The Sun Opposes Pluto — Nobody Owns the Light

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Happy Monday, everybody! Today we're going to take a look at the sun opposing Pluto. The week is starting off hot. This is a spicy transit. In fact, you can see I actually got sunburnt. Very, very sun Pluto. I got cooked out in the sun, so I'm a little burnt right now.

Anyway, we're going to talk about the sun opposite Pluto today, and we're going to talk about it from the standpoint of a list of things to watch for that I've made. These observations to me are anything but your basic textbook observations. I tried to take a really deep dive, and I specifically thought, what can we say beyond death and rebirth? You know, what can we say beyond confrontations with the shadow or power struggles?

Because there's actually so much there with these two planets when they get into any kind of configuration with one another. So I hope today will be educational, enlightening, and also very practical. That's our goal for the day. Before we get into it, as always, remember to like and subscribe, share your comments, your reflections. This helps the algorithm find us. It's free to subscribe, and it helps us tremendously. So take a minute to do that if you can.

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Anyway, as we're looking here, Monday, July 27th, we can see that there are a few things happening in the sky right now that we're going to be focused on this week. First and foremost, we have the synodic reset of the sun of Jupiter with the sun. So Jupiter's burnt up right now, as it were, and about to go through its synodic reset. It's just finished its opposition to Pluto, but still within about a degree. And today, the Sun is opposing Pluto. It would have been yesterday into today that that transit was happening.

We took a brief look at that as a transit starting to manifest over the weekend at the end of last week. But we're looking at it again today. That Sun-Pluto opposition is a major part of this week's astrology because as the week goes on, we're going to get into the full moon by Wednesday. Now on Wednesday, that full moon is exactly opposite the perfect Jupiter Cazimi, and both are still very closely conjoined to Pluto. So this is arguably the biggest full moon of 2026, at least in terms of just the amount of busy activity and sort of dynamism surrounding it.

So for that reason, today's Pluto Sun opposition is you could say it's just going to be a little bit more intense than I mean every to me every Pluto Sun configuration is pretty intense, but this one is probably a little extra because of the context, so I've got a list of five things to watch for today that I hope are not just your standard death and rebirth scenarios. It's always fair to say that when the sun encounters Pluto, the theme of death and rebirth is going to figure prominently into our experience because Pluto often brings scenarios where things, where we learn things and things evolve because of expiration, because of loss or of death.

We Pluto's telos. We talked about this recently on the channel. Is different than Jupiter's. Jupiter is the sense that everything has an end that is it's the manifestation of its potential. Pluto has the end of everything being that we learn, and everything becomes what it's meant to become for the eternal life of the soul when it dies. Their brothers, Hades and Zeus, they occupy opposite poles of experience and perspective, and neither one is necessarily better than the other. But encounters with Pluto often bring up that sense that something is becoming what it is meant to become.

You, as a soul, are becoming what you're meant to become because you are going through experiences where something is decomposing, or things are being released. Attachments are being relinquished. Death, metaphorically or literally, is happening, and so that's why we always say death and rebirth with Pluto. The rebirth is something that often comes very closely on the heels of the death with Pluto, because the regenerative power. When you are touched very deeply by something expiring or ending or not working out or deconstruction happens or endings occur, you are usually filled with the sense that you're also starting fresh, that there's a new chapter starting born of the recent loss or expiration.

And so Pluto is a very thought of as a very regenerative, transfiguring kind of planet because it doesn't just bring death; it often brings a renewed sense of purpose or mission or vision or imaginative sort of fertility in the wake of things being removed. And usually, the things are being removed. Have a real feeling of necessity behind it, right? So it's like this has to go. Most Pluto Sun delineations are going to focus on all of this, and this is fair. And you could very well see that kind of classic death and rebirth scenario.

