Mercury’s Last Word in Scorpio — Final Opposition to Uranus — Horoscopes for All 12 Signs!

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Okay, welcome in, everybody. Sorry, I'm a little bit late just getting things started over here. Let's we're going to be talking about Mercury opposite Uranus today. That'll be the subject of our live stream. I've got a list of things to talk about, an I Ching reading to get to horoscopes for all of you. So I think this will be a really fun session, and then whatever time we have left over will be dedicated to some Q and A.

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Well. Thank you guys. Thank you guys for being here and sharing where you're coming from. It's really nice to hear from all of you again. We're in the midst of the LA. First of all, how is Mars square, Saturn? For all of you, that was crazy. That was a that was, what do I want to say? What was that it that was a hard, contractive space for me.

Anyway, I I got a lot of work done under a lot of pressure and time constraints. That was sort of how it showed up for me, as well as a few very frustrating situations where I felt like I kind of needed to bite a stick. But be curious to hear how you guys did with Mars Saturn. We're moving on now to Uranus and Mercury holding. Kind of frustration. I'm getting a whole different kind of archetypal dynamic, which we're going to explore today.

After we explore that from the perspective of the archive, we're going to look at Mercury and Uranus as principles built into the pattern fabric of reality itself. Take a huge 20,000 foot view at this combination philosophically, and then try to distill it into our everyday human lives, and then distill it even further through some horoscopes. So that's going to be how we're going to handle it.

I'm going to use the I Ching to help us understand this dynamic as well. The I Ching sometimes gives us a particular angle of the archetypal combination to think about, so we'll look at that today. I think that'll be a fun inclusion in our process as well.

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Okay, now let's talk about this. I'm going to put the real time clock up, and we're going to just, we're going to go bananas here. We have so much to talk about with this transit. Because not only are, you know, Mercury opposite Uranus is always a big transit, but it is the third of this particular transit thanks to Mercury's retrograde.

So what I want to let me just get everything out of the way, except for mercury and Uranus. All right, I'm going to put this up on the real time clock, and we're going to start diving in.

Okay? So here we are, Wednesday, December 10, and what I want to highlight, first of all is the exactitude. That's a word. Here's Mercury opposing Uranus. You know, really down to some minutes. Now, if we progress this today, we're going to see that the opposition becomes it passes through its exact moment this afternoon in the next three to four hours. So this is a very present transit for us today, today.

Now, if we give it just a little bit of time leading up we're going to see that the three degree range begins on Sunday. So Sunday, if you started noticing some something along the lines of what we're going to talk about in today's symbolism that would be normal, because as soon as the planets get to within about three degrees, for ancient astrologers, they tend to really show their fruits in manifest events and experiences, and also, as they are fading within three degrees, this is the time where the fruits ripe on the tree and falling off.

So if we think about today as the blossoming, but we also extend that to tomorrow. And the reason that we're going to cut it off a little early and not give it a total full three degrees is specifically because it's going Mercury is going to move into Sagittarius, and as soon as the whole sign configuration ends, typically, you're going to get more of an abrupt cut off of the expression of the transit, not always, but it's a pretty marked change when a planet leaves the whole sign configuration, which for ancient astrologers, was absolutely fundamental and necessary for the aspect.

You can't just think of an aspect as a degree range. You have to think about it as a sign configuration first and foremost. So what does that mean? It really just means that from Sunday up until about tomorrow, when Mercury switches into sag, you'll really notice the manifestation of events tied to the transit

Okay, so let's go back in time, though, because what I want to point out is the overall sequence of events that we've been experiencing. So first of all, we saw this transit in direct motion from Mercury around October 29 around October 29 Mercury opposed Uranus in Gemini, prior to Gemini, backing into Taurus. This was the first pass of their opposition. So one thing you can do, the reason I'm providing you with this is so that, if you want to do a little homework, do a little tracking, sometimes looking in your phone, looking at pictures, looking at email receipts can give you some reminders about what was active and present at that time.

Sometimes we have a hard time remembering, oh yeah, this sequence of events was happening, or here's where my head was at, or here's what was happening at work, or whatever. So look back if you need to, but this would be the first time, October 29 now we go forward a little bit, Mercury is going to station turn retrograde with Mars, by the way, that was a fun little retrograde station, wasn't it?

Then we come back to Mercury is going to then move backward into Scorpio, sorry, and oppose Uranus in Taurus. Now this is around November 19. This would be another moment of, you know, taking a look and saying, okay, like what was happening around this period of time. So this was part two. Again, if you want to try to connect the three stages, I promise you a little bit of digging, you will probably find that each of the successive oppositions are connected.

Thematically or in terms of literal unfolding of events that are connected, but even psychologically connected or symbolically connected, you'll find it if you look for it. That's the point. It can be pretty magical to do so now we're stationing we're turning direct Mercury is appearing as a morning star. We talked about that recently on the channel, and as Mercury is articulating the first words and thoughts and feelings of its new cycle as a morning star, it's also now hitting an opposition to Uranus.

So this is the third and final part of a dialog between the two planets. What I want to do next is, I want to talk with you guys about what this combination of planets represents philosophically. So let's let me just I got to move some things. I got to get my notes up on the screen next to me. All right.

All right, we're going to go through some. First of all, I want to talk about the planets as archive. The word archive basically means like a first principle. But whether you're an ancient Buddhist or, you know, coming from the Vedic philosophy, and you're a yogi practicing Astrology or divination in Buddhism, although they don't practice horoscopic astrology like we do. Buddhists have many forms of divination, all of these philosophical schools, Stoics, very similar, Platonists, neoplatonists, hermeticists, they all even Taoists. They see the unfolding of reality in the time, space, container that we experience it in as unfolding in meaningful patterns.

And so this, when we talk about a planet, what we're talking about is a core feature of patterning and that kind of what an archetype is, right? But when we understand the planets as core features of cosmic patterning, we're really saying they're core features of reality as we know it, core archetypal features.

When we get down to that level and understand the planet's combinations. At that level, something really special happens, which is that we can start to see something of the intelligent design of in divine intelligent design of our experiences and of creation itself. And we go from thinking this is right or wrong, that something's happening the way that it is to seeing something that's bigger, more intelligent, more beautiful, more meaningful than right or wrong.

And for many of us, that's exactly the kind of freedom we need. Yeah, there's a level at which we might experience things as good or bad or right or wrong, or pleasant or unpleasant. All that's a real part of our experiences, but the expansion and growth of our consciousness into this multi dimensional awareness that astrology is pointing us towards usually happens when we start to see the patterning and the perception of the patterning moves us to something that includes but also transcends how right or wrong or how pleasant or unpleasant Our present experience of something is.

This becomes a way of perceiving something like a music, right? It's like, well, how can I really question the fact that I'm in the midst of this undulating, beautifully woven, colorful tapestry? So that's what we want, because that's what allows for us to have a different kind of human experience, and it gives, it grants a much deeper sense of meaning in life than you know, the very shallow way that we assign things like, Well, I got something so that makes me happy, or I lost something, so that makes me unhappy, when we can define happiness along great like in a bigger we can have, like a bigger esthetic of appreciation for life. Most of us get happier. We feel we feel freer.

So let's talk about that now, because actually, Uranus and mercury are together quite frequently associated with that exact kind of liberating mindset when the mind is suddenly liberated from a limited way of seeing something, perceiving something, understanding something, articulating something, when new language, new thoughts, new paradigms, become available to our mind and we can see More, we feel less confined or constrained mentally, emotionally. That's Uranus and Mercury at their best.

So let's talk about why, first of all, archetypes are not just psychological metaphors, although modern astrology places a lot of emphasis on archetypes as psychological. Like behavioral patterns, personality traits. That's just one way of using an archetype. There are many. The at the roots of ancient astrology is the idea that the planets represent archetypes. They are not archetypes in themselves, but they point to them symbolically, and that archetypes are not just psychological metaphors, but real patterning principles in the cosmos.

So Uranus and mercury, for example, reveal how reality expresses novelty, intelligence, communication, reorganization and and constant disruption of patterns that get set in or stuck or boring together, they really speak to the kind of constant self organizing, self updating quality of the cosmos. Not that I love technological met like metaphors or analogies. But you know, when you're like, your computer nowadays is just always doing some kind of update, and it just automatically updates, and you come back and you go, Oh, I guess it updated. That's sort of a Mercury Uranus feature, and that's sort of, you know, analogous to reality, like reality is constantly going through self updates, the rearrangements of itself, reorganizing, redistributing, and it's constantly reconfiguring itself in new, interesting, unforeseen ways that reality itself should be surprising even to itself, is a very Uranus mercury, kind of dynamic

Mercury itself can be thought of as the archetype of mediation, of transmission and of meaning making. This is why Hermes is associated the word Hermes is also associated with the word like hermeneutic, which is like the skill of interpretation. Mercury is a messenger, a translator, everything that moves information through the cosmos, synapses, language, symbolism itself, which is why Hermes Mercury rules astrology, a symbolic language, trade, technology.

