The Mind and Spirit Revolution of 2026: Uranus in Gemini

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

Welcome in, everybody. Just getting myself set up here. So I appreciate your patience as I'm kind of getting my notes already. We're gonna spend some time with Uranus in Gemini today, which is one of our major astrological transits of the year ahead. So I'm really excited about this.

I'm so I will be getting started here in just a minute. Sorry, I'm trying to I've got a lot of things on my screen that I'm trying to organize here. So all right, so welcome in. Tell me where you're coming from as always, let's do a little roll call before we get into it today. Where are you coming from in the big world? We're going to be looking at Uranus in Gemini.

I've got a starting off with a kind of written reflection on Uranus in Gemini, continuing to exercise my writerly voice. And so I have some thoughts that I'll share, kind of a centering, reflective essay that I wrote. And then we have, I have a really good I Ching reading to help us further unpack Uranus in Gemini. And then I've written some horoscopes for all 12 signs. At least I've written out some bullet points that I'm going to speak from.

I think that this will be a really nice way to prepare ourselves for one of the major astrological transits of 2026 in the next week, I will be unpacking some some of the other major transits of 2026 we're going to be looking at all of the outer planetary shifts. So later this week, we'll look at Jupiter moving into Leo and opposing Pluto. We'll look at the change of the nodes of the moon into Leo and Aquarius, and the new eclipses and the archetypal symbolism of eclipses in new signs.

And then at the I think it's probably early next week. I think Monday, we're going to be looking at the Uranus Pluto Trine that will be happening. There's two of them, major Trine in 2026 and then to round out, the end of the year, we'll be looking at Saturn and Neptune conjoining in Aries, which is the biggest transit of the year, the last two days of the year, the 30th and 31st will be focused on Saturn, Neptune and Aries.

So some really good stuff here coming down the home stretch on Sunday. I'll also do live birth chart readings and Q and A again, a little change of pace, and just some time to get together on Sunday. So as you know, we're in Kickstarter mode right now, which means that I will be promoting the Kickstarter on today's live stream and trying to rally support for for that. And then I'll do that between our segments, see if we can't get closer to our goal.

But in the meantime, where are you all coming from? Let's see. Well, Bucharest, you're in, you're you're here again, and planet Earth, Kansas, North Carolina. Eileen's here from Vernon, BC, Salt Lake City, Chapel Hill. Let's see the main mountains. Romania, Arizona, Vermont, Louisiana, Lancaster, Salt Lake City, Vienna, yeah, I love this university. Place, Washington, Mississippi, Colorado, Jersey, Austin, Oregon coast. Yeah, this is, this is great. I love seeing this.

Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Long Island, Belgium, OKC, bonita, California, elenmosa, Colorado, Lauren from Nashville. Iowa. Hello from the fringes of the simulation. Yeah, yeah, Atlanta reunion, Island cafe, Toronto, Western New York. This is fantastic. It's so good to be with all of you. Really excited to be talking about, I think, one of the most exciting transits of the year.

You know, yesterday we spent time with Saturn in Aries. And to be honest, you know that transits is heavy. That's a heavy transit, and so is Saturn Neptune in Aries. Honestly, that transit is also heavy. We had a lot of heavy Saturn Neptune work in 2026 you could say. But I think we have to put that carefully against some of the other transits. And maybe one of the best transits of the year is Uranus in Gemini.

It is a very exciting astrological transit, and a huge change of pace from Uranus and in Taurus, we're getting a very, very I mean, it couldn't be a bigger contrast, in some ways, from Uranus and Taurus to Uranus in Gemini. So we'll talk about that. We've got Minneapolis in the house. Hello, friend and neighbor from Texas, from Ontario, from Earth, reliable Earth from Collingwood, Ontario. Yeah, it's really good to be with you guys.

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As you if you watch my channel, you know that I'm kind of prepping myself in pre draft process for another book, and so it's been a really nice opportunity not having to write, you know, just finishing a book, it's like, wow, I can write about other things. So I've been doing this pretty much every morning for the end of the year talks, I've been writing something. This is on Uranus and Gemini, and it's just some sketches in the notebook of an astrologer about what I think we might be about to experience here, or some ways of preparing ourselves.

So I'm going to read you this reflection. I've got an I Ching reading for you. I've got some horoscopes for you. Let's get into it. All right. So Uranus in Gemini, first and foremost, we need to prep ourselves on the timeline. I'm going to put the real time clock up, and I'm just going to tell you about the timeline of this transit. Before we do anything else.

So here we go. Now, I'm going to eliminate everything from our perspective, except for Uranus in Gemini. Well, it's right now, it's in Taurus. So we'll, we'll speed the clock up a little bit here. All right, so Uranus in Taurus, is going to turn direct in early February, and then it's going to make its way forward again, and it's going to it's going to enter Gemini. Let's get the exact day here.

It's about April 26 that it enters the sign of Gemini. Now, if we go forward month by month, we're going to get about seven years of Uranus in any sign that it visits. We got a touch of Uranus in Gemini in 2025 but if we keep kind of moving Uranus through the sign of Gemini, it has a long time to work through this sign.

And so I consider the moment that we're at right now, another kind of threshold or gateway moment to really a new archetypal chapter. I think back to when you're in a centered Taurus man I was, I even that, you know, I'm an I've been an astrologer for almost a decade. At that point, I still really underestimated just how powerful the outer planetary shifts will be for the duration of their transits. I mean, they really change our lives.

So if we take this forward, it's not until August of 2032 that Uranus enters cancer. Uranus in cancer 2032 will get a little bit of Uranus back into Gemini in early 2033 and then it's By the spring of 2033 that Uranus enters cancer to stay. So you could say between 2025 and 2033 with some retrograde chunks into different signs, that's the period in which Uranus will be in the sign of Gemini.

So here we are. We got a little taste for it. Let's back this up so you can just in case you weren't aware of this, Uranus was in the sign of Gemini very briefly, and it entered this last summer in the Northern Hemisphere about July 7, and then from July 7 all the way until about November, early November, Uranus was in the sign of Gemini.

So we've already had a little preview. And I think, you know, we've dipped our toes into the waters of Uranus and Gemini, for sure, but now it's going to come back, so it's time to start thinking about that again as one of our biggest transits of the year ahead. Okay, so here's here's some thoughts that I've prepared

as Uranus prepares to enter Gemini again, we're standing at the doorway to an archetypal field that is very much alive. That's a word that I would use to describe Uranus in Gemini. This isn't a subtle background outer planetary transit. It's not going to be a quiet, dim, distant outer planet influencing us slowly or invisibly in the background. I don't get that feeling Uranus in Gemini announces itself as a change in how we think and how fast we think and what we're capable of perceiving once the mind is no longer confined to inherited patterns or structures, it opens circuitries of awareness that We didn't even know were there or were possible.

It stimulates curiosity. Uranus and Gemini invites experimentation. It brings flashes of insight, ingenuity, inventiveness that feel like lightning, sudden, brilliant, sometimes disorienting or disruptive, often exhilarating. I think there is a lot of promise here. The potential for a tremendous broadening of perspective exists with Uranus and Gemini, a loosening of rigid ideas and a willingness to question what we once assumed was settled or final.

This is definitely a transit over the next seven years or so that favors open mindedness, that favors playfulness and learning at accelerated rates. It encourages us to. Think differently. Remember, Uranus is in a sign of mercury. Not only does it encourage us to think differently about the world, but about thinking itself, it supports new models of education, new languages or forms of communication, new ways of connecting ideas across disciplines that may seem isolated or not normally connected to one another in ways that we might think they are.

