as Jupiter's picking up a whole bunch of dignity and moving out of fallen Capricorn, you get the feeling of some kind of rebirth or reset, and it's a big one. It's significant, historically. And it's going to be very fortunate. But there's some things that are going to be a part of this that are really unexpected this month that come out of the blue and I think a part of it is because there's a lot going on behind the scenes with a bunch of antiscia this month, all leaning towards a messed up Jupiter that could really hurt things, but then somehow turns this big corner and starts providing us with a new vision and a new, like a breath of fresh air somehow. Wow, really, really, really interesting stuff.

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This month and last month were two of the biggest that I had circled in addition to the earlier part of the year when Saturn and Pluto got together. But I didn't think coming into this month that I would be as excited as I am. Because one of the things that I really wasn't paying attention to were the antiscia. So, that's, that's been an addition to my way of thinking about this month that's got me pretty excited about where all this is heading. So how would I translate all of this? I once was lost, but now I'm found that's the kind of feeling that I get from the mid month turnaround. Once Jupiter hits Aquarius, it's as though there's there's this profound new sense of beginning that's happening and it's a collective thing. But it's also going to be very personal. One thing that we're going to do in the series that I'll that I'll make on Jupiter and Saturn will be to take it through the houses and talk about what kind of new beginning can you expect, especially given the combination of Sagittarius in the Solar Eclipse and Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter, all of the antiscia this month in Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter and Venus at the tail end here, the goddess of good fortune, hitting antiscia with Jupiter and Saturn and then boom, they change signs. There's something about this encounter with Venus this month that makes me think the feminine women, the goddess sexuality, something around harmonisation of different elements. And some stroke of good luck or grace is going to come in and really be a game changer. And this is from I would say the 14th New Moon all the way up until about the let's say the 21st on the winter solstice like that period of time is like, it's going to be really interesting to see how Venus plays a role in that in particular.

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Well, the Venus antiscion with Pluto should also be interesting because there's this complete and total deep transformation that Venus will go through when she hits the antiscion with Pluto, which will also happen right on the winter solstice, as Jupiter and Saturn are conjoining in Aquarius, what is let's talk just a little bit more about the Jupiter Saturn in Aquarius motif. I'm going to go into this again, like I said in greater depth in a series that I'm doing on these two planets, so I'll save it but the first thing to note is that in mediaeval astrology, and to certain extent, even dating farther back, Jupiter is associated with spring, and with new life and Kronos/Saturn with old age, and this is pretty easy to understand. Saturn represents the ruler of the Golden Age. Jupiter is the son that overtakes Kronos. So you have the idea of the old man and the the young man or the old person in the younger generation. When they come together, there's often this feeling of a new epoch or a new era in our lives, where wisdom lessons learned maturity, rank status, mastery gained starts translating into tangible results. Or you're going to see this idea of the enthusiasm and inspiration that comes into our life in some particular area and says new let's go and it's going to be hard work Saturn, but we're going to there's a lot of enthusiasm Jupiter to do something completely different. It's also a meeting of the more mature qualities with the more inspired and youthful qualities. And those those coming together in a new air sign. It's not just that it's all you know, people like love to idealise Aquarius, we're going to hopefully talk about why Aquarius is really interesting and fun and also knock it down a peg from the whoo because people people get into Aquarius, like the Age of Aquarius and all this kind of stuff.

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We're going to talk about all of that but one thing that I will say is that the thing that makes this so potent is that you're you're getting a totally different kind of Saturnine vibe than you do in Capricorn. Both are Saturn ruled signs in ancient astrology but Aquarius very different kind of Saturn. But more than that it's Jupiter leaving its fall. When Jupiter leaves its fall it it no longer is is a badly debilitated Jupiter. And so we're going to see the Jupiter that we know and love a little bit more coming back. And for most people, that's going to mean a feeling of redemption of restored faith of a new vision for the future of the the feeling of being ready to start over and press reset after long hard tribulations and challenges. Little bit of that feeling of having persevered and gone through something and having to kind of keep the faith through the heaviness of doubts and you know and and darkness that when Jupiter moves into Aquarius, some of that's going to lift just by nature of the dignity change.

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So that's a big deal. Now one of the things that's really interesting is that right away as they enter they're going to be going into a square with Uranus. Now, this is something that will unfold over 2021 but Jupiter Uranus is all about breakthroughs. Like if you think about people defying records beat like beating breaking like records like faster than the speed of sound in an aeroplane or you know, the death defying, you know, extreme sports manoeuvres or anything that would be record breaking well, and also the idea of a kind of potential for things going crazy, like Bitcoin or certain technologies or cryptocurrencies, or people getting really inspired by something, and possibly getting, like almost like going to the supermarket with a, you know, an empty stomach. You buy everything because you're so hungry. This has the buyer beware in 2021 of the inspiration is so much that it's like Icarus, you fly too high toward the Sun and you get burned. But Saturn is there in the mix and will quickly clip wings if it's doing that or we'll quickly demonstrate that there's something fanatical or unrealistic here or will emphasise that some of the enthusiasm is bordering on zealousness, fanaticism, etc. So we have this real push pull between the really expansive exciting Jupiter Uranus and the the more contractive, conservative Saturn qualities that are going to be on display and you'll feel it right away, actually. And we could see some of those things even you know, in December, but the initial just Hello, let's get a few planets out of Capricorn, that's going to feel really great to people. And it's going to have a big impact on your birth chart regardless, because when planets ingress and change signs, you really feel it. It doesn't even matter if it's hitting planets in your chart or not ingresses into new houses in ancient astrology were a big deal. So we'll we'll go through the house positions when we do that series.

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Now, as if that isn't enough, just days after the winter solstice and the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, we are seeing Mars in in Aries, making the square to Pluto. Now that's that volcanic eruptive level of Mars force kind of coming up from the underworld, it's the power to get things done. It's the it's the it's the power to move through an obstacle. It's a heroic display of force and strength. And it's also the potential for bullying or strong arming or, you know, trying to trying to murder and steal to get what you want. The ruthlessness of that transit is a real thing, too. But it's also a great cathartic moment, we'd have to be we have to be really careful around this time. For example, I would imagine that Mars Pluto will show up as something in the world of athletes, something in the world of warfare, something around guns, something around violence, I mean, that stuff is going to be there. But this is also a moment where if you've been waiting for something to happen, and you've been waiting on it, especially since last June, as long as Mars has been in Aries, this is a moment of catharsis for a lot of people it's going to be like that, of moving through some something that you've been waiting on back since since June and way before the the Mars retrograde it's like the grand finale for Mars and Aries in a sense. It's going to change out in the new year into Taurus where then immediately enters into squares with Jupiter Saturn conjunction with Uranus. That's really the astrological story of January.

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At the very end of the month, we're going to see a Full Moon in Cancer, which I like just as a softening effect toward the very end of the month. There's a real soft energy. And there's something probably I think that you could see the end of the year wrapping up with an emphasis emphasis on things like family home. There's emotion, unity that's that's calling out to us at the Full Moon in Cancer at the very end of the month. And so either the earlier part of the month feels more like a thriller. And maybe maybe even like a spy novel or something, there's a lot of like, kind of, and, and it also It feels like, really, there's a lot of kind of revolutionary transits in the air. But it brings, you bring it back to the home and hearth to the sweetness and emotional concern and connectedness of the full moon in cancer at the end of the month on the 29th. And it has, it also has this feeling of sweetness that's coming on the 30th as Venus is also going through a square to Neptune. I like that better than what I was seeing with Venus trining Neptune in Scorpio at the beginning of the month, because they're both in Jupiter signs Jupiter's just had this big bump. And I think it's harder in some ways for us to be diluted by the squares than it is the trines with Neptune and Venus. But that's kind of just a theory of mine.

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But here you have just again, kind of a romantic and dreamy and just a very pleasant looking Venus square to Neptune it could be filled with the joy and enthusiasm of the the new Jupiter energy. And I think that that's probably good. And I like that set alongside of, you know, a pretty nice looking Full Moon in Cancer. So the Full Moon in Cancer, it's not so close to Pluto that it worries me. And as the Moon goes through Cancer, it hits a lot of pretty constructive aspects overall, toward the very end of that transit going into the new year, it's going to hit the Pluto Mars dynamic temporarily, could be a little bit of a of, you know, messiness, but I like the end of the month anyway, it's just kind of a softening effect at the very end.

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So that's my take on December, I like to just kind of lay it out, look at it overall, give you a feeling for it give you a sense of what kind of things I have my eye on. And then as the month goes on, what I typically do if you're new to my channel is I break down each transit, we take a look at each transit as they're going, and we sort of unpack it and offer more, you know, accessible personal interpretations, collective reflections, and so forth. But for now, I'd love to hear what you guys think about this. When you hear about these transits overall for the month of December, what are you thinking? How are you already seeing this potentially playing out in your own life, try to keep it clean and nice. I tend to delete things that are really inflammatory just so you guys know.

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The Sun Forming Antiscia with Saturn Jupiter and Pluto

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Today I'll be taking a look at the antiscia that are forming now between the Sun in Sagittarius, and the three planets in Capricorn, Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto.
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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we are going to take a look at a little known aspect called antiscia. There are three antiscia being formed right now between the Sun and Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto. And because the Sun is currently in the sign of Sagittarius, it is in Jupiter's power and Jupiter's in its fall. And so for about the next five to six days these antiscia that are being formed can become a lot more potent than you might think. Especially if you've never heard of them before they can really, it can be an interesting thing to learn about.

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Also, people don't always pay a lot of attention to antiscia. But when one planet is in the power of another with the antiscion, the power dynamics change dramatically. And so they're really important to pay attention to. And I'm going to show you an example of why today and then explain how this works and what you could watch for in the days ahead. And this is something that almost snuck under my radar, I really didn't have it written down as something big I wanted to talk about this month. And then I was I was actually dealing with something in my personal life. And all of a sudden, I was like, wait, this feels like the Sun and Saturn. Why do I feel like the Sun and Saturn, I was like, Oh my gosh, it's there's an ant tissue being formed right now, of course. And so then I sat down, mapped it all out this morning and was like this is going to take the cake for what I had something else planned, but I was like, no, this is it.

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Alright, so um, antiscia, what is it? What's going on? Why is this a big deal? All right, so first of all, you can see, here's the real time clock, and I want to point them out to so the antiscia are being formed between the Sun in Sagittarius and Saturn. This is the one that just happened. And so I had noticed it yesterday. And I was like, oh, wow, yeah, there it is. And then you can see that it's going to also move into if you know what antiscia are already, it's going to form with Jupiter, and then with Pluto, all in a row. Now, the reason that these antiscia are so impactful, and I'm going to write this down so that you can follow it if you're kind of like a student of astrology.

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You have the Sun in Sagittarius. The Sun is in Jupiter's power, that's Sagittarius being the sign of Jupiter. And forming antiscia with Jupiter. Jupiter is in its fall. So what does that mean? Well, imagine that I went over to your house for dinner. But let's say that you had COVID that's a terrible thing. Okay, so let's just say that you were you had the Rona, you were dealing with, my mom just got done dealing with it. My best friend's mom is currently dealing with it, it is not pretty. But anyway, that's kind of the picture. Jupiter in its fall is really connected, especially with Pluto to the proliferation, which is a joopa terian thing of something that is more malignant. For example, Jupiter in Capricorn, I've seen in at least a dozen charts in the past year of my practice for people who are dealing with tumours or lumps, not necessarily cancerous, but just things that grow that aren't necessarily good. That's Jupiter and Saturn sign and it's fall growing, but maybe growing things that are more Saturn that have to do with decay or death or, or disease, unfortunately, so that's part of the pandemic signature of the year. So imagine that I go over to your house, and you have you have a sickness and I'm like, I'm ready for dinner. So what do you serve me you serve me food because you're my host, Jupiter is the host of the Sun, but the the food is contaminated because you're sick. So then I get sick, right? That's the basic idea when you see one planet in the power of another planet and the other planet who is the host is all jacked up. So we have this kind of signature in the sky right now. And the main difficult one is the Sun to Jupiter, the Sun to Saturn really not as bad because Saturn's in its own sign and a Sun Saturn conjunction though it's not always easy, with a well, dignified Saturn it is not a huge deal. But when you get into that conjunction with the fall in Jupiter by antiscia, that's when it becomes problematic. Pluto, not necessarily easy, either.

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So let's see how this plays out in the dates, you need to see the two degrees for an antiscia to add up to 30. So when you get the Sun at 252, and you've got Saturn at about 27' 51", they're just separating from antiscia: the two degrees have to add up to 30, across the signs of Capricorn, and Sagittarius. And I'll explain more of the technical pieces of antiscia in a minute.

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So, if you watch this, we need to see here's the Sun going to about, you know, four to five degrees. Now, if you see the Sun, I'm just doing this very loosely, for those of you who are more technically savvy. The Jupiter position is at about 25 degrees, and the Sun is at five degrees. So the two degree positions add up to 30. So that's the conjunction and that is happening by Friday of this week. All right, and then we want to move it a little bit farther along to get in with Pluto. And you see that that's going to happen by Sunday. Now, this is bringing us through the Venus-Uranus opposition. And it's also bringing us into that Eclipse on Monday as well. So this is not a small thing to be happening. Like I said, it sort of flew under my radar. That's actually a key signature of antiscia, by the way, is that there's something a little bit subtle or secretive about them. Anyway, so you can see the two getting together here by Sunday. So if you put all that together, what you're saying is that between now and the eclipse on Monday, you've got several antiscia, a very troubling one with the sun and Jupiter, fallen Jupiter. And then Pluto, as Venus is also perfecting an opposition to Uranus. And then as the lunar eclipse comes into Gemini, late Sunday night into Monday morning. So what does this add into the mix of Eclipse week for us?

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Before I go into the interpretive piece, let's just pause and take a moment to explain what antiscia is, because conceptually, if you understand what it is, you're going to understand the interpretation a lot more and appreciated a lot more. And you can actually start feeling it in your body even more, the more you understand things in astrology, the easier they get. So imagine that there is a line and the line goes right through the solstice points of zero Capricorn and zero Cancer, the winter and summer solstice in the western system, obviously, this is oriented toward the northern towards the northern hemisphere. But regardless, it is the signs on either side of the solstice is equal distance from that zero degree marker, that are going to participate in these antiscia. So you have Capricorn and Sagittarius. The sign that comes on one side of the winter solstice and the sign on the exact other side. Go two more signs out and you get to Scorpio and Aquarius, and then go to more signs out and you get to Libra and Pisces. So when planets are in these signs, and the degree total of two planets in these respective signs that I've just highlighted, add up to 30, that's when they're at their antiscia with one another. And it's considered a kind of secretive form of conjunction and I'll explain why in a minute.

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Now, on the other side, the signs that form antiscia around the summer solstice are going to be Cancer and Gemini, Leo and Taurus and Virgo and Aries. So, if planets two planets fall in these signs and fall out degrees that add up to 30, then you also have antiscia. Now, what is antiscia all about? Well, let's just imagine that we're talking about the climb of the Sun upward toward the summer solstice, and then from the summer solstice, the Sun starts going down. So the Sun at the summer solstice, is at highest point in the sky. Now imagine that the Sun at 20 degrees of Gemini, the Sun is in its path up to the longest day of the year. When we get to zero Cancer, 10 degrees later, the Sun will start moving back down. And when it gets to 10 degrees of Cancer, it will be back to the parallel place that the sun was at when it was going upward at 20 degrees of Gemini. So 20 Gemini plus 10 Cancer land on days of the year where there's an equal amount of light and dark in the 24 hour period. The difference is that at 20 Gemini, the Sun is still going up to its brightest or longest day of the year. Whereas at 10 Cancer, the sun has already rounded that corner and is now coming down. The days are getting shorter, but still at these respective days of the year, where the degree totals add up to 30 in the appropriate signs relative to that high point of the summer solstice, there's going to be an equal amount of light and dark in the 24 hour day.

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What that means is that planets that are situated at these degrees, even though they don't share an aspectual relationship with one another, they share a kind of secretive conjunction, a secret form of sameness conjunction means that the two planets are merging or blending on a certain level. And so when planets are at these degrees, they're similar, it's as though they take on a secretive form of sameness. Okay, so a secretive form of conjunction. There's another whole set of and tissue called contra antiscia, which I won't go into today, those are the exact same method but formed around the equinox points, so you can follow that logic out, contrary, and antiscia are going to be a little bit more like a secretive form of opposition. And they have to do with equal but opposite amounts of light and dark. So they have a little bit more of a standoff with one another. And planets on the light half of the year will tend to command those that are on the dark half the year, which were said to obey. So that's a whole different concept we're not going into today, but just a little preview, maybe I'll do a video on it or a q&a later.

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Planets in antiscia that we're looking at here have a secretive form of sameness. Now, I want to take you backward in time and just give you a sense of why this is so important. If we go back to about January, one thing that you are going to see here is a super important moment in the year. Now, one of the things that I was writing about was at the time was this antiscion that was forming between Mars and Jupiter. Here, you can see that the planet Mars is right here at 16 degrees. And here is here's Jupiter at about 13 degrees. And so the degree total between the two was in the process of perfecting, and you can see this happening and this is a week that I was doing a lot of predicting about this saying, hey, look at this antiscia. The reason that this is really troubling to me, is that you have Mars hitting a secretive form of conjunction with Jupiter over the last few days of the month of January. And Mars is in Sagittarius, which is Jupiter's sign and Jupiter is in its fall, which means that Jupiter can represent something that brings Mars down. Jupiter has the potential to damage or harm Mars. Interesting that Jupiter's in the exaltation of Mars while also in its fall.

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And I was really puzzled by this but thought it this really looks like it could be rather difficult. And I thought about the downfall of political leaders or really important Mars like figures and at first I was really thinking about military figures as Mars tends to represent that. But of course, what ended up happening was that the legendary sports icon Kobe Bryant, died in a helicopter accident along with his daughter, and some other passengers who were there as well, I don't recall who they were exactly. But I think there might have been some other famous sports icons in the helicopter, I can't recall if someone can maybe remind us in the chat box. But here's a perfect example of the antiscia that we're now seeing again.