And there's no other, there's no better way to put it. It's a cliche because it works, even though I do like to make fun of it, like charge people a quarter for every time we say that phrase, but I have some other things on the list to watch for that are kind of riffing off from this basic scenario of death and rebirth, with maybe a little some slightly different ways of looking at it. So I hope that you will enjoy this. This is a list of five things to watch for as always. Number one on my list is illumination and contradiction.

So, with the sun, we're thinking not only you always when we think of the sun, we're usually thinking about things like purpose and ambition. Archetypally, the sun is a bit like the hero or the hero's journey. It has that. It brings that quality of mission, purpose, vision, action, determination toward a desired goal or ideal. The sun is associated with the archetypal realm, which is the ideal realm, the ideal triangle, the ideal becoming the ideal parent, living the ideal life, becoming the ideal astrologer, and by ideal I mean the sense of the pure sense of potential that's connected to what you want or what your ambitions are leading you toward, with some ideal image as the end goal or result.

So, insofar as the sun represents ambition, the encounters with Pluto can be very powerful in terms of how they transform our ambitions. But the sun is also connected with illumination. Illumination, like enlightenment, means seeing higher truth. The sun rejoiced in the ninth house, the place of higher wisdom, the place of dharma with a capital D, meaning what is the nature of reality of God of divinity that was the subject of the ninth house in ancient Indian astrology, and so the sun rejoices there in that ninth house and is not just associated with things like personal purpose or will or heroic mission or something like that, but is also associated with the light of higher understanding, enlightenment carries light.

So, when we think about the sun coming into contact with Pluto, we're also talking about a specific type of illumination, meaning a specific type of wisdom or understanding of higher truth. Now, that's still relative because every soul is in a different body in a different lifetime with different evolutionary lessons and experiences and karma. But the basic idea here that I want to get across is that with Pluto, that process of being illuminated from within will often happen through contradiction, because the sun naturally, in its quest for enlightenment, seeks clarity and a coherence and a sense of confidence in what it can know to be true.

There's nothing wrong with that, but Pluto, in the opposition, will expose what literal light alone can't see, and it's not just literal light; it's figurative light as well. It's like let's just call it Pluto exposing what light can't touch or see. So when certainty is interrupted in your life by mystery or doubt or the sense that you're not seeing everything that there is to be seen. That is, those are often moments where wisdom has to continue evolving without the same sense of confidence or clarity that it's had in the past, meaningful encounters with depth, invisibility, and doubt that shape and reshape how we carry wisdom are very common for Pluto Sun oppositions, especially natally.

You go through that. I remember the sun, Pluto opposing my son was a part of my pathway out of the monastic tradition that I was a part of, and that all of what I'm talking about in terms of the way that wisdom starts to be not just about clarity but also about mystery, uncertainty, and doubt that weirdly start to carry their own kind of hidden confidence. So, this can happen when your sense of certainty is interrupted by hidden motives or more inconvenient truths, or even paradox that force you to go a little bit deeper, and develop a more durable kind of insight that can carry both certainty and uncertainty simultaneously.

Most wisdom traditions, Taoists come to my mind, Zen philosophers come to my mind, where your mind, if your mind doesn't know how to hold paradox, then in a way it doesn't know how to hold wisdom in a sun opposite Pluto kind of manner. When wisdom can come from what initially seems to challenge our sense of clarity, confidence, or certainty, but it actually ends up deepening all of those things, even at the outset when it seems to dismantle them, that's a Sun Pluto moment when it comes to the cultivation of insight or wisdom personally.

And it's hard to any kind of life experience can do it. You know, people going through changes in relationships or jobs or health or just internal psychological changes that can occur will sometimes bring this. I am going to make some references to Prince today because on my birthday I went to I went and got a tour of Paisley Park and I'm wearing my Paisley Park hat today that I got, I've long liked Prince. He's a Minnesotan, you know, so there's that. He loves purple, and purple's my favorite color.