For many people, I think that Uranus and Gemini will feel like a brush of fret there, and for others, it's going to feel like an electric storm cloud moving through the nervous system. For all of us, I think it marks a collective shift into a much more volatile but also very creative mental atmosphere. Gemini, a double bodied Air sign, ruled by Mercury, is a sign of movement, of movement, always between opposites, between viewpoints, between questions and provisional answers.

I say provisional because Gemini does not typically like to settle upon an answer, but work with and move through an answer as a kind of living field. Gemini is the mind in motion. Uranus is the mind in motion, not seeking finality, but engagement and so when Uranus enters this airy, Mercurial territory of the twins, the mind becomes this place of invention. Thought becomes experimental. Ideas move faster, circulate faster, mutate more quickly, and resist containment at all costs.

So of course, this can be deeply liberating. We could find ourselves more willing to say, I don't know, more excited to explore what's possible. We become more tolerant of ambiguity, more curious about perspectives that challenge our own, more able to learn by trial and error, rather than needing certainty about something before we begin. And so in its most luminous expression, I think that Uranus in Gemini is a celebration of intelligence as something living, adaptive, relational, creative, rather than fixed or doctrinal or dogmatic or authoritarian.

Uranus in Gemini invites us into dialog rather than doc, Trine exploration rather than conclusion, and curiosity rather than certainty. However, this exact same brilliance that I'm describing carries a very particular intensity, because when the mind accelerates faster than a soul can integrate illumination can tip into nervous system overload. Speed is a defining feature of mercury, of Gemini and of Uranus.

Put them together, and we get excessive speed of information, excessive speed of communication, excessive speed of response, speed of innovation, speed of judgment, speed of reaction. Excessiveness happens when one archetype gets augmented or amplified by its sign placement. Of course, not all speed is harmful. In fact, a lot of what Uranus and Gemini offers depends upon the speed, rapid learning, sudden insight, unexpected connections.

These are all profound gifts in the right context. But speed, without rhythm, without pause, without space to digest, without embodiment, can become destabilizing. The danger here, to me, is not about thinking outside of the box. That's exciting. The danger is thinking so fast outside of the box that meaning begins to fragment and we lose important psychic containers and groundedness when ideas start moving and circulating without any grounding, what feels exhilarating can quickly lose coherence or center.

When information multiplies without bodily integration, without physical earthly grounding, one of the natural opposite elements of air is Earth. It can become disorienting rather than enlightening. When sudden revelations arrive without any context, it can feel overwhelming rather than liberating. I think, for example, of the first time I tried putting on virtual reality goggles. It was very exciting. It was a new experience that I was having, alongside of the realization that such an experience itself was possible, those two things amplified made me feel like I couldn't find myself.

In time and space very easily. And although this experience only lasted a couple of minutes while I had the VR goggles on, I think they serve as a microcosm for the VR goggles of seven years worth of Uranus and Gemini. We have to be very careful of that. And this, to me, is where the Luciferic quality of Uranus in Gemini becomes apparent. Lucifer was a brilliant Angel.

Also, the dichotomy of Lucifer and the devil archetypally comes to mind. Uranus in Gemini being Luciferic to me. I don't mean that as something sinister, but as something dazzling and potentially seductive. When light arrives too suddenly, it can blind us. When insight comes without humility, it can inflate us. When innovation comes without earthly stewardship, it can destabilize the very systems it hopes to improve, and that is always the danger of Uranus, the Promethean Luciferic archetype is dazzling and liberating.

But remember, in the story of Prometheus, he ends up chained to a rock, a very earthly image having his insides taken out and put back together again, another very embodied image as a punishment for transgression, Chiron ends up saving him, and that's another interesting story, and I feel for Prometheus. I don't always know that his punishment was fair, but this is exactly the bind that we may find ourselves in with Uranus and Gemini.

Mm Gemini, for all of its brilliance, is not naturally inclined toward containment. Fuck containment. It says just like that, as rebellious and playful and sarcastic and fun, but that's often what it says about containment. Screw you. I'm going to open doors Uranus in Gemini says I like multiple pathways. I will question your boundaries. Uranus will amplify all of this in Gemini.

And so I think a part of what this transit will ask us is not for restraint in terms of suppressing Uranus in Gemini, but let's call it discernment, in the sense of timing, when to speak, when to listen, when to share, when to step back. There will be moments when the most intelligent response is not further engagement, but distance, not withdrawal from life, but a widening of space around it, a thinning of intensity, a dispersal of charge.

This will not be a failure of courage to engage with novelty or newness. It will be a form of wisdom for how to handle its speed,

because not all danger announces itself as an obvious threat. Sometimes danger arrives at as excitement that escalates too quickly. Let me give you an example. There is a time during the midst of my children's play where their excitement, their mania, their thrill, their joy, starts ramping up, and then it starts ramping up just a little too quickly, and at that point, I almost sprint to the scene to say, Let's calm down, because I know what comes next.

My daughter will run into a wall. Someone is about to get hurt, and it's hard for them to hear me saying this, because they're in the midst of joy and fun, not of danger, not of ego, not of seeking to harm one another. They truly are having fun. But two things can be true. This is a lesson that Gemini is always providing us with sometimes in the form of not being able to land on an answer.

So two things can be true. I don't have to commit but Gemini is frequently teaching us that two things can be true also means that something that looks really good is sometimes bad, and sometimes it looks something that looks really bad is actually good. Sometimes danger arrives as excitement that escalates too quickly. Ideas can harden into ideology before they've been examined, because there's just so much excitement behind them.

Conversations can heat up faster than understanding can keep pace. Someone is about to get hurt. Guys, slow your roll. Uranus and Gemini can test our relationship to mental stimulation. It'll ask us to become just a little bit more conscious of how ideas are moving through us, not just what ideas are moving through us. How ideas are affecting our nervous system, our relationships, our communities, our collective I'd like to think that a unique opportunity exists for us over the next seven years.

Let's call it a stewardship of mind. Stewardship of mind doesn't mean control of mind. It doesn't mean censorship. It doesn't mean fear of new ideas. It doesn't mean restriction of speech. It means recognizing that mind and speech and thought do carry consequences. Words carry energy. Ideas shape behavior. Narratives influence how we treat one another. This is also why karma is not just moral in nature.

It can't be contained or described or expressed according to all ancient eastern philosophical traditions that talked about karma in terms of a simple list of moral prescriptions, Do this, don't do that, because what would that cause? It would cause moral superiority. Look at my good fortune because I'm a good boy. Look at your bad fortune because you're a bad girl. But no karma works at the level of intention.

And intention is like a weave. It's like a rope braided with many layers and levels. I want to do good, but I also care about the public image of doing good is a complex intention that receives a complex karma.

And so two things can be true. Great ideas can be coupled alongside of unexplored intentions, to steward the mind in a transit like this. In other words, is to recognize when a circulation of ideas serves a good intention, or when it begins to incite harm, whether through polarization, dehumanization, sheer overwhelm of the nervous system. This is a transit that invites us to see how complicated karma is in relation to thoughts, words, ideas, so that we can notice when Curiosity has become compulsion, or when innovation becomes obsession, or when openness becomes fragmentation.

It's not about in my view, anyway, it's not about avoiding uncertainty. Uncertainty is part of the initiation of Uranus in Gemini.

It's about being careful that the way we're receiving and working with so much novelty so much stimulation is still carrying the responsibility of discernment and thoughtfulness. To be thoughtful is not always the same thing as to have a lot of interesting or even great thoughts. Here's where I want to widen this conversation a little bit, because, as you know, in my own research lately, I've been spending more time with Buddhist philosophy.