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Essentially you have Mars, you know, going over to dinner at Jupiter's house and Jupiter's in its fall and is either can't give Mars anything or it's actually going to harm Mars, because Jupiter's kind of kind of jacked up. So I had said watch for the downfall of Mars like figures, and we saw the downfall of a very famous athlete. Now, that was not something like I had, I didn't wasn't expecting it to be an athlete. But I was expecting for the potential of this. This exchange to be really rough on Mars, that Mars gets served a little bit of a kick in the face by a fallen Jupiter. So that's the position that we're finding ourselves in again. Now, why? How did I get triggered to this where you can see the Sun just going through the conjunction with Saturn. And in the days ahead, we'll go through the antiscia with Jupiter. So what do we expect? We would expect the downfall of solar figures or we would expect the potential for there to be difficulty for Sun stuff.

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What is Sun stuff? Well, that's when we have to kind of go back to the basics. Let me pull up my little notes for the day. So okay, first of all, very simply, if you have the Sun as king, leader, president, CEO, or anyone who's sort of powerful, or in charge, or at the centre of things, you're looking at the potential for that kind of figure to have a downfall, to have to face the music or deal with setbacks. So yesterday, three things happened that I noticed as the Sun was perfecting the antiscion with Saturn.

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One was that I was really struggling being a dad, just one of those days where I felt like I was getting about a D plus as as a dad. By and large, I feel like, you know, I'm a decent dad, right? Like, I don't want to brag or anything. I think I'm an Okay dad. But you know, as parents, if any of you guys are parents out there, you know that once in a while, you just have one of those days where you just you do the like, oh, like that sucked, that was brutal. And you lose your cool or you lose your temper, or you snap or something like that. And I just had one of those days. And it was actually two days in a row. And I was just like, What is going on? And that was part of what led to it.

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The second thing was that Donald Trump here in the United States, Trump is signalling that he's starting to accept the transition of power as more state certified the results, sort of crushing any last attempts to, you know, swing the election in his favour through the legal challenges and the accusations of fraud and so forth. And, you know, that they started allowing funds to be distributed for the transition of power. And then my dad was dealing with something that was challenging. And then I was talking to a friend of mine whose mother just got COVID and whose father has Parkinson's, and so he's really really worried about his father who has Parkinson's getting covid from his mom because obviously it's just the two of them.

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So it was like all of a sudden I was like downfall of King, I feel like a rotten dad, my dad is struggling my buddies I'm talking to my buddy on the phone for a long time about his dad and the fear about him getting covid with Parkinson's. Why is like dad stuff flaring up so much? I was like, I didn't think the son was doing anything major right now. Often a planet to look for right? And then I was like, Oh, yeah, the antiscion between the Sun and Saturn. You know, the Sun Saturn loves to swallow children. You know what I mean? Like Saturn is that Kronos is the child leader, right? If you want to think about something really bizarre think about the fact that Jupiter, planet of beliefs has been in its fall around paranoid Pluto, which can create paranoia in the sign of Saturn/Kronos, and over the past couple of years, we've seen major scandal with Jeffrey Epstein and like under age children, and the whole idea of the God who eats the children, I mean that I'm not getting into any of the crazy. There's a lot of conspiracy theories around that person I'm not aware of them. I don't get into all that, but I couldn't help but notice as other theories have been spinning around about child trafficking and QAnon on and all of that stuff that's out there right now. A lot of that has been the expression of a really empowered Saturn with Pluto, and a really messed up Jupiter hanging out together too.

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There's been some real stuff around the degradation of children, which is definitely a Saturn thing. That was such a literal piece of symbolism for me when I was just feeling like I was being like a bad dad. And I was like, wow, like, Oh, right, Sun-Saturn. The figure of the, like suppressive or difficult father figure can really come up with that combination. Luckily, for me, you know, it's a it's a temporary transit, and I do pretty well normally, like I said, but this was, I just noticed, it was really acute anyway, this symbolism of the difficulty around the dichotomy between the old and the young, as well, like one of the I think one of the things I heard more than anything in the United States recently from a lot of people on both the left and the right, is that there, there was like, the all the candidates running for office were extremely old. Right, this is a lot of Saturn heavy stuff right now, right? Anyway, um, all none of that, you know, is really here nor there.

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The sun Saturn dynamic came first. So if you were experiencing a little bit of that over the past few days, that's probably why. You can see that reflected. The Sun is also a reflective of our sense of action, purpose, direction, ego to a certain extent, the thing that holds us together gives us a temporary sense of centre and purpose that you know, and oftentimes a sense of a mission or quest or heroic journey. And when the Sun gets into it with Saturn, it's like it can be depressive, we can feel blocked, we can feel lethargic, we can try to get really really controlling and rigid, and we can be a little bit more domineering. So, that would be the first part of this.

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The second part is going to be the actual conjunction with Jupiter. And so the conjunction with Jupiter by antiscia is coming up. Now, let's time that out. Again. If we move this forward just a little bit, you're gonna see that it comes in Thursday through Saturday would be the orb that I would give it so to speak. So the range in which you can probably feel and notice the effects Thursday through Saturday, that's the same time that Venus is opposing Uranus. So it's at that time that you have this erratic energy, disruption of some kind from Venus, opposite Uranus. And then you have, you know, the Sun in this sort of surprising, secretive antiscia with fallen Jupiter, who can sort of take the Sun down.

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Could we see, you know, health problems from world leaders? I'm not saying I'm certainly not predicting an assassination or anything like that. But could you see something like that happening? In some place in the world? Maybe not here or anything? But maybe, who knows? But could you see something like that? Yeah, I mean, with Venus, opposite Uranus, that's very sudden and disruptive. And then, you know, the, the antiscia between the Sun and fallen Jupiter could certainly bring somebody down. But it doesn't have to be so literal and Shakespearean. It's not something that I would be at the top of my list of what I would expect. More so, you know, could there be scandals emerging about CEOs, you know, in the tech industry, or, or someone you know, being outed for corporate crimes or some way in which a son figure takes a fall or a tumble. Sun figures can be, you know, any any kind of leader really. And personally we could also feel it. Pride comes before a fall. So you could see some way in which the wind is taken out of your sails. Or if you get too proud or cocky that you stumbled this week, just be careful of the high and mighty vibe. Also, be careful of people or things that want to knock you down a peg because they're jealous or envious or bitter or something like that.

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I would also imagine that there could be a sense of something growing or becoming stronger, but we also have to be aware of how we're achieving what we want to achieve the following Jupiter could easily be you know, a little ruthless or sort of crooked in its dealings and how it wants to go and achieve success or something like that. So that's, that's something to just something to pay attention to. I could see someone's ego getting bruised by virtue of a relationship falling apart or changing suddenly. And that's the Venus opposite Uranus dynamic as the sun is perfecting.

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If you go beyond that to Sunday, then the Sun gets into it with Pluto, and it's very similar a feeling of death and rebirth of very deep transformation. And you may not see it coming because there's, it can sneak up a little bit I've noticed whenever antiscia are involved, because the planets aren't in a traditional aspect with one another, they're sharing something that's a little bit more esoteric, there's a secret sameness that they have. But it's not like a traditional line of sight as an aspect would be. Okay, so I just wanted to because I recognised it, and I sort of called myself out, which is that really, the great thing about doing astrology, by the way, is that if you do astrology long enough, and you feel yourself getting caught up in something, which by the way, is a lot easier to do if you're adding in spiritual practice every day. I say it, at least three videos a week, and like, I'm always telling people you know, meditate every day, pray every day, do something every day to get into a centred reflective place, you can quiet down and let your your mind and your Spirit come forth a little bit. It's really hard for the in-dwelling spirit soul to come out when we're busy all the time. So if you do that, you know, then occasionally you're going to you're going to notice is like all of a sudden, you're really getting wrapped up in something. And that feeling of getting really wrapped up in something that you feel a little out of control. Not like you should be like hyper rigid and controlling about everything in your life. But just you feel like you're getting grabbed by something. The grahas, the grabbers, the planets. Then you go wait, what's going on, and then suddenly, you'll notice Oh, look at all these antiscia forming.

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And that's how it it tends to be that way within tissues for whatever reason, they always tend to slip under the radar with me like I should be more proactive and looking for them. And I often am but especially when you have this case with Sagittarius, planets like the Sun, we're going to get some of this with Mercury pretty soon Venus will go through it as well, when they get into Sagittarius. there they're going to hit the antiscia with at least Jupiter or at least Pluto have to look and see if they catch up to Jupiter and Saturn before they change signs. I'm not sure about that.

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But you know, these are things that are definitely worth paying attention to. Like after seeing what happened last year with the Mars dynamic, which is maybe a little bit more ruthless, right, Mars can be a little bit more intense like that. But when I when I saw the news that could be Brian died in a helicopter accident. Not that I was any big Kobe Bryant fan, really. But I was like, wow, like that's a vivid example of, not just any antiscion but an antiscion where the one planet is in the sign of another planet who's debilitated. And then that's when you get that potential for real downfall. So, at any rate, I thought this was kind of an interesting, geeky, fun topic for the day. So I hope that you enjoy it. Please leave your comments section in the comments below. Tell me what you think of it. Do you have any antiscia in your birth chart? Go look for them, see if you can find them. And have you noticed anything already with the Sun, Saturn antiscia, I'd be curious to hear if I was the only one who really felt and noticed that.

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Venus in Scorpio Opposite Uranus in Taurus

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Today I'll be talking about a big transit this week, Venus' opposition to Uranus, which is happening in the run up to next week's eclipse. I'll also be opening up to questions for a live Q&A.

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today I'm doing a live cast, and I'm going to be talking about Venus's upcoming opposition to Uranus from Scorpio to Taurus. That's going to be a big focus for the day. But I'm also going to open up for some live q&a. It's been a while since I've done a q&a episode. So I figured we'd do one today. So if you have questions, feel free to put them into the chat box as we go. And, yeah, I'd be happy to take them as we go along, and I always like to hear where you're all coming in from as well. So as you are listening to this, as you're tuning in, I'd love to see you put that into the live chat. Tell me where you're from. It's always interesting to see where where people are coming from.

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Alright, so before I dive into talking about Venus's opposition to Uranus, which is a a big transit this week that is coming up, as we also have Eclipse season upon us. It sort of culminates and then we get an eclipse. So I'm going to talk about I might talk a little bit about the eclipse, but I'm gonna save some of that for later. But before I go into all of this, I want to remind everybody that I am now in the last 40 days of the year, which those of you guys who have followed me for a long time know, is my fundraising season. So for the last 40 days of the calendar year, I asked people to pitch in and support my work. If you enjoy it, I'm gonna put the link to my Kickstarter into the comments section. So if you're able to support my work, I really appreciate it, fundraise for 40 days, you can pick up a bunch of different rewards some exclusive lectures that I offer through the Kickstarter, there's over 50% off all of my online courses in 2021. I run two programmes per year, one in June and one in November, you can pick up tuition through my Kickstarter to either of those programmes at over 50% off. And that's the best deal I run, I run it every year. So you could you know, if you wanted to wait till 2022 hopefully next year, I'll be here doing this. And you could always do it then. But it's always the cheapest time of year to pick up one of my classes, my horary, my year two class are also on sale for over 50% off through the Kickstarter. So there are different ways that I have of trying to say thank you to folks. There's some readings, there's a limited number of mini readings that I do for people that I actually record. And then one of the more popular ones that I'm doing this year is a full on reading for the whole of 2021, both on the mundane level and say for your rising sign. So you can pick up your Aries horoscope for all of 2021 and get a breakdown of the biggest transits of the year based on your rising sign or your sun sign. So there's a bunch of cool stuff that I offer. I ring the bell like this at this time of year, so you'll hear me doing this between now and New Year's basically New Year's Eve up until midnight. Just so that you guys are aware our backer goal this year, we're always trying to outdo last year's total last year we rallied the support of 690 backers, which was awesome the year before that to give you an idea was like 390. So we went up like 300 last year, which was way way more than we were expecting. This year, our goal is to just break last year's record. If we can get to 691 then we will have out done last year's funding record. So anyway, thank you for bearing with me. We're right now by the way we are at what 98 backers, so you could be the one to push us across 100. So we have a ways to go already, but doing well out the gate, started it over the weekend. So I'm gonna post it into the chat one more time. There's the Kickstarter link, thank you all for your support. I really appreciate it. It's fun to make content like this year round 2020 has been like, I don't know, probably the craziest year of astrological work I've ever done in terms of what I've seen from transits and I mean, yeah, even though I have been writing and talking about say Saturn and Pluto or Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn for at least five years.

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You know, who knew what it would actually turn out like so I'm also excited for creating content in 2021 based on the idea that things are going to tone down a little bit you know, like, but we have Saturn and Uranus and 2021 and a square with each other all year Jupiter Saturn conjunction at the very start of the you know the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, there's still some really big transits in 2021 as well, so should be interesting. In the week ahead, what we're dealing with, is Venus in Scorpio moving into an opposition with Uranus and Taurus. So let's talk about that, and try to try to get a sense of what that's all about what you can what you can expect. Now, um, remember that we are closing in on a Full Moon and a lunar eclipse. The reason that I say that is because transits that happen right before in Eclipse are not normal transits. If there is a Venus dynamic with Uranus like not, it's not a super rare transit, Venus moves very quickly. So, as Venus is whipping around the zodiac, you're gonna get a conjunction a square and opposition, a conjunction and back, its synodic cycle with Uranus repeats quite frequently, between a year and two, if I'm just off the top of my head, but you're going to see aspects from Venus to Uranus more frequently. And the point is that you aren't going to see it that frequently happening right before an eclipse. So any transit that is faster moving, it's dynamic, you're going to want to pay attention to it for a week of your life. But it's not a long standing Saturn Pluto conjunction, it's not a long standing, you know, Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn triple conjunction, those are the ones that make headlines in astrology because they last so long, these faster moving transits don't. And so they're the kinds of things I break down week by week for you guys just to give you a sense of what's happening in a more up to the minute kind of way. But when one of those faster moving transits happens right before an eclipse, you are getting a big signal as to what that Eclipse is going to be about. Because it's most likely that the transits that happen right before it are the ones that are triggering some aspect or element of what the eclipse is going to signify.

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So the perfection of the aspect from Venus is basically happening at the end of this week into Friday. Okay, that would be the November 27. should make Thanksgiving interesting if you're in the US, but then you go just a couple of days later to say Sunday. And you're getting the lunar eclipse in Gemini. It perfects here, like three in the morning in Minneapolis on Monday, November 13, like Sunday night into Monday. But so Friday, you've got Venus, Uranus, and then by Sunday into Monday morning, you have the eclipse in Gemini. So an eclipse is going to mean something different for everyone. eclipses are very contextual. They have to do with you know, the house that they're landing in, in your chart planets that they're closely conjoined to in your chart. a lunar eclipse like the one that we're coming up to has the signification of endings. So where is something reaching a stage of completion, culmination finality resolution?

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A couple months ago, I took my kids to an apple orchard not far from where we live in the Twin Cities. And we were at the apple orchard and you know, everything was blooming in terms of the apples. It was just like they were going nuts. And what was interesting was that, you know, when we when we came back to get pumpkins for Halloween, I think we went in like September and then we went to get pumpkins like later in October closer to Halloween. And sections that we had gone through were like they were done, you know, and then other things were were blooming. And I was thinking when we were there and I was walking like that's a great image for what the material world is like when it comes to karma. There's things that just pop up and they become very radiant, like the fall colours, they suddenly appear but then very quickly, it's gone. And then you're on to the next thing. A lunar eclipse is like a major signal of some big, you know, rush of colour, followed by the leaf drop. That's what lunar eclipses are doing. I had a teacher that originally talked about them, Rebecca Gordon, as a door closing, and I've always that's another image it's always stuck with me. So the best thing to do we're going to break down that Eclipse later in the week in depth but the best thing to do is to imagine there is an ending that's happening a piece of closure, completion and closure simultaneously, a blossoming of karma that has its roots in the past somewhere.

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For example, I just found out, okay, this isn't my it's happening in my second house. And I found out today that the bank that we use doesn't have any locations here in the Twin Cities, which is weird, we don't go to physical branch locations very much, you know, because everything's online. So I just found out that I'll be having to switch my accounts over to someplace that I can go to in person here in Minnesota, they don't have our bank here in Minnesota. So that was such a very beautiful and basic example of the transit that is about to happen in, say, a person's second house where there may be some period of completion or closure around like money or finances, we have to switch everything over to a different bank. It's such a lunar eclipse moment in the second house, is it the biggest thing in the world? No, but it's a lot of hassle. Like, that's a lot of like, I don't know, you guys know how it is when you have kids and COVID and you have to go into a bank and do all this stuff. First world problems as they say, I guess like it's not the end of the world or anything. So that is a good example of what kind of things you'll see around the lunar eclipses. Some of them are a lot more painful and difficult or inconvenience than others. It doesn't even have to be negative. You know that the lunar eclipse though it may signal endings can also mean finality and completion. Like there's a way in which when the when the colour burst comes, it's like the grand finale of a fireworks display. So you sometimes get that feeling around around lunar eclipses as well.

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Okay, so that's what the lunar eclipse means in general, then we have to say what does it mean that Venus is opposing Uranus right before it happens, because that then tones the Eclipse and gives you a sense of what kind of events are likely to coincide with the eclipse? Well, Venus opposite Uranus with a lunar eclipse following it would probably signify the potential for the breaking of relationships. Why? Because Uranus loves independence and freedom. And when it opposes Uranus, it tends to pull people in relationships apart from one another, it's like a band that breaks up because the lead singer wants to go in his or her own direction, you know, I'm going to go do my own creative thing right now. And so I'm breaking apart from the group Venus opposite Uranus can point to the need for greater independence, agency, autonomy, and so forth which can suddenly shift working partnerships, business partnerships, it can signal a need for something outside of the ordinary which will sometimes lead to affairs or cheating or you know, things like that. Not always good of course. But so relationships can break up with Venus opposite Uranus followed by a lunar eclipse. Not always right away, because lunar eclipses signal completion but often the completion doesn't happen all at once it's like the rush of colour it takes a couple of weeks. Well and Astro speak it might take a couple of months but you're looking at that look at the whole sign House of Gemini in your chart and then look at that Taurus Scorpio axis in your chart views is especially easy if you use whole sign houses then the topics are very clear. Um, so that is one possibility right now if I had to make a you know, if I'm making a short list, which I do before I write these talks right at the top of my list today is look relationships are about to be altered, recreated, reinvented or terminated because people are feeling the urge to go in a different creative direction or seek a different kind of relationship or seek a different kind of maybe experience.