So, I was really excited to go to Paisley Park. We went to Paisley Park, and I noticed there's quite a few just for background, Prince had Pluto at the mid heaven on Regulus in Leo. Quite a powerful, quite a powerful chart. So, the Pluto in Leo combination at the mid heaven makes a lot of his life work, his artistic work, the work that we all see, a combination of Pluto and the Sun. It's a Pluto in the Sun sign. And while I was at Paisley Park, I noticed that a lot of his music is informed by occultism and esotericism, but it's cloaked.

I mean, in some cases, he's overt about spirituality, obviously. But he had he was a you know a Scorpio rising. Just I think someone who had had some very strong, confident. Confident set of beliefs and faith was an important part of his life, but he was someone who also he appreciated the nocturnal and the depth of Hades and Pluto, and so anything about him that was bright was also cloaked in the. He seemed to wear the cloak of Hades, you know, and so I was thinking a lot about this, and a lot of today's thoughts are actually coming from what I was observing about Pluto and Leo in his life while I was at Paisley Park.

So, he is someone who appreciated that wisdom can be cloaked in mystery, and I even think about a lot of his outfits, where he was such a bright Leonic figure, but loved to be sort of cloaked in mystery. And I think there was this one image of him wearing almost what looked like a bandit's mask, but it looked like lingerie over his eyes. You know, so there's something that he really seemed to appreciate that some of the most beautiful truths can be cloaked in the night. So maybe that's a way of putting it. All right. Well, you're gonna struggle today if you don't like Prince.

Anyway, so number two on my list. Um, this is more basic when purpose is refined by Pluto. If the sun represents, as we were saying, purpose, ambition, sense of direction, the confrontation between the sun and Pluto will be about what you, what your calling is, what your sense of desire or ambition looks like, and what kinds of confrontational forces you will meet while following that path. It is inevitable that if you have a path and a calling, that you most people naturally experience resistance or opposition within themselves.

I don't want to do this. I'm not capable of it. Okay, I've got to overcome that fear. Or from other people, I don't like what you're doing, or I there's not room for you. I'm the only one who should succeed, or you know, there's all sorts of things that we encounter. So, when the sun faces Pluto, Pluto usually asks, "Well, how genuine are you? You know, and what is real? You have to. It has to be like stripped back. You got to get stripped back to what is most real and essential.

Here's something that happened for Prince that was just like that. So Pluto in Aquaria, or Pluto, excuse me, Pluto in Leo at the mid heaven. Now remember, the sun that therefore rules his 10th house and his mid heaven. And the sun was in the eighth house in Gemini, and his chart opposite Saturn in the second house. So he a significant portion of his career was spent battling for the rights to own his own name, voice, music, etc. From the record companies, classic like ruler of your 10th house in the eighth, opposite Saturn in your second.

He fought for the rights to his own possessions from the ownership of a record company, and I can't. I think it was Warner Brothers. I don't remember. But anyway, he got to a point where he had to strip back his career became the artist formerly known as Prince, and it stripped back to the what was most vital, you know, what was most essential, and this conflict of destiny was really is at the heart of his birth chart, and it's depicted really beautifully by Pluto and Leo at the mid heaven, with that ruler, the sun in the eighth, opposing Saturn in the second.

You know when your ambition is being opposed or thwarted, and it you have to kind of go within and say, well, am I going to keep going? How do I meet this challenge? How will I overcome it? Or is this challenge helping me recognize that there's something impure that needs to be refined or shifted or revised about my sense of ambition or purpose? These are the challenges that come with the sun opposite Pluto. All right. Well, number three on my list is that change is constant.

So what is one of one of the things that can be kind of maddening about astrology is that every single transit is really just a different way of saying that things are changing. Change is constant. The planets are never they never stop. You know, a birth chart is artificial in the sense that you're artificially freezing a sky in a picture that a sky that never stops moving, and so a birth chart, not surprisingly, is constantly being juxtaposed against moving images, progressions, timing techniques, transits, perfection years.