I want to say a little bit about why I think it feels relevant to me right now in relation to Uranus and Gemini. So one of the things that Buddhism does, very quietly but I think super radically, is to loosen our attachment to what Buddhists call ontological certainty. Ontological certainty would be about having an explanation for things metaphysically, spiritually, religiously, that helps us to feel less anxious about existence and life.

I know I need them, but I'm amazed at Buddhism's insistence that even these certainties can be let go of. So, for example, Buddhism questions the assumption that suffering will finally be resolved once we arrive at the right explanation for why it exists, the right metaphysical answer or the correct theory about reality, if we understand, in other words, what suffering is, or why it's here, or what it's for, then we can cope with it better.

But Buddhism tells us, actually, you don't need that ontological certainty. There's a humility in this move that I find increasingly important in my own life right now. There's a well known Buddhist parable. A man is struck by a poisoned arrow, rather than allowing the wound to be treated, he insists on knowing who shot the arrow, what cast they belong to, what kind of bow was used.

What direction did the arrow come from? Why did they do it? And the Buddhist point in within this parable has been repeated, you know, a billion times. While the man is trying to satisfy his need for an explanation, he's bleeding to death. The problem is not. Curiosity. In other words, in this situation, the problem is the belief that explanation is the cure. When actually taking the arrow out of your leg and bandaging it is the cure.

And this, to me, feels like one of the deepest possible resonances with Uranus and Gemini. Of course, I'm biased, because this is what I'm learning and studying about right now as I'm prepping a talk like this. But follow me here, because Uranus in Gemini dramatically increases our capacity to question, to deconstruct, to rethink, to analyze, to reframe. It's like deconstructionist Derrida, you know, but it opens the mind.

It it multiplies perspectives and it destabilizes inherited certainties. That's Uranus and Gemini to a TE and so in doing that, it can be profoundly liberating, but I think it also confronts us with a subtle temptation, the belief that if we just think fast enough, widely enough, or cleverly enough, we'll finally arrive at an answer that puts suffering to rest. And what I love about Buddhist philosophy is that it sort of gently but firmly suggests otherwise.

It suggests that our insistence on ultimate answers are irritation with not knowing who we are, what is real, where everything comes from, why suffering exists, what is our ultimate destination? What do we have to do to get there? That our metaphysical restlessness and our hunger for final explanations may itself be part of what keeps suffering in motion. And so from that Buddhist perspective, liberation doesn't come from replacing one worldview with a better one.

It comes from loosening the grip on the need for a worldview altogether. And this is where I think Uranus and Gemini can do something super transformative and medicinal. This transit doesn't just change what we think. It changes our relationship to thinking itself. It exposes the provisional nature of ideas. They're things we use. It reveals how quickly concepts arise, circulate, change, mutate, dissolve, arise again.

It may, and it makes, I think Uranus and Gemini can make clinging to any single, simple metaphysical explanation for too long undesirable. In that sense, Uranus in Gemini supports a kind of epistemological decentralization. It's a movement away from the belief that truth must always take the form of a fixed position or final statement, a doctrine, a dogma, a belief. To me, this doesn't mean abandoning discernment or collapsing into nihilism or relativism.

It means recognizing that meaning is something we participate in rather than something we possess. I think what I'm loving about Buddhist philosophy as I'm studying it just as a part of my own ongoing evolution. You know, Buddhist philosophy points us back to immediacy, to attention, to the reduction of harm, to compassion in living action, to tending to what's actually occurring rather than resolving what can't be resolved.

And of course, Buddhism is not the only path to do this, but Uranus in Gemini, when we meet it consciously, can help us practice something like this, because it disrupts our attachment to certainty, it can invite us into a lighter, more flexible relationship with ideas. When we're thought becomes a tool rather than an identity category, and curiosity becomes a form of care rather than compulsion.

To me, the brilliance of the mind here is not being extinguished, it's being clarified. We can still think, we can still question, we can still explore, but we may become less convinced that salvation lies at the end of an argument, or that suffering requires a metaphysical solution before it can be met with kindness. And I want to be clear here, just before anyone gets the wrong idea, I'm not declaring myself a Buddhist.

I'm not converting. I'm not joining anything. I'm not swapping one metaphysical framework or another. In fact, doing that might be a perfect example of the very thing that I'm talking about, trying to stabilize, something that's meant to just stay a little bit more open. So I'm not sitting here talking about Buddhism to say, this is the answer. This is what you should believe.

I'm just noticing that there's something quietly wise here, something that seems to meet the moment that we're in with a little bit more patience and humor, less urgency to pin everything down. And even if this observation turns out to be provisional, well, that might actually be part of the point. Uranus in Gemini does not ask us to choose between brilliance and responsibility. I think it asks us to hold them together.

It invites us to think freely, but not carelessly. I think Uranus in Gemini invites us to innovate boldly, but not without awareness, to move quick. When insight calls for it, and to step back when speed begins to erode meaning. I think if we meet the archetypal field over the next seven years with curiosity and care, then what emerges is not just about new ways of thinking, but new ways of being human thinkers in a world where mind itself is rapidly evolving.

So let me finish with a mantra that I was playing with this morning, and this has been useful for me, as I've been taking in lots of Buddhist philosophy. And considering that the interest in Buddhist philosophy came into my life distinctly as Uranus entered Gemini, by the way, this last summer, I thought, I think I have a soul, but I don't know. And I don't know what a soul is.

I think there is being, but I don't know. And I'm not sure I know what that is. There are energies, I think I feel them, but I don't know. I don't know what that is. There is enlightenment, I think, but I don't know, not sure I know what that is. So you can feel in these kinds of statements. I'm not saying I'm not negating anything, ultimately, but I'm taking a moment to empty out any false pretension or certainty that I might have about ideas that are deeply cherished by me, the soul being God, divinity, sacredness, I think Uranus and Gemini.

When I speak those mantras, I feel Uranus and Gemini not taking them away, but emptying them of a kind of certainty that may actually keep their living experiential value at a distance from me. The more that I hold those ideas with certainty, the less able I am to experience them, that, to me, feels revolutionary. So anyway, I will end my little that's my that's my meditation for the day.

I hope that. I hope that was useful for you.

Okay, that was fun. I I really enjoyed, you know, just some kind of like, some initial thoughts that we can work with as Uranus is about to enter Gemini again, just, you know, one astrologers opinion. So I, if you find value in it, that's, that's the hope, you know. All right, well, before we get into talking about the I Ching reading that I did, which will be another level of this unpacking, I want to go back to go back to the Kickstarter campaign.

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So we deeply appreciate it. Let's head in now to a reflection on the I Ching. So I did an I Ching reading this morning for Uranus and Gemini.

And I'm going to put the hexagrams up on the screen. So the question that I asked was what to make of Uranus in Gemini. The first one that I got was hexagram 59 called dispersion. And so let me. I

Okay, here we go.

Now you may recognize this because this came up in another reading we did recently. This one is called making waves or wind over water. It's coming up again, which I always find interesting when there's sort of repetition of themes. And so here's the Oracle text for hexagram 59 and we're going to unpack this in relation to Uranus and Gemini, a very important task is at hand and to make waves, you will be the driver of the forces like wind breaking waves, a voice of reason, virtue and compassion rises to reform what is broken and severe omen of one with a strong sense of purpose, who understands exactly what must be done to make waves and create necessary change.

Set aside personal interest and pursue public interest. Heaven seeks you as a vessel to carry forth its mission, dispel what has been oppressive honor the gods and ancestors to receive further insight, prayer, petitions, meditation and music. The wind pushes the water upward, subtle thoughts and intentions push forward. It is auspicious to cross, cross the great stream and take risks in auspicious Omen, thoughts, beget movement, to commune with the gods.