14:07
Venus opposite Uranus can also be a point in time where there is a personal departure from say, a certain kind of style that you've had for a long tim. Even things I always say this but as mundane as your wardrobe or the decor in your house or your office or you know whatever the case might be the need to reinvent and recreate one's style or appearance physically artistically etc. can be quite strong with Venus opposite Uranus you do have to be aware of the like Frankenstein effect where you try to recreate something in it you turn it into a monster because there's some underlying like, like twisted motivations, or it's a weird one where like when people ask me Should I get a plastic surgery with Venus and Uranus involved in transits in the birth chart? For example, I'm always like NO! Because I've seen so many times that those are the time periods where someone wants to have some kind of corrective aesthetic surgery or something like that and it doesn't end up looking good especially if the underlying motivation was like let me look sexier or better and it's vanity that's fueling it, which is not the case for everyone i'm not saying that it is at all but if that's the underlying motivation, insecurity fear attempt to you know, be someone or look like something you're not, that Venus Uranus signature can end up making a person look or feel really unnatural in like, in kind of, like a disturbing way, it's like getting a really bad tattoo. I wouldn't necessarily recommend Venus Uranus for tattoo work for example.

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There are times where Venus Uranus can represent you know, some kind of artistic innovation and reconfiguring the aesthetic of something doesn't have to be doesn't have to end and something looking ugly. It's just you really want to check your intentions around what you're altering and why. The same thing can be said in romantic relationships and the potential for people to seek quick fixes or quick satisfaction of desires. A very sparkly person enters your life. And there's a very quick rapid love affair that dissolves just as quickly as it comes together. Classic Venus Uranus. A person says I guess I'm polyamorous, you know what I mean? Oh, you, Uranus happens to be transiting your natal Venus. And I'm saying this, you know, kind of sarcastically I don't mean any offence to anyone, but it's like let's see how that lasts in about two years once Uranus is done with Venus. A lot of what Uranus introduces is in the name of some kind of freedom or emancipation or where there's like a rebellious or defiant quality to it. But it's, it's hard to say whether or not it will last.

17:08
One of the interesting things that we're dealing with in the year ahead is going to be Saturn and Uranus in a square with one another. When Venus gets involved with that dynamic in 2021, which we'll be unpacking a few times in 2021 that's going to be a whole different story because then you have a kind of a counterbalance in Saturn to Uranus that Venus would be dealing with. But right now we're just the straight up Venus Uranus dynamic, you can think of the the more traditional kind of rebellious aura of Uranus being really strong and not checked necessarily by anything more grounding.

17:52
Remember that as we're leading up to the Full Moon and the lunar eclipse, one thing that's going to happen, we're also going to see by Friday, the Moon enters Taurus and as the Moon enters Taurus and opposes Venus and conjoins Uranus it's also stimulating this. So the the waxing Moon, not only does it Eclipse right after it but it's actually there triggering the actual opposition itself. That that is another telltale sign that this transit is going to be stronger than your your garden variety transit, when the Moon cycle is involved, and in and it's closely pushed up next to the aspect and the Moon actually participates in the perfection of the Venus Uranus aspect. That's powerful. And and it's an exalted Moon as well. Another thing that can come up is sometimes there's going to be like, especially for like Venusian topics not just love and romance, but say things like women, sisters, the goddess, that the Venus Uranus dynamic can represent for example, meeting a quirky interesting new friend, Venus is the general ruler of friends, Jupiter a bit too, but Venus, especially women friends or friends. Venus does typically point more towards the dynamics of women, but any kind of relationship that would feature someone that's erratic, interesting departure from the norm, that stimulates or inspires your creative juices, that's good.

19:45
Venus opposite Uranus can also be a time for people to come out or to transition or to be dealing with the reality of a sexual like a person in your life whose sexual orientation is not something that you're used to, like for a family that's, you know, maybe more conservative to have a kid in their family come out, right? That kind of thing can happen under Venus Uranus too, as can the increase of the topics like you know, feminism, women's rights, LGBTQ stuff in in a just a broad sense, because you have that emancipatory quality that often is associated with things like activism in Uranus, and then Venus, which is related to sexuality. So those topics might be amped up somehow, in which case then you have to read that lunar eclipse as signalling some kind of completion closure moment that would be closely related to what Venus and Uranus is doing or saying about love or sexuality in a general sense.

20:57
So the only other thing that comes to my mind is Venus opposite, opposite Uranus can also be an indication of someone or something that suddenly disturbs the peace. We have a debilitated Venus right now in Mars's sign. Mars has just turned direct, Mars is gradually heading into the square with Pluto. So there is maybe a little bit of an underlying impulse to shake things up and sort of disturb the peace in ways that are more aggressive. Venus is gonna try to keep the peace but can't help. I was just thinking about how yesterday I was telling my daughter that she had to wait for these this little gummy vitamin. And she loves it. Because you know, the gummy vitamins are basically candy, but it gets kids to eat their vitamins. So anyway, she's waiting for this gummy, and she's sitting there on the couch. And I was like, just give me a second. And I look over and she's like, starting to, you know, twist and undulate. And I was just like, she just could not hold it together, you know. And I was thinking about how it's funny that we, you know, we're trained to, to hold together our natural urges, but then I started thinking about how it's really no different for me, you know, admittedly, I'm something of a closet sports fan. I feel embarrassed, because it's something that I feel like is a kind of an utter waste of time, no offence to other people. That's how I feel about my own habit. And so I'm basically the same, you know, if I know that, whatever, there's a playoff game on or something like that. I'm like, I get it. I'm just like, I don't want to work anymore. I want to whatever. So we may, we may feel like we don't show it as much. But you know, just seeing my daughter do that. And I was like, Yeah, I know. That's how I'm feeling about watching the Vikings game this afternoon.

22:59
But that's Venus Uranus to where there's just this jittery quality to it, where you can feel just sort of like you're coming out of your own skin, or you're just sort of anxious. It has a little bit of a manic feeling to it. So watch for that and watch for things that like to disturb the peace. The darkest part about this one is that Venus in the ancient world was associated with places that were tranquil, talking about theatres, places that people go to see art, or listen to music, or go to a church service or a temple where there's beauty and there's kind of a feeling that everyone is there to harmonise together on something even supermarkets to a certain extent. They might be kind of Mercurial but that sense of going to a mall or a store someplace that sort of beautiful and supposed to be a place that's mostly peaceful, I will say. I will say that Whole Foods, it's like a place where everyone is ready to just drop, like throw down. You know, it's like, I think I told you guys at one point that I had someone try to run over me with a shopping cart at Whole Foods one time, because they were trying to illegally pull into the parking spot that was like I was my turn I was in line they were trying to whip around from the opposite direction on a one way and sneak into my spot. I was like, I couldn't believe they were trying it now was already halfway in. Anyway, I get out of my car and they were waiting there for me and they like started charging at me with a shopping cart one time. I was like, it was one of the craziest things ever. So after that happened to me, a friend of mine was like, Oh, you got to see this video. And they sent me this video that was like, it was like a rap song. It was I think the title of it was "It's getting real in the wholefoods parking lot." So that's the Opposite Uranus though, like it is the crazy person at the shopping mall who is going to run their cart into or, you know, Black Friday? Screw Black Friday this week. Screw it. First of all I've never done that. Like I've never been a black friday person. I guess I've maybe I bought something online for a Christmas present or something like that, but I do not venture out. I'm a Cancer please. I'm not venturing out into the world much anyway. I'm sitting around chanting and like writing and talking to all of you about the stars all the time. That's like my life. But like, this Black Friday, I'm telling you right now like I would not be caught dead with Venus in Scorpio opposite Uranus and Taurus. Well, everyone is like bringing jack knives to Walmart to get the new PS5 or whatever. Be careful because the consumer craziness of Venus opposite Uranus on Black Friday is... I'm not going anywhere near it. But that speaks to the even darker reality, which is that sometimes you see that terrorist attack that public shooting, you know, and so forth. Over the past weekend as Venus is ingressing into Scorpio and opposing Uranus, there was a major mall shooting in Wisconsin, which is a neighbour to Minnesota right and I was like of course, Venus enters Scorpio opposes Uranus and there's a mall shooting right away. Why? because Venus is in Scorpio Mars a sign Mars is heading into the square with Pluto, Venus is opposite erratic Uranus, where people just have to make statements and break the peace. But there's, you know, that would be like the darkest possibility. There might be some John and Yoko situations, you know, where some new relationship or some new focus comes into your life that takes you away from a previous creative collaboration. Sorry to blame Yoko, I'm on the train of feeling reveals how I feel about Yoko. Sorry, I love the Beatles, I kind of feel like she had a role. I don't have anything personally against her. But I feel like that that relationship definitely took John Lennon in a different direction. Fine. And that's, you know, God bless them.

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But my point is that you could definitely you could definitely get into a situation where you know that that something comes in, grabs your attention and takes you away from something that you previously were associated with, and now have to break free from. So that's the kind of energy. Watch for it to peak Thursday, Friday, and then watch for the ramifications of that to really have an impact with the upcoming Eclipse going into Monday. We'll unpack this more later in the week. That's what I've got for you guys today. I want to remind you all again, while I still have your ear for a second that my Kickstarter is going until New Year's Eve at midnight. While I was doing this talk we crossed 100 backers, we grew up to 102 backers now of 691 that we're trying to raise, if you guys enjoy this channel, if it's part of your daily spiritual food or just part of how you entertain yourself. I really appreciate your support, you can donate and receive some different rewards including over 50% off on all of my courses for 2021. There's some exclusive lectures, there's all sorts of things you could choose from. Anything and everything helps. It's really appreciated. We that one of the things that I do with the funds from this, is I hire a personal assistant. I hire Cat, like Cat's on my staff like she she is my social media helper, everything that I do would take me about three hours longer every day if it weren't for her at this point. So we have three staffers that we hire from the proceeds of the Kickstarter. In the past, we built a yoga studio. A lot of you guys on YouTube weren't here because I wasn't on YouTube at that point. But you know, you guys helped us build a almost entirely donation based yoga studio in Silver Spring, which we ran for a long time, a community herbal medicine garden where we harvested gardens and gave them away to people in the community free herbal medicine. You guys helped me make sure that I can make everything that I do with the speaker series totally free while paying the speakers really well. You guys helped me to create diversity scholarships, which will hopefully launch next spring. And also you guys helped me over 50-60% of my students are on need based tuition. There's a lot of things that the Kickstarter allows me to do. And some of it goes to charity as well. Last year, we sent some of the money from the Kickstarter to support the distribution of the Bhagavad Gita to prisoners. So lots of good stuff that we're doing one of my goals for the next couple of years is to build a donation based astrology reading clinic. So that students who come through my programmes who need some experience reading can get that experience because it's really hard to get it sometimes. And people who couldn't otherwise afford an astrology reading will have a really cheap, like, affordable. You know, like when I was a kid, we went to the University of Minnesota here, and the students in dentistry, did our dental work, my sister and I, and that was really affordable for my mom, because it was either free or really cheap. And the idea of the donation based reading clinic, which I will not take any profit from whatsoever will be to give students of astrology from my courses, more opportunities to read, while also giving a huge, more, more accessible style and price of reading for people out there. So those are the kinds of things I'm building. Those are the kinds of things that I do. So when you support me, I like to think that you're supporting good things in the in the world of astrology work that I do. And yeah, so thank you for your support. I put the link into the I'm putting the link into the chat box right now if you're able to support me, thank you very much. You'll hear me ringing the bell between now and the new year.

 

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My 2021 Kickstarter Campaign

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Today marks the launch of my Kickstarter campaign, which will run for the next 40 days! In this video, I sit down with Cat to talk about how I found astrology, how my professional practice began, and my goals for this year's Kickstarter.

Any support you can give is greatly appreciated. All the rewards and more information can be found here.

For the past seven years, I have kept the practice of creating an average of over 300+ daily horoscopes and astrology videos per year and then fundraising for the last 40 days of the year in order to support my work for the year ahead. Each year all of you, my dear subscribers, have stepped up and helped me to support the ongoing creation of all of my astrological content.

This year, I am attempting to break last year's record of 690 backers by the new year, and we have also set a base goal of raising $75,000 to support my work in 2021.

The proceeds from this work help me to support myself and my family while also hiring a small team of dedicated workers who help me produce and manage the free content I create, as well as the classes that I teach year-round.

The financial support you give me also allows me to offer need-based tuition options as well as full scholarships to many students who could not otherwise afford astrological training.

I can't do this work without you, and so I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support!

So, why read, watch, or listen to my daily horoscopes?

Because for thousands of years astrologers have been helping people map out the daily fluctuations of the material world. Because for thousands of years astrology has been a source of spiritual guidance in the midst of life's ups and downs. Because astrology is a symbolic and imaginative language that reminds us that we are more than just our bodies and that we live in a meaningful and divine cosmos. Because we are each spirit/souls, connected to the same divine mystery. Because astrology is fun and endlessly interesting! Because astrology is an alternative to the same old news cycles we see when we turn on the TV. Because astrology helps you relate to yourself in terms of timeless archetypes, myths, and metaphors. Because astrology is downright magical in terms of what it can predict and describe. And because astrology helps us work through the challenging patterns we face by helping us to understand them and to reflect upon them in a healthy way.

Each of my daily astrology blogs also comes straight from the inspired space of my daily spiritual practice. Before I create anything I have created on any given day, you can know with full certainty that I have done the following:

Risen and practiced Yoga and worked out
Engaged in 90 minutes of mantra meditation
Chanted a full chapter of the Bhagavad Gita and studied other Sacred Yogic Scriptures
Spent at least 30 minutes studying an ancient astrology source text
Spent time in prayer, asking for guidance and reflecting on what I will share with each of you that day
Spent time writing down the main points/ideas I will write about or discuss in a video blog
Thoughtfully considered the responses and feedback I am currently receiving from all of you

This entire process usually takes me 3-5 hours per day, and I do it year-round (mostly with a smile on my face!). And then, questions come pouring in every day from viewers and readers, which also takes a good amount of time.

I do this work because I believe that spiritual growth doesn't come without commitment and consistency over a long period of time, and I do this work so that whoever tunes into my astrological content knows that there is spiritual integrity behind what they are taking in.

I don't share any of this to boast but rather to explain what goes into my work and where I'm coming from. I want people who support me to know that I'm serious about what I do and that I come from a place of love and devotion to my craft and that I will continue to do so in the year ahead if you support my work.

2021 Stretch Goals:

Continue to hire regular help for the production of my content on social media
Continue to hire a personal assistant
Continue to hire helpers for my classrooms
Continue to make all of our 2021 speaker series programs free to the public
Remake our Community Herbal Medicine Garden in Minneapolis/St. Paul (which we use to make free herbal medicine)
Support the update of our technology so that I can continue to improve the quality of my content
Support the continued development of our Planets and Plants content (Astrology & Herbalism)
Continue pursuing my own private astrology studies
Continue to support our need-based scholarships

Whatever your own beliefs or practices might be, I can promise you that if you support my work, I will continue to keep up my daily practices, and I will continue to be a trusted and friendly source of astrological insight for 2021. I will continue to share this heavenly wisdom and inspiration from my heart, as a servant, so that others may find some glimmers of hope, faith, and goodness, coming straight from the stars!

Thank you so much for your support. Let's get to 691 backers this year!

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Planetary Positions: Superior/Inferior Aspects, Stelliums & More

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Today I'm sitting down with Cat from the Creative Introvert to answer some questions on the topic of planetary positions in a chart. What does it mean for a planet to be in the "superior" or "inferior" position? What does it mean to have a stellium in your birth chart? These are some of the questions I'll tackle in today's Q&A. If you have any questions for future Q&As, please email: info@nightlightastrology.com

Transcript:

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 0:00
Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today I'm hanging out with my friend Cat from The Creative Introvert. Cat is here to help me aggregate all of your questions throughout the year that you leave in the chat box. Then we put together these little q&a episodes. You all know Cat by now, a lot of you do anyway. So thanks for being here today. Cat, what do we got?

Cat 0:21
Yeah, thanks. And today we're going to be talking about basically planetary placements in the chart. Not talking about planets in particular signs, but just how they are literally geographically in the chart. So one of the things that you've been talking about, in recent videos with the different transits that are happening right now, is the difference between the superior and inferior aspects. Would you just be able to give us a little bit of an explanation about what you mean by that?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 0:53
Yeah, that's a great question. And I think it's probably one of the most popular questions I've received in the past few weeks. Of the year really, because in the work that I did on some of those election charts on Joe Biden's chart on Trump's chart, and just some of the ways that I've been working with the transits in November. We had a series of aspects from Mercury and Libra overcoming Saturn, or in the superior square to Saturn, Venus in the superior square to Saturn, this week. So people have been like, wait, what is this?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 1:24
The first thing to say is that this way of looking at aspects comes from ancient astrology, Hellenistic astrologers practised with a certain us they had a certain way of looking at aspects in their practice that helped them to understand subtler dynamics happening when planets make aspects to one another. So for example, in every planetary aspect, the trine, the sextile, and the square. In those three aspects, in particular, there's going to be one of the two planets that is involved in that aspect that has the more dominant influence. You can think about it as like the game tag. You know, my girls play this, where one person is chasing, like Gigi may be chasing Summer, and then they'll stop all of a sudden without anyone telling them to you know, and then Summer will start chasing Gigi. So there's this natural energy exchange in nature where we have the pursued and the pursuer, we have the victim and the aggressor. And the roles are always changing. You could even just say that we have an active and we have an passive and we have a receiver or receptive. So for ancient astrologers, within planetary aspect dynamics, the sextile, the trine and the square are always have one of two natures, one planet will either be in the superior more dominant influence position, and or the other will be inferior, which means that there'll be the weaker of the two or the one that has is more receptive to the impressions that the other planet is making upon it. So that's the general meaning of superior and inferior, the word superior is not like I'm better than you, it means more like in front versus behind or above versus below, it has more of a sense of which planet has a more assertive presence within the dynamic. Is that clear so far?