See, the thing people always get offended by when you say astrology isn't a science, is they think, well, it does such it. It speaks to an energetic level of experience or reality that's very real to us. Yes, but symbols exist, but they're not bound by time. They're not bound by interactions of causal forces or energies. They're a causal they're infinite. They're eternal. So you know what we're what we're really saying about mercury, for example, is that it is the ruler of symbolic interaction, that anything that looks causal to be interacting energies, no matter how gross or subtle, thoughts, physical forces, all of their interactions belong to a greater mandala of eternal co present symbolism that's Hermes.

And Hermes is about the inter relating of things, forces, events, people, words that look like forces acting upon each other back to their interconnected simultaneous reality in a fabric of symbols, which is sort it's sort of like saying, you know, reality is like a giant mandala, and Hermes is about what gives us this meaningful sense of everything in the mandala being creatively and intellectually and communicatively related to one another.

Mercury governs thresholds between conscious, unconscious, above, below, inner, outer, symbol to time, space, reality. It is about linking, bridging, networking, associating any kind of pattern recognition and pattern distribution belongs to Hermes mercury. And Mercury is also about circulation of intelligence. When you ask a question, reality has a way of answering it, especially if you if you're asking sincerely, meaning you have a real desire to know something.

It's like that saying, you know from the Bible, knock and the door will be opened. Hermes says the same thing, ask and there will be an answer. The answer may come in the form of a riddle, but you will get answers if you ask sincerely, not always immediately, but in time space. Answers and questions are co present with one another in patterning. And so any question you ask, if you stay patient and have pattern awareness, a Hermes property, of mercury, property, you will find that the very question you are answering asking is embedded in a mandala that includes every possible answer to that question, and there are often many.

But Hermes is this principle of asking questions and getting answers, of coming to understand things, of articulating things and that reality should are. Articulate something of its own nature so that it's cognizable to us. Is Hermes.

Now Uranus, on the other hand, is going to be the archetype of breakthrough awakening, and let's call it system reconfiguration. So it's very Uranus has been talked about by many modern astrologers being very Promethean.

Uranus, like Prometheus, is a disruptor and a liberator. Uranus, it's constantly breaking stale forms, catalyzing new orders of thought or being. You remember those, and I've used this on the channel somewhat recently. You remember the iTunes visualizers that were just like moving mandalas that sort of moved to the beat of the music, the fact that any pattern that constellates has to change into a novel, new pattern, that's Uranus.

Uranus is the expression not just like there's one way of looking at change is to look at it through the lens of impermanence. Very Saturnian Saturn is linked with impermanence, with death, with endings. But you notice how every single astrologer in the universe brings the phrases death and rebirth together so relentlessly that it feels like, Well, God, you know, is every is every single moment death and rebirth? Well, yes, yes. In fact, every moment is death and rebirth. They're just two sides of the same coin, which is why we get so you know, we can get very frustrated by the cliche, and yet it's always an appropriate cliche, because on the Saturnian side, impermanence, death, endings, limits. That's the end of a pattern on the iTunes visualizer.

But on the other hand, Uranus is the constant new flashy firework, like a lightning strike, appearance of a new pattern. So that disruptor and that Liberator is just a different way of seeing what often appears as like, the like. Imagine you're watching an iTunes visualizer, and you're like, Oh, I really like this pattern. Oh, no, it's ending. It's dead. It's, you know, it's reached its limit. It's expired. You're having a Saturnian experience, which is true. Another person who doesn't like that pattern as much sees a change, a new a new appearance comes into the iTunes. Visualize, oh, look at that. This is exciting and new, just the different experience of the exact same thing.

Change can be talked about as death. It can be talked about as birth. It were, were circumambulating something that's eternal. You know, eternal change can be talked about either as ongoing newness or the constant elapsing or collapsing of oldness. It's relative so Uranus tends to be about the experience of newness, of awakening, of change that feels fresh and like that. So awakening, liberating, etc.

Not surprisingly, Uranus and Saturn, when they come together, often create this intense clash of feeling like something's very limited, while something's also awakening, and there's like this push and pull between trying to hold on to something and keep it in the form that it's most familiar in, versus something that insists that it be new. Sometimes the thing insisting that it be new is impatient and likes new stuff and can't commit to things, and Uranus is the problem.

Other times, the person holding on for dear life to things being the same, tradition, structure that's familiar, they can't let go and let something new come in, even though this new thing would actually liberate them. See, this is a Uranus Saturn dynamic, but we're talking about just two different sides of experiencing the same flow of reality itself, but the fact that there are different experiences of that flow in reality, acknowledge and honor that it is a reality littered with beings who experience it relatively This is a participatory, relational universe. It's not a it's not an equation. It's not a math equation.

So we have pattern dynamics, fracturing and reformatting systems, quantum leaps, discontinuity, unpredictability, radical sparks of change, usually associated with breakthroughs. Keep in mind again, where this is taking place, in infinity, right in eternity. So Uranus reveals that reality is not static. The cosmos is constantly evolving through rupture, innovation, destabilization, and truly, all of the ancient mystics, when you say, Oh, you mean the cosmos is always getting better. No, that's not what they mean by evolution. They mean it's always changing.

And that if you, if you project onto that change the future needing to be better, right? That is tends to create idealist, utopians. And then, of course, those people meeting their shadow tend toward dystopia, right? And then the opposite is true for people who stay stuck in the past, saying tradition is all a. They get dragged along by by progress. But the idea of progress versus regress is itself a comparison already bound up in the duality of time that from the ancient standpoint, our consciousness is meant to sort of include but transcend.

So it's it's important, because Uranus can be very seductive in that what it presents us with is always pushing us into a more beautiful, more progressed, more evolved future, like we're running along a timeline and the future is where it gets better. That's a tremendously tempting illusion that Uranus can provide us with. It's a real shadow of Uranus. We always have to keep that in mind.

So when they interact together, Mercury often receives and Uranus downloads flash insights, intuition, aha, moments, sudden comprehension or revelation of things, messages from the unconscious or the transpersonal field that occur like lightning strikes of creative originality. Mercury communicates. Uranus liberates. There are often new language forms, conceptual frameworks, paradigms, or even just subtle shifts. Like this is a, you know what, three, four days worth of a transit for a lot of people, it may be real subtle, small examples of these things.

So when we're talking about them in archetypal form, they can sound a lot bigger. And frequently you will find that the kind of huge level at which we're talking about this, and the way at which it might sound very kind of extreme, like, geez, I mean, I just had kind of a nice insight about my relationship, but, you know, and it's like, I guess it's a breakthrough, but, you know, like you're, you're talking like we're about to, you know, like all create a new quantum computer in our living room or something, and the but there's a huge difference, like when you have Uranus transiting, Uranus opposing your natal Mercury for a couple of years, that's when you tend to get the massive sort of paradigmatic shifts that we're talking about that are much more like biographically significant within the whole arc of your life, whereas you know three or four day transit like this, if it's not configured in a really potent way to your birth chart, you might you know it may not be as much to write home about, nonetheless, you can still notice it and experience it.

Some new language forms, conceptual frameworks, subtle paradigmatic shifts can still take place. There's a lot of innovation in things like media, technology, astrology, philosophy, symbolism that that occur, even for many people listening to this talk and getting some new insights about Mercury Uranus will be the mercury Uranus experience astrology often is sort of, you know, reified in that way.

New mercury will show networks and Uranus will be the breaks in the network that reconfigure it somehow unexpected connections or rewiring is taking place. Mercury's logic will meet with Uranus is quantum logic. Let's say this is all just, you know, metaphorical, but the linear thinking gets interrupted by nonlinear pattern recognition.

Let me tell you guys a story. This was very, very Mercury Uranus. This is a wonderful example of mercury Uranus that just happened to me. I'm really fond of it anyway, obviously. So what happened was, it was, excuse me, time for bed, and my daughter was needing a lot of extra stuff. And it's kind of a pattern, you know? It's like, one more thing, just one more thing. And anyone who has kids knows what I'm talking about. It's like, oh, fuck, just go to bed. Just go to bed, shut your pie hole and go to sleep.

And you feel so miserable as a parent because you're sitting there wishing that they would become unconscious so you can have your own life. And yet they're struggling to individuate, and you're trying to figure out, how much help do I give them, and how much do I hold back to let them, like, learn on their own? And, Jesus, I don't need a, you know, existential parenting crisis right now. I just lived a whole day, and I just want to, like, I just want to sit down for 10 minutes and just like, go to bed anyway. You get what I'm saying, right?