The first Kings made offerings and built temples to honor Shang di the sovereign of heaven. A boat traverses across the river. Wind disperses the water, rocking the boat forward. Auspicious to cross the great stream. A cold wind chills the water to ice. A fevered wind will melt it likewise. When you are cold, all that you disperse is cold. When you are warm, all that you disperse is warm. Who you are is what you create in this world, a favorable omen.

So we read this earlier, and you'll see that the changing hexagram is another one we've read earlier. 59 is an interesting hexagram for Uranus in Gemini, because it at its core, 59 is about loosening coagulation, if you think of what medicine is supposed to do to loosen a blood clot, that is like the action of hexagram 59 in terms of its medicinal value, it where things are hardened and congealed into things that are sort of tight and potentially damaging.

It loosens things that have coagulated. That's the sort of inner meaning of hexagram 59 breaking anything up that's become too dense or rigid or volatile. This hexagram depicts wind moving across water. And if you think of water kind of dispersing and moving like that, it's taking something that's still and collected and sort of dispersing it so that image is like loosening coagulation. Whatever is gathered too tightly will be thinned, open, circulated.

The danger that's addressed by hexagram 59 is congealment, emotional, ideological, communal, cultural. It's talking about things that become like bound together in ways that are problematic on any level, and that's the danger. And then hexagram 59 comes to disperse that. So Uranus and Gemini has some very obvious meanings here. Uranus is a dispersive force. Gemini govern circulation of words, ideas, nervous system signals and meaning.

So together, these two can dissolve fixed mental structures, monopolies of meaning or belief or ideology and any kind of inherited certainty that is has become problematically hardened. This is very liberating. Now the risk of 59 is disintegration rather than release. So every hexagram usually acts as a medicine, but also as a warning. So while this Uranus and Gemini along 59 can loosen coagulation and break things up that are problematically sort of sticky and stuck together, the shadow of this hexagram is disintegration, where something that needs to hold together is just dispersed.

Now the sixth line of this hexagram was changing before it turned into hexagram 29 next, dangerously deep, which was a part of our Saturn and Aries reading yesterday. Line six of 59 says he dissolves his blood in. The blood would refer symbolically to kinship or family bonds or loyalties to groups or communities or institutions, anything where you're joined in a karmic contract is like a blood karma contract, but usually the most literal meaning is like family blood kinship bonds, but also any kind of emotional and ideological containments and any kind of condition that could escalate into violence, wounding or even sacrifice, like a sacrificial offering.

So this line tends to be about someone who recognizes when a situation has become volatile within a group, a family, a bond, a culture, something that they belong to, like a coagulation that they need to loosen or get out of, and they need to do it before something harmful happens to themselves, psychologically or literally. It can also be about acting to loosen something that's tightening. And if you think of a blood clot causing a heart attack or a stroke or something, then this needs to be something that loosens and gets you out of that danger before it happens.

And this the idea in this line is that he dissolves His blood is about something that he's connected to with a lot of emotional entanglement, or karmic entanglement. So you could say that when a mental field becomes charged and too tight, it needs to be loosened, widened, opened, released. That's very 59 line six, but also any kind of bondedness that you have with people or groups or ideas that becomes rigid and is about to hurt you, you need to let it go and disperse it.

This is the sixth line, which is like the sage line of the hexagram. So it's really about reaching this place of realization that some kind of congealment that you have a lot of investment in has to be let go. So it's a very sagely level of realization. Now, the changing hexagram is 29 which is called the abyss, water over water. We read this yesterday.

This was the starting point hexagram for Saturn in Aries, which I find, you know, interesting little bit of chocolate got to get through

hexagram 29 is about how to live inside of uncertainty and a certain degree of chaos and danger consciously, we talked about that yesterday, danger can't always be avoided. Control can be a bit of an illusion, and so survival within periods of uncertainty, destabilization, chaos or even liminal spaces, once you've loosened a coagulation, that will often mean that something new is waiting to form.

You know, if a center is destabilized, usually a new center will seek expression. But there might be an in between space, hexagram 29 is that in between space. You're living with uncertainty. You're inside of uncertainty. You're inside of an in between space where you don't feel like you're in control. Things feel dangerous and uncertain. Everything feels a little contingent and tentative. That's 29 and so the nervous system may be tested in light of having to loosen certain central positions or groups or belongings or karmic attachments, to broaden or open your mind and to shift a paradigm can be very destabilizing, and part of the wisdom of Uranus and Gemini is learning How to live in these dangerously deep places the nervous system can be TechEd tested in these spaces, right?

So disperse what is becoming dangerously concentrated and then accept the uncertainty that remains and learn how to live inside of it. That is a very nice, succinct way of connecting 59 to 29 I don't think this is saying be afraid of Uranus in Gemini. I think it's saying something like as the mind will open and accelerate, wisdom will lie in knowing when to disperse things that are stuck or co.

Regulated and then learning how to live in a temporary space in between. So that's, that's really, that's all Hermes lessons, isn't it? Hermes is the guide between the underworld and the upper world, between one phase and another, between daytime and nighttime.

Uranus will awaken and create separation and movement and and healthy liberation. It will help disperse, but it may not teach us as immediately or directly how to live within an awakening which will require discernment, rhythm, patience, humility. So these are things that the I Ching seems to be pointing to.

All right, so those are my thoughts on the hexagram readings for this morning. There's again, I think there's a lot to be excited about here. So, you know, mostly I feel like optimistic, but it's important to be aware of, you know, where the edges might be too. So hopefully no one's feeling too freaked out by all of this. I think you know, every every archetype always has some shadows that you have to be aware of.

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All right. So we're going to do some horoscopes now, and I have just a few things to emphasize for each sign that I've written out in advance, because I've realized how easy it is for me to do some writing now that I'm not writing a book. Yes, I'm

Yes, thank you guys. Much. Much love to all of you. All right, let's get into it. So if you're an airy sun or rising, we've got Uranus in your third house in Gemini. This, I think, has the potential to be a very powerful period for developing skills, sharpening your mind, cultivating more joy through the kinds of things that you learn and practice and develop.

The development of your mind, your speech, your skills, anything that has to do with how you communicate or express yourself. This is a really exciting time to try on new things, mentally, intellectually, I think that Uranus can bring some significant breakthroughs in learning. For Aries, it's not going to come from simple little flashes or insights that you collect along the way, though those will be there.

But for. Become the sustained engagement of a learning process over 567, years that can really deliver personal change and the feeling that you're really growing and developing as a soul. Happiness during this period will probably come through things like experimentation, writing, speaking, teaching, becoming better at things and learning to express yourself mentally, verbally and emotionally in ways that are surprising and new and innovative and different.

Now this could also have something to do with things like siblings or the everyday environment that you live in. But the most immediate sense of the third house as environment is mind, body, emotion and psychology. All right,

let's move on to Taurus. So for Taurus, this is in your second house. This is a place of money, assets, resources, what sustains life. So shifts in how you're thinking about value and money and material, assets and resources. It could be the way that you do business, or if you own your own business, your offerings or business structure could change.

New ideas about sustainability and livelihood can emerge. And then I would say that anything you can develop along the lines of learning skills, technology that can enhance your earning power or your material assets or resources would not be surprising here. And then maybe shifts in your material values themselves, like what you want to have, what you care about, what you don't care about having material things have a relationship to our sense of happiness in the material world.