Cat 3:34
Yeah.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 3:36
Now, if you have an opposition, the two planets are, in a sense, on equal ground. That's why the opposition is so powerful. And if you have a conjunction for ancient astrologers, it wasn't even really an aspect because aspect implied lines of sight between whole signs and between planets in whole signs. So the concept of a conjunction was not really included in the aspect family. It had its own unique meaning and status or category where the two planets are kind of merging or blending with one another. And in opposition, you have more of a sense of the two planets on equal ground, though often the faster moving planet will be the one that will overtake the other one, because when it passes through the opposition, the faster moving planet is going to, you know, come on onto the superior side. So at any rate, this really makes aspects a lot more unique and nuanced than people generally think. And this is one of the reasons why in my courses, I teach people, this this idea that you don't really need a million aspects. There's a lot of more recently discovered and used aspects from maybe the mediaeval period, Renaissance period up to modern period, more and more different types of aspects have appeared and I'm not trying to take a shot at people who use them. But the more that you learn about ancient aspect theory, the more you realise that there's a lot of sophistication built into these very basic aspects. So that's just a little background, something that I flesh out a lot more in my in my course where we have 10-12 hours to spend on aspects. But that's the gist of it. So far, we'll define now what how to identify which planet would be in the more dominant superior versus inferior position. But before I do that, does that is that making sense so far? Cat?

Cat 5:34
Yeah, it does. Yeah. I'm also just kind of curious about this being in somebody' chart, you know, I think we're all gonna have this in our chart somewhere, right? And maybe you could give us an example of the difference between, let's say, Saturn in the superior square to the Sun, and vice versa. And how that might look different.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 5:56
Yeah of course, that would be a great exercise. Great idea. So, what you have to do to understand inferior and superior is first find an aspect right and it has to be a sextile trine or square. Because the opposition, they're going to be basically on equal footing with one another. Whereas the conjunction, they're blending together, so it's going to be either the left hand side of a planet or the right hand side of a planet's trine, sextile or square. And you can see this for example, if I just pick any hole sign as a starting place, let's say it's Pisces, there's going to be three aspectual rays to the left of Pisces, here you got a sextile to Capricorn, the square to Sagittarius, a trine to Scorpio then there's the opposition right across the wheel, we already said the opposition is going to be not participating in the inferior versus superior dynamic as the planets are going to be more or less on equal ground. You go to the right hand side of Pisces in this chart, you're going to get a sextile to Taurus, you're going to get a square to set to Gemini and then a trine to Cancer. So there's seven aspectual rays that a planet can cast based on the seven hole sign connections from one side to another. That's not a mistake. Obviously, there's symmetry there with the number of planets seven and the number of aspects seven. So at any rate, when you're looking from the standpoint of a planet in any aspectual relationship, you want to see if the aspect is being made to the left of that planet or the right of that planet. And that will help you understand if the aspect is inferior or superior. For example, let's just take Venus who is at 27 degrees, and Saturn who is at 27 degrees. So you can see that they're in a square almost exactly by degree. So the question becomes, is Venus in the inferior or superior position? If you were to start from Saturn, squaring Venus, it would be the same thing. Is Saturn inferior or superior? If you find the answer to one, you found the answer to both. So let's just take Venus as an example. The best way to understand if it's inferior or superior is to draw the opposition across the wheel. Right, just draw that straight line. And imagine that you are in Venus's position looking into the centre of the chart. So we're looking in toward this circle. The aspect that Venus is casting whoops, let me draw this over so it's clear. So here's the opposition and your Venus and you're looking into the centre of the circle. And then the aspect that you're casting is to Saturn at 27 degrees.So the question you ask is if you're Venus and you're looking into the centre of the circle you're facing in towards the centre is this aspectual ray to Venus's right hand side or to Venus is left hand side? And you can see here that this is to Venus is right hand side. And this would be the same if you rotated this anywhere around the wheel. For example, let me just rotate this a bunch so that we have it like this. If Venus is now at 28 degrees, roughly there's there's Saturn at 27. Draw the opposition across the we'll look into the centre of the circle from Venus's position is that aspectual Ray being cast to Venus is right or left is to Venus is right. If the aspectual Ray is being cast to the right, ancient astrologers associated that right hand sightedness with the kind of like the young tendency which should be more dominant. And so Venus was said to be in an overcoming or superior square to Saturn, which means that Venus has influence and although it is mingling with Saturn's influence, Venus will be more dominant in the dynamic.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 10:05
So for example, let's just say here that I'm actually reading this in a natal chart. One interpretation, for example, if I had Saturn in the seventh house might be that I marry someone who is, let's say some of the more difficult aspects of Saturn like controlling or say, very hard or strict or cold or distant. Those would be some of the more like difficult Saturn things you could encounter in a marriage. But Venus is in Libra happens to be the exaltation of Saturn, by the way. But in the fourth house, a place of home family dwelling place and is overcoming Saturn. This might mean that this person, for example, rather than just being a picture of cold, hard Saturn, that you marry an architect, an architect might be someone whose personality includes a lot of the features of Saturn. But here's this overcoming influence from a very strong Venus in her own sign, which means that Saturn lose a maybe, let's say, more structured and sort of stern planet, it's now overcome by the element of beauty, style, class, sophistication. So maybe you have someone who's very disciplined, but they're a designer, or they're an architect, so that that presence of Venus is overcoming and sort of toning Saturn. And so and one of the reasons you might get architect out of this is that Venus is in the fourth house. Now, maybe you marry an architect, maybe you are an architect, right, it could go either way. But more likely, with Saturn in the seventh that this would be something describing the home, the living environment, the spouse, maybe something about your own family background with Venus in the fourth, for example, I've seen this exact aspect, actually, in charts. Over the past couple of years, obviously, as Saturn has been in Capricorn, I've been doing a lot of Saturn returns for people who are just right 28 to 30 years old. And I've seen overcoming squares from Venus in the fourth to Saturn in the seventh. And a lot of it has had to do with, you know, marrying someone and questions about, you know, am I marrying someone who's the safe pick? Am I marrying someone who falls in line with the image your ideal that my family set forth? Of what marriage and responsibility in the world are supposed to look like? Is this is this real love? Is that real beauty? Or is there something maybe a little bit vain or superficial about it? And those are questions that could come into play? Also, because, you know, here's the Venus Saturn combination, where questions about authenticity and beauty or control and beauty, come into question. And then in these areas, home family and marriage, a person has, you know, they're, they're naturally thinking about those things as they're maybe getting married or something like that. So these are just little examples for my practice, but that would be in this case, Venus, overcoming Saturn would also say, you know, maybe there might be something more satisfying about marriage relationships or social life, but then you have this really Venusian aspect that's colouring it and sort of stronger in the mix of Saturn and Saturn is. Does that make sense?

Cat 13:23
Yeah, and would you say that, I mean, Venus has kind of sweetening up the Saturn deal? Whereas if Saturn was overcoming Venus, Saturn maybe dampening or making more cold that Venusian side?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 13:38
That's absolutely correct. So let's just let me just show you what this would be like, in reverse. So let's go back to Venus in Aries. Basically, there they are in the square again, see, here's Saturn at 28. And there's Venus at 27. Now let's imagine that we're we're drawing a line across the chart from Saturn to Cancer. That's the opposition and then from that line drawn across the wheel, we want to look and say does this aspect that Saturn's making to Venus happened to Saturn's Reiter to Saturn's left? Well, it's going to Saturn's right hand side, if we're looking into the circle from Saturn, right? Look into the centre of the circle, go to the right hand side. In this case, Saturn is overwhelming Venus in this case. For example, I would say if I were reading this in a chart, Hmm, is it possible that duty responsibility tradition control a more Saturn nine home environment overcomes the more carefree independent Venus in the house of marriage? So in that sense, Saturn is going to overcome Venus and have a little bit more dominant effect over Venus. And that changes how you read the dynamics in this case between home and marriage.

Cat 15:17
And I just noticed that, you know, we're tracing that back. So that was like in March of this year. Is it something that could be useful to somebody to trace back that story between Saturn and Venus, let's say from the conjunction of Saturn and Venus in their lives?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 15:33
Absolutely, yeah. I mean, that would be a level of detail that I would say most clients that I have, are not going to be interested in because they probably don't study astrology that in depth, but people who study and track transits you can absolutely track out the conjunctions from any, you know, synodic cycles between any planets and watch the exchange of inferior versus superior qualities. If you journal and track it out, you'll notice a whole story that unfolds between Venus being more dominant and Venus being more submissive or receptive. And it's really interesting to follow that as Venus' phases also change. For example, here you have Saturn dominating Venus as an evening star, there's Saturn, there's Venus in the West. Whereas, you know, when we go forward now after Venus is retrograde, to where we are currently, now if you back this up, just a couple of hours here, you're going to notice that Venus is in the morning star position. So Saturn dominates Venus in the evening in this cycle, whereas Venus dominates Saturn in the morning. And that's interesting, because the morning star would give Saturn Venus and extra yang emphasis. And so you have a very strong Venus right now. And that's why I've been so insistent in my videos that, you know, the Venusian things will overcome the Saturn things right now. And that's kind of a good promise looking at what other difficult transits we've had.

Cat 17:01
Yeah, yeah. I love thinking about that, like the story of the planets throughout the at least the faster moving ones.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 17:07
Yeah, it's really cool to track so you can do that with any planetary aspect. Just remember, opposition's won't have one superior and one inferior that's why they're opposition's because they're more or less in a in a grudge match. Or you could say that they're they're working in complimentary fashion, either way to really depends on our show kind of our karma in our consciousness, I guess.

Cat 17:29
Okay, cool. Um, so I think that's about it for the superior inferior aspects. What about stelliums? Could you explain to us a little bit about what a stellium is? And, you know, what does it means to have have a stellium in your chart?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 17:44
It's funny, I just did a reading for a gentleman. And I'm just going to show something that I think is absolutely fantastic. And not many people know about this. But there was a stellium like no other stellium. Really, that happened in February, roughly, of 1962. And I just want to show people what that looked like, you actually had a few days, like, I mean, if you look at this, there was a few days in the beginning of February 1962, where all of the traditional planets, we're in Aquarius. And I just did a chart with someone for someone who had the majority of this stellium in place. So for the moon, I think it was, but at any rate, people are like, Well, how do you read something like this?

Cat 18:35
That's a lot of Aquarius,

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 18:36
And here's my tip for interpreting stellium. If you have three or more planets in one sign in an in a chart, the first thing to do is to understand that the planets are all going to be speaking very loudly to the topics of that house. So anchor your interpretation. First in the topics of the house. For example, if this is my client, I'm looking at a stellium of three or more planets to speak of the Age of Aquarius transit, here, but it's in the ninth house. So that's the place that foreign countries, that's the place of long journeys, it's the place of you know, universities and monasteries and divination and mysticism. It's a religious, spiritual, academic, intellectual house, it has to do with the law, and the laws that govern the universe, whether you're, you know, a physicist or a mystic. So, when you look at all of those planets in that house, the first and most basic way to ground the interpretation is going to be to give emphasis to the house topics, then you got your groundedness then you can start to differentiate and parse things out. You can do so on two levels.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 19:46
One is to try to synthesise the planets into a statement that more or less incorporates their qualities. The other one would be to differentiate them and break them into parts. For example, Mars in the eighth in the ninth house is often very analytical and has a scrutinising mind, is an Enquirer, but maybe with a kind of scalpel. Saturn in the ninth house is often disciplined, principled, sometimes dogmatic, very committed or, or serious when it comes to the mind or beliefs. Mercury is often the quintessential seeker questioner in the ninth house. The Sun is often the image of the priesthood, the priestess or the professor, or the monk or someone who has an official degree in law or something like that. Venus in the ninth might be the student of art history, or someone who loves to travel abroad to beautiful exotic locations, or someone who's interested in the marriage between aesthetics and theology or something like that. Jupiter in the ninth house might be the, you know, again, kind of similar to the sun may have some mantle of greater authority or knowledge might be the, the guru, the Moon in the ninth house could very easily be associated with dreams and divination and has a more almost prophetic quality to it, or sometimes may involve them, the background of the family karma in regard to religion or education. Now, I can break those down really, really quickly just in in you know, and then you can, you can try to blend them to I mean, it's really hard with this amount of planets to like, blend them. But let's say just let's just say that you had Mercury, Saturn and Mars. If you have Mercury, Saturn and Mars, then you want to learn you want to find a way of blending them. This is going to be a serious, inquisitive, disciplined, curious but highly analytical and sharp minded quality. So you got serious and discipline Saturn sharpened, cutting, analytical and curious, math science, people who know tax code, you know, lawyers are attorneys who have to slice and dice in the courtroom with verbal or rhetorical skills. So you pair the planets together and and blend them. And that would be the other approach. So that's how I would recommend approaching stellium is grounded in the house. Get that as your primary emphasis that might be your starting place if you can't do the rest yet, but then differentiate the planets one at a time within the house. And then next level would be to find creative ways of synthesising them for me in the beginning, I had to use a Word document and write things down so that I could get them out. Now I've done it so much that it can come it comes very quickly.

Cat 22:27
They're all in Saturn's domicile. So would you give Saturn a bit of an emphasis in that they're all going to be kind of answering to Saturn?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 22:35
Yeah, you could do and there's two ways of doing that. I mean, in ancient astrology, it's going to be a bit less about Aquarius, and a bit more about Saturn, in that the planet, the ruling planet has more of the power, but it's an Aquarian kind of Saturn, not a Capricornian Saturn. So Aquarius could also modify that a little bit. For example, it's airy, it's fixed. It's related to, you know, Ganymede, the water bearer constellation. There's different elements of myth and metaphor that could come in through the sign as well. I find that those are useful in terms of embellishing the description not in terms of anchoring it because in ancient astrology, the sign is really not what makes it it's more about the planet and the house, for sure. So it's a Saturn nine kind of ninth house, though, but it's not just, there's so many planets in this in this example, in that chart, that though they're toned by Saturn, I wouldn't want to make the whole thing just about Saturn. I would want to try to emphasise really how rich and diverse this person's ninth house emphasis is going to be.

Cat 24:38
Okay, one last question about the placement of planets in a chart. And that is, when you see a lot of planets actually like this chart right now, where things are on the upper half of it, versus the lower half and what might that tell you about the person or their karma?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 24:53
Sure. So if you're in ancient astrology, the general distinction is going to be speaking It above, and let's say matter, but also the word fortune below. So spirit would be the realm of, you know, the soul, and the gods and mind. And, you know, action is a result in the ancient sense that it goes from subtle to gross. So in other words, our actions in the flesh are dictated by spirit, something that's not embodied in the typical material sense. And that's, that's consciousness. And that's why I would say, you know, like, sometimes scientists say, we don't really know where consciousness is actually, you know, they're saying, now consciousness isn't like in your brain, like a lot of people think consciousness is somehow in your brain. And they're saying, No, actually, it's not that simple. Where is conscious, we don't know. It's a Ghost in the Machine. So that's the spirit side of things. And in a general sense, that realm belongs to the Sun, and to this idea of higher dimensions of thought, or consciousness. But there's some differentiation between good and bad there to the 12th house was called the house of bad spirit, the 11th was called the house of good spirit. And you also have the ninth house called God, which was the joy of the sun. And the bottom you have the fifth houses the house of good fortune in the joy of Venus in the sixth house called bad fortune in the joy of Mars, the third house was called goddess and was the joy of the Moon. So the underworld has a lot more to do with, you could say mundane things, in a sense, everyday circumstances, things that don't feel like they're in your control things that connect you to village tribe, city group, family, as well as perhaps some things that might be more unconscious as matter in fortune were generally thought to be slightly more unconscious. But also the underworld and things that are perhaps unseen, or hidden or occult, in some ways, or as the upper world of the spirit is going to be, in a general sense. More about intentionality, sort of the realm of intentions, desires that exist, in a sense, prior to embodiment, or manifestation. There's also in the top half a sense of action in the world out in the world in the visible sphere. So those are some distinctions. But my honest commentary on this is that this, I wouldn't place a large amount of emphasis on this in practice, because, I mean, it could tell you, for example, if I saw someone with a chart like this, that they're going to be a little bit more outerworld focused, you know, but unless there's a big, a huge and obvious emphasis on one hemisphere versus the other, I don't usually give it a lot of weight in my readings. Because if it's pretty well spread between the two, then I don't, I don't find that it's going to make or break or give me any particularly unique insight. But this would be an exact an example of where it might because it's so upper focused.

Cat 28:05
People talk about, I don't know, they call them like, bowls, or like different names. And they're not even about aspects. It's like just having shapes in the chart. Is that just a quite a recent phenomenon?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 28:21
Yeah, that would be like a really recent modern phenomenon. I find that you know, it's a bit like looking at shapes in the clouds, where people say, do you see the rabbit and I'm like, you know, I see Donald Duck or something else totally different. So I'm not sure I personally don't give a lot of credence to the different shape patterns of charts, was I find that if you ask if you press anyone and say, Well, what does that really mean? What can we can you give me a specific delineation, and show me five examples where the exact same kind of thing is present, that the any examples that I've ever seen given are very generic, and don't feel to me like, specific or concrete enough examples of the of the, the shape or the interpretation of the shape to be valid. For example, someone might have a big bowl or something and someone goes, Well, look, they're a healer, you know, are they look they they went through so much?