So this was the scenario that I found myself in, and I said to my wife, and I'm not proud of this, I go, those are, those are not real tears. She's not really crying. Those she is. She is manipulating you. You're getting hoodwinked. So that was the gist of what I said to my wife when my daughter came down for like, one time too many for my patients, which I'm not saying is the measure of anything other than my own, you know, ineptitude, maybe. But I was like, it's one time too many. This is she's just manipulating you.

Oh, God, so and then. And so she, my wife, demonstrated patience, and she said, Yeah, you know, it might be fake, but like, what's the sin in just helping her a little bit, like, giving her a little encouragement, you know, giving her one more hug, whatever? And I was like, like, Why do you have to be, you know, it's kind of like that resentment, like, I don't like that. You're right, you know. So I went up and I gave her one last hug, and she shared something with me.

She said she was crying, and she said, at school today, we found a dead bird on the playground. And I said, I said something to the dead bird, like, I hope you find your next body. Okay, very sweet of my daughter, right? And some other kid goes, what next body doesn't go anywhere. It's just dead. Nothing happens after you die, you just die. And it really hurt her feelings.

And all of a sudden, in the midst of what looked to me like a long sequence of like, excuse making, just, you know, like, grow up kid and go to bed like, you know, my impatient like, cat moon or whatever. Suddenly it was kind of a deep thing to be thinking about. And, you know, sometimes this happens a lot. Right before they come they go to bed, a lot of deep stuff comes up.

So I said, okay, and I explained to her, you know, sometimes the things that we hold dear to us, you know, like that we we think a bird has a spirit. Some people in the world don't believe those kinds of things, and sometimes you have to kind of keep them secret in your heart, okay, long story short, gave her a little love softened my heart helped out. Went to bed as we're going to bed, just to get in my little, my little ego stab to my wife. I said, I still think she was faking it. Just, just like a dick move. My wife was like, Ah, come on, you know, like, whatever.

So anyway, mostly humorous. Went to bed. This is crazy. So in the middle of the night, I hear this crying, and I'm like, oh, it's for I thought it was Virginia, my daughter crying. And I swear to God, it was, like, loud. And I was like, Oh no, this was I looked at my wife like, maybe been asleep for like, an hour and a half, and I thought, Oh no, she's she's still crying up there. Like, that's not good.

And so I got out of bed, and I went upstairs, and I looked and she wasn't crying. And it was like, loud ass crying. And I was like, Huh? So I was looking at her asleep, and really concerned that maybe she was crying in her sleep. And I was like, geez, I'm a dick, like I was, I felt so bad. So I got in bed with her, cuddled up with her, just grabbed her. She woke up. She goes, Dad, why are you here? And I said, I thought, I thought you were crying, sweetheart, but I'll just sleep with you for a little bit. She said, thanks. You know, she cuddled in.

And maybe an hour and a half goes by, and I get really hot when I sleep. I need a fan on she she gets cold. So I was like, Oh, I'm so hot. I'm gonna go back to bed. I'm gonna go back to my bed, right? But as I'm getting up, I hear the crying again. So I I'm like, what is that? I go downstairs and it was, it was, like, totally it was snowing and it was the wind. The wind was blowing so hard that it sounded like loud crying.

And I had this moment, and I sat there, and I went, oh yeah. I said my daughter was fake crying. And so the universe sent me real, fake crying to get me back into my heart to be with her. And I started crying in standing in the hallway in the middle of the night as I heard the wind crying, and I realized, like, oh, the wind is talking. The wind is crying, and it's sending me to my daughter, who I said was fake crying. So the fake crying actually spoke.

It was such a deep lesson I was so I just can't and this is sorry guys like, I just love astrology so much, because that's a that's a Mercury Uranus moment where the Trickster intervenes with a very magical, very disruptive event, symbolically that can readjust your thinking fake crying in a kid that's struggling to individuate is still real crying, you fool. You know, like, get your shit together, be, be a soft person. What, where? What is the need for hardness here? Anyway, I so real tears fit.

So you see how that's a pattern disruption, though, it's a sudden occurrence of a pattern and an insight and a message through a pattern and. That can come in and reconvene. And frankly, it was very deep emotionally, which is very consistent with Uranus and and mercury, Mercury and Scorpio, Uranus and Taurus. So I was so touched by that, and then I made sure to tell her the story the next day.

Because believe me, when I say that my daughter, even though she's 10, just about to turn 10, totally gets that story. I said, you know, last night, when you were staying up, I said, I thought you were fake crying because you just were having a hard time going to bed. And I thought you were kind of, you know, like you should just go to bed and be a big girl. And I thought it was just kind of fake crying. And then the wind was fake crying, and it got me out of bed to be with you. And I said, so even the wind had a little lesson for me.

Do you know how special it is for my daughter to have that I can't even tell you guys like to to when you're a kid, to be able to live in a magical reality and have a parent who is willing to listen. I'm not saying like, I'm not trying to trash my parents, but I never had anything like that. You know, my parents were great in their own ways, but like, we have such a powerful tool to us, if you are a parent or anyone really, of being able to let moments of imperfection, personally or learning personally, not be moments where we feel bad about ourselves or ashamed, because the amazement of how we were taught is so much more powerful than the shame or guilt we feel that we weren't getting something right.

It's like so easy for me as an astrologer, not always, but like a lot more often, for sure, than I know it was for my parents to admit wrong, because the means by which you were able to see that you were wrong or just fucking profound, you know, and then if you can convey that to kids, it makes the adventure of learning and culpability so much more interesting. Kids love that. They need that.

Like my daughter, I've noticed her ability to say she's sorry is more exciting because she's seen her parents at times model excitement over the opportunity to learn in a in a moment of mistake. You know. Anyway, okay, I could go on and on Jupiter's on my son right now in cancer. So I've been getting lots of like, lessons about being a dad lately. So anyway, oh, okay, all right. So that's, let's go into our I Ching reading next. Hold on.

All right. It's time for some chocolate. I'm like, I'm like, an official i

I'm an official chocoholic. All right, all right, let's get the tears or stop. Stop crying so I can talk. All right. Hexagram, I asked, What does this mean? Like, tell me about this hexagram. I wanted to know like dear I Ching, give me a hexagram that can match the mercury Uranus dynamic right now that would be useful for my subscribers. So let's take a look.

And for me, I'm part of it. All right, let's get where. Ha, Okay, we're almost there. So hexagram 58 and I'm going to put that up on the screen here so that if you want to study this on your own, you certainly could, if you have a translation of the I Ching, here we go, but I use the benefel when translation. Lately, I've used many, but she's my go to I

all right. Hexagram 58 is called joyous exchange.

Let me just turn off some notifications. I'm getting here. All right, joyous exchange. What can we say about this hexagram? How does it relate to. To to Mercury opposite Uranus.

This is the Oracle. The it, by the way, it is lake over Lake. So it's a doubling of the trigrams of water, or like a lake, the image of a lake. Inner Light shines outward and attracts a kindred spirit. To seek joy is to seek discourse that will advance knowledge and deepen your compassion, to maintain joy, engage in lively intellectual discourse with your peers. Exchange and interchange are the themes du jour. A new experience brings joy. Reach out to old friends and connect heart to heart. Engage in that which is fun. May your mind be pure.

So Joy follows as a guardian angel a serene Lake, joyous exchange the sage engages in discourse and study with friends, prognostication of success, a favorable outcome. Win over the hearts of others through your friendliness, not by force. A lake on its own evaporates sooner, joined together two two lakes, they replenish each other, such as the way of knowledge. Learning on your own is not enough. Amplify that education by studying further with others, sharing knowledge insights cross pollinate sign of benefic a final gentle warning.

Remain guarded when you share your joy or exchange knowledge. No matter how sincere you are, there will be those who seek to exploit you, exploit your knowledge. So first of all, I thought about this, and I was like, Huh? And then it dawned on me, this is not just the last Mercury opposite Uranus moment. This is the last coming off from a Grand Water Trine.

Now we've talked a lot about the Grand Water Trine, so I don't want to go back into it and, you know, sort of re explore the whole thing. But one thing we've talked a lot about are collectives that feel emotionally supported. Mercury Uranus is so frequently about wisdom and insight. It's about those ideas or those symbolic experiences that break you open and that go, Oh my God.

Like, in case I forgot that every choice or decision I make is CO pre like, if I knew that there was a Daimon or Hermes or Gods sitting next to me when I said those tears are fake, I wouldn't have spoken like that, but I forget. I forget that there are cosmic intelligences, interdimensional beings. I don't walk with soft feet in the world. I walk with fucking heavy feet all the time, you know.