The chart itself has to go through these different changes in order for the promise of the natal chart to play out in time because change is constant. So the question sort of begs the question in astrology: like, well, are some changes more meaningful than others? You know, like, and the answer that seems to be yes. I think subjectively we would all agree that there are some changes in our life that we assign more meaning or value. Than others, they stand out more.

This is why we don't tell just any story. We sit around the fire and tell specific stories about times when change was a little bit more chingy. You know, but I think what's unique about Sun Pluto moments is that the nature of how we tend to experience change itself as a constant goes through a change. Stick with me for a second. I know that sounds a little, a little like philosophical, but it's really simple. We have ways of experiencing rhythm in our lives, and many of us have lifelong struggles to establish any rhythm at all.

It's like a constant. Many people that I talk to are like, I just want some normalcy. I feel like everything's very chaotic, and there's a lot of instability. But behind that is obviously the very natural desire to have stability. Well, nobody thinks that stability means no change at all. What they usually mean when they want stability is like a wave pattern, a wave pattern that is relatively stable, where the changes are not throwing you off so badly. There's a little bit of consistency. There's a little bit of groundedness. You can settle in. You can feel safe. You can feel at home.

What often happens when Pluto contacts are made, and the Sun Pluto is probably one of the loudest of them, is that the way that we experience change itself as a part of a wave pattern in our life, meaning we're living in a river where currents are flowing all the time, but we have a way of existing in that river that allows for some sense of meeting and dealing with the change, but that itself will change, and it often changes very loudly, very powerfully during Pluto transits. The Sun prefers, in general, that change occur through things like will and ambition, conscious intention, creativity, intentionality.

Pluto will introduce changes that often thwart or seem to exist outside of what we can personally control. So, when you go through a Sun-Pluto dynamic, it's as though change is stronger than our will, and our will is a significant part of how we navigate the world and deal with change all the time. For example, I get up in the morning and I choose to meditate. I choose to work out later in my day. I choose to make creative content. I choose to structure my life in a certain way, and all of this is part of my best conscious understanding of how to create, you know, how to be productive in doing the things that I value, how to create safety, how to create connection, right?

All of these things are rooted in the best conscious understanding I have of trying to live the life that at this point I know to be decent, you know, or or good, whatever. But then there come these periods of time, these Pluto periods, where all of a sudden we realize that we not everything that we are intending, in control of, directing with vision, purpose, willpower, is right, or is effective, or is going to work any longer? And usually, it's something outside of us that sort of makes us aware of this.

I need to change the way that I'm exercising. Whatever little control I have needs to change because outside forces are making me more aware, or ching my understanding, or shifting the pattern. And so, the meaning of change itself changes. We have to adapt because we're not going to be able to persist in the same way of sort of trying to create a rhythm and a sense of life direction. So, change is not always something we direct, but something that frequently has these inflection moments where it directs us, and that opposition can be experienced really as a state of polarization.

Like I'm not, I'm, I don't like that I'm not in control. I don't like that something is forcing me to adapt, and then we can get into big power struggles, and we can project that struggle outward onto people or things, and sometimes power struggles are also healthy and I guess natural during these transits. But we can also see Pluto as meaningful feedback that's asking us to course correct and use our will and our conscious understanding to reshape the wave pattern in our life in a new or different way.

All right, next on my list. So, this one is original pattern and hidden pattern or patterns. So the sun is also like a central organizing principle: the king, the law, higher truth. All of these ideas, both Jupiter and the sun, are like this. Symbolize things that are supposed to. It's like a center that everything can orbit around. So, for example, when I was just talking about every day, I organize my day in a way that I know will, you know, get the work done that I value-my astrology, or take care of my body, or connect with my family, or be a good dad, or whatever.

And to the best of my knowledge, I try to organize my life with my conscious intentionality and willpower, you know, to create a central organization that grants me sanity and coherence and rhythm, all of that good stuff. Just like the sun, a great big circle in the sky, the path of the sun, a great big circle in the sky, the ecliptic, the zodiac, a great big circle in the sky, primary motion that brings everything around. So we're working in circles and cycles. Do we have some organizing principles at the center?