But Uranus and Gemini could be a revolution in terms of what you value, what you possess, what you own, what you have and what what it means to you, really, there could be a shift into greater financial flexibility and freedom, the paying off of debts, the expansion of revenue, you know, new, new or innovative ways of doing things that Maybe lead to more wealth or greater success financially, also disruptions and the need for innovation to different financial struggles with for those who Are Geminis, you're getting this in the first house.

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so the first house would be the place of your identity, your very selfhood, and the nature of your selfhood. So Uranus in the first house, as someone who just went through it, will rapidly change how you understand yourself, how you present yourself, what you look like, your health, your body, your identity, can change dramatically, especially as you experiment, explore and try to free up parts of yourself that maybe haven't gotten a chance to be integrated or expressed.

There's a lot of sudden insights about who you are that can arrive very quickly, and you have to be very discerning about because there may be many of them, and you're trying on new or different costumes of yourself, and also learning to inhabit a kind of uncertainty or exploratory playfulness about your own identity may be a key part of this transit. And I can honestly say, as someone who just went through it, that was a huge part of my own good luck to all you Geminis out there, it is time for a complete identity makeover.

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So anyway, good question. All right, let's move on to cancer rising. So cancer, you've got this in the 12th house. This is interesting, because Uranus in the 12th I already been through that when Uranus was in Aries. And it is just, it's so interesting, because you have this very loud, dynamic, revolutionary planet in a place that can be very quiet and very unconscious.

And so some of the most profound things that often happen with Uranus in the 12th are almost like monastic and so, for example, I could see a lot of cancers going through a period of like the like you imagine, like a cancer getting into meditation, and over seven years, their life deeply changes because of the way that their mind opens and they're able to observe their thoughts and emotions and inner life because of a contemplative practice that loosens the control of the ego.

The revolutionary technology of meditation is a very Uranus in the 12th house kind of thing, but anything that puts you in touch with unconscious material, the parts of yourself that you don't easily see or understand that could have a revolutionary effect on your life as they become conscious, would be on track for Uranus in the 12th house. This for many Cancerians who are also very emotional, the revolution may be an unexplored terrain of mental and intellectual depth cancers.

Don't always like someone rationalizing emotions understandably. This could be a time where the ability to gain some distance or objective perspective rationally to develop a little bit of healthy detachment from being overly sentimental or needy or emotional or identified with instinct and emotion could take place because Uranus and Gemini provides a little bit more of an intellectual, objective, rational container.

You know, I think about many relationship counselings that I've done for people over the years. And, you know, common thing is I don't like when my partner tells me how to fix something. I just want them to listen. And sometimes men in particular, tend to try to rationalize and provide rational answers to problems when presented by a, you know, a woman, a partner, and you're kind of a traditional, stereotypical gender dynamic that can come up, and not just in male female dynamics, but any dynamic you know.

And so there's like but there is a way in which we, if we tend to be really emotionally wrapped up, maybe the first step is we need someone to just hold space for us and not give us a rational answer. But a rational answer can also help, legitimately can help. And so for many Cancerians, you may find that the part of you that resists rational help and explanations to take you out of something that you're entrenched in Emotionally, it might be like resisting someone who is trying to give you rational help, but is actually the rational Help may be exactly what you need.

In this case, that doesn't mean you don't need space to be held for you as well, which is why the image of meditation also comes to mind. A good therapist could be there, opening your mind and helping you. You know, it might be better to have a neutral party than a spouse being helping you create some more rational distance and objective perspective, right? Often, it's easier to receive that kind of help from a therapist rather than a friend or a close friend or a partner or something, but that's the kind of advice that you could see coming in and making a real difference.

All right, so that's cancer exploration of the unconscious material, especially now for Leos, we're moving into the 11th house that is a place of community, aspirations, hopes, friends. So over seven years, you're going to see that your social circles, networks, communities are going to shift significantly because they are forming around new ideas, new concepts, new ideological or paradigmatic perspectives, like entirely new paradigms of thinking or technology or interest can push you in the direction of different kinds of friends or groups or colleagues.

You may have to be careful of groups of people that tend to be chaotic or destabilizing or overwhelming in some way being a part. Part of an artist collective filled filled with avant garde bohemian artists, filled with, you know, big, great ideas could be really fun and at times might be ungrounding, but staying open, curious about who the right people are in your life is going to be, I think, one of the most effective ways of dealing with Uranus in your 11th when you think about Uranus in the 11th house, I also think about your long term dreams, hopes and goals being rewritten because the 11th house was a Place of our long term dreams and ambitions and wishes, and so the sudden shifting or changing of your long term dreams and goals may be a part of this.

In fact, when I look back at Uranus and Pisces in my 11th house, when it entered that house, I immediately joined up with reality sandwich, a collective of writers writing about psychedelics and consciousness, and left the academic world and my long term dreams and goals completely shifted, which in just a couple of years led to me becoming an astrologer.

So the shifting landscape of who you want to be with, but also what you want to get out of life what you want to accomplish, what your dreams for the future look like. This is redirecting an entire path in life through the 11th house. Let's go on to Virgo. So with Virgo, we have Uranus in your 10th house. Now that's the career house, public image, public role or notoriety.

And so your career or your public role can go through a complete reinvention, a sort of revolution of what you find interesting or compelling, or what you want to do, or how you want to be seen, or what you're learning, or what skills you're developing, or what you want to become masterful at, like, I want to become an astrologer. I seriously there I have. It has to be at least 500 people that have come through my programs whose start of the programs at Nightlight have happened with Uranus entering the ninth or 10th,

like consistently, so taking an interest in something that's not traditional in your career or professional path is common with Uranus in the 10th shifts within workplaces or companies, roles, responsibilities, sudden opportunities, changes of direction, new interests, you know, a radical change to how you carry responsibility or authority, your relationship with authority figures, the tendency toward rebelliousness or innovation in the workplace.

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Let's go to Libra where we get Uranus in the ninth now this is like, you know, this is the place where people often get into astrology, because your worldview, your philosophies, your beliefs, can radically shift. Here. This is the house of paradigmatic changes for Uranus. This is where you actually get into Buddhism. You're not just reading about it like me. You're you're committing or or yoga, or you're departing from a religious or faith community, or you're finding yourself in some rebellious stream of thought within a university, or you're dropping out of school, or you're joining a monastery.

You know, it's, it's, whatever it is. It's sort of shocking, and it's original. It breaks the mold with respect to your beliefs and how they guide your life, with respect to teachers and learning and religion and philosophy. Also not uncommon for there to be some really profound interludes abroad or in other countries, like pilgrimages to foreign places during these seven years, I

this is also a placement Uranus in the ninth that can lead you toward questioning things, skepticism, uncertainty, remaining open, learning new things that destabilize what you thought you knew. These are all very good things. All right, we have Uranus in the eighth house for Scorpios. The eighth house is a place. Is where our bonds with other people, what we share at a very deep level, and the karmic exchanges that form some of the deepest support in our life, as well as those karmic bonds that form some of the deepest and most problematic entanglements in our life, Uranus in this house will typically work in one of two directions to liberate us from attachments that are like vampiric they're they're blood sucking us on some level.

So we need to get free of them. So things around trust, intimacy, shared resources that need freeing up or liberating from, because at some unseen or maybe not so unseen level, maybe very obvious, they are taking more than they're giving, or they're depleting or draining or making us sick, and we need to clear some kind of karmic debt and be free of these dynamics.

On the other hand, Uranus in this house can also speak to the need for bonds and forms of exchange that provide greater freedom. Let me give you an example. When you've been in a relationship with someone who is abusive, Soul draining, domineering, and you get out of that relationship, you feel so free, very Uranus in the eighth let's say you continue evolving down a path in your relationships, and you enter into a new relationship with someone who is deeply, substantively supportive.