But this brings me back this teaching and this kind of transit and the wind calling me with its fake crying out of bed. Those things remind me I speak I think I talk around other beings, whether I think I'm alone or not, whether I think I'm in privacy or not, I'm in community, always interdimensionally, psychically, emotionally.

I'm not even just one being. I'm a collection I love in Buddhism, for example, the the idea of CO arising. CO arising means that I'm not even, I'm not even really a self. I'm I am like, more like a wave being moved by by wind. You know, it's like, when you see, like a pattern forming across, like a big cresting wave, because the wind's whipping across it, that's actually more like what I am.

And so in that sense, like there's this maybe a kind of sense that I have of being like a discrete being, but I'm actually a community. What I call myself is actually like a living ecosystem. So that communal awareness and that communal sensitivity, that's where our Bodhisattva compassion and awareness comes from.

In Native American traditions, I'll never forget, I went to a te PE ceremony led by a Native American elder in upstate New York, and in that te PE ceremony, he told all of us, you all are walking on a sacred ground, and you're not treating it like it's sacred ground. You're treating it like it's yours to walk on. You're not walking around this fire like it's a sacred fire. You're walking around it like it's a thing.

And he was not, he wasn't, like, trying to be mean to us, but he was really trying to impart to us that our western sort of colonial mindset was just not knowing how to walk with reverence on this earth which is alive, or around the fire which is alive, you know. And I just was so struck by it, not surprisingly, in the Amazon. On the same sensitivity about how you walk and carry yourself in the maloca during an Ayahuasca ceremony was present, how you talk to and treat the plants you're adjusting into your body was present.

I think one of the things this hexagram reminds me of is that we live in a co arising, phenomenally rich ecosystem of living beings, and that any insight that comes to us, any learning, any information, any ideas and thought structures, paradigms like astrology or whatever we're learning or thinking about, is only as good as it facilitates within our lives, joyful, compassionate, you know, sweet, living connections with other people. If it's not doing that, if it's making us more cut off more and more austere, disembodied, dissociated, condemning, self, righteous, convicted, but not kind, it's not then that's not a legitimate breakthrough in understanding what this hexagram tells us more than anything is that a real breakthrough in understanding something mentally, emotionally, a real growth in wisdom that represents a breakthrough in our understanding is seen because of the joyous exchanges and connection it creates between ourselves and other living beings win Over the hearts of others through friendliness, not by the force of your ideas or convictions. Joined together, we replenish each other, such as the way of true knowledge. Learning on your own is not enough. Amplify that education by studying with others, sharing knowledge insights cross pollinate, a sign of benefic if your ideas reach into the lives of others and make them feel happier, brighter, more seen, more loved, that's wisdom.

I mean, we can have great ideas about quantum mechanics or astrology as divination, or all of my favorite ideas that I can get really convicted about but if they're not connecting to other people in a way that makes it feel like there's bodies of water joining together to create fertile, heart centered, emotionally healing dynamics, then what good is it? What good is all the information in the world about our horoscopes, if it's not moving us in the heart to be kinder, you know, more sensitive people.

And I had to think about that because the wind cried and got me out of bed and said, you know, you have a lot of you have a lot of nice insights, Adam, but you could be kinder. You know, I was so I was overjoyed when I got this hexagram this morning, because it speaks to exactly the insight that I've been having recently about how, what good is any of my head knowledge on the screen, even if it, whatever it's it's emotionally landing with people out there. But I can't, I can't carry that over when I'm at the end of the day with how I parent, you know? Like, well, it's just a show. Then do you know what I mean? And I don't want to be just a show. I want to be real. I want to do what I say I'm going to do. So we have to work at it, don't we?

All right, well, this is the line that was changing. Is line five. Check out this one, trusting that which should not be trusted. There is danger ahead, naive exchanges, lacking due diligence or having acted hastily. An exchange took place that should not have happened? You are associating with destructive people. Negative influences push you off your path and toward peril. Others may be using your knowledge for ill intentions. Be careful that those closest to you are not exploiting you.

So this has to do with the there is a potential with mercury and Scorpio opposite Uranus and Taurus, for information to come to light that you know means that there's, there's some broken trust, or that there's, yeah, like there's some, some betrayals that can come to light. It's not uncommon for people under this transit for hidden information to be suddenly revealed or exposed. I think, for example, of you know, all the stuff in the headlines about the Epstein files, there's a lot of that in the sky right now.

So this can also be a line, you know, within this dynamic, there's this broader teaching that we're talking about, but then a specific teaching about let this also be a moment where, if the path of wisdom in your life is not aligned with the right people and the right kinds of exchanges with other people that may come to the surface right now, and the need for sudden liberations from who or what you communicate with or share something with intellectual. Spiritually, emotionally, there may be some disruptions and patterns like that that can also be very liberating, but sometimes, sort of, you know, like eye opening and not always easy to look at or see, and that can happen sort of suddenly and maybe disruptively. So that line changing, I thought was, you know, interesting.

So I'm going to leave it there for our IT Ching discussion, and I hope that that all of this has been, as always, like, just useful.

Okay, so what we're going to do now, we're going to move into the most practical portion of today's talk, which is going to be our horoscopes. After we're done with horoscopes, we will, we'll, then I'll plug the Kickstarter one more time, and I'll open up for Q and A.

So because we have an opposition, we're going to be talking about the balance between two houses for all 12 signs. I recommend listening to this for your rising sign. You lose your sun sign too if you want to.

Okay.

So two areas of life, reflected by the opposition between whole sign houses. Here we're talking about Moksha and Arthur for Aries, Moksha in the eighth arta in the second what this means, broadly speaking, is that there is a shift in the dynamic patterning of material things, material resources, material assets, and the underlying Soul, or karmic contracts, emotional, spiritual, contractual, karmic that exist.

And so this is a time where debts can be paid off, karmic contracts can be rearranged, new resources or reciprocal kind of contractual dynamics can be established, and most of those are going to exist in an intimate conversation with things like material assets and resources for Aries. The issue here is that everything in the realm of arta is material, which means eventually it will it will die. Everything in the realm of arta is about relinquishing emotional spiritual attachments for greater spiritual freedom.

So we are looking at a kind of an inflection moment for Aries that has to do with liberating yourself from karma that's not healthy, that's related to material things. So keep that in mind, but those two spaces are conversing.

If you're an Aries, if you're a Taurus, this is between the first and the seventh houses. So now we're looking at Dharma in the first and comma in the seventh. Dharma means, you know, who am I in my essence, in my core, and with Uranus there, it's who am I discovering myself to be, or how am I recreating and disrupting patterns of selfhood? This has been a long time project, for 20 for Tauruses. I'm part of that club. Mercury in the seventh house is about joy, pleasure, depth and gratification, emotionally, sexually. Comma means bliss.

So emotional, happiness and fulfillment in interpersonal relationships or social exchanges with other people that are more personal. Here we're now talking about the potential for a recreation or reconfiguration of something like the self other dynamic, how I define myself in relation to the people I'm in relationship with, how they help mirror back to me, what I define as pleasure and happiness and how it corresponds to a more authentic, evolving sense of selfhood. That's the conversation here.

Also just breakthrough dynamics in relationships that are going to facilitate further personal growth.

For Geminis, we're looking at the 12th house with mercury in the sixth. So these two houses are, you know, easily, the most difficult houses in traditional astrology. But what's interesting is that the most intense dynamics across these houses are frequently associated with some of the most important moments of change and growth of wisdom in our lives. So it's like hardest, but sort of most spiritually beneficial. That's a way of thinking about these houses that is very It expresses itself this way often.

All right, so what I would say about the 12th. You have a you. In the 12th, you have a Moksha house, meaning liberation, liberation from karma, liberation from entanglements, liberation from attachments. In the sixth, you have an art to house that's about the difficulties of the material world, disease, hard work, effort, difficulty, overcoming it as a means to you know, developing a business, developing a skill, staying healthy requires upkeep every day with daily work, daily grind, hard work to maintain or develop things materially or to be healthy materially. So that's the sixth when these two houses get together.

There is often the promise of material confinements and material difficulties being suddenly liberated. That's a great promise. However, the other thing is that when difficulties appear in our bodies, in our minds and our mental emotional health at work in the daily grind, and we reach a point where something has to break the difficulties are insurmountable, and we have to surrender somehow, or a sickness comes, maybe even just a cold, knocks you off your horse, and somehow it triggers a much deeper state of reflection on what you're going to do, because you've reached a breaking point.

But this for Geminis, and we'll see this with Sagittarians too. Is a moment where the karmic difficulties of the world, the material world, are running up against the need for some kind of major revolution and freeing or liberating karmically. Now, again, that could be rather minor if you don't have this activating anything in your natal chart. So don't get too freaked out by it, but especially if you have planets in these houses around the late degrees of the signs like that's a big deal for you right now.