Is our will aligned with them, and are we serving them because then they serve us and they grant us sanity and so forth? But what happens is that Pluto, when the sun hits Pluto, it will reveal to us invisible structures, inheritances psychologically, psychically, and collective forces that are operating beneath all of that. And so, familiar narratives about yourself, your family, your vocation, your values, your purpose are interrupted by this kind of eruptive unconscious material, and you start to see that what you're doing is informed by patterns that you were not aware of, and now you're becoming aware of them.

And number five on my list is this is the Leo Aquarius axis, right? It's the heart that refuses to surrender to the impersonal. And there's ways you can push back from Pluto in Aquarius to Leo too. For example, diminishment of ego with greater collective awareness or concern, easily the opposite. But I wanted to focus on this one because I thought a lot about it when I was at Paisley Park, just getting the Prince vibe. What a cool place, by the way. I just have to say, if you ever get a chance to go, check it out. Was very inspiring.

So Pluto in Aquarius can bring up the immense social, collective pressures, systems, groups, ideologies, and forces that want to dwarf the individual. I think so much about you know Neptune in Aquarius, and I was I was like, I think my generation was a little bit unique in that the generation that graduated around the 2000 mark, because we went through most of school without the internet. Ended the very end of high school, the internet came out, and then we went were first generation to sort of go to college with the internet.

So anyway, but I think about the internet and the social media phenomenon and how emergent and interesting it felt, rather than being an isolated private individual to suddenly feeling like you were a part of a larger social reality, and how connective that felt with Pluto in Aquarius. Now, I think there's a fair amount of people, and we could talk about Pluto in Aquarius from a number of different angles. So I'm not. This is not meant to be the only way of seeing things here.

But I think one of the things that Pluto in Aquarius is probably bringing up for a lot of people is the opposite. That there's a way that returning to that sense of individuality and sort of exiting some some more public space is the move that feels more aligned. There's, in other words, it might be more interesting and exciting for some people now, especially especially younger generations who were brought up in a social media era where the public in some ways is more normal than the private. And I don't, I'm just waxing philosophical right now, guys.

So feel you know feel free to have a different point of view, but Leo the thing about the Sun in Leo and Jupiter in Leo, with the South Node, all of this opposing Pluto for the next year, is that there's going to be a sense that the greatest most interesting thing lies in being a person who is maybe not as defined by social, collective, maybe even online dimensions of reality that have existed and been the status quo now for a while, because Pluto loves to disrupt the status quo by revealing what might be stagnant or sort of sick within it, the status quo, personally, collectively, whatever.

And so, if collective forms of pressure, conformity, identity, ideology begin to feel like they're dwarfing the individual, the most interesting thing in the world could be a return to the personal, private heart. I know. I know. I've been feeling that myself lately, to be honest. So you can watch for the tension right now. Either way, between becoming really absorbed into these impersonal currents and remaining faithful to something that feels more unique, a unique voice, your kind of personal, private sense of warmth, the creative integrity of the private personal heart, and I think behind all of this is just how does authentic individuality confront collective pressures.

I don't know, but what I loved about Prince, just to shout out Prince one more time, is that he just was so allergic to conformity, and I observed in a number of the videos we watched, and I watched a documentary. Just sort of took a deep dive into Prince the past two weeks, and his being allergic to conformity was not just about you know making art that was original that nobody else was doing, but also in the way he thought. He wasn't someone who was going to be pressured into thinking a certain way.

And what I notice about him is just the need to retain creative freedom, and this is maybe a bit of his Gemini son too, right? Like, you know, you could tell ultimately where his vision and values stood. I think an incredibly progressive personality in terms of like thinking beyond the horizon of current social limitations, sexual inhibitions, but he was also you know, deeply spiritual, progressive artistically. I mean, what a forward-thinking person! But he was also like, if anyone started treating him like, yeah, so you're the guy who hates conformity. Well, he, I can guarantee you, he wouldn't have liked that either.