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 29:24
I'm not trying to be a jerk. If it doesn't make sense to me, I can't get into it. And for kites and all these things, like I've just, I've seen a huge amount of emphasis being given to these things without very clear explanations of where this comes from, why it's used and what specifically it tends to point to. So I don't pay a lot of attention to them. For that reason, if I saw something like that more and more of something like that, I would pay attention. So I'm not saying not saying it couldn't happen. At some point. Maybe there are these chart patterns that are very specific. Maybe ancient astrologers had paid attention to them. We just haven't discovered texts in which they did. I don't pay attention to chart patterns as much as I do planets and houses, rulerships, dispositorships, aspects, dignities... there's so much there already with the basics. It's like Stephen Forrest once said, "I'm constantly trying to tell the chart to shut up because it's saying so much," you know, I don't need I don't really need a lot more to get tonnes out of the chart already.

Cat 30:27
All right, I think that was really helpful. And that's all I've got on my questions.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 30:31
Okay, very good. Well, thank you so much, everybody for listening. If you have questions, feel free to email them to us put questions in the subject line. info@nightlightastrology.com. Otherwise, leave them here in the chat box. Cat collects them. We make these episodes from time to time. We hope you enjoy them. That's it for today. We have some more good stuff coming up. So stay tuned for more soon and be sure to check cat's work out at thecreativeintrovert.com. All right. Thanks, everyone. Bye.

 

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Ten Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years and 10,000 Charts (Part 10)

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Today I have the final part of a series honouring a milestone in my astrology career. Over the course of this series I've shared ten things I've learned in ten years of practicing astrology professionally. You can find the other videos in the series here.

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0:00
Hi, everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology. And today I'm doing the 10th and final episode of a series that I've called 10 things that I've learned in 10 years and 10,000 charts. So as you guys know, who've been watching the series, this past July of 2020, I realised that I've been doing astrology for 10 years, full time. And it, it kind of took me off guard, honestly, I hadn't been, you know, thinking about it. And then suddenly, I was like, wow, this is kind of a milestone. And so I decided to sit down and calculate how many charts I've done. I've done a lot of different kinds of readings, all different kinds of readings with all different kinds of clients over 10 years. And I realised that I had been somewhere over 10,000 charts that I've done in, in this past 10 years. And so I decided to sit down and try to write and reflect upon some of the lessons and insights that I've learned. And this series came about as a result of that. And the purpose of the series is basically to offer some of the same insights that have been really pivotal for me. And in the hopes that they may be insights that other people have had. I find that sometimes when I hear other people articulate things, about astrology, or about yoga, that it gives words to things that have been stirring inside of me that, you know, that I hadn't yet been able to articulate. So hopefully, this does that for some people out there, who also really love astrology and spend a lot of their time, you know, thinking about astrology, or paying attention to astrological content. On the other side of things. I also wanted to do this because, for me, you know, it was it was a chance to sort of say, Okay, what have I learned, I still have a lot more to learn, I hope that in 10 more years, I'll be able to have lots of more insights, and perhaps we'll, you know, have more to say or add to these. But it was important for me to be able to just kind of take stock of where I'd been. And also feel gratitude for the cool things that I've I have been able to learn because of this beautiful craft. So that being said, every episode that I've done, I have generally done based on a particular insight that I've given as sort of like the title for the talk. So in this 10th and final episode, the phrase that I've used for today's episode is this. If love isn't at the centre, then there is no center.

2:25
So that's, that's what I want to talk about today as my my final episode of this series. If love isn't at the center, then there isn't a center. So I have a bunch of points that I'd like to make along these lines. And I hope that you enjoy them. So people generally ask me two types of questions in readings. And this is something that I've talked about in previous episodes, but I just want to recap it because it really does break down into almost always two different types of questions that people have. One, when I'm sitting down to someone sitting down with someone for a reading, someone will ask, what is my destiny? As in what am I here to do? Or what mission? Am I here to fulfil? What is my calling? Who should I serve? And astrology readings can have a way of addressing that very specifically, what are your aptitudes? What are your gifts? What type of career are you likely to have? What kind of skills do you have? And honestly, what kinds of traits or qualities do you bring to the table as an individual that are completely unique, and that will bring you happiness if you work to embody these qualities in a way that is virtuous and in service to the others into the world. So astrology readings can address that. And that's something that I address every day. The other question that people have is, how do I improve my karma or heal some particular dimension of my life? Where I'm not getting the results that I want to or the results have been very painful? So it's generally those two categories? How do I? What is my destiny? What am I here to do? Or how do I heal or fix something that's broken?

4:05
And again, astrology can a certain astrology reading can answer both of those questions we can talk about we can see the broken parts, we can see the the elements of the birth chart that point to suffering or pain or hardship. And we can point to the parts of our chart that suggest, you know, some of what we're here to do in terms of the narrative trajectory of our life, what lessons will we learn, what kind of stories are we going to live out? What are our skills? And all of that is, is great, but one thing that I've learned is that regardless of how well an astrology reading can address any of those questions, if love isn't at the center for the reader, like myself as a reader, if love isn't at the center of why I'm doing this, and of the responses that I give her the way that I read, and if love isn't at the center of any individual's life who's receiving a reading or who's going to an astrology chart, or an astrologer for insight that if love isn't at the center, then there will be no center and without a center things will not hold together.

5:19
So, the answer to those questions on one level in a chart reading will always take on the specifics. Like I said, there might be specific things that you'll do, or gifts or skills that you have or weaknesses that you have, there will be certain areas of suffering that we can, in a reading you can talk about, and the astrology chart has a way of pointing to all of that. But the way that we really deeply address those questions, most fundamentally, is to put love at the center of our lives. So your destiny in the most fundamental sense, is made by putting love in the centre of your life every single day. Starting with love of source, so if you if we think about who are we, and where do we come from, we come from a divine source. Sometimes people call that source God or the universe, or some people just refer to it as spirit or source. But there is a divine presence and divine being I would even say, that lives within each of us. And if we prioritise communion with that source, the soul of our own soul that lives in our heart, if we prioritise daily communion with that source, then we will be successful. Or we will we will find our destiny, whether we are successful or not in any worldly sense of the word, whether we fix anything that's been broken in any literal sense of the word fix, we will be successful. And that's because love is our destiny and love is the only thing that heals. So, one of the things that I've learned over 10 years is that astrology without a prioritising prioritisation of love of God, love of source, love of the universe, love of spirit, love of soul, and taking real time for that every day. If I don't emphasise that to my clients, I'm not helping them find their destiny because that's the destiny we're all walking toward. If I don't help bring that awareness, even in small ways into a reading, then, even if we address what's broken, or what needs fixing, it won't ever really be addressed. It won't ever really be healed or fixed, because love is the only thing that actually heals. If we prioritise love of God, love of source, love of soul, then we naturally find the best way to serve, we naturally find the path to walk, we naturally find the mending or healing to our wounds and hurts. And that's that's the truth, and astrology can only ever assist us in that path. The path itself is love.

8:36
I want to read you guys something. This comes from the final chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. And it is the concluding remarks made by Krishna, who is an incarnation or avatar incarnation of God. And he's talking to Arjuna, who he's been on a battlefield with and it's the battlefield, by the way is the the battlefield of Dharma of duty, what is my purpose? Why am I here? And he's got this big battle in front of him. And before he goes to battle, he's asking a lot of questions about what is my destiny? This is a difficult situation. There's a lot of pain here, what do I do? And Krishna tells him all about the nature of the soul of reality, the nature of the field that he's on, the karma that he's you know, that that he will engage in, the actions that he will take. Finally, though, he concludes the whole treatise with these remarks. This comes from the 18th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita text 55-66.

9:45
"One can understand the Supreme Personality as he is only by devotional service and one in when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God. Though engaged in all kinds of actions, my devotee under my protection reaches the internal, eternal and imperishable abode by my grace. In all activities just depend on me and work under my protection, in such devotion be fully conscious of me. If you become conscious of me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditional life by my grace. If, however, you don't work in such consciousness, but act through false ego, not hearing me, you will be lost. If you do not act according to my direction, and do not fight, then you will be falsely directed by your nature you will have engaged in warfare. Under illusion you are now declined to act according to my direction, but compelled by your own nature, you'll act all the same Oh Son of Kunti. The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, oh Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine made of material energy. Scion of Bharata, surrender unto him utterly. by His grace, you will attain transcendental peace, and the supreme eternal abode. As I have explained to you the most confidential of all knowledge, deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish. Because you are my very dear friend, I'm speaking to the most confidential part of knowledge here, this for me for it is for your benefit. Always think of me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage to Me, thus you will come to me without fail. I promise you this, because you are my very dear friend, abandon all varieties of religion, and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions, do not fear."

11:55
Those are the concluding verses of the Gita and the one that I think is really important here. There's a few really important passages. But one of the things that he says is that, look, you're going to have to act in this world, one way or another. He's on the battlefield, he's got a battle in front of him, he's saying, you can either engage in this battle with God consciousness, universal consciousness, source consciousness, Krishna consciousness, we call it in bhakti, you can either engage in your Dharma in your destiny with love of God at the centre of your heart, or you can go and do it on your own directed by false ego. There are two different results, you know, one has a centre that holds you together and makes meaningful the results no matter what they are, if you approach with love in your heart, your destiny will be made perfect will be made complete, and there will be healing there, there will be healing in that. There will be grace, there will be mercy there will be protection. Whereas if you try to do it on your own, and you go off without source consciousness in your heart, you're going to get lost. And, but because I love you, and I respect you, it's your choice. I'm not going to make you do anything. And, um, but at the same time, you should know that I live in your heart. And I'm always there working with you. The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine made of the material energy. So we're moving through these bodies lifetime after lifetime, and they're temporary, beautiful houses for the soul. And God is there within the heart, directing us guiding us. And he gives these simple instructions, he said, just surrender to God in your heart, just surrender to the essence of who you really are, which is love and commune with that for all of your days, and you will find that though you have a destiny path to walk in this world, though there are all sorts of conflicts and challenges and questions and suffering and healing and so many things in this world. If you put love at the centre, then the outcome will be love.

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And in this way, Krishna is saying, if love of God isn't at the center, if love of your own soul isn't at the center, then there will be no center there will be nothing to hold it together. And that's the most important thing that I've learned in the past 10 years of doing astrology. We look at so many things in the chart. The chart is so beautiful and how it can describe accurately the inner workings of our behaviour, the different kinds of themes and patterns that we meet in this karmic garden, what plants and flowers blossom at what times. But, again, if we aren't as a reader, this practice has gradually helped me understand that love has to be at the centre communion with the soul with source has to be at the center for me and for my clients. I gauge how successful and astrology reading is by whether or not a person has felt a little closer to the reality of their soul, within the midst of the different dramas, unfolding. The dramas are inevitable, but the soul is the reality that redeems all of it, no matter what it is, no matter what the birth chart says, no matter what the symbols are pointing to love is the only thing that redeems all of it. And in that sense, it is our only destiny. It's our only healing.

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It's hard to bring this into our lives without some form of daily practice, prayer and communion with source with the indwelling Spirit soul, we have to start and end each day. And we also have to find ways of bringing that communion in between the beginning and the end of each day. If we can weave that communion, and string together as my guru likes to say, a couple of victories string together a couple of W's you know, string to string together some wins in spiritual life. Today, I started my day with communion. And I will end my day with communion and then I did that two or three days in a row. Every day we do that and we string together a day lived with source at the center, with soul at the center. Those are days where we are going to gradually start to feel that we are actually walking our destiny that we're actually feeling the presence of that healing that we're looking for. And we have a deepening sense of trust in all of our experiences. And this takes time. It takes time and consistency over a long period of time to start feeling that In which case, interestingly, the byproduct also of doing that every day is that it improves our karma. It literally improves circumstances around us so that the world we inhabit, the people the information, the kinds of things that we associate with, they start to glow and share in the same spirit of communion. That process improves our karma, improves the choices we make and the outcomes we receive because it starts to elevate us into a space of goodness. Now there's still going to be suffering and there's still going to be hardship, but those hardships are they start to be held and seen as holy and as a part of the path of love. Also, just practically speaking, if we want to improve our karma, the Bhagavad Gita also tells us and I hear this every day from people how do I improve my karma and put love at the center? That's the simplest answer. But let's say that you're having a hard time conceptualising or, or taking up a spiritual practice what that means, what it looks like how to make it real. Just being the best version of yourself, cultivating the highest virtues.

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The highest virtues that you can possibly cultivate: patience, peace, tolerance, forgiveness, compassion, charity, generosity, selfless service to others, cultivate those things without any expectation of return. And gradually, the presence of love in the heart will start to appear and the devotional communion will start to appear as well. And so even if you just keep trying to do the best that you can do, to be a good person in the world without any expectation of return. Slowly that feeling of of love the indwelling Spirit-soul, the Paramatma, the Supersoul that lives within the heart that communes with our own soul, which are depicted throughout the Vedic literature in terms of two birds that sit on the same branch together the soul and the soul of the soul, Supersoul of God. If we become the best version of ourselves without expectation of return, after a while we start realising that who and what we are are devoted to is the soul of our soul, is our is the very essence of our being and the being of all beings. And then the devotion starts to appear. So even just being the best version of yourself, can take you in the right direction. But consider this, because so frequently we get wrapped up in the things that are happening in the world. And what what Krishna is ultimately saying in this book, this classic scripture, the Bhagavad Gita is that, look, the world is filled with action and activities, it always has been, it always will be, in fact, it's described as this material realm, dimension, which is only one of many dimensions of consciousness and experience is described as anadi, which means it really has no beginning and it has no end. The soul can evolve in a sense and grow awareness of more than just this material energy, this material reality. Which is not to condemn it's just to say that there's also more, as long as we are wrapped up in this without love of God, none of the things that we get involved with have any lasting centre. This is why in both Buddhism and in Yoga, we say that, in a sense, there's this illusory quality to the world. Impermanence fluctuation change, are the only constants. And so for any of the turning wheels of karma and material nature to have any real meaning, love has to be put at the centre because it's the only centre that there is, it's the only thing holding everything together, we're either aware of that, and living in touch with that, or we're not. When we're not we experience a kind of illusory shadow world. Our politics without love of source at the centre have no lasting or enduring meaning or value, our relationships, our families, the way that we spend our time. If love of the Divine isn't at the centre, we're not participating in anything that adds to the life of the soul and that aids in the journey of the soul walking to towards love, walking home. If love of source isn't behind how we do astrology, then the symbols don't have any fixed meaning. The symbols the birth chart, any chart that we use any statement that we make any way that we interpret the symbols, they're only given fixed meaning or relevance to the soul, when they are related to through the prioritisation of love.

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In fact, your birth chart has no fixed meaning. Symbols themselves in astrology have no fixed meaning. They only are ever given anything of eternal or enduring value when they are read and related to through the reality of love, which binds and holds everything together. Otherwise, the way that we use them the way that we approach them the way that we interpret them, and the way that we think that they're adding value to our lives is illusory. It's temporary. It's a fleeting shadow. Think about it, for example, people sometimes think No, no, it's it's a hard wired thing. But no, birth charts in all different places in the world, different moments of divination have been used, for example, birth charts have been cast for the moment of conception. Birth charts have been cast for the moment of birth using a wide variety of different times that are that constitute birth.

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Also, sometimes birth charts have been cast to great effect without actual times or dates, or with confused times or incorrect times. In the first chapter of William Lily's horary textbook, he casts horary charts for the moment that a person enters his office without a birth time, he'll just cast a chart for them right then in there when they first say hello to him and say I have no birth time. Okay, well, here's your birth time right now. Why is how is it that this is possible? And people miss this profound truth about astrology all the time. It's possible because actually, the symbols have no fixed meaning. They only have meaning in relationship to the ritualization that we make around birth. And how is it that reality can do that? Can form and shape and mould to certain rituals like the moment of birth or like conception or and then the symbols can speak accurately to things. Because we live in a very relative world, the material world is a relative world. But the only thing that fix and gives it enduring, absolute meaning no matter what kind of form of divination we use, what kind of Tarot spread, what kind of birth chart what kind of technique, what moment of birth, we consider to be the one. The only thing that gives it an eternal enduring value, real meaning for the soul is whether or not love is at the center. Love is the absolute that gives absolute meaning to all things, including the symbols of a birth chart. And without it, the birth chart is nothing more than this kind of magical mirror. It offers us material platitudes, reinforcement of our fears or anxieties or our delusions of grandeur or it reinforces our prejudice or bias, it keeps us caught up in endless anxiety about outcomes and results in the turning wheel of material nature.We can get accurate results doing that through a wide variety of different approaches and techniques. The only thing that differentiates all of that from something of real truth is the consciousness of love. I'm not someone who says any technique will work just as long as you're a loving person. That's not what I mean. But what I'm saying is that even if you use techniques and come up with the most accurate predictions, descriptions, forecasts and reports, what do they mean for the soul? The only way that the soul gets anything out of them is if the soul by means of exploring these symbols with the astrologer comes to the realisation of their inherent nature, and the nature of all beings and the nature of reality itself. And that nature is love.

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We say that God is love, and love is what holds all the opposites together, gives all conflicts between all kinds of opposites, their meaning and relevance. Love is love because it loves all things, without beginning or end unconditionally. Love is not just something that you do. Love is who you are. And love is at the centre of all things that gives all things their actual substance and ontology in their their beingness. If astrology is in service to the cultivation of love, then it has enduring value. If astrology readings and charts help us recognise our souls, it has eternal value, and will be a part of walking us home. Walking us home, Homeward Bound to love.

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So these are a few things to remember because it's also it's not an easy path to walk. It's a daily commitment we make to put the love of God, the love of source and the love of soul at the center. It's a daily struggle to do these things. But remember, that if you take to the path of love sincerely, even once, even once, if your heart says, I know that love is at the center of everything. You'll be brought home eventually, lifetime by lifetime you can have absolute trust that in every setback, sojourn and detour along the way, love is guiding you home. All it takes is the sincere recognition that I am made of love, that God is love. That all things are held together in love, that love is my destiny, that love is my healing, that love is my path and that love is my way. And if and if we recognise that even once, even if it's just in our minds, we will be brought home one step at a time. It's game over at that point, as my guru likes to say, Krishna will drag us along, you know, and that's the truth because love is so open and so giving and so graceful and merciful and tolerant and patient and kind, that if we only acknowledge the reality of this being in the center of our hearts, then that's it. It's game over. It might not happen right away. There might be lots of struggling and suffering and challenges along the way, but we're on the way home. And that's it.