All right, cancer for cancer, it's the fifth and the 11th houses. So we have a Dharma house and a comma house. Again, they're always opposed to one another, which means we're talking about the conflict between the pursuit of pleasure and happiness and well being and satisfaction against the need to act in accordance with our most authentic, true selfhood. That's hard, because seeking pleasure is a part of life, but pleasure that doesn't accord with our authentic nature is not going to actually make us happy, and that's the conflict between these two types of houses.

Always it's the same thing between first and seventh. Well, I want pleasure and happiness, but I'll marry anyone that you get divorced. Why? Because it wasn't in alignment with your True selfhood. That's Dharma and comma across one and seven with five and 11. It's about your creative essence and your social fit in the world. Like, where do you fit in socially? Where do you experience social validation and success and the realization of dreams that are tied to things like your profession recognition by peers, or the field that you're in, etc?

The Fifth house is your creative essence. So there's a dialog going on right now. And on the one hand, it's like you got to be yourself. On the other hand, it's like, but where is the right place to effectively realize the fruits of my creative work? You know, so questions around where you fit in and where you don't are peaking right now and who you are in your authentic creative nature are a part of that.

All right? All right, let's go along to Leo's, where the mercury Uranus dynamic is happening across four and 10 now we have arta and Moksha once again, so worldly material things and liberation from entanglements in worldly things and desires and attachments. The 10th house is work, the public reputation, the public role, public influence or persuasion or power or mastery or fame.

And the fourth house is about that private space of release, of rest, of relaxation, of peace, of comfort of emotional home. So here we have conflict going on between the need for inner depth, security, sweetness, healing, rest of fulfilling inner or home life experience and ongoing impulses to change or recreate what your role in the world looks like or your vocation looks like.

Probably because you're wondering, you know something like, is my job too stressful, and therefore I end up bringing too much stress home, and I find myself in a cycle of like disease. I can't find rest or relaxation or liberation, so changing the mold or pattern professionally is tied to looking for inner peace, home, rest and safety. There's a dynamic conversation happening between the two spaces right now. For Leos, all right, so for Virgos, we have the third and the ninth house. This third house, comma, ninth house, dharma again, in the third house, we're. Really in comma, we're thinking about the emotional joy, happiness, satisfaction, of our own psychology, our own mind and our own emotional makeup.

In the ancient tradition, the third house was associated with the moon. That's the psychological, mental, emotional makeup for ancient astrologers. And Mercury was a part of that too, but that's a different conversation. We'll keep that off to the side for now.

So in the third house, we're thinking about like, how inhabitable is my own mind, my sick, my psychology, my emotional, physical matrix of daily life. How much do I like living in my body and my mind and my emotions and I ideally, I should like it a lot. But in order to like it a lot, for ancient astrologers, you have to cultivate things like emotional intelligence, intellectual intelligence, skill development, pride and confidence in your ego, ability to communicate and articulate yourself, all of these things

the ninth house has to do with Dharma, which is like higher truth. So you can see the conflict. On the one level, it's like, well, I have to be happy in my own mental, emotional, egoic nature. But on the other hand, I have to make sure that I'm in alignment with the higher truth of reality. For example, as good as it might feel to be someone who's sassy and sarcastic, and as much joy as I might get from that, the higher Dharma tells me that if I'm sarcastic and it's hurting other people's feelings, that I'm lacking virtue and my ego needs checking.

That doesn't feel great for my ego, especially if I really feel like I I love sassy Susie inside of me, you know, so Mercury opposite Uranus across this house is about mental, emotional, psychological adjustments and about higher wisdom.

All right, let's go on to Libras, where we see the second eighth house. Axis highlighted again, so we're back to arta, the material world in the second house and moksha, the liberation from entanglements in the eighth again, same conversation we had with Aries. We're talking about liberation of material assets and forms and patterns and values. And we're talking about the RE configuring of various karmic contracts, those that entangle us and reiterate broken values and misplaced ideas about the material world and what will actually bring us happiness or safety or security, versus the kinds of karmic contracts that We have with other people and the kinds of soul dynamics that provide us with a template for how to live in the material world while still having a deeper, higher sense of what constitutes real happiness.

Things don't get me happiness, but I also have to live with things. So how are we balancing that? What's the conversation right now, internally, psychologically, within relationships, around things like values, money, resources, and also, what do you owe people and what do they owe you? And how are those books being accounted for right now, spiritually or karmically.

All right, let's go on to Scorpios. Same exact dynamic as our Tauruses, first and seventh house, Dharma and comma, so selfhood, individual identity, and on the other hand, the pleasure or joy we seek in intimacy, sex, relationships, marriage, any kind of meaningful interpersonal dynamic could be here too.

So this is a moment for deeper, deepening insight around who you are, around what other people are, that really meaningful, insightful things can happen right now in your relationships that free you up, that free the other person up, that change patterns of relating, and that lead to deeper insight into your own nature. So same dynamic just flipped

Sagittarians. It's the same thing. We have Moksha and we have Arthur. So here we're talking about some pretty deep psychological realizations, maybe some very important hidden communication dynamics, the Messenger of mercury in the 12th bringing things to your awareness from an unconscious or hidden place, somewhat suddenly, in ways that can bring about, you know, kind of like obstacles or adversity, materially at the exact same time, for example, when you find out that something's happening at your company, it's been kept secret. Now it's being revealed. It disrupts everything. It creates a degree of chaos and obstacles you have to overcome that would be very consistent with these two planets, across these two houses, but also any kind of breakthrough psychologically and emotionally that leads to insight that can give you a better way of dealing with the day to day, work, stress, health, things like that. So.

Alright, let's go to Capricorns. We're back same thing as cancers 11 and five comma and dharma again. So now we're talking about your authentic creative nature and the need to reconfigure your creative essence in Uranian manners, your your your creative pattern and its connection to how you're evolving as an individual soul is is really loud right now, with Uranus, culminating in your fifth house, this is the opportunity to take seven years worth of personal creative evolution and put it into play socially.

The conversation is, are these the right people? Is this the right place? Are these the right aspirations, given who I am, creatively and authentically so social dynamics, professional dynamics and creative dynamics in conversation,

all right, for Aquarians, same thing as Leo's just flipped. We have mercury in the 10th house. That's arta. We have Uranus in the fourth house, that's moksha. Conversation, again, is between things like work, the public world, and home or family. So if you think about it, from the standpoint of mercury in the 10th having gone through a retrograde, turning direct, we're talking about reconfiguring our mind or details or plans or organizational strategies or approaches, the way we do things, implementation of different technologies, maybe you've gone through some kind of redirection of how you're doing work, or where you're working, or who you're working with, or even just the sense of what motivates you has been changing with Mercury's recent retrograde in this house, but it's in such an intense dialog with Uranus in The fourth which asks you to include, does this do these changes feed into the need for deeper liberation, rest, healing, safety, emotional bondedness in in a private sphere of life?

If these things are dragging me out into more and more activity and public definitions of success or happiness, and they might be cutting me off from something that I need to go to. It's like, it's like a well that I have to draw from. I can't deny with too much of an external or 10th house kind of focus.

All right, finally, Pisceans, same thing as Virgos with the third and ninth house axis. So we're talking about Dharma in the ninth and comma in the third well in the third house. For seven years, you've been going through an opportunity to radically redefine your mind, your psychology, your mental, emotional, like disposition. Maybe you've learned new things, learned how to communicate, articulate yourself in new ways. You've become maybe a bit more of a rebel, more willing to speak out or to act or behave differently, and you've experienced the benefits. I'm happier with myself because I've done these things.

But then there's questions about, how do these personality changes that are about the happiness of your ego in this lifetime? So important, but how do they how do they correlate with higher truth, with higher virtue, with higher philosophical commitments or convictions, with spirituality or religion, with learning something bigger that transcends the ego, the question that's really intense across that axis Right now, the need to synthesize higher truth with personal expression.

Okay, all right, we've made it through our horoscopes for the day. I

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So when all of my favorite teachers that I've had in my life have been people that commit to sharing their own process, not just the information, but how, as a spiritual like emotional person, they're actually living and seeing some of these things play out. How are you actually learning? What are you how is your process that you're not just sitting behind a wall of information?

So if you value content that, from myself, from all of our staff at Nightlight, that's always led by like, let's make this personal. Let's, let's give the information. If you want to become an astrologer, you want to learn about a transit, but let's convey it in a way that deepens our humanity and connects to each other, that is intentional, that is crafted, that is something that I pour a lot of heart and soul into, making sure that it's delivered in that way.