Just like, don't put me in any of your damn boxes, you know. I you don't own me, you don't possess me, you can't put me into a box. Whatever you think I stand for, I will stand for something else as soon as you try to put me there. Because I am a free individual, and for a long time he wore the word "slave" on his face, because he was resisting the record company's, you know, right to own him, and I think, in a weird way, because we often think you often think of Aquarius as the one that's resistant to being owned or is the progressive one, but Aquarius can be a deeply conformist and elitist sign, a sign that thinks of itself as belonging and special, based on if it belongs to the right group and thinks the right way.

And there's something even about the right way of thinking, the good way of thinking, the virtuous way of thinking, that I think a lot of creative people resist if it feels if it starts to feel like a form of mental colonization, like that some force is trying to own my thoughts and make me obligated in some way, and all and what I'm trying to point out is that all of this is archetypal. It's a very Leo Aquarius dynamic, and to question or resist being put into any box whatsoever.

I know that because here's the thing, and I can because I've had these dinner conversations with family members. You know, I grew up in the church having people at dinner having these conversations in my household. Since I was a little kid, I have heard these conversations. It goes like this: I don't, I don't, I'm not. You can feel someone. I'm not gonna. You're trying to put me into a box. Sounds like a very virtuous box. I can see you really care about. Virtuous things. I don't want to be in your damn box, you know.

And then you have another person at the dinner table saying your resistance to being put in the good box means that your pride and selfishness and need for freedom and non-committalness and trying to rise above the frays of the world are actually a sign of self-interest and self-absorption and what privilege, right? That you've heard this conversation. We've all heard this conversation in our own heads. We think these things in the world. We encounter these things, and the point is they're archetypal. There will always be someone who says, as soon as you have a good thought, let's trademark that shit.

You know, you know, and I loved like in when when you went into Prince into Paisley Park, you had to put your phones in a sleeve that they locked. I long ago went to a Dave Chappelle comedy show. This was a long time ago, and you also had to put your phone in a sleeve. I thought that that was interesting. That these two characters strike me, Prince and Dave Chappelle. I know I know his chart a little bit too, and I know I know not everyone likes Dave Chappelle. So this was a while ago in my life.

But anyway, the point is that regardless, these personalities struck me as similar, and then I wasn't surprised to find out during the tour that they were they were friends, and that was interesting to me because both of them have this. If you're gonna call me good, but it feels like you're in a box to call me good. I'm not going to be that. This is actually very Leonic, and the reason for that is that Jupiter in Leo, it's pushback. The Sun in Leo, it's pushback to collective pressures, even good ones, even forces that seem to be acting for the things that you honestly value.

As soon as they try to own or colonize your head, there's just a way that you go, "Fuck you, get out of here. No, you don't own me. You don't possess me. You don't get to tell me how to think. You don't get to tell me what to be. I don't care what that makes you think about me. If that means you got to put me in the bad bin over here, you know, then that's where you're gonna put me. Have fun. It's none of my business, right? And oh my God, if I haven't like I remember, like I said, I remember in the church hearing conversations like this as people were talking about their faith and political beliefs and so forth.

These conversations are as old as time. And these are the kinds of conversations that could come up right now. And the point is really that we can hold them more less in terms of philosophical debate or argumentation and who's right and who's wrong. Because how healthy is that going to be? We're going to start hating each other if we think that way and thinking more. Okay, it's archetypal. There are certain people who just are going to be allergic to their individuality, feeling like it's being co-opted by something collective and impersonal.