They're not perfect, but what they bring into your life is like, I can take a deep breath because I'm safe, my nervous system can relax because I'm seen I'm carrying the load with someone else. That kind of relationship is also Uranian, in the sense that it breaks a mold, if there's been a previous unhealthy pattern, it provides real support where there has maybe been forms of damaging exchange.

And so Uranus going in that direction, and the eighth for Scorpios may be about the liberation provided by healthier forms of bonding with other souls, with other beings. Okay, let's move on to Sagittarius, where Uranus comes into the seventh house. This is the place of relationships. Your relationship can become a place of intellectual awakening. Your partner can open your mind for Sagittarians who tend to have very fixed Jupiter in convictions.

This is about people that open your mind, that expand your mind, that keep you curious rather than certain, that point out the way you tend to be a little dogmatic or fanatical if you need that feedback, you know, relationships can become places of intellectual awakening, meaningful debate, perspective shifting, learning to listen as much as you speak is going to be important for this transit for some Sagittarians, who tend to be, you know, very blunt and direct and talkative, you may find that you really have someone worth listening to and talking less.

I think flexibility, curiosity, playfulness and freedom in relationships is also going to become extremely important. That could mean some relationships aren't going to work any longer, and a different kind of relationship needs to come in, or something needs to open or become more flexible within a relationship. And another way of looking at this would be to say that someone or different relationships that feature very Uranian people, people that disrupt your life, but also add creative value somehow, could be coming into your life.

This could also mean that things are going to happen in the life of a spouse or partner that are Uranian and that you're going to bear witness to on some level. All right, let's go to Capricorn, where we are now in the sixth house. This is the chop wood, carry water house, which means that this is a place where we work, we exert ourselves, we persevere. We have to overcome the kind of the burn of material existence on a daily level.

Like, you know, I love doing horoscopes. I love doing my work, but it's still a duty, you know, there's still a sacrificial nature to showing up and doing something when you'd rather be relaxing or sleeping in or whatever. So all of us relate to the material world in this way where it's like it's kind of a drag, but we have to do it, sickness, disease, hardships, hard work, sacrifice, labor, that's the nature of the sixth house.

But also the service and sacrifice to some to the things we care about, makes the work worth the while. So Uranus for Capricorns, says, Look, how do you work? How do you learn? How do you manage daily input and output? What are some new methods or systems that could radically improve the way you do day to day life and the grind of daily life? How could you feel freer? How could you feel.

Feel happier about the way you're navigating the ups and downs of material existence. How could you be healthier? How could you overcome sicknesses that keep showing up? How could you do a better job handling your nervous system, habits, mentally, emotionally, physically, the way you manage information coming in and out of your mind, workflow, burnout, these are the kinds of topics that I would look for Uranus to address and hopefully give you a very innovative way of navigating this part of life so that it can be freer and happier.

All right, Aquarius rising puts Uranus into the fifth house, which is a place of creativity. It's our creative dharma. Well, this is awesome for Aquarians, especially since Pluto, in your first house will be trining this Uranus. It's all about awakening some new creative dimensions of yourself, new ideas, experimenting with them, incorporating a new version of self into new creative outputs.

You don't want creativity to be out of step with authenticity. Given the connection between Uranus in the fifth and Pluto in the first this is a placement of creative awakening, flexibility, playfulness, curiosity, experimentation in the name of self development, like, what's your joy? What's your happiness, what's your creative fulfillment? Find it and experiment with it. And as you do so, it's going to give you feedback, pinging back over to Pluto in your first that will really help you deepen into this transformation that's happening in your first house of health, body, identity, identity and so forth.

So creative awakening is a bound for Aquarians. Now this could also have something to do with things like children and pregnancy pretty typical for those to show up in the fifth house transits as well over the next seven years. So is, I think the question here is about joy as well. What makes you happy? Aquarians are often people who Aquarius rising anyhow, will be identified with ideas that they find very valuable.

It's like an it's an Air sign, Air sign risings often identify with good ideas that they can feel like allied with. But here the question might be, what are new ideas that I can play with or experiment with in order to find new ideas about myself. All right, so for Pisces, we have the fourth house, home life, inner life, the roots, parents, family, karma, dwelling place, Psychological Foundations of life.

So the opportunity here is for a different kind of freedom or spaciousness. Liberation at the roots might mean that you live somewhere new or move somewhere new, or buy or sell property, start a family, or restructure how family life works so that it feels happier, more harmonious. This is also about what kinds of innovation exist at the roots. Another way of putting that would be there's a lot bubbling inside where no one else can see in the fourth house is like that.

There's very few people that see us in the fourth house, so it's a private space that is typically only seen by the people who live immediately with us, or the people that share the most regular intimacy with us, often in the home. But that also means that Uranus in the fourth house is about seven years of exploring and experimenting and awakening things inside of you that don't have to be socialized, that don't have to be proved or demonstrated, that don't have to be brought out to be seen and shown and validated or to achieve something with it can just be about more that is appearing or developing in the interior of your heart and soul.

We all need a place like that. You know, it's like your bedroom. It's like, what are you finding about yourself and about life in the private comfort of your bedroom. For me, it's the inside of that closet on the floor where I sit with my little notebook. What do I find there? You know, that's there's a real revolution that can happen in your interior. Doesn't have to be shown anywhere.

The other thing that I would say for Pisceans, is just how practical this can be with respect to things like how you structure home, family, living environment. Revolution at the roots can also mean that karma around things like parents, family, constellations of karma are being liberated or freed. There might be some disruption at the roots, which means disturbance to a sense of stability or.

Home and family. That happens when people are changing, when ancestors are ready to pass over, when karma from the past, trauma of childhood is ready to be released. So you know that's those are. Those are some other ways of of holding Uranus at the roots. All right, we did it. We did it. So let's see how we're doing on the Kickstarter, and then I'll open for some Q A.

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Adam, it seems that astrology predictions reply heavily, rely heavily on context. So would you say predicting in over one year's time is a bit meaningless? No, it's not meaningless, but it might be a prediction made in over a year, if it still has context right now, can be deeply meaningful. You know, for example, if someone says, I I just got out of a really painful relationship.

And I'm wondering, if you see another relationship in my future, it might be that there's a really nice looking relationship transit, you know, in a year or two years, and you can say, I don't know exactly what will happen. This is still quite a ways out, but this, there's a nice transit that's supportive of of developments. Let's call it in relationships, you know, around this time, and it's two years from now, that, to me, would be no big deal whatsoever, because it's still a part of a context.

And as long as you're not giving them some kind of false certainty, you're saying, Look, I like this transit for the possibility of meeting someone. I that that's, you know, to me, that's totally fine. I think if you're predicting something just dry two years out, the lack of context will probably be problematic, you know. So I just say that.

I on, okay, there we go. Okay,

donate five or $10 it all adds up with this many people. It's true, it does. Thank you. Let's see. Okay, can you speak on the good Daimon associated with the 11th and its relation to Uranus re entering Gemini next year?

I'm not there's no inherent connection between Uranus and the 11th house. You're probably thinking about that through modern astrology, is 12 letter alphabet, conflation of Aquarius with the the 11th and then furthermore the modern rulership, assignment of Uranus to Aquarius. I'm imagining so I wouldn't recommend doing that. Once you understand how complex the system of rulerships are and the philosophy behind how rulerships work and were assigned, you realize you can't just slap outer planets onto signs as rulers.