And I think it is rare among astrologers. I'm certainly not the only one to be like this. I'm not saying that, but I don't think like I think I wish there was more of it. Do you know what I'm saying? So if you find that valuable, please consider supporting us. Because year after year, we're able to keep doing this and thriving and and creating in this way, because people like yourself say, Yeah, I do get something out of it. So you pitch in and support us.

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Can you please explain. Sorry, I'm trying to understand this. Can you please explain the horoscope pack that is 49 Yeah, the $49 Astrology of 2026 is an hour and a half long, basically like lecture or talk on all of the major transits of the year ahead. From an archetypal perspective, there's no horoscopes. It's just me saying the eclipses are here, Jupiter's opposite Pluto here, Saturn and Neptune are getting together here, Uranus trine Pluto in these months. This is the biggest lunation of the year, and I'm talking through their meaning on a symbolic, archetypal level, like for everyone, then you're going to find that the the year ahead horoscope readings distill like five. I think it's six of the things, the top things from that video into all 12 whole sign horoscopes.

So the year ahead horoscope readings are like four to five hours of audio video, whereas the year ahead is like an hour and a half lecture on the major transits of the Year from an overview perspective, right? So just like one's an archetypal perspective, one's horoscopes, that's the idea. The year ahead is going to include more in terms of the coverage of the full year, whereas the horoscopes boils it down to like six big things for every sign. So yeah, let's go. We can raise the barn together. Thank you. Yes, we can. We can do it. We can do it. We've gotten to our goal 12 years in a row. We've we've been able to make it, and it's because people like you guys support us, and we appreciate that.

All right, I can see the symbolic patterns in transit or natal placements clearly, but articulating the meaning in digestible language is harder for me. Any tips on developing the skill of translating? Yes, that is the focus, by the way, of our entire third year program is we call it a counseling program, but it's really about how to take astrology from knowledge to conveying it personally with a real person. So your three in our programs are all about that. So like come study with. Us, because I've got a whole year where I could talk to you about that, you know, but the the first step is to recognize there's a video I'm doing this Sunday. It's a bonus episode on Sunday, and it's about how astrology is able to predict the future. And it talks a lot about patterns and symbols.

Most of the time, people don't have a hard time seeing the pattern, which is what you're saying. You can see the symbolic patterns, but you can't articulate them. The reason you can't articulate them most of the time, or anyone is because a pattern is vast, and seeing a pattern is a bit like seeing a floating tapestry. It's like, oh my God, look at the design, right? It's very intricate and elaborate. How do you begin? Where's an entry point to talking meaningfully about something as ornate and decorative and intricate and complex as a fucking tapestry? You know, such a potty mouth this, I attribute it to all of the Sagittarius energy. Anyway.

So how do you get into it context? This is a key feature of divination. All divination works according to context. There is really no example in the ancient world in any divinatory context of just sitting down and dry reading for people in almost all historical examples of divination, a querent meaning, a questioner comes to a diviner with a specific context in mind. What context does, from the tone of voice to the story that someone's living, to the details they give you the backstory. It allows you to take that symbolic pattern recognition and go from seeing the big tapestry to taking the context and finding it in a more specific, like niche of the tapestry, that's where you're also able to identify most likely outcomes. It's through context awareness and symbolic pattern recognition coming together.

That's what everybody knows intuitively about Tao. Someone comes to you with a question you have a, you know, maybe a three card spread, or a Celtic cross or something, the context of the cards, the backstory, the emotional dynamics of the person telling you the story, all of it, is going to incline you to read the cards, and the juxtaposition of the cards in very specific ways that you know will often lead to, you know, maybe certain kinds of predictive outcomes, if you are someone who even makes a predictive outcome or not, a prediction or not, but it's context.

So the best thing that you can do to be able to articulate or translate is not dry read for people, but get context from people first. It's context, context, context that drives your ability to go from being a good pattern recognizer to being someone who can locate a story within the multi dimensionality of a pattern that's crucial, absolutely crucial. Okay, so I hope that. I hope that's useful, because I'm in your year one class, plan on going all the way to year three. Great, fantastic. Yeah, go for it. We hope you will.

Let's see. Thanks for the wonderful content today and every day. Adam, proud and excited to contribute. Thank you. Thank you so much. Really appreciate that. What's your perspective on wishing for stuff? What did? What if it involves other people? Yeah, um, let me show you something? Oh, no, never mind. I can't it. No, that's going to be too hard for me to show you.

Let's say, let me take a different approach here. So wishing is like natural, right? So on one level, it's like what I think about. Wishing doesn't matter, because it just exists and it's happening. People wish for things, and people have wishes come true, and people, you know, don't always get what they wish for, and people wish they wouldn't have wished for something because of what happened, and they were unconscious about what they were wishing for.

So to me, it's not really. It's about understanding that there's nothing in reality that we experience that isn't a part of a pattern. So like, a good way of thinking about wishing is to enter into the patterns of wishing. Why do why do people wish? Because they have desires and hopes and dreams and they imagine that there's something else in somewhere else, or someone else that will fulfill them or grant happiness. And is there anything wrong with that? Well, there could be, but maybe there's not, you know, then we tell on one level, it's like, if you're always wishing for something in the future, then what does the pattern say? If someone's like, Oh, I'm they're just like, chronic. Unhappy and always wishing for things. We know that pattern, that pattern, is the pattern of, why don't you try to find happiness in your your present moment, in yourself, right?

Okay, on the other hand, you know someone might be enslaved in some movie or story, and they're like, just wishing for freedom. Would we? Would we tell the person they should just be happy in their current condition? That'd be pretty myopic, right? So on the other hand, in another in a different context, the pattern of wishing is totally different. So in other words, you know any way that you want to think about something philosophically from an archetypal perspective. And Buddhists teach us this.

So I mean, listen, listen to or just take some time with like Alan Watts, for example, listen to the way he talks about anything and everything. And I it really can teach you to think about stuff like this, like wishing is itself an archetype, and all of the realities that emanate from the activity of wishing, the good ones, the bad ones, the lessons we learn about wishing, good or bad, they're all part of like a tapestry hanging in the halls of reality that says, This is the wishing tapestry. So I don't have an opinion about it, but I'm very careful when I engage with it, that I don't engage with it from the standpoint of thinking that something in the future that I don't have, that I wish for, will fulfill me. Because I have learned enough in my life at this point to recognize that that's usually not good for me, you know?

So I have to but on the other hand, I find that there's a very childlike, wonderful way in which I wish for things, but I'm also not attached, you know what I mean? And that kind of wishing is really not very problematic in my life. So, yeah,

I've been turned on to whole sign house versus placidus After listening to you. Are there times when you use different house systems? I've heard other astrologers say they use different systems for different things. Well, I say this all the time, but Indian astrology and ancient Hellenistic astrology are not house systems. They pre exist house systems. So when you learn ancient astrology, everything is taking place in a paradigm that is whole sign in nature, which means that they get so much more than a house system. It's a way of thinking about everything in the chart. Most people don't understand that, because in modern astrology, we think of whole signs as an option among House systems.

But the idea that there even are house systems, not just the whole sign paradigm itself, which is where it all started, is a kind of problem. The reason I say that is because it's only from the standpoint of modern astrology that we even think of whole sign houses in terms of an optional house system. Optional house systems itself as a thought is modern, ancient astrologers just had a paradigm, and it was whole sign, what we would now call whole sign in nature.

But the point I'm making is that if you go back and study ancient astrology like come study with us, you're going to learn that whole sign becomes the way that you see everything, aspects dignity, the relationship between archetypal meanings of houses, depending on the whole sign configuration of the chart, are all connected, so it's not just a house system, and comparing it without knowledge of the entire paradigm of ancient astrology is not possible.

You will only be comparing something on a very superficial level, even if it's already attractive to you. That's great. I would highly recommend that you not just start using it with your modern understanding, though, but that you go back and learn from the roots, because then you're going to get so much more. You're going to know what you're actually looking at and how to use it, which is a totally different level than just like I flipped my chart to whole sign, and I like it better. You won't even know what you're looking at from a whole sign perspective until you study all the philosophy and techniques that go with it. In other words, I know that might sound strange, but just trust me when I say that you really have to. It's not just a house system. It's a whole language, technical

I Ching question here, how do you draw your I Ching readings? Do you randomly turn a page in your I Ching book? Is there a formal system that you use? So, yeah, you can toss the coins. You can use Yarrow stocks, I Ching online.net, you can do it virtually if you want. I'm fine with that, personally, and all of you can just if you search each Ching methods for casting, you're going to find like, a zillion articles telling you how to do it. I usually. Cast coins, or if I'm out and about, I might and I need to really sit with something and I'm my car or whatever I might use each Ching online.net,

oh, my god, I just there are some crazy people. Oh, how do we learn more about synodic cycles? Come study with us. I know you do. But I would also say, if you go to the shop page, the master classes I taught 1012, hours on the synodic cycles of Mercury and Venus, that's a good starting point. We cover some of it in the programs, but I've yet to do the synodic cycles of Mars Jupiter and Saturn. I'll probably do that in a master class in the next couple of years. So yeah,

definitely going to donate for the end of the campaign. It's already paying for my Nightlight studies. Thank you. Really appreciate that.