And there's other people who are going to be, you know, that are going to feel like there's, you know, the Leonic thing is just selfish and unwilling to commit to a larger social dimension of reality that they're burying their head in the sand about, or something. But the conversation around these dynamics is going to be really strong right now, and for I think probably the year to come. But what's especially interesting to me is that Pluto we've been living for a while now, ever since Neptune and Aquarius, in my opinion, we've been living in a collective dimension that's saturated, right?

And it might be reaching an oversaturation point in terms of, like, I notice my kids are already way, way more critical and skeptical about social media, you know, than I mean, I was as an adult because they're growing up in a moment where it's status quo to be on social media to be processing everything about yourself in a social container of some kind, and this weird kind of personal impersonal blend is already more of a turn off to them as little kids than it was to me for a long time because for me I had never had it and it was really novel and interesting.

And so I just can't help but wonder if with you know Uranus entering Gemini, Pluto in Aquarius that if in the years to come there's not going to be kind of a referendum on the difference between the private sphere and the public sphere, and a lot of what it boils down to, in my opinion, when I look back at those conversations I grew up with, hearing that I was just reiterating, I think a lot of it what it boils down to is just like that there has to be something in us that resists the pressure of collectives. And group think, and I think that can go, but that can look like a million different things.

You know, there can be healthy and unhealthy versions of that, but we're going to see that tension popping up. Okay, so I got a little rambly here at the end, but I think hopefully it makes sense. Again, remember that I'm not trying to give a discourse on right and wrong or present my views as the most enlightened. I'm trying to share insights about archetypes and what kinds of tensions I think will be natural. And I can't help but this talk was really informed by spending a lot of time thinking about that Pluto and Leo, that Pluto Sun kind of combination in Prince's chart at the Midheaven, after spending all day at Paisley Park with my kids, by the way, it was so funny.

My daughter was like, you know, she's got she's got an Aquarius moon, so she was so fascinated by him because he's so distinctly Leonic, and she was like noticing a lot of the more provocative things he was doing, and she was like, she looked at me. She goes, "Is that appropriate? Her Virgo rising, you know, she's so sweet. Is that appropriate, Dad? And I go, "Yeah, yeah, like kind of, kind of not. Like, you know, how do you answer that? But I'm so glad that my daughter gets to, at a young age, confront the ambiguity.

You know, the ambiguity of someone who was beloved in a in and had was a in in collective containers but resisted them, who resisted like gender categories but played by the rules but didn't play by the rules. He's such an ambiguous figure, and I and then so just to cap it off, long story short, my desire was like, "What do you want to do on your birthday? And the end of the day, I wanted to. After my kids were in bed, I wanted to sit up. We have this music room in our basement with beanbag chairs that we hang out and we play our instruments, and we have like a lava lamp and everything.

So my wife and I turn off, turn off the lights, lit some candles, turn on the lava lamp. We listened to "Love Sexy. I think that's the name of the album. And then, and I had never heard that album before. It blew my mind. It was so cool. And then we listened to "Sign of the Times, and these were like album, like you know, everyone knows Purple Rain. But I hadn't gotten into like his deeper stuff, and I have to say, what a visionary! Like, just I'm so moved, so inspired by his work and his fashion and just everything.

So, if you want to know something about him that's really interesting, I'll end with this: Scorpio rising. You can get that so evocative, so sexual, so enigmatic and deep and mysterious. All of that vibe. However, he's a Pisces moon, and there's so much about his about Paisley Park that was so dreamy and sweet and light and mystical and sort of safe. There's doves, right? There's all these wispy clouds and light pastels, and like it was just it felt very soft and gentle, and then very deep and erotic at the exact same time.

Was like that's that Scorpio rising and Moon in Pisces, and then the Gemini Sun, just totally like gender fluid, like such a trickster and magician, and then I was thinking a lot about that Pluto and Leo at the mid heaven on Regulus, by the way, which was pretty cool. Anyway, my hats off to you, Prince, for inspiring this talk today, and I hope it's useful for everyone. Have a great, beautiful day wherever you are. I hope that this talk was interesting and enlightening. We'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.