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To love we have to be willing to suffer. Because suffering is part of how love becomes complete and total. Love is not just love for the good things. Love is not just love for the pleasant things. Love is love for everything. And so part of loving is suffering. Because for love to become complete and total, we have to be willing to love everything. And that's the hard part. But again, once we start the process, the process will consume us in time, love will envelop us, because it's actually who we are. There's no avoiding it, there's no going around it. That is our only destiny. To love we have to set aside our judgments, our self righteousness, our will and our way and imagine that real freedom, real self respect, real self esteem is found in the measure of our love. Do we commune every day with the soul of our soul and say thank you, I love you. I'm here for you. Let me serve you, let me be an instrument of your love in the world, is that our daily prayer and practice? Do we work to be more loving, more selfless, more humble, and in service to others because we see the same indwelling Spirit-soul in them. That's how we measure our self worth or self respect, our sovereignty, our agency, all of the things that the modern world tells us we really need to be special, be strong, be successful, be sovereign, be strong, you know, all of these kinds of things. But really, the measure of those things is based on how much we love. And the reason for that is that when we love, we are inhabiting our true essence. And our true freedom because love is the only thing that is free love can't be bound by the opposites because love holds them together.

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So when we step into our true nature, then and only then are we free, then and only then do we have something that's worth respecting, because love gives all respects to everything and asks for none in return. And that's the thing about love that makes it so worth serving. It doesn't place my own needs for respect and greatness first. It places the need to recognise and honour and revere the beauty and others the beauty in the world, the beauty in God, the beauty and creation. And because it does that it feels its own worth because we are only worth while to the extent that we are loved because that's who we are.

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Along the way, every day, the blessing of astrology is that we can look up at the heavens, and behold these eternal shapes and thoughts of love. If we have love at the center of our lives, then every transit every planet, every aspect of these beautiful heavenly patterns become like a chorus of angelic voices, singing out the glory of love, and of God and of the soul of all beings everywhere. And that's all the events that we laugh, pray joke suffer through. They all become a moving meditation upon the divine and love just pours out, it pours out from the heavens down to the earth and from the earth mirrored back in the heavens. each day's reflection upon the stars becomes communion. And that's when that's when astrology is at its best, in my opinion, that's real astrology. And that's the standard we should be shooting for. So, um, I, you know, it's hard to encapsulate, you know, everything that I've that I've learned in 10 years of doing astrology and so many charts. But this is it. If I had to summarise it all to in today's talk this, this would be it.

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So, it's a real honour, of course, to share this series with all of you. I hope it's been encouraging. I hope it's been uplifting. I hope that it has affirmed things that you know, in your own heart. Along the way, I've really been fortunate to read a lot of your own comments and your own sharing and your own insights, which are so beautiful. So thank you for all of them along the way. If you have any insights that come up as you're listening to this last episode, I'd love to hear them as well.

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At the end of every calendar year, for the last 40 days of the year, I do kind of a miniature version of what I just did with this series. The last 40 days of every calendar year, I enter into a period of reflection and contemplation, looking back at the year, the astrology of the year, what I've learned as a person, you know, as a dad as a spouse as an astrologer. And I start to privately shape, what I'm going to do or what I want to focus on or how I want to change and grow in the year ahead. During that time, I, as many of you know, who have followed me for a while this is the seventh year I've done this, during those last 40 days, I also fundraise and I do I do a Kickstarter campaign. And ask people to pitch in if you're able to, if you enjoy this series, if you enjoy the work that I do if it if it's in any way helpful for you, throughout the year, a lot of love and a lot of passion goes into the creation of this content every day, average about 300 days of the year that I make content. And I follow a pretty a really committed schedule of how I make and create all of this content as well. So if you feel led to contribute, check it out. And there's a variety of rewards that you can pick, I try to give things in return that are value, including, you know, readings and like exclusive lectures and also discounted tuition to some of my online courses. So if you'd like pitching in I really appreciate it it's the Kickstarter link is in the comment section. And yeah, I look forward to I mean, God willing, if I'm doing this for 10 more years, I will be a consider myself very blessed. astrology is one of my favourite things in the world. I feel so fortunate to have this in my life and to share this with kindred spirits like all of you. And I look forward to another year of content creation ahead. And I'd also love to hear your reflections on this series as a whole. What did you think of it? And yeah, I look forward to talking to you guys more next week. All right. Take it easy, everyone.

 

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Venus in Libra Square Saturn in Capricorn

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In this talk, I'll be taking a look at Venus' square to Saturn. This is a transit we've been anticipating for a while, and today I'll be giving you some ideas of what you can expect.

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we are going to take a look at Venus's square to Saturn. This is a transit that we've been anticipating for a little while. I've talked about it in my monthly overview, and spent time talking about it in a number of places this month because it's right in the mix of so many intense transits that we've been going through. You know, Mars is turned direct, the Jupiter Pluto conjunction, we had a big Mercury Saturn square right around the beginning of November. So there's been a lot and there's still a lot to come. We have eclipses to look over later this month. And a huge December with Jupiter and Saturn changing signs into Aquarius. So it's been a really lively month.

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Anyway, what's happening right now is Venus in the sign of Libra is in an overcoming square to Saturn. I will be doing, hopefully a q&a episode because some people have been asking me about the nature of superior versus inferior aspects and what are they, how do they work. This is something I cover in depth in my classes. But I think Cat and I will probably do a q&a video to explain it to people, you know, just in case you've never heard of it before. So in this case, Venus has the upper hand and the dynamic, that's what being in the overcoming or superior square means. Venus is going to move through the square to Saturn over the next couple of days. It's today on Wednesday, it will be you know, more or less in the process of perfecting it goes through the full perfection of that process by Thursday. So Wednesday, Thursday of this week, that's when we're really feeling this. But you should have you could have already been feeling it as early as the beginning of this week when the Venus enters into about a three degree range. And you'll also feel it right up until Venus changes signs into Scorpio in the 21st. So it has a little bit of a zone in which you can feel the effects that's not just specific to the exact day that a transit happens.

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So anyway, what does this transit entail? What is the Venus transit all about? These are the themes that you could look for, not all of them will be applicable, but some of them should be. And one of the best ways to notice this is not necessarily to go around, you know, like like sitting in the bushes with your binoculars like looking for Venus and Saturn. Maybe if you have a journal, just at the end of the day, take a moment to reflect upon what's been happening in your life, maybe listen to the videos, that's the best way to start taking the transits in and becoming sensitive to them, being able to notice them. For example, you know, when you do astrology for a while, you should basically start to go like in the midst of something happening should be like, something's happening, what the heck is going on? Right? You're like, I know this is a transit, I can feel it. It just suddenly feels like the whole karmic field around you is shifting in some really important way. Some people get really obsessive over this, by the way, and they'll spend all day long being like, Oh my god, did you feel that sensitive, tiny little shift, and then they'll try to assign it to the planets. And I think that's kind of a mistake. So I would say be careful not to overdo it. But, you know, when you've got transits happening, you know, week by week, and some of them are perfecting it is helpful to pay attention to what's happening to make note of it, even to share your story somewhere just so that you start articulating your experience with the planets. Interestingly, then they start coming into your body and mind, you start to be able to sense and feel the, the events that they reflect. So anyway, that's just an aside.

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Okay, so Venus square Saturn. Love and pain. Here we have Venus as love and Saturn as the reality of suffering or pain. This is a good thing and a bad thing. A lot of the most important experiences that we have in our life of intimacy with other people have a way of in those moments are infused with elements of relief from suffering. There can be the bitter sweetness of suffering of things that have been endured. Venus Saturn is also associated with love and time. So love and time and love and suffering go together because, in a sense, over time, we're bound to suffer. And so because we suffer, but because we also persist in maintaining and keeping loving connections in our life because we feed them and nourish them, because we're affectionate Then the pain has a way of becoming part of the shape of the intimacy that we share. And that's so important.

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So Venus, Saturn can be periods of time where there are pain and difficulties. But they're the kind of difficulties that build character in the long run. I was thinking, for example, my wife posted a photo somewhere, I think, was Facebook or Instagram. And it was a picture of one of the first dates I took my wife on, when I was still living in New York City, and she was in DC, she came up to New York City, and we went up to the top of the Empire State Building, and she had never done it before, I had actually never done it before at that point, either. So anyway, that popped back up, and we were reflecting on everything, and just kind of jokingly being like, God, you know, would you've signed up for this, if you would have known what you would go through over the next 10 years? Not in any way reflective of our love for each other. But just like, I think this is true for any committed relationship. This is my philosophy anyway, that if you knew the mix of sorrow and joy, both there, but if you knew that it wasn't going to be just bliss, that there would be all different life challenges that you would share together in a relationship with someone like, would you sign up for it? And of course, our answer was, yes, you know, but it's just as interesting because, you know, we're kind of remembering ourselves standing on the top of the Empire State Building being like, wow, you know, there's a lot of things we've endured together. And that is like a fine wine. I say this about Venus Saturn all the time. But Venus Saturn ages, just like a fine wine should, or it can be reflective of the harder and more painful truths that come with love in any form.

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There's a saying that I've heard and it's "Love me, love me little bit, love me long." You know, and sometimes there's a way in which we don't like that when we're in the romantic phase of a relationship, but the honeymoon phase or when we're young, and we're really daydreaming about meeting our, you know, like a soulmate or something like that. And so the phrase love me a little bit love me long could sound sound like there's going to be very little warmth, there's going to be very little affection, but you'll be together for a long time. And that could be one of the Venus Saturn significations. Like not a lot of love, but a lot of time. But I think that there's a way of understanding that quote, in terms of the endurance of love. You know, passion, the word passion means to suffer with to there's a, there's a way of suffering with something, to have passion for one another is not just something that we experience, in other words, in the moments of elation, but it's also in the trials and in the suffering, but we somehow find a way to still burn with love for the other, in the midst of even our dislikes of each other, or the harder passages that we may go through, for example, in each other's families, or in each other's careers, or with each other's health, all sorts of things that we endure. But somehow in the midst of the suffering, we choose to burn and feel and suffer with the other. And that joins us to people in a very deep way that can transform that sense of love me little bit, love me long into "Love me long, little by little by little."

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Because it's easy to make grand gestures of love, especially in the beginning. But when we have to water our relationships with love over many, many years, my experience has been that it requires us to make sure we're feeding love in small ways constantly, you know, the presence of love in a relationship. It's the hug when you get up in the morning. It's the small acts of generous affection. There was a book that came out some years ago, about the five languages of love. Everyone has a different way that they like to be loved. But the point is that if you want to receive love, you also have to give it and you have to give it not just in the way that you like to do it, but in the way that the other person wants to feel it. And so, learning how to love other people over time, being persistent in small acts of affection, build the sense of it. There's a vintage in each of us in each of our relationships that has to build by the small choices we make to be loving, as we also endure many things together. That's a Venus Saturn combination.

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Love also has to have limits and has to be defined and is made of the rituals that we create together and the way that we are disciplined and committed to each other, the way that there's a centre of gravity between ourselves our friendships our our lovers, even relationships with children. So limitation with Saturn but also narrowing our field of activities to reflect the commitments that we have to the love that we share with certain people in our life.

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Beauty in law, that's another one with Venus Saturn, where you can have this sense of the way in which the the correct, just, wise thing is also very beautiful. And judgement and beauty go together as well in this combination, for example to point out the difference between vanity and superficial reality and real substance where something is feigning some appearance of beauty or grace or kindness or diplomacy but it's actually deeply self centred, and you feel the hollowness behind it that can be a Venus Saturn dynamic.

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Also, the the idea of austerity. That we desire things but that we learn to limit our own cravings and desires that's the Venus, Saturn dynamic. Beauty and darkness or beauty, beauty and plainness or simplicity, darkness is a Saturn motif. Venus Saturn can sometimes bring out the the kind of melancholic black and white beauty as well as it can also speak to plain or simple things, even minimalist kinds of things. Of course, Venus and Saturn can bring abandonment or a feeling of alienation in love or in relationships, or some sense of the hard reality underlying the appearance. Loss of friendships or impediments to harmony or agreement, just the blockages of Saturn that can come up admiration and jealousy, Venus Saturn have a lot to do with lust and envy, and and also the desire to hoard things or possess things. The reason for that is that Saturn long throughout the history of astrology has been associated with the the Greek god who eats his own children in an envy and worry that they will you serve him and take over he wants to be dominant. And so the the greed associated with Saturn, the the hunger and the lust and the desire to suppress other things that can come through somehow in terms of our own appetites, desires, or in terms of not wanting other people to take over. So we do things to try to block them or set them back.

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Finally, is this question about beauty, wealth, prestige, and power in the world. Venus, Saturn is often reflective of like high culture, but sometimes also the way that people Lord money, resources, education, class over other people, as well as questions about fairness in regard to insiders versus outsiders. So those are some of the themes that are in the air right now. And it'll be interesting to see how they play out I would love to hear your stories.

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Don't forget that my annual Kickstarter starts in the next couple of days. The last 40 calendar days of the year, I have an annual fundraiser where I ask all of you who enjoyed my work to pitch and if you can, there's a bunch of rewards you can choose when you do so. Every year we have a goal that we're trying to get to. I've been doing this about seven years now. Last year, we hit 690 backers supporting my work in 2020, from which I was able to hire Cat and Delia to work with me and other really cool stuff you guys helped me to do. So this year, our goal is to surpass 690. But you know, just one backer, see if we can do a little bit better go to 691. If we beat that cool, that'll be awesome. But regardless, I'll be telling you more about that coming up. So stay tuned. And yeah, I really appreciate all of you and look forward to doing more later this week. All right. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.

 

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Mercury Opposite Uranus One Last Time

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Today I'm taking a look at Mercury's final opposition to Uranus this year. I'll recap the previous two oppositions Mercury and Uranus made, and what to expect from this final transit.

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Hi everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we're going to take a look at Mercury's final opposition to the planet Uranus. Mercury has gone through several oppositions to Uranus. Recently, one in forward direct motion, then it stationed almost an exact opposition mercury did to Uranus, then through retrograde, another opposition now through direct motion, the final opposition. We're going to track, trace all of that out and give you a sense of what to expect. There's a few other things going on that we'll preview today and we'll get back to later on in the week. So I'll just ask everyone to hang tight on some of what we're going to talk about today.

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So you'll see that right now Venus is navigating through the minefield of squares to the stellium in Capricorn. Over the weekend, you might have noticed the Venus Pluto dynamic, Venus Jupiter, now Venus is going into the square with Saturn. So that happens between now and Thursday of this week. And as that happens, I'll be sure to do another video kind of giving you a sense of what to expect. But that is in the midst of perfecting right now, so it's definitely something to pay attention to. In the meantime, Mercury at seven Scorpio is opposing Uranus at a Taurus. Now let's take this back in time so that you all can have a sense of what's happened over the past month or so. At the beginning of October, Mercury made an opposition to the planet Uranus. And this opposition, perfected right between October 7 and 8, then Mercury slows down and stations and turns retrograde about the middle of last month. Then as Mercury continued through the retrograde, it went back through the opposition to Uranus, which happened through October 19 to 20th. Then Mercury's retrograde takes it into Libra where it turned direct. Here in the United States it was election day and it had to go back in the overcoming square to Saturn. Then Mercury dipped back into Scorpio. And now it will make its final pass over the opposition to Uranus. So there's been a process happening here with this opposition. And it's going to look very different for everybody. But we're going to do today is break it down. I encourage you to take a look at what was happening around those dates in October that we just mentioned, because it's very possible that if you do a little reflecting and a little digging, you're going to find that there is a story that's being told between each opposition and this is the last one. So it might be important to see how it all fits together, it could also inform any perhaps challenging or more tricky decisions that you have to make or situations that you may have to navigate.

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This transit is perfecting today into tomorrow. You'll feel the effects as it separates basically as the rest of the week goes on. Here's what to expect.

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Remember that with this combination, you have the potential for sudden insights and revelations, especially those that help you to free yourself up in some way from something that has been restrictive or confining. Mercury Uranus is that flash of insight that may liberate you from a difficult situation or the epiphany that suddenly sort of sets you free. If you feel stuck, especially if you're in a mental, emotional place of stuckness, Mercury in a water sign like Scorpio, a Mars ruled water sign, Mars has just turned direct. So the potential for there to be some kind of liberating insights or circumstances that change suddenly or rapidly and serve to free you up and move you forward. And the idea of the freeing up and moving forward is again, Mercury Uranus which can be that liberating, sudden unexpected or disruptive turn of events, but with Mars being the ruler of Mercury right now, Mercury in Mars' sign of Scorpio and Mars having just turned direct, we've now got a Mars that's ready to move forward. Again, that's looking like it's indicating some kind of momentum change. So the sudden, breakthrough, the sudden epiphany, the sudden idea that liberates, that causes a new action to be taken, that helps you to move forward after a period of stagnation or stuckness. But also, it could be that it's the insight that leads to something inceptional. And because we know that Mars is a planet of inceptions of beginnings, Mars likes to initiate action. So when you have a Mercury, Uranus opposition, you're thinking about the light bulb that goes off that causes you to act and start something new, perhaps, especially if you've been trying something over and over and it hasn't been working, you could suddenly find that you have the insight or the idea that's going to help you move forward and actually, effectively do something with greater effectiveness.

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The other thing would be news or like, not necessarily an idea that comes from from yourself, but information or news or a turn of events that comes from your environment somehow. Now, I'll warn you that Mercury Uranus can be a little chaotic and disruptive, but usually, there's a sense of the final result being something that releases. Of course, you also have the potential for rebelliousness and defiance surrounding this, and some action that's going to be taken as a way of breaking away from something or, or turning away from something that you reject. That would be a strong possibility with Mars underneath this and Mercury, Uranus having to do with the potential to say, no more, I can't, I won't do this anymore. Kind of like in a relationship. Maybe it's a business relationship, or friendship or dating relationship, and you say, you know, I'm done. And that insight is very liberating. In other words, the freedom could come in realising that one has to separate from something or step away from something or sever or cut oneself free of something. And the reason for that is, again, Mars underneath, has that severing effect. So sometimes there's going to be news that liberates, news that liberates in the form of ending something or cutting connection with something. And of course, that can also come through in terms of sudden and unexpected breakdowns in technology or cars or computers or things like that, where there's kind of unexpected thing that happens and you know, your your connection gets cut off or something like that.