I'm currently in the year one course. Thanks to tuition assistance, I was able to purchase a course bundle so I can enroll in year two and three. Yeah, that's awesome. I'm really glad to hear that year three is, I think, our most well liked program. But yeah, like, I think it's just because a lot of people find value in the live client readings we do and so many conversations about how to communicate and convey astrology and like technique to real people. Debbie says, I'm in year one, and highly recommended rolling. Thanks. Debbie, appreciate you. Let's see other questions.

Hello. All right, let's see here. Uranus is on top of my son again, and some major changes are happening. To put it mildly, Yeah, isn't that transit exciting? It's just so that's a very powerful transit All right, I'm putting the Kickstarter link in. We have had 10 donations as of the start of this hour and now 40 minute meeting, putting the Kickstarter link in again. Let's see if we can get it to 20. I feel like we can get 20 backers. Let's see if we can get to 20. That would be 10 more before the end of the day. Like 20 to 30 is always it's like a pretty good day.

Everyone always waits till the end every single year, every the last four or five days, it usually kind of goes bananas. So I'm kind of used to that. But I'm also like, Guys, how about we not give me a heart attack this year? Okay, I'm just kidding. Let's see we have a little bit of time left. So if you have a question, feel free to put it into the chat. I'll see what I've got here. I'm going up. Think I probably missed some earlier. If you have questions for me personally, you want to get to know me more as a content creator. You have questions about astrology, philosophy of astrology, anything is welcome.

Hi, Adam, what are some schools of thought on pursuing chart rectification versus having a reading done without a birth time and crafting with existing info in a chart? I like both, but seems hierarchical. I mean, I think the process, ritualistically, the process is, is what matters. So William Lilly used to cast charts for people that didn't have birth information, simply by casting a chart for the day and moment they arrived at his like office that would be their birth chart.

So astrology is pretty flexible on these points, but I think rectification, if you find it with someone whose process, and let's call it their energy, you know, kind of matches with yours, then that's probably a good way of establishing some radicality of the rectified chart. But you can do that, right? You can establish that radicality, that sort of lightning rod quality, in a lot of different ways. So it's not like there's only one that works when you don't have your info. Yeah? Oh, thank you. Jenna, that's so nice. Yeah. Thank you so much.

Hi, Adam, do you think the nodes are the most important, important? Sorry, I can talk important point in our chart. I know it's a combination of all, but just wanted to ask also a student of yours, awesome. Well, no, I don't think here's what I like. Let's, let's unpack that question a little bit, because there's some really juicy stuff behind it, the idea that there would be a most important something in your chart, right? What? What we're subtly thinking when we frame a chart in that way, is that this chart is containing like some objective information about me, and there's like a hierarchy of the importance of that information and either its objective value or like significance in my life.

There are things in charts that tend to be louder in terms of the the the presence of that symbol in like a biography, but that does not always correspond to how we place value or meaning on the events of our biography. For example, I have a client that I've used her chart to illustrate this many times in my classes. She has an exalted Mars in her 10th house in Capricorn total, you know, kick ass corporate woman. She rarely wants to talk about her work, you know, like I would say for her, her kids, her family, her parents, her marriage, like, way more personally invested well, those dynamics of her chart according to sort of classical hierarchical delineation techniques are not as loud as that exalted Mars.

So if we look at a chart looking for what's most important, we have to ask by what value system of importance are we project like? What value system of importance are we projecting onto the chart, because even most of the classical techniques for finding the loudest, strongest planets in a chart that have loudest voicing may not always correlate to what we experience subjectively as the most meaningful parts of our life, right? So that becomes, really, that's like a It's something we always have to think about the other thing is that your chart has different points of importance depending on why you approach it.

So what I want, I want all of my students to think about when we study astrology, is that your chart is not a blueprint of who you are. Your chart is a living Mantic oracular device. It's ritualistically aligned with you because it was ritualistically cast for the moment of your birth, with you as a soul in mind. But that doesn't mean that it contains a blueprint, like modern psychological like Character Blueprint would have us believe.

Instead, what's really good to think about is that at 20, when you approach it with a relationship question, the same chart will have oracular meaning to present and most important points to provide you with, because you're 20 and you're curious about a relationship, whereas when you're 40 and you're interested in parenting, the same chart will have different points of importance that will speak more loudly.

And it's always the case day by day. It's the case that why you approach the chart, how you approach it, with what in mind, with what context you bring, will feature different ports, points of importance speaking because it's more like a cell phone to the gods than it is something that you are, does that make sense?

Okay, Hi, Adam, finished year one and got my certification recently. Could you talk a bit about how you talk with someone when their chart has a majority of challenging aspects? Well, same thing. You know that that I basically the same thing. I just said those challenging aspects will have completely different meanings depending on why the person is there talking with us. So you never really, you never want to go into a reading thinking they have a chart full of challenging aspects. How do I find a way of talking about it? What you want to do is, you know, develop a kind of awareness, get yourself familiar with the chart before reading, and then get context. Well, I'm here to talk about money now that challenging aspect has a context, and that challenging aspect may be more or less challenging, depending on which context the client is bringing or that might have a very constructive way of talking about it, a difficult. Aspect between two planets, given the context and how we assign signifiers in one situation versus another, this kind of situational awareness is dramatically absent in modern astrology, and that's because we're bereft. We're we're just, we're missing the language of ancient technical astrology that is all context based. It's all it's all of the rules of ancient astrology are about how to read something based on a context.

So I would say that you almost never want to go in thinking they have a majority of challenging aspects. That's already too abstract a way of thinking about a chart that's still feeding back into that idea that the chart is one thing. It's not one thing. It's an Oracle

with whole sign houses. What do you say about the ascendant CUSP being late at 28 or 29 How do you read the whole sign? Then the same way you you you would in any other context. It doesn't matter which degree of the sign is rising from zero to 29 that's the first house. It's that simple, and it it doesn't need to be more complicated than that. It's like, it's ancient astrology is more like a card game. It's like, much more like Tao than people realize. In fact, there were devices that ancient astrologers had that were like a board that had, like an inner circle that could turn and align the whole signs with, like boxes that then little gemstones would be placed in to represent the planets. Like this was like they're in the ancient world. Literally, readings were done like a board game. This is like people we were we have, like, taken some kind of fucked up engineering mindset and projected it onto astrology. It's it's crazy.

So any degree rising, it's just the first house, that's it, and then the rest go around the wheel. Can you speak about your health journey and physical transformation? I was floored when I saw an old episode of you speaking in the transformation is significant. Well, I was like, really deep into a tradition that up, you know, yogic tradition that placed a lot of emphasis on spiritual things and psychological, emotional, mental things. And I realized I was, you know, at a certain point, I started really feeling cut off from my physical body.

It just like the an awareness growing in me that there was a shift in my life that happened when I was a teenager, where I was a very like athletic, physically embodied type of person, and then a lot of life events happened, and I really went inward. It became much more like mental, emotional, artistic and intellectual, and I sort of left a part of me behind.

And being in this tradition that was so focused on other worldliness, really, in a weird way, brought back that repressed part of me, it like brought it right to the surface, because it felt like it was being more actively suppressed within the tradition. So I just became more aware of it within myself, and then I was like, No, this. This isn't right. Like this, this part of me needs to even if it's just a desire that I have not let go of yet, it's not going to be good to repress it. So I have to find a way for this to come out.

So I started seeing a trainer not too long after, I left the yogic tree. About a year later, I left the yogic tradition I was a part of. And, you know, I would say, what's going on? Four years now, I've had five or five or six days a week that I've worked out, rate weight, resistance training and cardio and started in the past two years, started training with a bodybuilding coach, and yeah, just, just transforming my body day by day, just as it's funny, because it's just the body, shaping the body, Caring for the body, greatly improves, mental, spiritual, emotional, like, psychological health. It greatly improves, you know, well being it's like, you know, to me, it's like the equivalent of like, well, I still meditate, I still pray, I still have contemplative space. None of that's gone from my life. But the temple is a lot cleaner.

You know, the temple feels a lot better because I'm caring for my body. I see a nutritionist. I have, you know, meal plan that I follow. I work out regularly, all of that. So yeah, and I would say, like, that part of me feels like it's, it's now back, like it's a. Part of and that was Uranus in my first house, like, over, like, seven, seven years, or whatever. I feel like that was really the transformation. And now it's, like, just as important to me as any other part of my spiritual life.