It doesn't. It doesn't work that way. And I don't mean any offense to that, because certainly there's associations that can be made between Uranus and Aquarius. I have no problem with that, but calling it a ruler is calling it something that most people don't even understand. So that, to me, is really problematic. That would be like appropriating, you know, appropriating the study of acupuncture and, you know, adding chicken nuggets in or something.

So the good diamond, though, is associated with the 11th house, basically because the 11th house is the place where we form aspirations and dreams and wishes about the biggest, broadest sense of of life, life and its fulfillment. You know, so when you think of like ancient philosophers, recognize that human beings, in order to feel like their life is moving towards something meaningful on the horizon, have aspirations, hopes, wishes and dreams.

I want to write books. You know, there's one of mine. I want to be an astrologer. You know, whatever it is we have, we have aspirations, we have dreams, and we project those things forward into the future, and we then we move toward them, and then, ideally, when we realize some of those dreams, we feel happy. That's why, in Indian astrology, it's called a comma house, associated with dreams and wishes, the kinds of dreams and wishes that provide happiness that's socially defined for let me give you a super simple example.

When you're in high school, a very 11th house aspiration is to be liked, integrated, popular to have a place to feel like you're you belong. It's a super basic 11th house comma kind of wish or hope that high school kids have, not everyone, but it's pretty common. The reason that it's associated with a good Daimon is the Daimon was a spirit guide, slash entity that was thought to be responsible for the formation of those aspirations, wishes or dreams, which is why the Daimon is also associated with the sun as a planet.

Because the sun, similar to the 11th house, has to do with the big, overarching aspirations that define a lifetime, biographically speaking, archetypally speaking. So the reason that it's called the good Daimon in the 11th house is because everything in the 11th house has to do with the most positivistic, exciting wishes, hopes and dreams for happiness as it's as it belongs to the social world we inhabit that we can find so it's called the good Daimon.

12th house is called the bad diamond because it has to do with all of the images and thoughts and negative fantasies that we have that we most fear, we are most averse to. And so the 12th house bad diamond is about confronting all of the dark fantasies that we have about life and what we don't want to experience out of it, but frequently, once we do, we grow significantly wiser, because the things that we most want to avoid are often like our dark fantasies, are the things we're scared of or don't want out of life are often the most instructive.

They tend to be the things as a Moksha house that teach us about the futility of putting too much into any material dream whatsoever, because, in a bigger sense, anything that we imagine as a happy ending only devolves and falls apart anyway. And so, in a strange way, all that we wish for that's good in the world can only temporarily satiate us, and then we have to let go, and we experience a disappointment, disillusionment, and a good thing becomes a bad thing.

Anyone knows this is just a It's not even that profound. It's like saying, I really want a puppy. Well, eventually you're going to have to. To see the death of that puppy. That dog will eventually die, and you will that doesn't make it not worth it, right? But that's a very deeply instructive thing that tells you don't wish for a puppy or a dog unless you're also willing to be there when it passes.

Right? See how the good and bad diamond really go together. They're teaching us about the nature of Hope streams wishes and attachment that comes with it doesn't mean it's bad to wish. It means wish, wishing and realism about impermanence have to go together. That's why 11 and 12 sit next to each other. Mm, Hey,

Adam, would you recommend getting a natal reading before attending your classes? No, there's no need for that. I mean, once you're in the program, almost all of our staff in the programs offer readings and are really good readers. So once you're in the program and you're actually like learning Hellenistic astrology, and you have enough of an understanding to get more out of a reading, that's when I would recommend it, because then you're going to get not only a good reading, but you're going to get a way of understanding everything you're learning in class.

So like, halfway through our first year program, a reading would be usually like, that's when I would sort of advise it from within our school, I'm looking at getting the first year course at next year's Kickstarter. Too busy next year, can you expand on the lessons given in sequence, or should I start with a different program? No year one would definitely be the place to start.

You can find the sequencing of all the curriculum on the first year course page of the Nightlight website. So if you go over to any of our classes that are offered with the class passes, if you let me just see here, if you go over to Nightlight astrology.com click on courses, you'll see the first year course and everything that you learn and kind of the outline of the course and a video talking about it, and so forth.

You can find that information for all the courses. You have to start with year one. We don't really let anyone jump past year one, because everything is, you know, it's a specific lineage, right? There's a specific way that we teach things and do things, and methods we follow, and they all build on each other. So you a lot of the programming is flexible beyond year one in terms of the order you take things in, but you have to start with year one for sure.

And then even if you're looking at that curriculum and you're going, Gosh, I know something about signs, planets, houses, unless you've studied Hellenistic astrology, I promise you that you won't this will not be review. This will be brand new, because Hellenistic astrology is the metaphysical philosophical starting point of all of it. We're getting into the philosophical roots of these topics, which you know, anyone who's taken our programs, and I'm sure some people in the audience today can tell you, it's, it's when you talk about houses, Planet signs, aspects, dignities in our program.

It's not like you've heard it talked about before, because we're getting down to the roots of things.

Can one learn about past life, karma in our horoscope and how to heal past hurts to move forward? Yeah, certainly, certainly the chart is reflective of the souls karma in this lifetime, which is thought to be a continuation from a trans migratory process. But trying to focus too much on past lives is it's really not the point or purpose of Nightlight.

Now, I've seen past life regression therapists. I have a friend who's one like, I don't have anything against it, and it's certainly valuable to do such work. But when it comes to the way we do astrology at Nightlight, we're really focused on the present. If you want to heal anything in the past, the prescription in the present, from the traditions that I've studied is always the same.

You know, it's self care, it's love, it's compassion, it's mindfulness, it's taking care of your body. It's about tending to the spirit. It's about love and compassion. It's about forgiveness, and there are so many tools we can use to aid in that process. But rather than thinking so much about healing specific past lives, the in the Buddha said this, and many, many Vedic practitioners, yogi's have said this, if you want to heal past lives, focus on being present.

Focus on the now, if we focus too much on trying to sort out what happened in the past and how to heal it, we're often actually entangling ourselves more deeply from that perspective. Now, you may agree or not, but that's tends to be the approach we take within. Nightlight curriculum. When it comes to working with people around things like past life karma, there can be some really nice ways of talk, like storytelling.

Like I'll often say, Look, if we look at this part of your chart in terms of past life karma, maybe in a past life something like this happened or that happened, but that, I will use that for the purpose of symbolic storytelling. And I'll always say like I have no idea what happened in your past lives, but sometimes the metaphorical invoking of past life stories can be really therapeutic and and creative and fun.

Hope that helps. What do you think is the most significant offering of astrology, natal chart, self knowledge, healing or the timing predicting of life events. I just don't think there's a hierarchy of importance, you know. There's different different tools for different moments and occasions, you know. So I've seen a lot of different things in astrology, a lot of different types of readings, types of techniques, have equal, you know, be sort of equally validated in practice.

So I just don't feel like I can make that judgment. Year One made me realize I know nothing about astrology? Yeah, now that's very common. Like a lot of students come through our programs and say that, and that's not because we're trying to make people, you know, we're trying to pull the rug out from people. I had the exact same experience when I started studying Hellenistic astrology.

Demetra, George, Chris Brennan, Nick dagen, best, Austin Coppock, the list goes on. Kelly Surtees, all of those of us who are practicing Hellenistic had the exact same experience of realizing, Oh, wow, I really don't know a lot about astrology, because when you go back to the roots, first of all, we haven't had the ancient source texts available to us for more than 30 years, 35 years, and so we're in a space in modern astrology where a lot of people don't know a lot about astrology that we now know.