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You also want to be careful right now in terms of risk taking behaviour in terms of, you know, taking risks like extreme sports. It would be a time where I would advise caution in terms of like high risk activities because Mercury Uranus can be very erratic and can relate to sudden, sort of violent unexpected twists and turns. So things that shatter limits or boundaries, in a positive sense can also shatter bones. I'm not trying to be scary, but you do want to exercise a little bit of caution with this transit, in particular. Shocking claims and brave statements, rebelliousness in defiance, also thievery and mimicry. They say that mimicry is the best form of flattery. You could see Mercury, Uranus as it like intellectual property rights are people stealing things from one another, and maybe trying to pass it off as their own. Or cybersecurity or issues around tech, technological fraud, or scams or things like that mercury and Uranus together have this quality of being very innovative but also like Prometheus, the fire thief, there's maybe a sense of, you know, sort of taking something that doesn't belong to oneself, and maybe feeling like one is justified in doing it because of some kind of cause or something like that.

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So the next one on my list would be that you have the potential for displays of genius. So everyone keeps mentioning a TV show right now. So I watched the first episode because a number of my friends and my mom even said, this shows really interesting. The Queen's Gambit. I think it's called, it's about a young woman who's a chess player. She's an orphan and she's like this brilliant chess player. And as I watched the first episode, you Yesterday, I thought to myself, this is so mercury Uranus, in terms of, the show comes out right as Mercury's perfecting an opposition to Uranus. And it's all about this kind of rare genius. So you could see that around you, or within you in terms of like, sudden, intuitive manoeuvres that your mind makes where you just make rapid connections one after another. I find, for example, over the years that anytime Mercury is configured to Uranus, that I will write some of my most interesting talks or that I'll piece together ideas or be able to see or identify patterns in the charts that I'm reading for other people more naturally. There's this weird way in which the Mercury Uranus dynamic sort of opens up the mind and makes it sort of more like this live wire. Which by the way, can also come across in terms of sudden erratic, mental, emotional or communicative outbursts or breakdowns. So those are things to be aware of as well.

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There's also the hubris of Mercury opposite Uranus, I'm a genius. You know, where we try to claim the power of the gods are the power of the heavens, just like Prometheus where there's this noble sense of invention, and he's the saviour of humanity, right. But there's always been the connection to Prometheus and stories like Frankenstein, where our desire to progress somehow usurps natural law or transgresses natural law or something like that. And then there's a monster. So this Mercury opposite Uranus theme can come up in terms of our, our systems becoming intelligent and taking over somehow or that there can be widespread you know, acts of liberty or like liberating rebel revolution, defiance, rebellion. Sometimes it's going to be a good thing, and sometimes it's not.

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Disruptions to the status quo, whatever is normal, whatever you're habituated to, you can expect some desire to kind of maybe sort of flip the bird to it and say, No, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do what I want. Which could be a good thing. Like sometimes we have to break out of our, our patterns and habits. Other times this transit comes through, and by the end of it, it will have been a reminder about pride and about arrogance and stuff like that. Mercury Uranus loves to worship at the altar of the future. We're going somewhere, we're doing something we're breaking away from the past, those kinds of themes are really quite strong.

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The only other thing that I'll say here is that it's not unusual to want to make or make technological changes, I'm going to get a new phone, I'm going to change my number, I'm going to you know, change my email address. It can be very mundane and simple things as well. So that is what I have for you guys. Today. I would love to hear your stories about Mercury Uranus, how have you noticed this at play in your life over the past month? What have you experienced in those in those transits during October? And what are you experiencing now? Do you see any carryover? I love hearing those stories, so feel free to leave them in the chat box. In the meantime, towards the end of this week, I'll be launching my annual Kickstarter. And I'll be telling you more about that as the week goes on for the last 40 days of every calendar year for going on seven years now. I basically do a fundraiser, if you enjoy my content, if you watch regularly, I ask everyone to pitch in if you can, and I have a bunch of cool rewards that I offer, including, some discounted readings and lectures that I make available exclusively through the Kickstarter and discounted classes and things like that. So stay tuned for more on that. And as always, if you have anything you'd like me to cover, leaving leave in the comment section or email us Cat aggregates things and we'll be doing some Q&A episodes coming up. There's a few more of them we're going to be doing as well. You can email us at info@nightlightastrology.com. All right. Take it easy, everyone.

 

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Mars Turns Direct and a New Moon in Scorpio

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Today, I'm talking about Mars turning direct this weekend, and the New Moon in Scorpio, under the rulership of Mars.

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Hi everyone this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we're going to talk about the fact that Mars is about to turn direct. We've had Mars retrograde since September and this retrograde has been in the sign of Aries and now Mars is finally stationing and will turn direct over the weekend. Just as we also have a New Moon coming through in the sign of Scorpio. So we'll talk a little bit about the New Moon in Scorpio but really will be focused a lot on this New Moon in Scorpio given the context of the New Moon in Scorpio's ruler Mars turning direct. So that's what we'll do today.

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Now, before we get into it, I just want to remind everybody that my new class Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic starts tomorrow. So you have one day left to take advantage of the early bird rate which can save you a little bit of money when you do that. And I'm also there's payment plans and need based tuition. You guys have heard me talk about this a lot by now. Really excited to begin a new class check it out on my website nightlightastrology.com. If you got any questions, last minute questions, you can email me at info@nightlightastrology.com, we also try to make sure that nobody's priced out, so we do have need based tuition for people who are struggling. If you fit that criteria, feel free to apply.

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Now one thing that I want to do before we dive into interpreting this is give you a little outline of how I'm going to talk about this, so you can kind of anticipate what's coming. We're going to go through the progression of Mars in Aries since it entered Aries this past summer, and just kind of map out all of the stages of it and where it is now and what it still has left to go because even though it's turning direct, it's still got to work its way through the rest of Aries. So we'll work our way through that whole progression with the real time clock. We're going to talk about some of the main themes that we have probably witnessed or experienced in our personal lives while Mars has been retrograde. And then what to expect, as Mars turns direct, and covers all of the degrees that it's already covered between now in the new year. We're going to go through each rising sign to talk about what you might have experienced or what you might continue to experience given Mars turning direct in each of the whole sign houses based on your rising sign. So that's what we're doing today.

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All right, let's dive in. So you can see right here in the real time clock that we have the New Moon forming in the sign of Scorpio. And this is going to happen late Saturday night into Sunday here in in the Midwest anyway. But you can imagine this as a Saturday-Sunday kind of deal. A New Moon in Scorpio means a Mars ruled lunar cycle to come. But the good news is that this Mars ruled lunar cycle to come happens as Venus is overcoming a stellium from Libra to Capricorn and Mars gains a whole lot of dignity back, which means that we should start seeing a much more effective Mars and Mars that's able to act but also achieve results through a harmonisation of forces around us. So it's a Mars that's in a lot better shape. Another aspect that we'll be looking at next week that's going to be a big deal is Mercury's opposition to Uranus. There is going to be some more explosive qualities to this Mars as it's turning direct that will coincide with that Mercury, opposite Uranus. We'll talk about that next week.

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For now let's go back in time and take a look at where Mars has been. So I'm going to bring you back to June basically. Here's Mars in Pisces and switches into Aries right around the very end of June. So we're on the 28th right now. And you can see Mars entering Aries. Now, Mars is then going to, trudge along through the sign of Aries, and it reaches the degree range of the retrograde by late July. You're thinking about July 25th, right around there, Mars enters the 15th degree of Aries. So one of the things that's really helpful when you're looking at a retrograde is to look at the total degree space that it covers. It's stationing right now at about 15 degrees of Aries. So we want to see well when did Mars first cross 15 Aries which you could say its shadow period. But once it starts going across the degrees that it will cover later through retrograde, you want to pay attention because all of that time is going to be included in the meaning of the retrograde in the cycle as a whole. So think about late July.

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Now I'm going to give you my story of this as we go just so that you can have a model for how to track your own story. So for example, in late July, we were deciding that we were going to leave Maryland and move to the Twin Cities, which is back home for me. So we made that choice about late July. All right. So that's the book end for me. And that's when we right about that time is when we put our house, we decided to put our house on the market and Maryland, right? We're gonna sell our house. So there you go, that's July 25. So track that out even sit down with a journal, this exercise is really helpful to get the most out of a retrograde period, especially a long one like Mars retrograde.

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Alright, so if we take this forward from, say late July, we're going to see Mars then cover a lot of ground, going through August until we get into September. And once we get into September, then you're going to see Mars really slowing down in the late degrees of Aries. And here you can see Mars stationing about 28 degrees of Aries. This is around September 10th. So if we take this a day forward, we see that between the 10th and the 11th, Mars turns retrograde. Okay, so now from the 10th to the 11th what you're thinking about is a period of retrogradation that will last from about that time up until now. So you're talking about September 11, to roughly middle of November. So that's about two months, a long time that we've had Mars retrograde, right. Okay. So now what you're thinking about at the current moment is, here's Mars going to is going to go back over all of the degrees that went over from late July. And between, you know, mid September through mid November, it's going to go back over all of those degrees by retrograde, it's sort of like cross examination, you're putting one thing forward, but then you're calling up a witness, and the witness is going to offer a testimony that either supports what Mars did in the first period, or offer something in contrast to what Mars did. So, you know, a witness that comes up is either going to be corroborating witness, so the witness might offer testimony that conflicts with the testimony that's already been offered. So that's what a retrograde period is like. One of the ways that ancient astrologers thought about retrogrades is that whatever the planet brings forth, as an omen, as a symbol, as a proclamation of the God's will, in our lives, will then be called back into question, and either further deepened and corroborated or potentially challenged or reversed. So retrogrades are not a one size fits all phenomenon, right? You can have things that happened during a retrograde that really reverse things that went before it. Or it can be a process of deepening and refining something that came before it, which is why you'll sometimes hear people refer to retrogrades as periods of revision.

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Oftentimes, there is a kind of breakdown when we refine something like if you think about writing a book, you refine it, you will kind of tear it apart a little bit. There was a phrase I remember in my MFA programme in creative writing where, you know, I think it came from Faulkner, it was it was a you have to be willing to kill your darlings you know, strike lines or paragraphs that you love from your manuscripts, from your book. It You know, this period, you could think of like that to where it's been a process of refining intentions, refining actions, and, and refining motivations, all things that Mars is related to, as the retrograde is taking place. It doesn't necessarily have to be Oh, well, everything got messed up or everything got reversed or cancelled. Now there can be elements of that during a retrograde where things that have been put forth are called back into question and reversed or overturned or sort of, you know, eliminated or zeroed out or something like that. And sometimes a combination of both some things that don't work, some things that do, oftentimes retrogrades mean delays.

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Remember that a retrograde is a picture of a planet that is normally cutting against the grain of the primary motion of the sky, the Earth's rotation on its access, which carries planets from the east to the west, and it's moving against that grain from west toward the east. Well, when a retrograde comes, suddenly, the planet falls back into the primary motion. And it appears as though it's moving along with it. And I've always thought of that as a picture of the larger Hand of Fate as a kind of a period of divine intervention. Each planet has agency just like every soul has agency. And yet there are times where destiny, the gods, the will of the Divine, just take over in our lives. And we are faced with the limitations of our own power. And in a sense, the gods are too. The gods resemble that loss of autonomy or agency during retrograde periods where something bigger takes over. They have to fall in line with something larger than themselves. And there can be a lot of learning and growth in that and, you know, challenges to our integrity, are we able to surrender to periods of frustration when it comes to our will? That's a question for a Mars retrograde are we able to go along with the revisions that come along even though they delay us or set us back in some way or offer us feedback or even constructive criticism about the way we're living our lives? Those are periods that, you know, people can answer those questions with a little bit of courage and excitement. Retrograde periods can be very fruitful because they really help us grow and mature, especially with Mars because Mars has a lot to do with our willpower, and our sense of strength or potency in the world. If we buy into the myth that I'm the measure of all things, and I determine all things and I'm in control of all things, I create my own reality that future is wide open, it's all possibility I'm in control of the world. If that's our if those are our mantras, Mars retrograde periods can be very frustrating, because it turns out that we have some control, we have some agency but we're also a part of the body of God, of the universe of forces that are much larger than ourselves. And we have to learn how to cooperate and serve that larger whole. Mars periods can teach us how to relinquish our will. Remember that Mars is the planet that is related to martyrs. Now, a martyr is someone who may die for a cause something that's bigger than themselves. And sometimes people do so, you know, they develop a martyr complex, they try to gain esteem or love or praise or worth or valour, by falling on their own sword. And it's very dramatic, and it's actually serving the ego. But the other version of it is that, you know, I can't think of one, you know, really elevated saintly personality in the world who hasn't been an emblem of service to humanity or service to others or service to the solar service to God, however, you want to think about it. So Mars retrograde periods can teach us how to serve something other than our own will, and how to surrender to forces, the assertion of other energies or forces around us that we may feel like we want to compete with or lock horns with or whatever. But, you know, my experience with Mars retrogrades is that if you learn how to adjust to being a soldier for the right causes, and if you relinquish your control, and your will, then these become these amazing periods of refinement, where you become you have integrity, your will becomes more intelligent, you understand the proper use of your energy and resources, putting them into the service of things bigger than yourself. That's the true meaning of a warrior in the spiritual sense. So Mars, the martyr, Mars, the one who will sacrifice themselves to something larger, don't forget that it was the sixth house that was called the joy of Mars. And it was associated with military service, as well as you know, any kinds of thankless labour or sacrifice, sometimes slavery as well. So you think about what we are enslaved to in the world and what we serve relentlessly. Most of it is our selfish interest. And actually one of the most basic ways in which we can understand the idea of slavery, aside from its literal incarnations in the world would be the way in which that we all we all fall prey to our own selfish interests, we become slave to them, and it's a thankless taskmaster. The sixth house is a house that was traditionally associated with enemies and conflict and battle, but also a sense of sacrifice, and a sense of service. So that's all Mars stuff, right? Why would Mars be the God associated with service? Because the only way that one becomes an effective servant is to realise the appropriate use of the will. When we think the will is in service to ourselves, then we become enemies of others and others become our enemies because we end up caught in a life that's all about competing resources, aggression, conflict competition for the objects of our desire, whereas when we come into service, we get the we get the relief of of setting aside our own selfish interests, we get the relief of setting aside the burden of our own ego and we get the relief of saying no, it's not about me, I serve something I serve love I serve peace I serve truth and we can be very strong but in a way that takes our own ego and selfish interest out of the equation and who knew what a relief that was right.

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So Mars retrograde periods can seem scary because like Mercury retrograde you know, we get them a couple times you get them like three times a year sometimes we might get them four times a year sometimes but you get them enough and you go like okay, everything's gonna go kind of wonky and you know, unpredictable, erratic delays, might, you know, my, I'm going to have to go to the iPhone store, the Apple Store, whatever, and I'm going to have to, you know, like we're we're used to the like, inconveniences of a retrograde, especially with Mercury, but we we rarely talk about the opportunity of, of retrogrades, especially the Venus and Mars retrograde. We had a big Venus retrograde this year. Now we had this long Mars retrograde, what did we learn? Now if I track my own story and kind of trace this out, and I'm going to go into this more when I actually go through house by house, but, you know, I had a lot of things happen between that late July, and up till right now, that basically were examples of how little I am in control, especially with my family members. Because I had a lot of more challenging things happen with the health situations of family members, but also the process of selling our house. Obviously, I fancy myself a humble and devoted servant, right, because I'm on the path of bhakti yoga, but, man, the layers of selfishness are just so deep, you know, and it's interesting to see, and I'm really grateful for what I was able to learn about, you know, how frustrated I can get when things don't go my way, real Mars retrograde theme. Anyway, I'll come back to that later.

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So, Mars retrograde, what else can it provide? Well, now that you have this picture, right, let's go forward in time and just talk about what's going to happen. You can see Mars is at about 15 degrees of Aries in the chart that I've got up right now. Now, if we take this forward day at a time, you're going to see that Mars will gradually work its way back to that 28 degrees. So we have one more period. And I think about this a cheesy cheap word, but it's true: integration. Integrating the things that we've learned, hopefully. Integration only happens if we have been, you know, willing and reflective participants, you know, then this period is typically one of integration, of lessons learned. And of the progress that's made because of the lessons that we've learned. There's going to be a big moment of catharsis when Mars squares Pluto, this is right on the winter solstice, just as Jupiter and Saturn can join in the early degrees of Aquarius, we will definitely be visiting that one in December. So that's another great moment of catharsis. And if we're in the process of integration, because we've been reflective participants, this will be a very big turning point for us. A lot of the times, the way that you can tell that we haven't been as reflective as maybe we could be, is that when these transits happen, it constantly feels like things are happening to us. And we kind of flail around and react and get really overwhelmed and we often react and make choices out of frustration. And that has this domino effect that can be really disastrous, it can well maybe not disastrous, but we can make our our dilemma much more difficult by by reacting to it in ways that are only reflective of the fact that we really weren't getting the message. Whereas I see people frequently in my practice, who are getting the message that in such moments choices are made that are reflective of the maturing that's been done. And you're going to have a moment for that that's really profound right around the winter solstice this year. I feel like the last time that I was so that I anticipated a winter solstice, so much was, you know, back in 2012, when it was like the end of the Mayan calendar, this major astrological omen of great significance on the winter solstice, of course, summer solstice, if you're in the southern hemisphere, but it feels like that, again, just in the sense of there being this really transformational moment happening on that date. And I'm not at all making allusions to the end of the world or anything like that. I'm just saying it just has a similar feeling of significance.