It's, you know, it's like, if you're not going to care for the temple that houses the spirit, soul, we're missing, like a big part of the equation, however we do it. So that's how I feel about it. I think I also got a lot of messaging from different spiritual traditions that masculinity was evil, and I'm not. I'm not trying to have a big debate about that, because God knows that. You know, there's problems with masculinity that are very real. And, you know, male energy can be suppressive and all that stuff.

But there was a part of me that needed to figure out what it meant and looked like like. Part of my avoiding having a healthy masculine was to stay rooted in things that were like, really intellectual and heady, psychological and spiritual, which was in me, appeared as a voice saying, like, all of that masculine stuff is a bad, unhealthy, worldly, materialistic distraction that was actually avoiding, like a part of me that was really seeking to integrate and understand my own masculinity.

So not surprisingly, at the outset of this process, one of the things that happened was I went and saw a naturopath, and some went to a clinic and got tested and found out that I had low testosterone, or low enough to be eligible for testosterone therapy. So I started that, and I'm on a very low therapeutic dose of testosterone, but it was a game changer. Like it contributed very positively.

I have all respect for like, however people approach their health, and not trying to evangel, be evangelical about it. But it was very positive for me personally. And I, frankly, I think probably there's a good I know a lot of men that I think could probably benefit from it, but there's a lot of stigma around it too. Like, you know, there's just, there's a lot of judgments that people have. So anyway, thank you. That's a good that's a fun, fun question.

I just pledged as an annual birthday gift to myself. Thank you. That is awesome. Really appreciate that. Let's see. We need seven more backers to get to 20 on the day we can do it. You haven't made one yet. Here's the link. I'll put it in the comment section again. What is the importance of the final dispositor in a natal chart in comparison of the chart ruler? Nothing. These are all. These are all ideas that, honestly, for the most part, don't help people there.

There's a final like, let me just put it this way. There is no consistent historical technical belief in or adoption of a final dispositor. It is one of, you know, 100 examples of a very interesting, very compelling symbolic idea. But symbolic ideas are they're only as as useful as they are appropriate in context, right? So if you follow the pathways of rulerships in a chart and everything keeps pointing back to a certain planet, the point is to let that perception be creatively informing the use of symbols in a reading. You don't need to use Final dispositors to have you know, there's a million other ways that you can find creative resonance in a reading. It's just a it's just a technique.

The whole history of astrology is filled with techniques. Now, there are very, very basic rules and ideas in ancient astrology that are worth learning because they stay consistent across 1000s of years, but things like Final dispositors are not like consistently used or talked about, so their value is really only as good as your creative implementation of them, which, you know, I'm just encouraging you to reflect on whether or not you really need it or not, because I would say, for example, you know, depending on the context that is presented to you, someone wants to talk about health, or someone wants to talk about their marriage, or something following that chain of dignities to a final dispositor may or may not be useful, compared to something 10 times more obvious sitting right in front of you.

You know, if they have a fallen Moon in Scorpio in their seventh and it leads to Mars and everything else leads to Mars in the chart. Well, making a meaningful connection between that fallen Mars and Scorpio and where fallen moon and Scorpio, wherever Mars is, could be like, very meaningful in the reading. But honestly, you could always just talk about the. Luna and Scorpio in the seventh for a whole hour, you know? So we think we're we limit ourselves to techniques when techniques are supposed to be a part of how we move about creatively and freely. That's the point.

There is no chart ruler either. That's not a thing. There's some there's different techniques for finding something like the ruler of the Nativity or the master of the Nativity. But those techniques are diverse. There's different methods for doing it, and they're not consistently done across 2000 years of astrology. A chart ruler could be said to be your ascendant ruler, but even then, it doesn't rule your chart, right? It's just that's a fancy way of saying that we find your character. We find you as a soul with an ego and a behavior and a mind through the ascendant ruler, but calling it your chart ruler is a little aggrandizing potentially, you know. So all of this has to be considered. I hope that helps.

I've had some clients overdo it with testosterone. It's good you keep the dose low. Well, with all due respect, I'll just you know this is really none of your business, but I appreciate your you know your concern, but you shouldn't. You shouldn't give advice to people that they're not asking for about medicine. I just, whenever people do that, I just tell them, like, you know you gotta, you gotta check yourself. There. Would you ever consider doing a YouTube series on Jeffrey Cornelius or Richard Tarnas Cosmos and psyche? Yeah, actually not so much cosmos and psyche, because I feel like, what could I possibly add to that? And it's like, so dense and huge, that would be a very overwhelming task. But I do feel like Jeffrey Cornelius is, I do feel like his, his book would be a very good one to cover, you know, because that's, that's a book that not a lot of people will necessarily take the time to read, and it could be really helpful to have almost like a guide for reading it. You know, I'm feeling called to pursue knowledge of the I Ching, but I have devoted my brain cells to really embodying astrology, then I will branch out. Do you think there's room to do both simultaneously? Um, I I've been able to compartmentalize the two for myself, you know. But I have, I don't know, I have Mars and Gemini. I like, I'm good at spinning a couple plates at the same time. So it overwhelms you. I wouldn't do it, you know, just focus on the astrology. But you can, you can, you know, just you could try it. And if it feels overwhelming, then just focus on the astrology. Yeah,

let's see here.

Okay. Well, we're at about two hours, so I feel like this has been a really nice session today, and I think I'll probably end it here. Let me just make sure I'm not missing any good rich questions. Oh, this one's good for solar return charts. What's your take on using the natives birth location versus their current location when casting the chart? Well, I would just say like you know you're, you're, it's a symbolic choice, not one that's about being more objective like you. I mean, you could look at both if you wanted to. I feel like that might be a little overwhelming, but I just use the birth location and keep it consistent. But that, that for me, has to do with, you know, for me, it's about clarity, consistency, simplicity, economy of craft, which are all like, you know, like dealers choice, like, it's, it's just how I roll.

Certainly, you could relocate your your Solar Return chart, like, there's, I don't see there's anything wrong with it. Even play with the two and see which one feels more accurate at the end of the year. That would be a great idea. Second year I pledged for a course as a Christmas gift for myself looking forward for year three. Yeah, excellent. That's awesome.

What do you think of dominant planets, dominant elements in a chart creating a signature, I found it to be spookily accurate. Yeah, well, I mean, there we have all different kinds of ways of recognizing, like loud patterns in charts, certainly like an abundance of planets in an element, you know, sure that would be one. Of them, or maybe very loud Angular planets, or, you know, planets that are really, you know, badly debilitated classically, or really strong classically, or whatever. Sure they can, they can create some pretty loud patterns in a person's life.

Yeah, the I Ching and hermetic astrology overlap in interesting ways. I agree. Yeah, sir, you guys know, if you watch my channel, there's a whole series you can watch on my channel, on the Hermetica that's pretty good. How do you recommend people frame questions for horary readings? So the most important thing to understand is that horary is not going to give you like advice. So if you say, What should I do that's not really ideal for horary? If you say, When is the best time to do something that's not really ideal for horary? What is? Yes, no questions.

So will this relationship turn into a marriage? Would I be happy if I took the trip to Bali, like, would it? Would the trip make me happy if I make an offer on this house, will it be accepted? So it's like, yes, no, outcome oriented questions for the most part, if I start this business, will it be successful? You know, will my business be? Will my business do better this year, financially than it did last year, stuff like that? About to pledge. Just have to get my card downstairs. All right, yeah, let's go. We need eight more seven, seven more backers. So where is my lost ring? Yeah, that can be a thing. I'm going to put the link to the Kickstarter in one more time here.

Uh, yeah, I already talked about this one. Someone's asking about whole sign house, cusps, Yeah, where is my lost ring? Is injury? I just solved a missing item, horary. I was missing my sunglasses, and was able to quickly identify that they were in the laundry room with a horary, which was really fun. And then I went in there they were, if we're back again, does it need to be a different email? Oh yeah, if you're going to back twice, it won't let it'll let you modify your original backer total and pick new like you can add rewards or whatever. But if you're going to make a separate donation, it needs to be a separate email on Kickstarter.

Yeah, well, I think that'll do it for today. I hope this was fun and interesting and that you got something really good out of, you know, the conversation around these two planets and the I Ching reading, some storytelling, some good horoscopes. It's always a pleasure to be with you guys one last time. Don't forget to support the Kickstarter today. If you get a second, go over there. Pitch in, help us reach our goal. Really appreciate and love all of you guys.

We'll be live streaming next Friday on Venus Saturn. So we'll get together for Venus Saturn talk and some horoscopes and a live Q and A All right, you guys, have a great rest of your day. Take it easy. Everyone. Bye.