And so when you get exposed to Hellenistic astrology, it's an incredibly common experience. And again, I went through it myself. So did all of the some of your favorite astrologers right now who practice Hellenistic went through the exact same thing. Wow, I don't know shit about astrology. I thought I knew something. That's what happens when you get back to the roots that we simply weren't aware of as a field until very recently.

That doesn't make everything about modern astrology wrong either. You know? It just means that there's, there's a lot more there than most people are aware of yet. You know? Yeah. Have you read ancient astrology in theory and practice by Demetra George, yes, I have. It's one of the textbooks that we use as supplemental, like suggested reading for our year one program.

Yeah. The curriculum, the assignment is now. We are here in the present to sort out the past anyways, yes, exactly like this. Moment is how we settle the past. You know, ever it's we just continue like that.

Why is there an assumption that the things fated to happen according to astrology is ultimately for a good reason? Plenty of people have difficult endings that can be clearly seen in their chart. Yeah, well, I don't think it is assumed that it's for a good reason. I think that this is especially clear in the Vedic tradition, where so much more of the philosophical backbone is intact and explicit.

So we have it's more like sorting through fragments of texts in the West when it comes to the philosophical portion, and we have to almost like Intuit what Western, early Western astrologers believed by virtue of the most likely schools that were practicing Astrology. So Stoics, Platonists, Pythagoreans, hermeticists, etc. But in the east, it's very clear karma is incredibly complex. So let me give you a simple example.

I actually mentioned this earlier today when I was talking about karma and the Uranus and Gemini portion. Let's say that someone is doing the right thing, meaning they have in mind care or concern for humanity, and it's a part of their intention. In some action they take to be kind, compassionate, helper. You know, they're they have a truly humanitarian intention, but according to the way that karma is talked about in.

And Jyotish karma is more like a braided rope, so I might intend to do some humanitarian activity, but on subtle levels, what feels to me like a purely selfless motivation to help may be filled, for example, with something like the fear that I'm not lovable unless I'm doing good. Or there may be a subtle level at which I hope to gain something good by acting good, or there may be another level at which I think I can't stand my dad, who is selfish, so I'm going to be good, because I refuse to be my dad, which shows, still a subtle attachment to the hurt and to the pain and to the resentment toward your father.

All of those things could be co present in a braided intention that creates a braided karma that has a whole web of results that you cannot clearly see where they're all coming from or why they're all happening, because we can't see every minuscule layer of why we choose to do things in the way that we do. So then you get a feedback on one level.

You get some success, you get some recognition. You do something good and make an impact in the world that has really good benefits for other people on another level, a month later, you get entangled with having to take care of your father because none of your other siblings will help. And now you have to go face your dad's stuff at a deeper level, and you suddenly feel like, why is this happening to me?

I'm just a good person who wants to do good. So I'm making up an example that's just meant to illustrate how complicated karma is. So when we think about fate, that something had to happen, when we say it happened for a good reason, what we have to admit is that we really have very little idea about what good is, you know, and we it's, it's not so much that things are good, as much as it is that the that everything plays out in a very like perfectly orchestrated way, according to a very complicated, dense level of interactions, of CO arising phenomenon in a vastly intricate web of beings who all have choices and intentions that are all coinciding.

It's like an incredible orchestra. It's like listening to the jungle at night when you're in the Amazon. It's like totally symphonic. You know, all of these things are rising and falling and synchronizing, and they're asynchronic, but they're synchronic, and that's karma. That's the reality of karma. When we say that it's all good, what we're trying to do is point the mind toward peace with it, right?

That you don't have to try that in many ways, it's the relaxing of the mind. It's the loosening of our attachments and our intentions then carry less gripping. We can see more of our intentions clearly when we relax and trust that there's nothing out of place here. So all of these traditions teach that it's not so much that everything's happening for a good reason, as much as it is that everything is is there's nothing out of place, right?

Everything's being addressed in ways that you usually can't fully see or understand or appreciate. So there's like a suggestion that you trust, and that if you drop into peace and trust, you're actually able to start seeing a little bit more of it and how it works as well. That doesn't foster some simple moral equation of this fated thing happened, and so it was good is more about an acceptance, a surrender, an increasing awareness and increasing sense of peace and relaxing into the flow of experience, and less trying to dictate it and control it, which is where the graph grasping and the grasping come from which then retrospectively, in order to grasp more and make sure that it was good and not bad, we have to call it all happening for a good reason, but that actually, in many cases, just continues to entangle us.

This is where Uranus and Gemini can be so helpful, because Uranus in Gemini is sort of like it. It has a kind of like, just go beyond calling it good or bad, go beyond calling it moral or immoral. Relax your mind. You know that's really more of what's behind ultimate good reasons. Do you know what I mean? The ultimate good reason thing is only as useful as it is helping your mind and spirit to sort of relax and and let go and loosen up a bit.

And again, always from that perspective, we tend to then our intentions become less dense with with like problematic unconscious stuff, because. Care less to control anything in the first place. Now that's all like Eastern philosophy, right? So you know, you can take that or leave that, but that's how I would answer it.

What do you think about the idea that karma is only real for those who believe in it? Do

I don't believe that's true. I think my simplest answer is, I would not agree with that, but I have a very basic understanding of karma, which is, it's not a moral, punitive like legal court system. It's more like karma is, is as I've understood it, it's it's more just a way of saying that everything is contingent, interconnected, and actions, causes, outcomes, causes and effects are all inter, relating simultaneously, like in reality, that it's not a mistake that in whether it's in Buddhism or in Vedic philosophy, there's this idea that samsara is Nirvana, which is to say that the same thing is present in The Eastern saying that Maya means mercy, Maya, being illusion, samsara, being the karmic web of entanglement that it's not about getting out of karma.

It's not about getting out of some place or something, as much as it is shifting the nature of how it's experienced, shifting the consciousness of its experience. So karma would be karma is, is real. It's just experienced differently depending on the state of consciousness that that's how I would put it. So, for example, in Buddhism, you know, to whatever extent you can talk about enlightenment, it's it's talked about as the the cessation of the experience of reality as suffering and conditioned.

It doesn't mean that that that the reality being experienced is no longer there. It means that it's no longer experienced from a particular type of consciousness. In a lot of traditions talk about it that way. So to me that that's how I would approach that, question. All

right. Well, we are coming in on two hours, and we have another live stream tomorrow. Let's preview our live stream tomorrow. Plug the Kickstarter, then we'll wrap up. This is fun, kind of philosophical conversation for the day. I really appreciate it. Appreciate the opportunity to chat about, you know, we're really lucky that we can sit around and contemplate these big things at all.

It's, um, it's something that, in fact, these karmic traditions talked about as a sign of, of like, what is good karma? Good Karma is finding yourself, you know, talking about or asking questions about cessation of suffering, or about what is real, or what is consciousness like, if you even find yourself in these conversations, naturally interested, engaged, confused. Think of how many people in the world are for they're not privileged in a way that allows them to do that, you know, or they haven't naturally found their way there.

Or, you know, I mean, it's, in other words, it's just, it's a blessing. Is another way of saying it to be considering any of these things, even if we're still, you know, mostly jackasses considering it, you know, even if we're just like, half cocked, crazy folk talking about all this stuff, it's um, there's, there's something Really fortunate about our ability to do that.

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trying to remember here we hmm, we're going to be talking tomorrow about Jupiter moving into Leo in 2026 and opposing Pluto in Aquarius. We'll have a talk on that and some live horoscopes. Can't wait to do that. That ought to be fun. So you guys have a great rest of your day. Thanks for being here, and yeah, we'll see you again soon. Bye, everyone.