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So if you go forward from there, Mars is going to break free from late Aries and where it's stationed right around the first couple of days of the new year, and finally enters Taurus, between January 6th, and 7th. And as it does, so, it will then move right into immediately into a square with Saturn and Jupiter and a conjunction with Uranus. That's another that's another major Mars dynamic that's happening. And so Mars doesn't really get clear of the super intense transit lines until late January, right? And so, there's a long stretch of Mars going forward and then hitting all of these aspects. But that's when you think about the implementation of things learned that there's a shift in momentum now. And the the cross examination period of the retrograde is over. So what happens next? Well, either we see momentum, and new actions based on insights, lessons learned during the retrograde period, or we see, you know, continuation of challenges and struggles. And in my practice, and in my own life, what I've seen over many years of doing this is that when you when you see a turning point like this, after a retrograde followed by a bunch of heavy aspects, you either you get one of two scenarios, one a person is implementing the lessons and insights gained through the hard inner work that's been done during the retrograde or two, if they didn't get the message, they will get it on the on the way out as the as the retrograde separates, and oftentimes in a much more difficult way.

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So it's quite a path for Mars ahead, we'll be tracking all of that out, you know, transit by transit, in December and even into January. Now I want to talk about some things themes to watch for during the Mars retrograde. Mars is action, so you're thinking about, as Mars turns direct, you're thinking about a an ability to take an action that has perhaps been frustrated or slowed down or delayed, or prohibited in some way. You can think about desires or motivations changing during this period. And now as they've reoriented starting to establish some momentum and some forward movement and some actions that can be taken. So as our motivations and desires change, then the course of action changes. And that's what we're seeing right now as a kind of change of motivation, change of desire turns direct actions based on new motivations, or intentions or desires, anger or frustration, if those have been themes, and you've been working on those themes, you may start to feel a sense of relief, as you are levelling up a little bit when it comes to, you know, impulse or temper or anger or frustration. And if not, if you've just been peeling out this whole time, during the Mars retrograde with anger and frustration, I would say, you know, do the work now, because there's a bunch of aspects coming up, as I just said, that will not be easy for someone who's just been banging their head against the wall the whole time. So anyone that's like resisting right now, the natural course that things are trying to take that that the natural course that is trying to unfold, will find real frustration and you know, even, you know, embarrassment, or humiliation, or really consequential levels of conflict that could be avoided if we, through this retrograde period sort of took a moment to realise, well, this is what it is, and I have to accept it for what it is.

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Determination, conflict and hostility. If you've been really determined about something and sticking with something and writing out different conflicts or hostilities or frustrations of will or resources or energy, this turning point will start to help you move forward again. You'll feel like okay, you know, it's sort of like if you've been in a long workout. The turning direct is like starting to have that runner's breakthrough where the labour of it turns into bliss. You're like, oh, now I'm feeling really, this feels really good. I'm heading that runner's high kind of Mars turning direct again, after a period of frustration and having to persevere and remain determined and so forth. Also I can't tell you how many clients just on a very practical level have undergone some kind of major physical or dietary transformation where there's a new workout regiment or something very Mars like that they've been taking on. And, you know, when you see this turning point come, it's often a sign that people are starting to reach goals that they've been working on and that they've had to refine their will, their effort, their determination. You've had to call up courage to work through something and now it's being rewarded. You're hitting a breakthrough. It's like now you're off and running. So those are some basic things that I would think about as defining this turn of Mars into direct motion.

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All right, now what we're going to do is we're going to take Mars through all 12 of the whole sign houses by rising sign so that you can get a sense of what kind of themes you might have been noticing or experiencing, as this Mars retrograde transit has happened. And therefore, what you may notice going forward as Mars continues to make its way through Aries until the New Year.

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Aries

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So let's say that you've had Mars in Aries in your first house, you're an Aries rising. If that's you, and we're talking about your personality, your energy, your physical vitality, this is probably one of the most common ones that I would see for people dealing literally with psychological themes like anger or frustration or going through a diet or physical exercise, you know, regiment of some kind. Because the first house is very physical, it has a lot to do with our vital energy. It is also connected to our character in our behaviour in the world, though. So this is your ruling planet, you're thinking about a period of maturation and growth and how you relate to that Mars principle, which has a big impact on you know, your your psyche, and how you relate to others in the world.

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Taurus

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Now, if we go forward, and we're going to put Taurus into the first house. So this one's mine, I can tell you about this one, because I'm a Taurus rising. So Mars in the 12thhouse since well, like late July, right? All the way up until now, we've been trying to sell the house, we went through several contracts that were dropped. And the reason for that was because we have a really old house, like 100 plus years old. And the people who were wanting to buy it had military loans. Isn't that interesting? Mars. This is square, by the way to my Sun and Moon, this Mars transit. And the Sun happens to be the ruler of my fourth house of home family property, etc. The Moon is also related to the similar themes, right? So it's been very personal for me. And we had a bunch of loans fall through for military people. We had someone break into our house, my mom and her partner got COVID, my sister got into a car accident, and then they had to do an emergency c section, you know, and my dad had heart problems. And that was like, and so many of those things were completely out of my control. And then you know, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait on the house. Well, as Mars turns direct, today, and into this weekend, we should be finalising and getting ready to close by next week on the house, finally, and to someone still in the military, but they got a different type of loan that was able to go through. Isn't that amazing? Right. And my mom, as this is stationing, and turning direct and square to my natal Moon, my mom is recovering her partner just got home from the hospital. My sister just, you know, just went home from the hospital with the baby. So you see a lot of turnarounds. And what did I learn during that period of the 12th house? Well, the 12th house is a liminal space, it's filled with a lot of suffering, frankly. But it's filled with the kind of suffering that gives you that sense of Hey, I'm not in control. In fact, that was one of the main things that really defined the 12th house in ancient astrology was the sense of not being in control, not being in control of yourself, or not being in control of a situation or being sort of lost or overwhelmed. Not having the wheel of the ship. That's one of the things that defines the 12th. So if you're a Taurus rising, you've been going through it, like I have, I feel you anyway, but the 12th house also the labour pains of women in childbirth that come before birth. So with Mars turning direct, there's gestation, and there's birth ahead. Gonna take until about the new year.

29:06
Gemini

29:08
All right, now let's push into Gemini rising. If you're a Gemini rising, this Mars action has taken place in your 11th House of friends, groups, maybe colleagues or professional organisations, your social life. And so you may have noticed that there's been some significant changes in those areas not unusual to see conflicts, and then conflicts resolved, conflicts that change your priorities or your values, conflicts within organisations or professional groups that you belong to, as well as delays or just general challenges that you've been through that are now hopefully, turning the corner and hopefully you'll see some improvement if you've been dealing with challenges in those areas.

29:50
Cancer

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Let's put cancer on the ascendant. You can also look at Mars up here in the 10th house. You see some similar themes to the 11th potential conflicts in the workplace, or initiatives or, you know, projects or actions that you're trying to take at work, things that you're trying to do professionally, and maybe some delays or setbacks. My wife is a Cancer rising. And during this period of time when we moved, she was out of childcare, and without without childcare, due partly to COVID and partly to moving and is finally just getting childcare in place again, and sort of picking up her own, you know, rhythm and routine with her work. Very common to see Mars in the 10th house retrograde, referring to significant changes around the pace or style of your work environment or leadership in the work environment or other kinds of changes that are frustrating are kind of out of your control. Well, Mars turning direct should mean that a period of frustration or breakdown and refinement and so forth is now ready for some kind of implementation and, you know, more constructive level of change.

31:06
Leo

31:09
Putting Leo on the ascendant, we move Mars into the ninth house. So the ninth house is a place that's related to our faith, or beliefs, learning in higher education, teachers, it's associated with the law, and it's also associated with foreign countries and long journeys. So, for Leo risings, if you have been going through a period of you know, examining your beliefs, your convictions, Mars in the ninth is very much a Joan of Arc placement. It's about the vision, that that inspires us. It's about the call to, you know, to action, it energises us through our beliefs through learning and teaching or through expanding our horizons abroad. And if you've been experiencing different kinds of challenges, breakdowns, delays frustration in this area, expect that lessons will be learned and that implementation of refined beliefs and understanding about yourself and the world will start to take shape. I really like that one for Leos. I'd love to hear some of you Leo's out there, I'd really love to hear your stories about it. Because I have some friends with Leo rising. I've been thinking about this one a lot lately.

32:20
Virgo

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Anyway, let's go into Virgo rising. So this place is Mars in the eighth house if you're a Virgo rising. The eighth house is of course related to debts and obligations that we have to other people, the value and esteem of other people their resources and money as well as death, uncertainty about the future, fear and anxiety. It's a house that has a lot to do with the entrance into the underworld. And we can't bring anything with us down there. Right. So this could have been a period of time if you're a Virgo rising where different things are stripped back or taken away, or you're coming into contact with the reality of death. In some way, my daughter who is almost five years old, is a Virgo rising. And as my mom was really sick with COVID, and my mom's partner, Jeff, who is very dear to our family as well, and my daughter knows very well was in the hospital in the ICU, you know, almost on a ventilator. She was really for the first time in her life grappling with death. This was a huge feature of the culmination of this retrograde period. But it actually started back when we showed her a movie called Coco, which I don't know if you guys have seen or not before, it's a really great Disney movie. And it's about a celebration of the of the Day of the Dead, in Mexico, I believe. And there's a lot of the themes of death dying in the dead are in that movie. And between that and Halloween and grandma and you know her partner in the hospital, this was a very interesting time for watching my daughter become aware of death. So I'm just saying even for five year old, you know, you could have some of those themes come up, but otherwise obligations or debts to other people, or clearing debts that you have to other people and things like that could could be a big part of it. Conflicts over money and resources and relationships could also be a part of it. As always, with all of these I'd love to hear your guys's stories and hear what you've been going through.

34:22
Libra

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If you're a Libra rising, it's been straight up about relationships, right? relationships, intimacy, the social dimension of your life, sexuality. So Mars there has been providing, you know, different kinds of conflict and frustrations and challenges, but also refinement. Libras are often the people of Venus, right? So, if you're a Venusian person, your your natural way of thinking about yourself is in relationship, in relating to others into the world, the Mars energy in the seventh Mars retrograde could be about people in your life who have been not as interested in harmonising, or have been holding up a mirror for you and saying, Hey look, you need to learn how to assert your own will. regardless of if it's always pleasing to others. So you see that Mars Venus theme coming up pretty strongly when it's in the seventh house for Libra. If it was Scorpio and Taurus was rising, that would be similar

35:26
Scorpio

35:31
Let's put Scorpio on the ascendant. If you're a Scorpio rising, Mars has been in the sixth house, you're thinking about labouring through something that involves a lot of work, sacrifice, etc. One of my close friends is a Scorpio rising, and their work environment changed significantly during this period because new management took over. And as new management took over the there there the expectations around what they do and what their daily work life looks like, changed radically. During this time, there's been actually a lot of conflict from the staff. Basically the company was bought out. So this new management came in and the staff has been really pissed off because they suddenly feel like they're not being treated like people. How does that sound for the sixth house, right? But sixth house service sickness, disease, accidents, as well as perseverance, some form of selfless sacrifice. These have been the themes of your Mars retrograde, and you will start enjoying the results of hard work done between now and the end of the year. I think if you're a Scorpio rising, so way to soldier through.

36:40
Sagittarius

36:40
Alright, let's put Sagittarius on the ascendant. Here we're putting Mars in the fifth house, and we're talking about the house of pleasure, recreation, joy, pregnancies, related to sex and romance, but also creativity, children. So the fifth house is called the joy of Venus in the house of good fortune. Mars retrograde in this house is interesting because, again, usually any kind of like Mars or Saturn transit in this house, we'll have something to do with whether our desires are getting the best of us. Or if we like with Saturn, it's almost always like, Am I allowing myself to have fun? Or am I being too conservative somehow, with Mars at sometimes? Am I going to an extreme? Am I being reckless or indulgent? And do I need to pull back? Am I getting feedback that I'm being excessive in some way. For example, Mars in the fifth, retrograde could be the mistakes of a gambler, or the you know the mistakes of someone who, who spends too much money on alcohol or, you know, kind of frivolous things. Now, on the other hand, there can be, this can be a great what I want to say, like Mars retrograde can provide feedback for someone in terms of how you express yourself in the world creatively. Are you strong enough? Are you overpowering or overbearing, some of those things can come up during Mars retrograde in the fifth, I'd like to hear your stories on that one as well. I'd be really curious to hear more about that one. One thing that I will say I do actually have one client that comes to mind who's had this in the fifth house, and they have been unable to do their normal cycling or a cyclist and they've been unable to cycle because of an injury. Mars retrograde in the fifth house sometimes prohibits you from doing the things that really bring you joy, in this case, an athletic thing, just a simple example. But isn't that that's a fitting one.

38:30
Capricorn

38:30
Alright, so if you put Capricorn on the ascendant, we're pushing Mars into the fourth house, its retrograde period has had an impact on home, family and parents property, land, your roots and your foundation, big family karma transit. And oftentimes Mars will bring up you know, the kind of civil war vibe in the fourth house or conflicts. In other words, among family members, or also establishing something new Mars is very inception on Mars likes to start things and initiate things, what kinds of actions have you tried to initiate around home family, etc. I have a friend for example, Capricorn rising, who moved during this retrograde period. And I have a client with Capricorn rising who is in the process of renovation, but got held up during this retrograde period, due to some kinds of county bureaucratic permitting, they needed certain permitting, and they weren't able to get it and they had to wait. And it looks like I would more than from what I've heard, and what I think about this transit, my guess would be that they would be on their way by the time that this Mars energy finishes up in the fourth house, because it wasn't you can't do this. It was there's some big delay and a huge process you have to go through. If any of you guys ever done permitting before for any kind of business or anything you guys know what I'm talking about. It can be a real pain in the butt.

39:47
Aquarius

39:48
Anyway, okay, let's put Aquarius on the ascendant and put Mars in the third house, place of siblings, neighbourhood environment, and so on. Not uncommon to see more mental turbulence when Mars is in the third house, this is a place that's associated with the mind and the fluctuations of the mind and the immediate environment. Loosely connected to that would be the topic of siblings or people that are somehow familiar to you in your immediate environment or share some kind of common root system with you. That's why the third house is called the joy of the Moon. And it's connected with almost like folk customs or folk traditions. But one of the things that I've noticed the most, is I have a family member, for example, who has Aquarius rising. And one of the things that they've gone through during this period has been a lot of mental emotional turmoil. Remember the third house called the joy of the moon. And the moon was related both to the mind and to the kind of emotional responses that we have based on what's flowing through our mind. And that's why it's also connected to the immediate environment, which is a kind of mirror of the mind or it has such an influence on the mind, it's very closely linked. So it's not unusual to see more like mental perturbations in the immediate, immediate sphere of activity when Mars is retrograde in the third house can affect things like travel and cars and you know, breakdowns with automobiles or even technology, or some kind of change of technology. It can also have to do with learning to speak or communicate more directly versus, you know, or questions about what is the healthy way of expressing strength or assertiveness or Mars qualities through through our communication versus what is unhealthy. So those are some of the things that have probably come up for you if you've have Mars in the third during this retrograde that make you an Aquarius rising.

41:47
Pisces

41:48
Alright. Last but not least is Pisces, you put Pisces on the ascendant and Mars has been retrograde in your second house. money, resources, energy, whether it's your time, it's what you have, and how you use it. Or it's what you're building or what you consume, what you have and hold, it also has something to do with your values, that's not really true. It has more to do with your sense of self esteem, based on what you have or what you possess. I possess this skill, this talent, I possess this money, I possess these assets, it's the things that we have that sort of adorn us and make us feel worthwhile in that sense. But it's not the same as what we value in terms of ideas or beliefs or beliefs that motivate action in the world in in a spiritual or philosophical or even ethical sense. So people make that mistake a lot by thinking the second house reflects your values. No, it really doesn't, the first house, possibly the ninth house and certain planetary positions. And the chart usually will tell you more like the first house was related to Dharma by Indian astrologers that has more to do with your core values that motivate the whole of your life. The second house would be more like, you know, I have a degree on my wall and it gives me a sense of esteem or, you know, it's it has it's almost more like the adornments, the accolades, the things that we sort of have, that adds some sense of value to our lives. There's a reason that you know, this house is associated, for example, with things that we plant in a garden that will come up and you know, kind of provide us with a potentially like a bountiful harvest. But in that sense, it's also related to fleeting material things and and this is why the house is also called the idle place and the gate of Hades. More on that in a different maybe a different talk sometime. But all I'm saying is that the second house, Mars retrograde would have something to do with the assets or resources or, or things that you have or possess, whether they're more intangible like a skill, or an ability or something that you've actually made or produced from your own efforts. It can also refer to business or entrepreneurial endeavours, things that you make or sell or build or profit from. It's also related to expenses, expenditures, things that are taken away from you, potentially. And that's also ties into the eighth house opposition a little bit too but so that this is where the action has been for you if you're a Pisces rising.

44:19
Anyway, that takes us through the whole 12 signs. I'd love to hear all of your stories and hear how it's been going for you. With this New Moon in Scorpio, remember, we're starting at planting a new seed, new beginning look at that whole sign house of Scorpio in your chart, connect it to the house of Mars if you want to do that to get a sense of what the next New Moon cycle is going to involve on a more detailed level. We'll be taking a look at this. All of those transits from Mars that are coming up that take us into January so there's a lot more Mars energy to come between now and the new year. It ends by the way all of that culminates with a Mars conjunction to Uranus which among other things, although it can be a very erratic and destabilising energy also represents freedom, a sense of breaking through having a major moment of breakthrough.

45:11
So, one last time. Thank you guys for listening today. My new class ancient astrology for the modern mystic starts tomorrow there's one day left, you can still take advantage of the earlybird rate and save $500 author's payment plan if you need it, there's need based tuition if you're in need, try to make sure that nobody's ever priced out. Really looking forward to starting up a new unit and studying with a new group of people. Lots of lots of good, you know, lots of good things to study over at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter months of studying is my absolute favourite time of year to kind of, you know, cosy up in the evenings after the kids are in bed and just, you know, read ancient astrology texts and look at charts and things like that, and I really enjoy studying with people over these particular months. Anyway, thank you guys for listening. I hope you have a really great weekend and we will see you again next week. Bye.

 

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